It's 1895 and what might be referred to today as a religious cult leader has been recruiting followers.. described by others as "a gang of free lovers" on Chincoteague Island.
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I don't know about free love on Chincoteague in 1895 but along about 1980 there were rumors of a nudist beach on Assateague, about 2 miles north of Tom's Cove. In the interest of public knowledge (yeah, right!) your friend Slim made the arduous trek up the beach and verified, with his own eyes, that there were, indeed, nubile young women running around the sands without benefit of bikini.
This situation did not sit well with local residents who demanded that the Park Service do something about it. About the only excuse the park people could find was that the lack of public toilets in that area led to people pooping behind the sand dunes and that could not be allowed, so the nudists were chased away. No mention was made that the ponies on the island contributed much more poop than the nudists ever could.
Your friend,Slim
HeHeHe-I had heard the same rumors, Slim. So they weren't rumors after all! We were teenagers at the time and had always wanted to go and have a peek but never did.
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