'My parents planned this enlarged family vacation as reprise of many family vacations we had in that very house (the Quinebaug) when my brothers and I were children in the 1930s. We delighted in doing with the new generation of children all the things we did as children. It was one of the happiest weeks in my life. Our family is on vacation at a lovely old rustic gray-shingled boarding house, the Quinebaug, on the Provincetown/North Truro line. It was 1952. My mother and father, brothers George and Bud, their children, and me. My brothers and I knew the place well, for when we were children, our parents would take us there every few years on vacation, sailing on the old steamer Dorothy Bradford. How we loved it--racing down to the ocean not twenty yards from our window, avoiding the sharp beach grass that would cut our feet--tramping over the sand dunes, acting being lost in the desert, rolling down the high dunes, watching the drills of the coast Guard Station, picking the blueberries with which the cook made us delicious cakes and pies, once in a while taking the rickety Mayflower heights bus into town for taffy and to climb the Pilgrim Monument. Back to the photo--there is a sequel. Many years later, probably 1967, we reenacted this scene in a photo I just can't find right now. For the picture, we tried to pose in the same position as in the original. It was difficult--the baby in my sister-in-law's lap (middle of the photo, my nephew Paul) was then a giant of 6'4'! Pictured, from back to front, left to right: (back row) David Dolber, Polly Dolber, George Dolber, Helen Dolber (holding baby Paul), Sumner Dolber (holding Mark), Harriett Dolber, (bottom row) Edna Dolber, Ann Dolber, Starr Dolber, Karen Dolber, and Raymond Dolber.'
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