…1913 "brought pleasing diversions into the lives of the townspeople and the birds of passage-the Summer Folk."

The event of the season, of course, was the June opening of a nest for those birds-the looming, luxurious Hotel Edward. It boasted a long-distance telephone, furnishings of white inlaid mahogany, and featured seven rooms on the top floor "exclusively for young ladies"-one more indication of the emerging liberation of women. From the verandas patrons could enjoy fine views of the naval vessels behind the Sandy Bay breakwater." Town on Sandy Bay, p.314, Marshall W.S. Swan