The picture made me think about all the ways we use to get around the village and how that has changed over the years. Hand carts like the one in the 1934 photo from the Cave family shows how bags were moved from the ferry to the cottage.
During his visit back east this fall, David Milner shared how the hand carts were also used to transport freshly laundered linens to the lake to be rinsed.
Most common are bicycles and cars... This is Lloyd Flack (b. May 1912) on his tricycle in front of Web Shelley's house at the bottom of 4th Street, on the east side, about 1914. Web Shelley's house later became the Brown family's cottage.
And from the Hopkins family came this gem of Robert Hopkins with his sweetheart, Madeline Scott, and his bicycle with their friends. Can you identify any of the friends?
And still the preferred means of transport to the Club...
For some it is a case of why bike when you can take the car... This image of Jon Ebby's MG, parked outside the Callis' cottage on 3rd Street, reminds us that some of the cars were pretty snazzy...
Some were classic, like Jack Fee's 1948 vehicle with its running board...
Or Lillian Fee at the back wheel of her car...
Now a days, golf carts are becoming fashionable but then again nothing beats a walk...
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