The Day the Nudists Came to Avonlea

Anne of Seen Genitals. The sequel.

The exact same thing was said about the automobile in the early 1900’s. After careful consideration and contemplation, they were allowed on a limited basis to be introduced to PEI. This is The Island Way..Be patient…maybe we could try this approach-just encourage topless for awhile, just to see how it effects beer sales, green fees at Crowbush and stuff…:)<–(Me at the beach on opening day)

Wrong, Wayne. In 1908 the very progressive PEI government banned the motor car. There is a wonderful photo of a horse-towed Pierce Arrow in Summerside which thereafter served as a static display in somone’s front garden. Interesting to note, the attitude to new technology remains exactly the same (ignore TechPEI press releases which seem to refer exclusivly to Potemkin Villages).

I think you are both right that there was a ban in 1908 and then an every second day permitted a few years later in the WWI era which was in turn scrapped when the soldiers came home and ignored the foolishness of it.

We wear two.

Dan, I thought you were from Cavendish Municipality, but you are from silverorange.

Spock out.

I do live in Cavendish though Ken - so a close assumption. It is key to point out for the purposes of humor that the debated nudist resort is next to Bosom Buddies cottages.

That last “Wayne” was not theee  Wayne.

Anne was a drunk, though - what with the “cordial” incident - thus linking the character to Thirsties…

Here is a quote about PEI from the temperence crusader, Carrie A. Nation’s The Use and Need of the life of Carrie A. Nation As I had promised to return to Canada, I did so in the month of June, visiting the Maritime Provinces, where I was very much delighted with the people, finding in Prince Edward’s Island the most intelligent and moral people, as a body, that I have ever met. That Island has a Prohibition Law similar to Kansas, but the primier, Peters, told the former premier, Mr. Farguason, that the Club in Charlotte Town, the Capitol, had to be an exception to the prohibitive amendment or he would vote against and ruin it. This condition is similar in our own government-conspiracy and treason. I visited this club, strange that I should get in, God opened the way. It was fitted up like other drinking clubs, where men congregate together to act in a manner and talk of subjects they would be ashamed for their wives to see and hear. The back room was stacked with empties and imported liquors of different brands. I went up into the parlor about nine o’clock in the morning, where I met one of these beer-swelled outlaws, I asked him, “Will you object to answering some questions about this place.” His pompous and indignant reply was, “No, I will do nothing of the kind.” I said, I will tell you some things about it. You are a set of traitors, you pose as being the elite, but you are criminals, shame on such villainy.” He held his paper up before his face. I had the satisfaction of telling him the truth in plain language, such men are well dressed, gold fobbed, diamond studded rummies that are more hateful than those behind the prison bars, their bodies a reeking mass of corruption.