My coming of age tale finally up on my Substack. Their formatting was challenging but should be OK now. The link has a list of links for the various chapters. It is as much a photo essay as anything so the files were too big for it to be one huge document. Please check it out if you like. About 9,500 words and 35 or so archival photographs from 8 or 9 different places.
From the prologue:
Early spring and a summer in need of filling in until the party starts at Auntie’s way up the coast near Canada. Boys galore, and those the cute ones from the dances in Princeton. Ever darling after a long winter with no way to do a distract from trying to read Ancient Greek but an Amherst boy with two left feet.
Join Daisy Blackwell and her friends Mildred and Henrietta as they leave their dormitory world with walls covered with felt pennants from the beaux of someone else and hoping for someone of their own whose school colors look better with a New York City-bought evening coat.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/off-to-have-a-middy-summer