Our Way or the Highway

Sandy Terraces on Cape Cod is trying again to promote its open house this weekend. The current article is an improvement over the last one, but still fails to appeal to a younger generation.

So the camp is based on naked communal living. "It is each generation's job to make it better for the next generation," said (operations manager Dan) Liddle. His generation of nudists built the pavilion and is planning on installing a swimming pool (the new bathhouse is already under construction). Members' talents are contributed to keeping things going: Liddle himself is a woodworker, and does everything from mending fences to whatever woodwork is needed at the camp. Everyone pitches in at the pavilion for cooking detail, entertainment organization, repairing roads, etc.

"In communal living you learn to get along, or if you don't, you just don't fit in," said Liddle.

So the message is "our way or the highway". This is not the slogan that will attract hoards of new members; in fact, it will keep people away.

The nudist "camp" model is dead, gone with the drive-in movie, 30 cent-a-gallon gasoline, and woolen bathing costumes.

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