Related by Marriage: The Exit

Nativity BVM Church, Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois, January 1958. Mr. Irene's Mom wears a stylish, sheared beaver capelet.

It would be nice to have a little snow.

Suburban Chicago, December 1964. I never was good at shaping snowballs.

Borganza coats were popular in the 1960s. Borganza "fur" slightly resembled sheared beaver: fashion's answer to Naugahyde.

Dam Reunion

Lake of Bays, Ontario, Canada, July 1969. The busy builders have gone to sleep.

Working like a beaver.

"I didn't know beavers could walk on their hind legs like that."

Thanks to my Toronto Cousin for pointing this charming clip out to me.