Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wave of discontent was sweeping through Rehoboth, and the town commissioners had to act. In 1905, the resort’s commissioners ...

The South Bay and Harbor Area have been blessed with beautiful beaches. But if you’d gone to one wearing even a modest modern-day swimsuit a century or more ago, you’d have been carted off to jail.

A wave of discontent was sweeping through Rehoboth, and the town commissioners had to act. In 1905, the resort’s commissioners decreed that it was illegal “for any person to bathe in the ocean unless ...