This post is about nuns... and clams

[tk2kewl]

Library of Congress

Full caption: Nuns clamming on Long Island. Toni Frissell. 1957 Sept. Prints and Photographs Division.
LC-F9-04-5709-012-07.

Although Toni Frissell became known for her fashion photography, by the 1950s her interest in fashion work was waning and her professional focus shifted to sports photography. In this scene, however, she captured the figures of women who had explicitly rejected fashion and whose “sport” had a practical result.

[GoneOffShore]

1. That is one great photo!

Have you ever seen a picture of the cheese nun?

She was featured in the New Yorker food issue a couple of years ago.

[tk2kewl]

2. I never heard of the cheese nun

:shrug:

[GoneOffShore]

3. She makes cheese at some convent in Conneticut

Raw milk, wooden tubs, really good cheese.

Here's a movie review about her

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=289928