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Lost Lansing: Elton Shaw promoted temperance and sunbathing

Lost Lansing: Elton Shaw promoted temperance and sunbathing

By David Votta on January 23, 2011

The 1936 national conference of the American Sunbathing Association nudist organization was held in Valparaiso, Indiana. At this event Elton Raymond Shaw, Lansing author, publisher and lecturer was elected president. Born in Michigan about 1886, Shaw was a complex man. Highly religious, he published books on temperance and in 1909 authored a book concerning Jesus’ […]

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