How to find your grandpa in swimwear.
Family legend turns out to be true this time.
“Grandpa John was on the cover of Life Magazine, you know.”
Without getting into epistemology, I wasn’t sure. He was my grandfather, but I wasn’t sure of the man’s first name and was only medium-confident as to his last1.
I knew he wore a hat with a boat on it, when I was small, and that he’d stop by the house on Saturdays, with little bags of almonds f…



