After three decades having vacation houses on Henlopen Avenue, my family and I have formally adopted the following Henlopen Avenue business plan:
“If I should take a notion
to jump into the ocean
‘t’ain’t nobody’s business
if I do, do, do do.”
– Billie Holiday, 1949.
Ms. Holiday, who grew up in Baltimore and has a statue there at the site of the Royal Theatre, memorializing some of her greatest concerts, was with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn the coolest ever female jazz vocalist.
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