I found this interesting little blurb in a 1919 edition of the Sandusky Register.  It’s a very American story!

“One of the best shots among the gentler sex at the big U. S. naval rifle range, near Caldwell, NJ, is Miss Mary Washington Morosini, a young society girl of Essex Fells, N. J.”

Miss Morosini, age 17, was one of the many citizens who took advantage of the offer to teach citizens to shoot at the naval rifle range.  Can you imagine the government offering a similar program today?

“On her first visit she surprised the naval officers by hitting the bulls-eye three times out of five. A few days later she made the remarkable score of 37 out of 45 at 200 yards with a Springfield rifle.

“Miss Morosini’s mother, who as Miss Bond was famous as a New York society beauty, is a descendant of those who were prominent in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Morosini’s forbears on both sides were related to George Washington and Dolly Madison.”

I could imagine Miss Morosini’s aristocratic family being a little horrified to think of her image being in the papers for a contest like this but I bet George Washington would have been proud of his descendant.

Congratulations to Ruby, for winning the Grievous Deeds audiobook contest!