In the late 1800s, prosperous American and Canadian families spent summers there sailing.
Spetsai has been a summer resort for the prosperous society of Athens for almost a century.
It was a glorious late-summer Sunday in this prosperous, largely Republican and now fed-up pocket of America.
Summer is the more prosperous season in Montreal, as winter barhopping in what seems like minus 200 degrees Celsius is impossible.
The communities of San Leon and Bacliff, despite their seaside location, their proximity to the relatively prosperous Clear Lake Area, and the development of summer resort communities there in the early 20th century, have suffered economic decline since the mid-20th century and are among the least affluent parts of the Bay Area today.
Established as a gentleman's farm in 1880, Muscoot served as a summer home and dairy for the prosperous Hopkins family.
Clarence's mother, the former Mary Emma Hastings, was a teacher and the daughter of a prosperous farmer on whose farm Clarence spent his childhood summers.
Instead, the plan bears the hallmark of a summer of intense lobbying by the industry, prosperous again after being bailed out by the taxpayer two years ago, and which has succeeded in winning important concessions from the government.
Trudy Ederle was the daughter of a German butcher who had a prosperous shop on Amsterdam Avenue, on the Upper West Side, and a summer cottage in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.
A network of connections between these short stories illuminates from more than one point of view a sort of clique of aging, prosperous Bostonians and the rough, unprosperous Maine community where they traditionally spend their summers.
