Beaver Queen Pageant - Meet your contestants

Second in a series

Today we meet Duke Park's own Flapper LaTail, who is a real throwback to those Roaring 20s when you had to know the secret knock to enter the lodge for a taste of that bathtub hooch. Here she is in her own words:

Flapper LaTail fled snowy Beaver Falls, NY for the sunnier ponds of North Carolina in 2001. When she's not all dolled up at some swanky juice joint singing to the hepcats, Flapper LaTail likes to paddle 'round the pond with her lodgemate, Mr. Dependable.

"It's been swell being able to depend on him to erect our dam," sez Ms. LaTail. "It leaves me more time for flappin' my tail to that crazy jazz down at the speakeasy."

I hear her tail flappin' can put ripples on ponds two states away.