ISBN 978-59322-114-0

The shared Long Beach Island experience is captured in this perfect-for-the-beach collection of articles and photographs, filled with timeless Island pleasures, history, nature, storms, landmarks, and, of course, memories.

In this curated selection of great writing from The SandPaper, The Beachcomber and other publications, the shared experience that is Long Beach Island is presented for locals and visitors alike. More than 70 accounts capture quintessential experiences on the water and on the beach, the joy of a shore summer and our dramatically different seasons. There is humor, history and natural history, the terror of great storms, environmental warnings from the past, and timeless island pleasures that continue from one generation to the next. From stories about landmarks to ice cream; from fishing, sailing, and surfing to rescues, beachcombing, and entertainment, this collection is a delightful salty sampler of Long Beach Island life.

MARGARET THOMAS BUCHHOLZ is co-author of Great Storms of the Jersey Shore, author of New Jersey Shipwrecks: 350 Years in the Graveyard of the Atlantic, and editor of The Long Beach Island Reader, Shore Chronicles: Diaries and Travelers Tales from the Jersey Shore 1764-1955, and Josephine; From Washington Working Gril to Fishermans Wife. Her essays about the shore have also been included in anthologies and collections. Buchholz was publisher of the Long Beach Island newspaper the Beachcomber from 1955 to 1987. She currently lives year-round in her childhood home in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, on Barnegat Bay, where her family has been coming since 1833.