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5.5" x 8.5" softcover 230 pp., 34 illustrations $16.95 ISBN 978-1-59322-095-2 |
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
For the last half of the 20th Century, one Long Beach Island publication, The Beachcomber featured observations, essays and literary stories that captured the essence of this Jersey Shore resort island. |
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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 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. |
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CHAPTERS The Islander |
Howling Southeaster on Saturday Strikes Long Beach Island 1944 Hurricane: Personal Survival An Evacuee’s-Eye View of Gloria Gloria: Requiem for a Hurricane A Summer Squall Back When the Fish Were Biting Mother of All Bluefish Blitzes One Man from Norway Home from the Foggy Sea The Endless Surfer Shore Things: Treasure the Obvious Saving a Perfect Day Combing the Beaches Whistling, Women and Other Fishing Superstitions Blubber Blast: A Dynamite Whale-of-a-Tale Stafford Man Sees a Sea Serpent The Jaws of History: The Last Shark Attack A ’30s Summer at the Engleside Pharmacy The Nifty Fifties: Summer Jobs Buckalew’s: When Clams Were Six Cents Each Big Art and the Aquaplane Sweet, Soulful Sailing Horseshoe Crabs Eleanor Miller and The Surflight Passage to Valhalla Fishing: What’s It All About? Sail Away, My Two Sons The Island Heritage The Boys of Summer: Looking Back Doc Cramer: Beach Haven’s Gift to the Major Leagues The Last Beach Party Generation |
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