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LivingLBI

Summer 2009

Pages of the Past 1930’s LBI Vacation Guide Mystery of the Kathlyn House

Beach Haven’s Victorians Causeway or Bridge?

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Cricket Cove opened its doors for business on July 1, 1995.

Our merchandise is varied and includes hand-painted shells, shirts and wood items by Ruth Benhayon.

Hand-made glycerin soap made by Lisa Ball that looks good enough to eat! Stop by and see her entire line.

We also offer some original water colors and prints by Long Beach Islander Jeannette Bond.

The store’s cases and shelves hold beautiful sterling silver and the latest in fun, colorful costume jewelry, scarves and hats.

Many other items will be coming in now that the new season has begun.

And finally, come in and meet Cricket – the new shop cat.

She adopted the store this past October and now runs the place. She’s spoiled rotten and I love her!

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Contents 6 The Mystery of Kathlyn Cottage 8 Oldest Standing House on Jacueline Ave 10 Across the Street from the Baldwin Hotel

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12 Dorland J Henderson Memorial Bridge

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13 A Little Bit of Key West 14 Ever Wonder?

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15 Sand Crabs

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16 Pelicans on LBI

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The attacks inspired Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1974), an account of a great white shark that torments the fictional coastal community of Amity Island.

19 Start Your Own Victory Garden 20 Pen & Ink

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21 From the Pages of the Past 24 Eco-Friendly Dryers 25 Summer Diets

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26 A Part of the Family 27 Shell Crafts 28 Indulge 30 Solar Wind

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The Mystery of Kathlyn Cottage - SOLVED!

By Bruce Clark buildings in Beach Haven would get you half-way to your goal of finding the right building (if it still exists!) but it really doesn't.

And a more careful study of the card revealed one troubling fact - the photo had been "doctored". The right quarter of the Kathlyn Cottage image was pure When this postcard came white - notice that to the right of into my collection, the only thing the building you see nothing, no I knew about it was the fact that trees, no background - nothing. it was a Beach Haven image and Even the hedges show a that the uniquely shaped building remarkably straight had an equally unique name edge, it is simply "Kathlyn Cottage". Since my "too perfect". This mother-in-law has the first name would only have of "Kathlyn", this deepened my been done for a interest in finding out if this early single reason. There 1900's photo showed a house that must have been might still stand in the small something right next town of Beach Haven. to Kathlyn Cottage, As I always do, I first looked something so close for visual clues as to what the that the only way to image showed and what story the "highlight" and photo could tell. ("A picture is separate what the postcard was worth 1,000 words.") A careful supposed to show was to take a study of the shadowing (thank sharp knife to the negative and goodness for sunny days!) cut away the adjoining buildings. showed that the shadows fell That forever eliminated more towards the clues. So I front of the literally decided house (the to "take to the chimney air" - I brought shadow across out my the roof is the magnifying most glass and noticeable.) tried to Knowing that locate aerial shadows in our photos area fall to the View from water tower towards Baldwin Hotel showing north because of the positioning Beach Haven around 1900. of our sun as it travels across our Problem is, the Wright sky, this placed the house on the Brothers were still working southern part of the street, facing on their first plane in 1900! north.

Was there another way to see You would think that a bird's eye view of Beach eliminating one-half of the Summer Issue 2009 6

Haven? Luckily for me, there was. Some intrepid photographer lugged his heavy equipment up the narrow structural beams to reach the highest point in the town, the old water tower. From this seagull's eye view, the town spread out before him like a miniature train village at Christmas. And thanks to his nonexistent fear of heights, I had at least something to work with.

I almost drove myself crazy studying rooflines and house shapes in my quest to find where Kathlyn Cottage was. I elicited the help of town historian John Bailey Lloyd, whose expertise in the background of housenaming in the town helped steer me to certain sections of Beach Haven.

Below, is a greatly enlarged section of a large panoramic photo taken from atop the old water tower and facing northeast, towards the ocean. The white arrow points to a building that caught my eye. It seemed to have the same roofline as Kathlyn Cottage and it had a spire behind it as shown in the postcard. It faced north. It had a house right next to it that would have interfered with trying to just show the one house.

Would you have spotted it? I quickly determined by counting the streets that this suspect house stood on Centre Street just east of the Boulevard. But there was a problem. This was not in an area of town where the owners normally named their cottages.

Could it still be Kathlyn Cottage?

And would the building still be there if it was?

The drive over to Centre Street with my camera in hand was the last step in this very tedious process. But when we stood in front of 212 Centre Street, it was euphoria! Not only was Kathlyn Cottage still standing, it was now the famous Gables Restaurant, with a rich tradition and history of its own. The building was actually the location for the first of the annual Beach Haven Turkey dinners that have satisfied tens of thousands of people over the years. The house looked a bit different thanks to vegetation and awnings covering the porch. But the truly unique shape of the roof, gables and chimney and back tower gave its secret away.

Kathlyn Cottage had been found.

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History of (what may be) the oldest standing house on Jacqueline Ave. in Holgate The fascinating pictures below of our house and its evolution were graciously provided by our Jacqueline Avenue neighbors, Ray Stone and his sister Nancy Michaels. Their grandfather Russell Hann erected the house following the 1944 hurricane which had destroyed his previous home at the same location on Jacqueline Avenue.

-Jim Mahoney

addition to the revised new front of his house. They are hard at it with car trunks open, saw horses sit in the yard and some planks leaning up against the side waiting.

The new front entryway replaced the main door on the east side, and is now closed in with a small window.

A single story house is now built next door, another roof

may also be visible beyond, but otherwise the bay end of Jacqueline appears mostly empty. Supported on four concrete piers, the new enclosed porch appears nearly complete except for front steps. The roof extension blends into the old at somewhat less of an angle, the dormer is unchanged. Tar paper surrounds the front in wait for exterior siding which will eventually cover it and the original cedar shakes

As told by Ray, this house was found resting on the sand somewhere down near the bay after the 1944 hurricane.

His grandfather purchased the shell for $25, moved it to his recently cleared lot and sat it on a foundation. The car in the drive, curtained windows and electric hookup would indicate it was restored and occupied.

Bonds Coast Guard station can be seen in the distance. First located near the ocean front, it was damaged then rebuilt and moved to the bayside in 1908.

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The Beach Haven Inlet water tower can just be seen at the upper left. The block house next door appears complete though still in need of windows and front door.

This view of the house taken from the opposite angle, shows the open space behind the house that stretched over to the trailer park in the distance.

Many years later that empty space would eventually contain Joan and Janet Avenues which were developed in the 1970's.

The picture below, of the screened in porch and front steps leading to the street, recall my earliest memories of the house. However, that was all destined to change in March of 1962 when it would be pummeled by the great nor'easter and nearly float away. Fortunately it bumped into the house next door and remained there until the end of the storm; then hauled back into position where she sits to this day.

Island. On Sept 19, 2003 during a ceremony at the Barnegat Light Historical Museum, 19 plaques were presented including one for our house in Holgate.

The following spring our plaque was proudly mounted as the house was being readied for another summer of fun at the shore. Many years ago, a teenaged cousin made a sketch of the house during her family's visit to Holgate. This work is a treasure from those earlier times and displayed to remind all of this great memory-filled house by the sea.

After more then 60 years of taking all that Mother Nature has to offer down near the south end of Long Beach Island, our old beach house stands proud and continues to provide us with a delightful place for summer respite.

Thanks Mister Hann!

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Now surrounded by many contemporary homes the beach house grows older as the ocean waves continue to pound the shoreline a few hundred feet away. While the house may be a little worse for wear and tear these days, the pictures above testify to the fact it was likely one of the first to be rebuilt on Jacqueline Avenue after the terrible destruction of the 1944 hurricane and also suggest that the central portion is a humble yet hearty survivor of that legendary storm.

Since 1987 the Long Beach Island Historical Preservation Committee has awarded more then 400 plaques to owners of historic structures on Long Beach

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Across the street from the Baldwin Hotel Circa 1880

Paul & Merle Anderson

Old timers and lovers of the Island’s history recognize the name The Baldwin Hotel which opened for business in 1883. It was located on Pearl Street where Holy Innocent’s Episcopal Church sits today. It was built after the Parry House (1874-1881) burned to the ground. A Mr. Matthias W. Baldwin, who founded the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, built a small train that could take guests through the marsh from Dock Road to the hotel, but the RR only lasted one year due to the salt air rusting out the track.

The house across the street from the Hotel was built in 1880 and owned by George Burham. He sold the house to James Parry, who deeded it to Matthew Williams who then sold it to William Baird in 1888.

Burham, Parry, Williams, and Baird were all business associates of the Baldwin Locomotive Works.

In 1976, Paul and Merle Anderson and their 7 children rented the Baird house for the summer. They fell in love with the house and its history. It was big enough for their large family, so they wanted to rent it again the next summer. Instead, they discovered that the house was for sale, and they bought it. The house was in need of some tender loving care so the Andersons jumped right in and started with the removal of five layers of wallpaper. Even though the days of Rolls Royce’s, butlers, and lavish parties were long gone, the Andersons felt that they were enjoying memories of those times as each new layer of paper was removed.

The original slate fireplace still stands in the greeting room. Pot belly stoves were located in most rooms and the original claw-footed bathtubs are still to be found in most of the bathrooms. They found a cistern that water was pumped into so the family could have running water. The light fixtures were once lit by gas, but were wired for electricity. Wood from the hotel was recycled to modify the house. There is a note burnt into the wood of a drawer found in the butler’s pantry that says, “Hotel Baldwin.”

Things have changed on LBI. The house across from the Baldwin Hotel used to be the second house from the beach – now it is a block away. New homes were built that lead up to a small section of the old boardwalk. This house is full of memories of the past 129 years, and ready for those of the future.

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Dorland J Henderson Memorial Bridge Have you noticed the plaque on the bridge as you leave the island?

In 2000, the Manahawkin Bay Bridge was renamed, the Dorland J Henderson Memorial Bridge.

Mr Henderson was a top engineer who overcame discrimination to become the chief engineer of the Dept of Transportation Electrical Bureau and Division of Traffic Engineering. He started the policy of removing references to race, creed, color or national origin from all personal records to ensure that everyone who worked for him did so in an environment free of racial distinctions.

He designed the Manahawkin Bay Bridge built in 1958, which includes 768 separate light fixtures inserted into the hand rail giving the night time appearance of a “string of pearls.�

Mr Henderson was born in the early 20th century. He lived in Newark and died in 1996 at the age of 96.

The original causeways were replaced by four bridges to Long Beach Island

Causeway or Bridge?

A causeway is a raised road, usually providing passageway over wetlands. A bridge is a structure which allows passage over some type of impediment to travel (such as a roadway over a river, or other body of water). Causeways tend to refer to roadways which are close to the surface of the water or wetlands they provide passage over, and often do not allow nautical navigation underneath them. A bridge, by contrast, is always elevated over water, allowing it to flow freely (although is most often supported by pilings).

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A Little Bit of Key West Bill Hutson, owner of Lorry’s Island End Motel, is one of a kind. Like his motel, he truly captures the spirit of Long Beach Island.

He purchased the motel 20 years ago “because I love this beautiful and peaceful laid back end of Long Beach Island”. Over the years he has renovated Lorry’s into a “Key West” style motel.

Lorry’s offers gas grills and picnic tables so guests can feel right at home. The court yard reflects the “Key West” style with gardens and a fountain including a pink flamingo!

Off season, Bill keeps very busy as vice president of the LBI Business Alliance. He maintains Lorry’s website (www.LorrysMotel.com) and Bill

Guests over the years have become friends of Bill. Kids stay free at Lorry’s and like friends, he loans bikes, boogie boards and beach badges. Many customers come back every year and some 2 - 4 times a year.

He’ll go out of his way for his guests. One time a guest called him from the Manahawkin Bus Station because he couldn’t get a cab. The man was running late for a show at the Surflight Theatre so Bill jumped in his car and picked him up and got him to the show on time.

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How far away is the horizon?

At a height of 6’ above sea level the horizon is 3 miles away.

The rough estimate for the distance in miles is the square root of 1.5 times the height (in ft).

I will check garbage and recycle containers the night before every pick-up day to ensure that all are in compliance with the Beach Haven and Long Beach Township regulation and, if necessary, clean up and take care of any problems, at very reasonable rates.

How salty is the ocean?

The average salinity of the ocean is about 3.5%.

Salinity of tears is about 1.5%.

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How many grains of sand are on the beach?

It is estimated that there are 710,000 grains of sand in a cup. Estimating the sand on the beach presents the problem of depth.

On some east coast beaches the sand can be thousands of feet deep on other beaches the sand may only reach a depth of a couple of feet before rock is found.

Why is the sky blue?

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As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. The red, orange and yellow light is unaffected by air.

Blue light has a shorter wavelength and it is absorbed by air molecules.

It is then radiated and scattered in different directions. So wherever you look at the sky, it appears blue.

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Well camouflaged by its gray shell, a sand crab keeps its balance in the ever-moving sand with the help of a heavily armored, curved body and pointy legs. To stay put in the sand, a crab burrows quickly and often. While most crabs move in any direction, forward, backward and sideways, a sand crab moves only backward. And a sand crab has no claws on its first pair of legs—another unusual feature for a crab. Sand crabs feed in the swash zone—an area of breaking waves. As the swash zone moves up and down the beach with the tide, so do sand crabs. To feed, the crabs burrow backward into the sand and face seaward, with only their eyes and first antennae showing. As a receding wave flows over them, the sand crabs uncoil a second pair of featherlike antennae and sweep them through the water to filter out tiny plankton. This movement happens very quickly, allowing the crabs to gather food several times in one receding wave.

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Pelicans

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Photographer Valerie Fenelon captured this flock of pelicans over LBI. There are two species of pelicans in NJ. The American White Pelican can be seen as far north as Canada. As their name implies, they are all white with orange bills. They swim together herding fish to shallow water then scoop them up. The Brown Pelicans are the smallest of the pelican species and are the familiar diving type bird. Pelicans can dive from 60 ft, head first and surface with a pouch full of fish. When the weather changes they migrate to warmer climates.

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nor'easter is so named because the winds in a nor'easter come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the northeastern United States and atlantic Canada. More specifically, it describes a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast. Nor'easters also can cause coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane force winds, and heavy snow.

Nor'easters can occur at any time of the year but are mostly known for their presence in the winter season.

Until the nor'easter passes, thick, dark, low-level clouds often block out the sun. During a single storm, the precipitation can range from a torrential downpour to a fine mist.

Low temperatures and high wind gusts are also associated with a nor'easter. On very rare occasions, such as in the North American blizzard of 2006 and a nor'easter in 1979, the center of the storm can take on the circular shape more typical of a hurricane and have a small eye. All precipitation types can occur in a nor'easter, although they are well-known for their frozen precipitation.

Nor’Easter

Surfers wait in anticipation when a nor'easter is formed.

Nor'easters cause a significant amount of severe beach erosion in these areas, as well as flooding in the associated low-lying areas. Beach residents in these areas may actually fear the repeated depredations of nor'easters over those of hurricanes, because nor'easters happen more frequently and cause substantial damage to beach-front property and their dunes.

-This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nor’easter”"

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William J. (Bill) Kane was born March 6, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bill was the youngest of six children born to John J. and Mary Kane. As a child Bill spent summers in his family’s oceanfront home on Maryland Terrace in Beach Haven Terrace. Bill attended art school in Philadelphia for two years during his adolescence.

In 1932 Bill married Edna Parker, the daughter of a local Beach Haven Terrace family. For three years, Bill and Edna lived in the Kane family home, eventually moving to a small house in Beach Haven Terrace at the corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Delaware Avenue. Their home became the local US Post Office and Edna served as postmistress. In addition, they sold soda and ice cream from their home and sold gasoline from a single pump at their house. Bill became a house painter and paperhanger by trade, with an interest in photography and art. Bill worked in watercolors and oil, and carved models of ships from wood. His carved model of the Fortuna, a ship that sunk off the coast at Ship Bottom, is on display at the Museum in Beach

William (Bill) T. Kane

Haven. Each week, Bill painted the advertising banners for that weeks’ shows at the Beach Haven movie theater. Friends and family loved to watch him create the banners using black paint on muslin fabric featuring current movie celebrities.

Bill and Edna had two daughters, Lee and Barbara. Bill was exempt from serving during World War II, given that he had dependent children and never had the opportunity to fulfill his dream of being an aerial photographer on a fighter plane. Bill found a means to serve by becoming an air raid warden and ensuring that all homes used their black out curtains to prevent U-boats from seeing lights on shore. Bill also worked at the Camden shipyard along with friends until the wars end in 1945.

In the late 1940s, Bill purchased the then abandoned train station on Maryland Avenue and with the help of Edna’s brothers, the building was rolled across the street to be situated on their property. This became Bill’s darkroom and studio. Photography became an increasingly important medium for Bill’s work and he became a photographer for the Times Beacon newspapers and the Beachcomber.

Bill also created several series of

pen and ink drawings. One series depicted life at the shipyard during the war, which Bill self-published.

Another series of pen and ink drawings done in 1995 portrayed life at work and at play on Long Beach Island and were published as postcards. An unfinished series highlighting the Tuckerton railroad and its extension to Long Beach Island is part of the collection of the museum in Beach Haven, where it is occasionally on display.

The Noreaster store was opened

by Bill and Edna in the 1940s, housed in a large room added to their home, from which they sold Bill’s photos and postcards as well as newspapers, magazines and food. The store remained a neighborhood-gathering place until Bill and Edna closed it in 1980 upon their move to Manahawkin. Bill passed away on November 11, 1984 while still residing in Manahawkin.

Biography was written by Sandra Anton, based exclusively upon an interview done December 1, 2004 by Margaret T. Buccholz, during research for her book “Island Album”, with one of Bill Kane’s two daughters, Lee Miller of Barnegat, NJ. Bill T. Kane’s drawing are available at North End Trilogy, 506 Broadway, Barnegat Light. 609-494-9640

From the Pages of the Past

The Long Beach Island Vacation Guide Printed in 1930 On a visit to Unshredded Nostalgia, an antique shop located at 323 South Main St, Barnegat, NJ, I came across an old Long Beach Island vacation guide. This guide along with many other publications and photos will be displayed all summer in the “Memories of New Jersey� exhibit and features maps, deeds, photographs, postcards, posters, stock certificates, and much more. All items on display have been collected from residents and businesses from around the state capturing the unique history and diverse heritage of the last 100 years from all twenty-one counties in the state.

Can you image the traffic jams if the old bridge was still in use? The draw bridge in the photo was built in 1914. Between the years of 1886- 1935 a railroad trestle bridge also brought vacationers to the island. In 1958 Manahawkin Bay Bridge, known as “the causeway” was designed by Dorland J Henderson. The Bridge was renamed the Dorland J Henderson Memorial Bridge.

“Are we there yet?”

I can’t image traveling from New York to the island by car in 1930. The parkway didn’t exist and parts of route 72 were not completed. Cars back then weren’t very fast, but gas was cheap!

Kapler’s Pharmacy now occupies the building on the corner of Centre Street and Bay Ave that once housed Downing Real Estate. It still has an old town historical feel with a corner door that adds to its charm. Kapler’s has a collection of photos, old medicine jars and prescriptions from the past.

Remember the old Colonial Theatre? Movies were very popular back in 1930. Over seventy years later, it is still standing. It’s now a hardware store and completely remodeled, but hints of the old building remain.

The Beach Haven National Bank issued paper money with Beach Haven printed on the bills. They were know as National Currency in $5, $10 and $20 denominations.

Beach Haven has seen many changes over the years.

These old photos trigger memories of the past. They are a reminder that the island was alive with locals and tourists before we were born.

This vacation guide was printed during the depression in 1930. With a twenty-five percent unemployment rate, the island catered to the wealthy. It was also during prohibition!

Women wore daring wool knit bathing suits that showed their legs above the knees.

TV was invented but wouldn’t be sold to the public for another fifteen years.

Listening to the radio was very popular. The Amos and Andy show was broadcast on Fridays and Sundays.

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The Engleside has changed over the years! The old hotel was demolished and the new one was built closer to the beach. I have heard stories over the years about the Acme Hotel but this is the first photo I’ve seen. They sold cups of beer for twenty five cents back in the 70’s. It is now The Ketch.

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There is nothing like the smell of clean clothes taken right off the clothesline.

When I was a kid, we had a very long clothesline that had a wheel at each end.

The rope would feed through the wheels and a little metal gadget would keep the rope tight. You’d hang the clothes on the line and reel it out. I haven’t seen a line like that in years. I don’t think my kids have every seen that setup! The weekly ritual of hanging out the clothes to dry has vanished in the wind.

Lazy summer days with towels and bathing suits hanging on the line had been a part of LBI’s days gone by. It seemed that everyone had wooden posts with multiple clotheslines in the backyard. The clothes would flap in the wind and sometimes tangle in the rope.

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Clotheslines have been on my mind lately, mainly because my dryer broke.

I no longer have a clothesline but now have full intentions of installing one. It took a couple of weeks to have the dryer repaired, so in the meantime, I hung my laundry on the rail of my porch. The smell of the fresh air dried clothes triggered my memory of those hot summer days and clean smelling towels.

The dryer is working again but I’ve decided not to use it. Hanging out the clothes not only adds to my exercise regimen but saves money. Clotheslines are the ultimate eco-friendly dryers.

-Lisa Ball

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Older dogs are usually trained and calmer than puppies. They easily adapt to a loving family.

Rescuing an older dog creates an unforgettable bond. You can change the fate of an abandoned dog by simply opening your heart. In return, you will be showered with love.

Over the last thirty years, I’ve raised ten dogs. Most of them were pure bred and adopted as adult dogs.

Puppies are cute but my heart goes out to the dogs that were abandoned.

My sweet little Lexie was thirteen when I took her home. She was a tiny little Yorkie, less than two pounds, and cute as a button.

She’d sleep next to my son, then climb on his chest to rest her nose on his chin. Lexie was a miracle dog who lived to the age of twenty-one.

Dogs usually wander into my life, but

a couple of times I sought out a new addition. When I contacted the Afghan Hound rescue group, they told me about Woody. He was an abandoned dog that was in foster care. I drove to Delaware to pick him up and immediately fell in love with him. He was a big, tall dog, about ninety pounds, and could rest his chin on the table. But he was as gentle as a lamb. We think he was about four years old when he was found.

Scruffy Dog was quite a character. He was a thirteen year old mean Australian Terrier who would bite me if I touched him, until I taught him that it wasn’t allowed. Treat a dog with kindness and he’ll return the favor.

There was also Katie, a loveable Border Collie, who we found as a puppy walking along the busy streets in Bloomfield, NJ. She was very thin, had tar stuck to her fur and had

a cut around her muzzle.

We think it was caused from eating out of a can.

Asa, was my first Afghan Hound, she was a gorgeous dog with silky long blonde hair.

She was a puppy when my second son was born and the two of them became best of friends.

Molly, my Yorkie, will always be remembered as the baby.

She was a fuzzy teddy bear who would lie in my arms for hours. She would come over to me and tap me with her paw so I would pick her up.

Bella, a two year old Rat Terrier, is always ready for a walk. She is a ball of fire. She runs through the house like she’s running a race then hides under the covers in my bed.

Dogs enhance our lives through unconditional love.

Their enthusiasm is contagious. They are truly a human’s best friend. Open your heart and home and adopt a fuzzy friend.

-Lisa Ball

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Shell Crafts Last winter I was walking along the beach in Holgate and found a shell paradise. I couldn’t help wondering what I could do with all those gorgeous shells. I’ve been collecting shells for forty five years and still love shell crafts. When I was a kid we used shells to dig in the sand then decorate my sand castles with them. Our yard was lined with shells and we had ashtrays galore, even though there were no smokers in the family.

I grabbed a bag out of my car and filled it with huge clam shells. After bleaching and drying them, I put the shells on the table and just stared. I was determined to do “something” with them.

Looking around the house and in all of my craft supply boxes, I came across little glass beads (the kind that you put in the bottom of vases). I epoxied them to the bottom of the shells to make the shells lie straight and sturdy. Then I added a wick and poured melted beeswax. Voila! Beeswax Shell Candles.

Old-fashioned lye soap is making a comeback.

It’s expensive but it is worth the indulgence. The ingredients in soap make all the difference between dry, itchy skin and soft, healthy skin. What you put on your skin will also be absorbed into your body. Less is more when it comes to soap. Leaving out harmful ingredients and replacing them with natural ingredients can be a healthier choice for your skin.

Synthetic ingredients such as Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) have come under attack. There are claims that they cause allergies, cancer and canker sores. They are in commercially made soaps, laundry detergents, floor cleaners, dish detergents and even toothpaste. It’s the stuff that makes bubbles. Parabens are synthetic preservatives that some studies claim to cause breast cancer.

Propylene Glycol is made from petrochemicals and there are claims that it may cause kidney damage. Deciding which ingredients to use is a personal decision. Read the labels. Soap manufacturers are not required to list ingredients. Those that do usually have nothing to hide.

True soap is made with lye. Fat or oil is mixed with lye to form soap.

However, the correct amount of lye must be used or some of it will remain in the soap and will be very hard on the skin. Soap is not required to be tested.

Handmade bar soaps don’t require preservatives because of the low water content. Bacteria needs water to grow. Homemade liquid soaps contain water and may grow bacteria if a preservative is not used.

Soap has been around since 2000BC. In the early days, soapmakers simply boiled a solution of wood ash and animal fat. A foam substance formed at the top of the pot. When cooled, it hardened into soap. Soap requires two major raw materials: fat and alkali. The alkali most commonly used today is sodium hydroxide. Potassium hydroxide can also be used.

Potassium-based soap creates a more water-soluble product than sodiumbased soap, and so it is called "soft soap" or liquid soaps.

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The main difference between commercially made soap and handmade soap is the glycerin content.

Large soap manufacturers remove the glycerin and sell it as a separate ingredient. Glycerin is a sugar alcohol used in foods and beverages, solvents and as a sweetener.

Glycerin is a by-product of soap making. Vegetable oils and animal fats are fatty esters in the form of triglycerides. The alkali breaks the ester bond and releases the fatty acid and glycerol (glycerin). Natural glycerin is wonderful for your skin. It is a humectant, which means that it attracts moisture. Beyond hydrating your skin, glycerin is also known to be a natural remedy for yeast and fungal infections, such as eczema and psoriasis. It is especially good for sensitive skin.

Modern commercial soapmakers use fat that has been processed into fatty acids. This eliminates many impurities, and it produces water as a byproduct instead of glycerin.

Many vegetable fats, including olive oil, palm kernel oil, and coconut oil, are also used in soap making. Additives are used to enhance the color, texture, and scent of soap.

Fragrances and perfumes are added to the soap mixture to leave behind a fresh-smelling scent. Abrasives to enhance the texture of soap include talc, silica, and marble pumice (volcanic ash). Soap made without dye is a dull grey or brown color, but modern manufacturers color soap to make it more enticing to the consumer.

Synthetic soap was developed during World War I as a result of a shortage of animal fat. Because synthetic soap does not combine with mineral salts in water, it does not leave soap scum. Detergents became popular during World War II when the military needed an agent that would work in mineral-rich sea water and in cold water.

Syndet (synthetic detergent) beauty bars are made from synthetic surfactants (surface-active agent).

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One of the first syndet beauty bars was the Dove Beauty Bar made in 1955. Detergents perform well in hard water and rinse clean. They foam well, are less irritating than lye soap and will not leave a soap residue on skin..

Natural glycerin soap is made of glycerin derived from vegetable oils and natural soap. Ingredients like sodium cocoate and sodium palmate are soaps made by mixing coconut oil or palm oil with lye. These separate soaps are then combined and glycerin, oils, vitamins and other ingredients are added.

It seems like there are so many choices when it comes to soap. But there are three main categories to chose from; true soap, syndet beauty bars or a combo of both. What ever your preference, a high glycerin content will help soothe your sunburned skin.

-Lisa Ball

T

he blazing heat from the summer sun warms the earth and warms my heart.

As I lay on the beach, my daydreaming brings me back to my days at Stockton State College. During my senior year as a physics major, I had the unique opportunity to study the sun. In the summer, the northern hemisphere is in direct line with the sun, even though it’s further away.

We get full sun and full heat during the day. But during some years the sun is brighter than others.

The sun follows an eleven year cycle and some scientists believe that these cycles affect our weather.

These cycles are caused by the sun’s magnetic field which cause sunspot activity, solar flares and coronal gas ejections. The magnetic field on the sun is very different than earth’s magnetic field.

The sun is a fiery ball of gas that acts like a liquid.

It’s a hot soup of ions and electrons. The earth rotates as a solid mass but the sun rotates at different speeds depending on latitude. The rotation is much faster at the sun’s equator than at

higher or lower latitudes. Moving electrons produce a magnetic field and because of the“liquid-like” movement, many magnetic ropes are formed instead of one large magnetic field. The magnetic ropes get dragged along with the moving electrons until they twist up enough to rise up and break through the surface of the sun. They are called sunspots when they break through and will continue to twist until they hit a maximum quantity (unusually about 100 sunspots), then slowly decline. The magnetic field reverses and the whole eleven year cycle repeats.

Sunspots can create beauty and havoc. When a magnetic field breaks through the surface it spews out electrons, neutrons and other bits of the sun. Most find their way back to the sun but some head for earth. These particles are called solar wind. The solar wind is embedded with a magnetic field and will interfere with power lines, radio and television broadcasts and satellite communications.

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Some of the solar wind will get caught by the earth’s magnetic field and will produce glowing dancing lights called the aurora borealis or northern lights and the aurora australis or the southern polar lights.

A sunspot maximum will produce more heat on earth because of the energy that is emitted by way of sunspots and solar wind. When there is a sunspot minium, the earth cools but since it is usually an eleven year cycle, it’s barely noticeable. However during the years 1645 through 1715, the Maunder Minium also called the “Little Ice Age,” caused dramatic weather changes. The River Thames and many canals in the Netherlands froze over. Another minium occurred between 1790 and 1830 (Dalton Minimum). In 1780, the New York harbor froze and people could walk across it from Manhattan to Staten Island.

Some scientists believe we are heading for another mini ice age. Over the last four years there have been very few sunspots. In 2006, NASA predicted that the sunspot maximum cycle would begin in late 2006 or early 2007, but as of 2009, it hasn’t started.

In January 2009 NASA revised their prediction and said that the next maximum will occur in 2012 and peak at 104 sunspots, a 15% decrease of the last maximum. The previous cycle peaked at 120 in 2000.

If we are heading for a mini ice age, the solar wind may not be blowing for awhile. I wonder what effect it would have on our lazy, hazy summers at the beach.

At the Stockton State observatory, using a thick, mirror-like filter, I was able to view the surface of the sun with a telescope. With the help of a special camera and computer I was able to keep track of the sunspot activity for an entire year. Back then (1990), there was a sunspot maximum so I was lucky enough to view many sunspots.

Please Remember: Never look directly into the sun and never view the sun with binoculars or a telescope without proper filters.

-Lisa Ball

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