The Beachcomber, August 31, 2012 Vol. 63, No. 10 by The SandPaper

August 31, 2012 Volume 63, Number 10

Long Beach Island’s Original Free Weekly

SUMMER 2012

SINCE 1 9 5 0

Classic Boats Coming to Seaport — 6 Historic St. Peter’s-at-the-Light — 22 Bay, Bait, Crabby Good Time — 24

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NEW CABANAS ARE HERE!

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Our park features a new “Flow Rider Double” that is suited to almost every age! We have eight giant waterslides, an interactive “Lazy Crazy River” with a giant tipping bucket and water blasters, “Cowabunga Beach” multi-level interactive water play structure, AND a water play area for the toddlers!

Sit Back and Enjoy Food & Beverages at Olivia’s Cowabunga Beach Grill - Open Daily WATER PARK 3 DAY PASS

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Voted #1 Adventure Golf course in NJ. Lost Island Adventure Golf provides two exciting and beautiful 18-hole golf courses,

featuring lush landscaping with waterfalls, caves and a suspension bridge.

WATERPARK: D WATERPARK Daily il 9 9am - 7 7pm FOR MORE INFORMATION: please call us at (609) 492-0869 Starting Aug. 27 - Sept. 3 • 9:30am - 6:30pm From Sept. 4 - Sept. 9 • 10am-5pm or visit our websites at ADVENTURE GOLF: Open 7 Days 10am-10pm www.thunderingsurfwaterpark.com FLOWRIDER: Call For Info 492-0869 www.flowhouselbi.com

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WEDDINGS • EVENTS • PARTIES BACKYARD LOBSTER BAKES

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EAGLESWOOD AMUSEMENT PARK

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ENTIRE PARK OPEN EVERYDAY 11

AM TO

MIDNIGHT

(LABOR DAY-11

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PM)

GO-KARTS • RIDES MINIATURE GOLF • BATTING CAGES FAMILY ARCADE & FUN CENTER NEWEST GAMES - GREAT PRIZES GOLF DRIVING RANGE FAMILIES WELCOME • OPEN 7 AM TO 10 PM • EVERYDAY

Sat., Sept. 8th & Sun., Sept. 9th! 10th Street & Shore Avenue at the Bayfront in Ship Bottom 11:00am-9:00pm Saturday • 10:00AM to 5:00PM Sunday Hosted by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, John P. Holland Div. 4, Ocean County, NJ For more information visit www.LBIAOH.com Do you want to become a sponsor or vendor? Please call Jack Nosti at 609-971-3933

The John P. Holland, Div. 4 is Proud to Present The Following 2012 Entertainers!

¼ MILE TRACK

Mike Byrne Show Band Ocean County Emerald Society Pipes & Drums Bantry Boys The Moonshiners & Ceili Dancers Irish Step Dancers

Saturday Night Featuring Shorty Long & The Jersey Horns from 4-8pm - Shorty Long Goes Irish! KIDDIE GO KARTS Restaurant • Bar

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LUNCH • DINNER • LATE NIGHT FRESH SEAFOOD • PRIME RIB • STEAKS THIN CRUST PIZZA BEST BURGERS • SANDWICHES • SALADS

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

THE IMPULSIVES 9 PM TO 1 AM MONDAYS • 9

TUESDAYS • 9

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CHUCK MILLER & BILLY WALTON

KARAOKE

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SUNDAYS • 8:30 TO 11:30 PM COUNTRY MUSIC/LINE DANCING

Platinum Sponsors: Joint Council 73 New Jersey • Kapler’s Pharmacy Meadowbrook Industries Medicine to Go Pharmacies Ocean County Emerald Society Pipes & Drums The Sheridan Group of Prudential Zack Properties Gold Sponsors: Forked River House VFW Post 3729 Murphy’s Market

A percentage of the proﬁts will beneﬁt the local community.

TED HAMMOCK & JASON BOOTH WEDNESDAYS • 9

The Ship Bottom Irish Festival Committee members would like to thank ALL the sponsors especially our Platinum and Gold Plan Sponsors...

APPETIZERS EVERY NIGHT FROM 9 PM SUNDAY FROM 8 PM NOT VALID

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Age 15 and younger FREE • $10 Gate Fee 11:00am Mass Sunday, September 9th

BEACH BOOKS: A novel about midlife changes, and a handbook titled ‘Things Your Dog Doesn’t Want You to Know’ are this week’s choices .. 17 CLAMMER’S DIARY: Houghton reaches his 50th summer, grateful for one year of ‘hope and change’...... 17 GOOD TIMES: Classic boats at the Seaport... Irish fest coming to town... Rock ’n Ride for Red Cross... Beach Haven prepares Chowderfest ....6-13 ISLAND LANDMARKS: The 19th century St. Peter’s Church highlights Historical Society’s August tour ... 22 SHORE IS FUN: Kelley Anne’s love of ﬁshing and crabbing died when she was 10, but that’s years ago and she’s a much braver woman now ........... 24

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SURFLIGHT: Aussie favorite Tommy Emmanuel, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band in concert ..... 12

Classiﬁed ..........................18, 19 Fishing ....................................22 Library.....................................11 Nightlines ...............................11 Sudoku....................................18 Tide Table ...............................23

FULL SERVICE CATERING AVAILABLE Pick up or complete service at your home.

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SPLASHBACK: August 1962: Dredges dig out and reshape the Island .... 20

TAN LINES: A day at the beach once required only four items, but that was all before Mandy’s young nephews joined the caravan ......................... 12

In Surf City Location Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 7am - 9pm or later...

Monday - Friday 7am - 9am *Not Valid on Holidays

At the Tuckerton Seaport Rt. 9, Tuckerton 296-5700

Tuckerton Seaport Breakfast & Lunch Daily 7am - 2pm

“Shore to Please” Located at Shore Fire Grille www.shoreﬁregrille.com www.shorethingcatering.com 609-290-3508 • 609-488-5586

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LBI’s Freshest Seafood for Over 50 Years This Week’s Feature: Homemade Crab Cakes Live Lobster Sword • Tuna Local Sea Scallops

Stop By And Try Our

Sandwiches & Cooked Platters

Stuffed Clams Clams Clam Chowder Red & White Rock Lobster Tails Extra Jumbo Shrimp Great Fish Selections for the Barbeque

Flounder • Salmon • Swordfish Tuna • Mako • Tilefish Monkfish • Weakfish Bluefish • Codfish • Shad Shrimp • Scallops • Crabmeat Lobster Tails • Softshell Crabs Crabs • Clams • Oysters • Mussels

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An early 20th century catboat was typical of the vessel used to ferry passengers from Tuckerton to Beach Haven before a railroad linked the mainland with Long Beach Island.

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ART ON THE ISLAND: The annual Member, Student, Faculty Show is at the LBIF through Labor Day ......... 14

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GoodTimes Good Times is The Beachcomber’s guide to entertainment, cultural activities and other events in southern New Jersey. Listings are compiled from press releases and announcements sent to us from various sponsoring organizations. The Beachcomber is not responsible for changes or errors in listings. We suggest you call for conﬁrmation before starting out for anything. To include your community event in Good Times, send complete information (and the name and phone number of a person we can contact) to: Good Times, The Beachcomber, 1816 Long Beach Blvd., Surf City, N.J. 08008. Or you may drop the material off in person at our ofﬁce, fax it to 494-1437 or e-mail calendar@thesandpaper.net. Please do not call in announcements. Only activities open to the public can be accepted, and the notices must reach us by the deadline, Friday prior to our publication date. There is no charge for the service.

fun events Mah Jongg/Bridge/Canasta, Jewish Community Center of LBI, 24th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Spray Beach (609-492-4090 or www.jccoﬂbi.org) All are welcome. Wed., 12:30-4 pm. Thursday Bay Days, Bayview Park, 68th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (www. longbeachtownship.com) ReClam the Bay program, 10 am; water seining with Alliance for a Living Ocean, 11 am; recycling education and kayak demonstration, noon; stories by the bay with the NJ Maritime History Museum, 6:30 pm. All activities are free.

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Benefit, Boulevard Clams, 20th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Surf City (609-494-9494) The store donates $1 from every fresh-squeezed lemonade sold. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 Full Moon Manifesting Meditation & Salutation, 26th St. beach, Spray Beach (609-492-4906) Donation only. 7:30 pm. Full Moon Night Climb & Concert, Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, Broadway, Barnegat Light. The Friends of Barnegat Lighthouse sponsor the event; the Basement Musicians Guild entertains. The lighthouse is open for those who wish to climb it. Attendees should bring blankets or beach chairs Limited beach wheelchair access is available with 48-hour advance notice. Admission, free; donations are welcomed; first come, first served. 7:309:30 pm. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Island Child Book Signing, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) The authors and illustrator will be on hand. Books and T-shirts are available for purchase. 3-5 pm. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary.org. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Boat Races, On the bay off Taylor Ave., Beach Haven. The East Coast Boat Racing Club of NJ hosts its final event of the season. Admission, free. Noon. Visit www. ecbrcnj.com. Pancake Breakfast, Beach Haven Firehouse, S. Bay Ave. & Amber St. The allyou-can-eat buffet includes pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, juices and coffee. Cost:

Maritime Heritage Festival, Classic Boats at Seaport

uckerton Seaport announces the 13th annual Antique & Classic Boat Show and the inaugural NJ Maritime Heritage Festival will take place Sept. 8 and 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. The Seaport, a working maritime village at the head of Tuckerton Creek, is located on Route 9 about seven miles south of Manahawkin. Admission to the show and festival is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $3 for children 6-12, and free for younger children and for Seaport members. Since the turn of the new century, the boat show has been held each September in partnership with the Philadelphia Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society, which helps judge the authenticity and workmanship of older boats that have been “preserved” in operable condition. Judging, which takes place Saturday in advance of the noon Sunday awards presentation, is in the categories of historic (pre-1919), antique (1919-1942), classic (1943-1968), early contemporary (wooden boat built 1976-1987), late contemporary (wooden boat built within last 25 years), and classic glass (fiberglass production boat 1950-1975). The categories are divided between powered and non-

powered (sail, oar, paddle) classes. The weekend schedule includes exhibits, demonstrations, children’s activities and entertainment included with admission, and boat rides on the creek for additional charge. The Seaport, which includes the New Jersey Surfing Museum, “brings the Jersey Shore’s maritime traditions of the past and present to life through people, exhibits and hands-on activities,” says tuckertonseaport.org. “Discover the Jersey Shore’s unique maritime heritage and the interaction between culture and nature on the Barnegat Bay. Experience the rich traditions of the Jersey Shore and its Baymen through the Seaport’s recreated and historic buildings, demonstrations, exhibits, events, festivals, live aquatic displays and more.” The Seaport is also one of the venues for the 30th annual Ocean County Decoy & Gunning Show, Sept. 29-30, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, free admission. On Oct. 20-21, the Seaport’s replica Tuckers Island Lighthouse is a stop on the Lighthouse Challenge of N.J., 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $3. — Neal Roberts

Two Centuries of History on LBI, Down The Shore Publishing

Enjoying the Day, Down By the Bay CATBOAT FERRY: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the catboat was the principal means of access to Long Beach Island, with the passage usually made from Tuckerton to Beach Haven. The historic craft is still popular today, as evidenced by the annual Catboat Race scheduled Labor Day weekend in Harvey Cedars. This year’s event begins with a skippers’ meeting 12:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at Sunset Park. adult, $10; child younger than 12 or senior, $8. 7 am-noon. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Free Blood Pressure Screening, Is land Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City. The LBI Health Dept. provides the service. No appointment is needed. 11 am. Registration Begins for Recreation & Aquatic Programs, St. Francis Center, 47th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (609494-8861 or www.stfranciscenterlbi.com) The course brochure is available online. THURSDAY-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6-8 Book Sale, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) Thurs. & Fri., 9 am-4 pm; Sat., 9 am-noon. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Barnegat Light Taxpayers’ Assn. General Meeting, Barnegat Light First Aid Squad, West 10th St. Elections are held, and emergency management policies and procedures in town are updated. Chris Huch Jr. presents concerns from Alliance for a Living Ocean. All are welcome. 9:30 am. Clamtown Antiques Flea Market, Tip Seaman County Park, Rte. 9 & Lakeside Drive, Tuckerton (609-294-1547) The Tuckerton Historical Society sponsors the event, featuring more than 100 dealers. There is an appraiser table. 8 am-4 pm. Rain date, Sept. 9 or 15. Vendor space, 20 feet by 20 feet, $45. Dealers may apply at tuckertonhistoricalsociety.org, e-mail tuckertonhistoricalsociety@gmail.com or call 609-296-2584. Democratic Club of LBI Dinner, VFW Post 3729, 11 East Winifred Ave. (79th St.), Beach Haven Crest. Cassandra Shober, congressional candidate for NJ- 2nd District, is expected to attend. Touch of Elegance caters the event. 5-8 pm. Registration deadline, Sept. 1; visit www.lbidemocrats.com. Family Health & Safety Fair, St. Francis Center, 47th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (609-494-8861 or www.stfranciscenterlbi.com) Many free health screenings as well as activities are offered for all ages, including senior services, alternative medicine, emergency preparedness and more. A free continental breakfast is offered, and

there is a bike and helmet giveaway for ages 5-14. 9-11:30 am. SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 & 9 Antique & Classic Boat Show, Tuckerton Seaport, 120 West Rte. 9 (609-296-8868 or www.tuckertonseaport.org) Fun for the whole family includes classic wood and glass boat exhibitors, demonstrations, workshops, vendors, entertainment and more. Registration is available for a boat building class and cruises on Tuckerton Creek. Admission: general, $8; senior or Seaport member, $6; child ages 6-12, $3; child younger than 6, free. 11 am-4 pm. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Craft Fair & Market, Veterans Bicentennial Park, Beach Ave. between Engleside Ave. & Amber St., Beach Haven. The LBI Historical Assn. hosts the event. 9 am-4 pm, rain or shine. Bake sale, LBI Historical Museum, front porch, Engleside & Beach aves. For vendor or crafter space, call Jamie King at 609-597-3828; for bake sale, call Rosemary Stabile at 609-492-2036. Rock ’n’ Ride Bike Tour & Party, Begins at Sunset Park, West Salem Ave., Harvey Cedars. The family-friendly bike tour offers 10-, 20- and 40-mile routes, ending with a party at the park, with a barbecue, kids activities and entertainment by Generation Next. The event beneﬁts the American Red Cross. 8 am-3 pm. Preregistration fees: adult, $65; child younger than 13, $20; visit www.jerseycoast-redcross.org. Sunset Cruise on Miss Barnegat Light, 18th St. & Bayview Ave., Barnegat Light. Zion Lutheran Church of Barnegat Light hosts the trip. Donations: adult, $15; child, $10. 6 pm; there is no rain date. For tickets, call Sally at 609-494-7345 or Ziggy at 609494-4231. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Friends of the Library Meet, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) All are welcome. 10 am. Golf Tournament, Sea Oaks Country Club, 99 Golf View Drive, Little Egg Harbor Twp. The Beach Haven Exchange Club hosts the Bob Turanski Memorial Tournament, scramble format (best ball). Shotgun start,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 “Blue to You” Van, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) Horizon Healthcare of NJ provides seminars, information on healthy living strategies and health care reform and more. Members may speak with an advisor about recent claims, billings or other issues. 2nd Wed. of each month, 9 am-noon. End-of Season Chill-out, Sea Shell Restaurant & Club, 10 South Atlantic Ave., Beach Haven. The Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce hosts the event; nonmembers are welcome. Chris Fritz entertains. The dress is cabana attire; the pool is available for swimming. Cost, $25. Cash bar. 5:30 pm. Register at 609-494-7211, ext. 100, www.visitlbiregion.com or e-mail cindy@sochamber.com. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Bluegrass by the Bay Crab Fest, Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club, Berkeley Ave. at the Bay, Beach Haven (609-978-8695) Seafood and barbecue, wine, beer and more are included, as well as Chinese and live auc-

tions and classic sailboat rides. Stefano’s Beach Haven Catering provides the dinner. Proceeds beneﬁt the Care to Be Aware Foundation. Admission: adult, $60; child younger than 12, $25. 4 pm. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Antiques & Collectibles Show, Viking Village, 19th St. & Bayview Ave., Barnegat Light (609-361-8039) More than 55 dealers are expected, offering country, Victorian, shabby chic, jewelry, nautical and much more, as well as a fresh seafood lunch and a coffee bar. Admission, free. 9 am-5 pm, rain or shine. LBI Triathlon/Duathlon, Bayview Park, 68th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (dqtridu.com) Triathlon distances: quartermile bay swim, 10-mile bike and 5K run. Duathlon distances: 1.5-mile, run, 10-mile bike and 5K run. Check-in and registration, 6-7 am; pre-race brieﬁng, 7 am; races start, 7:20 am. Rain or shine. Parking is north of the race at 64th St. on the ocean side. Fri., preregistration and packet pickup, 4-6 pm; race day prep clinic by USAT Level II coach Tom Manzi, 4:30 pm. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 World Series of Surf Fishing, The tournament is for both teams and individuals. Registration is at LBI Fishing Club, 6 East Cape May Ave., Harvey Cedars, 5:30-6:30 am. For early registration and details, call Bob Burstein at 267-994-7423.

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1 pm; deluxe barbecue follows. Cost, $125, includes greens fees, cart and barbecue. To sign up, call 609-492-4298 or 609-709-1132. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Pirate’s Day, East Bay Ave. & Rte. 9, Barnegat. There are tours of the Cox House, magicians, pirate re-enactors, a pirate costume contest, music, vendors and more. 9 am-4 pm. Music by Tommy Edwards as “Sir Rod” at the Public Dock, 7 pm, is followed by ﬁreworks.

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Cruise Is Set, All We Need Is a Sunset SEPTEMBER TRADITION: The Larson family donates use of Miss Barnegat Light for a 6 p.m. Sept. 9 fundraiser for Zion Lutheran Church. Tickets at 609-494-7345.

Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) All are welcome. Tues., 1-3 pm. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary.org. GED & English as a 2nd Language Classes, St. Francis Family Services offers free classes locally at St. Francis Community Center (Tues. & Thurs., 6-9 pm, beginning Sept. 25) and Southern Regional High School, 9-10 Bldg. (Mon. & Wed., 6-9 pm, beginning Sept. 10). Call 609-494-8861, ext. 185.

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THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2 Holgate Nature Walks, Holgate Wilderness Area, south end of LBI (609-652-1665 or www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/) All ages are welcome. 10-11 am. Fri., wilderness walk; Sat., shore bird tour; Sun., beachcombing. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Book Discussion, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, 120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies (609-494-1241 or www.lbifoundation.org) The subject is Arcadia by Lauren Groff. Donation, $5. 8 pm.

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GoodTimes Looking Ahead to 24th Chowderfest Weekend

File Photo by Ryan Morrill

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Italian Cultural Society Program, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) 6 pm. Slide Presentation: Treasures of Tuscany, Provence & Monaco, Island Branch Ocean

efore heading home and leaving the beach for good this year, end the summer right by joining thousands of participants at the 24th annual Chowderfest Weekend. The family-fun festival will take place at the Taylor Avenue ﬁeld in Beach Haven, across the street from Schooner’s Wharf and Bay Village, during the last weekend of September. The rainor-shine event, surrounded by scenic views of Barnegat Bay, will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30. The Merchants Mart will kick off Chowderfest Weekend on Saturday. A day ﬁlled with food, fun, and live entertainment played by Hawkins Road, the Merchants Mart will offer steep end-of-season discounts from your favorite local shopkeepers. If you’ve been eyeing something special to purchase, now is your last chance to snag it – and at a reduced rate, too!

The Merchants Mart started out as a way to extend the summer season and has grown to become the biggest shopping day of the year on LBI, offering everything from men’s, women’s and children’s clothing to surﬁng and boating gear. “The Merchants Mart was originally set up to provide a way for the area’s businesses to sell off their endof-season inventory. But it’s gotten so big that the businesses actually have to buy (extra inventory) for this event,” Rick Reynolds, recently retired executive director of the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, said in a pre-season interview. The Chowder Cook-Off Classic will end the weekend celebrations on Sunday, with enjoyable activities for all, including face painting and sand art for kids, and, of course, unlimited chowder tasting. So get your taste buds ready because nearly 20 of the

County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City. The LBI Chapter of Deborah Hospital Foundation presents the program. 1:30 pm. Registration deadline, Sept. 1; call 609-660-7541.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Book Discussion, Is land Bra nch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) The subject is Blessings by Anna Quindlen. 7:30 pm. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary. org. WEDNESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 12-OCTOBER 17 Take Control of Your Health, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) The series is meant to help people with chronic conditions and/or their caregivers. Class size is limited. 1-3 pm. Call to register for the entire series or visit theoceancountylibrary. org. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Michael Collins: Irish Patriot & Martyr, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-4942480) 10 am. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary.org. Storytime & Craft, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) The activity is for all ages. 3:45 pm. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary.org.

Re-Locating Migration Station

Wild Bird Shop

575 N. Main Street Barnegat N.J. (609) 698-6800

Staying in Barnegat for all our Loyal Customers. Look for us at our New Location 237 S. Main Street Barnegat

art Pastel Classes with Linda Coulter, Pine Shores Art Assn., 94 Stafford Ave., Manahawkin (609-294-8264 or www.pineshoresartassociation.org) Walk-ins are welcome. Fees per class: member, $20; nonmember, $22. Sat., 10 am-1 pm. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3 Member, Student, Faculty Exhibition, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, 120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies (609-494-1241 or www.lbifoundation.org) Open daily. TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 4-25 Watercolor on Paper with Lisa Budd, Pine Shores Art Assn., 94 Stafford Ave., Manahawkin (609-294-8264 or www. pineshoresartassociation.org) Fees: member, $50; nonmember, $75. 9:30 am12:30 pm. THURSDAYS, SEPTEMBER 6-27 Beginner Drawing with Lee Fricke, Pine

area’s top restaurants will be in attendance, dishing out gallons and gallons of their best chowder recipes. “We’ll probably have about 4,000 gallons of chowder made that day,” said Reynolds. “Each restaurant supplies about 200 gallons each.” Who will be the winner of the best Manhattan (red) and New England (white) clam chowder this year? If you’re eager to find out first-hand, or rather first-taste, sign up to become an official taster by simply purchasing a ticket to the event and dropping your red and white chip into your favorite nominees’ designated bucket at the voting booth. A team of about 15 professional critics, including professional chefs and even book writers, will also judge the different soups. The panel is selected by restaurant critic and television personality Ed Hitzel from Atlantic County. This year ’s Chowderfest theme, “Clam Chowder in Paradise,” is going Jimmy Buffett-style, so don’t forget to vote for the best-decorated booth. Categories include best interpretation of the theme, best shore motif, most creative and most enthusiastic. If you’re interested in attending Chowderfest and helping out, sign up as a volunteer. Shift duties include beverage and beer sales, security, customer information, cash handling, kitchen help and more. “If you want to go to Chowderfest, we need about 450 volunteers to work different shifts throughout the weekend. We usually order around 460 volunteer shirts, and they’re all gone at the end of the weekend,” said Reynolds. “Other businesses, like insurance companies and building contractors, partner with participating restaurants to help build booths, serve chowder, get their name out there and enjoy a community event. It’s like a little city,” he added. Chowderfest tickets can be purchased at www.chowderfest.com or at the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, located at 265 West Ninth St. in Ship Bottom. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $10 for children and $50 for VIPs. VIP tickets include early, 10 a.m. admission and a 2012 Chowderfest T-shirt. See www.visitlbiregion.com or call the chamber of commerce at 609-4947211 for the latest information. — Kelley Anne Essinger

Shores Art Assn., 94 Stafford Ave., Manahawkin (609-294-8264 or www.pineshoresartassociation.org) Fees: member, $50; nonmember, $75. 9:30 am-12:30 pm. SEPTEMBER 7-NOVEMBER 1 Print Center Exhibition, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, 120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies (609-494-1241 or www.lbifoun-

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(609) 492-4388 • Outside & Air Conditioned Inside Dining • (609) 492-4388 You Came to The Jersey Shore to eat SEAFOOD! Not POND FOOD! At the Beach Haven Fishery we offer only wild ﬁsh and seafood in our Restaurant & Market. Nothing Farm Raised!

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Fishery's Dinner Specials Appetizers • Hush Puppies Twelve in a litter with cocktail, tartar and lemon $8.95 • Crispy Tuna & Basil Wrap 1 spring roll made with tuna & fresh basil, served with a wasabi cucumber dipping sauce $11.95 • Crispy Shrimp & Seaweed Spring Roll Shrimp folded with sesame seaweed salad fried to a golden brown $10.95 • Baked Clams Oreganato 6 clams stuffed with bread crumbs, cheese, olive oil and fresh herbs $10.95 • Sun-Dried Tomato & Chipotle Calamari $12.95

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Clams on ½ Shell - Six top necks on ice with cocktail sauce & Lemon ......................................................................................................6.95 Shrimp Cocktail - Six Large Shrimp in the Rough on Ice with cocktail & Lemon ..................................................................................................6.95 Peel and Eats - A pound of shrimp (26-30) served on ice w/ cocktail & lemon or Hot & spicy steamed in Old Bay .........................................21.95 Fishery Wings - Naked wings fried crisp with our famous buffalo sauce and blue cheese .........................................................................................9.95 Steamed Piss Clams - a pound of Maine Ipswich clams Steamed & Served w/ Butter ............................................................................................... 10.95 Mussels Special - a pound of mussels sauteed in olive oil, garlic, parsley and cracked black pepper ................................................................... 10.95 Mussels Marinara - a pound of mussels sauteed with Fresh Tomatoes, Olive Oil, garlic & Herbs .....................................................................11.95 Fishery Crab Cake - One of our Famous Lump Meat Crab Cakes - Fried Only ..........................................................................................................9.95 Steamed Little Neck Clams - Fisherman's Dozen, Steamed with Clam Broth, Lemon & Fresh Parsley .............................................................9.95 Garlic Little Neck Clams - Fisherman's Dozen, Steamed with Garlic, Olive Oil, Clam Broth, & Fresh Parsley ............................................10.95 Clam Strips - a ½ lb of Jumbo Clam Strips Breaded Daily and Fried ........................................................................................................10.95 Chicken Fingers - Four Battered Tenders with Honey Mustard .......8.95 Onion Rings - a Heap of Colossal Vidalia Onion Rings, Beer Battered & Fried .........................................................................................................7.95 Roll & Butter - Fishery Baked Roll with Butter ................................. 1.25 Buttered Jersey Corn on the Cob ........................................................... 2.50 Chilled Caribbean Soup .................................................................. Cup-6.95 Lobster Bisque ................................................................................. Cup-7.95 New England ..............................4.50 Manhattan Chowder ............... 3.95 Pints ............................................8.95 Pints .......................................... 7.95 Quarts .......................................14.50 Quarts ..................................... 12.00

All Platters served with Fries, Slaw and the Sauces they need (must specify broiled when ordering) Flounder Dinner • Your choice Hand Breaded and Fried New England Style or Broiled ......................................................................................................................19.95 Jumbo Shrimp or Scallops Dinner • Your Choice Hand Breaded and Fried New England Style or Broiled ........................................................................................ 22.95 The Fishery Combo • Flounder, shrimp and scallops, Hand Breaded and Fried New England Style or Broiled ............................................................................... 23.95 Fishery Twins • Hand Breaded and Fried New England Style or Broiled your choice North Twin - Flounder & Scallops ................................................................. 21.95 Northeast Twin - Scallops & Shrimp.............................................................. 22.95 AllSouth Served with Fries- Flounder & Cole Slaw & Shrimp ................................................................... 21.95 Twin Famous Fishery Crabcakes • Two Large Lump Meat Crabcakes made daily • fried only .........................................................................................................................21.95 Maryland soft Shell Crabs • Two Crabs, Whale Size (largest) Your choice Breaded and Fried or Sauteed in Garlic, Olive Oil and Lemon ..................... 26.95 Saul’s Scallops or Shrimp • Lightly fried scallops or shrimp drizzled with a roasted garlic infused oil ......................................................................................................23.95 Beach Haven Bellies • Whole Breaded Top Necks Fried to Perfection ...........19.95 Jumbo Clam Strips • Three-quarters of a pound Hand Breaded Daily and Deep Fried .......................................................................................................................... 17.95

• New England Fish & Chips Battered cod loin served with tartar, lemon & slaw $19.95 • Tuna Milanese Thin tuna cutlet, breaded and sauteed in olive oil & served on top of baby Arugula with red onion, tomato, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, cracked pepper and fresh lemon $24.95 *Available with grilled tuna steak • Shrimp & Scallops Neptune Pasta Jumbo shrimp & scallops, sauteed in garlic with a combination of herbs, spices and essence of lobster with sherry & cream, blended with penne au gratin to ﬁnish it off $25.95 • Whole Fried Red Snapper Caribbean red snapper dusted in a season ﬂour, fried to perfection Market Price

with olive oil, fresh tomatoes, basil, garlic and herbs and encrusted with bread crumbs & parmesan cheese ........................................................................................23.95 Thai-phoon Jumbo Shrimp or Scallops • Your choice or combo, fried crispy & tossed with spicy thai sauce over wilted lettuce ......................................23.95 Jesse’s Garlic Shrimp • Jumbo Shrimp sauteed with Garlic, Olive Oil, Basil and Fresh Herbs ...... .................................................................................22.95 Jumbo Shrimp or Scallops Scampi • Your choice or Combo prepared traditional scampi style ............................................................................22.95 Buffalo Shrimp • Crunchy Jumbo Shrimp tossed in our famous buffalo sauce served with blue cheese ..... .......................................................................22.95 Sizzling Shrimp • Fresh Jumbo Shrimp sauteed in our tantalizing garlic steak sauce with sweet vidalia onions .................................................................23.95 Tex Mex Shrimp • Fried Jumbo Shrimp sauteed in Salsa, olives, spiked with chipotle served with sour cream on the side ...................................................... 22.95 Tuna or Swordfish Steak • Your choice Blackened or Grilled ...............22.95 Tuna Bruschetta • Sushi Grade Tuna Loin grilled rare & topped with Fresh Tomatoes, Red Onion, Garlic, Basil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Herbs & Kissed with Balsamic vinegar ..............................................................................24.95 Sesame Crusted Tuna • Sushi Grade Tuna Loin, rolled in seasoned black sesame seeds, seared rare, sliced & served with a wasabi infused soy sauce ...........24.95 Asian Tuna • Sushi Grade Tuna grilled rare and served on top of crispy asian noodles, drizzled with a wasabi cream teriyaki sauce, black sesame seeds & cilantro (not served with fries & coleslaw) ..........................................................................................24.95 Tuna Wasabi • Sushi Grade Tuna Loin grilled rare & topped with a Wasabi and Cucumber Sauce and encrusted with Japanese Panko Bread Crumbs .......24.95 Tuna Seaweed • Sushi Grade Tuna grilled rare then topped with Seaweed Salad, Laced with a Sesame Teriyaki Dressing ...................................................24.95 Steakhouse Swordfish • Local Sword Steak Grilled & Finished in a Pan with Sauteed Portabella Mushrooms ................................................................24.95 Swordfish Lobster Butter • Grilled & Drizzled with Lobster Infused Garlic Butter with a whole shelled lobster claw on top .........................................26.95 Florida Grouper • Poached with onions, tomatoes & olive oil our magic way, Crusted with Bread Crumbs and Parmesan Cheese like you’ve never had before ......................................................................................................26.95 Chilean Sea Bass Picatta • Sea Bass steak sauteed with olive oil, lemon, butter, capers & white wine .................................................................................28.95 Broiled Stuffed Flounder with Crabmeat • Fresh flounder fi let stuffed with our own crabmeat .....................................................................................23.95 Broiled Stuffed Jumbo Shrimp with Crabmeat • Five Jumbo Shrimp stuffed daily with our own crabmeat ....................................................................23.95 Wild Alaskan Salmon Filet • Grilled then glazed with Lemon butter dill, Ginger Teriyaki sauce or Lumberjack Style with Pacific Northwest BBQ Sauce or Blackened .................................................................................................24.95

— SANDWICHES — Fishery Yellowﬁn Tuna Salad Roll ..14.95 Fishery Shrimp Salad Roll ..............14.95 Fishery Lobster Salad Roll ..............20.95 Tuna, Swordﬁsh or Wild Salmon Your Choice Grilled or Blackened ......................13.95 Fried Flounder ...................................12.95 Fried Chicken Cutlet ..........................8.95

Fried Soft Shell Crab .....................16.95 Fried Shrimp or Scallops ............. 12.95 Lump Crab Cake .......................... 13.95 Certiﬁed Black Angus Steak Burger ½ lb .................................................... 8.95 Hot Dog ¼ lb. Jumbo ...................... 5.95

All Sandwiches Served on a Fishery Baked Roll with Cole Slaw, French Fries and the sauces they need

The Lobster Twin Two 1 lb. to 1¼ lb. Canadian Lobsters Steamed to Perfection, Split, Cracked and Served with Fries, Cole Slaw, Butter and Lemon $35.95 (other size lobsters available priced by the lb.)

Entrees

— Signature Sautés & Grills — John's Blushing Shrimp • You have to taste this to believe it. Jumbo shrimp sauteed

Alaskan King Crab Try the Fishery's King Crab Legs 1-1/2 pounds of King Crab Legs Served the same way as the Twin........Market Price

The Best Pasta on the Island Lobster Ravioli • Eight Pouches of Lobster & Ricotta Cheese Poached in a Pink Lobster Sauce with two Shelled Lobster Claws ...................................26.95 Penne Con Vodka with Jumbo Shrimp or Scallops • Sauteed with Fresh Tomato Pomadore, Garlic, Fresh Basil & Herbs Deglazed with Kettle One Vodka & Kissed with Cream & Parmesan Cheese........................................24.95 Jumbo Shrimp Scampi Pasta • Our scampi recipe only made better with a light garlic cream sauce mixed with Penne Pasta ..................................................24.95

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20 oz. Prime Rib Steak • Grilled & Finished with our Garlic & Onion Steak Sauce ... ..................................................................................................................................... 25.95 Add Sauteed Shrimp or Scallops ................................................................ 28.95 Steak Portabella • The same 20 oz. Steak topped with Sauteed Portabella Mushrooms ................................................................................................................ 26.95 The Fishery’s Baby Back Ribs • A full rack of Slow Hickory Smoked Baby Back Pork Ribs ﬁnished in our BBQ Sauce .................................................................... 19.95 Chicken Tenderloins • Jumbo Battered Tenders Served with Honey Mustard .. 14.95 Buffalo Chicken Tenderloins • Tossed in our famous buffalo sauce, served with bleu cheese ......................................................................................................................... 16.95

Fishery Salads - Organic Baby Field Greens, Tomatoes, Cukes, Olives, Croutons, with your Choice of Homemade Caesar Dressing, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Honey Mustard, Blue Cheese. Plain .................................................................................7.95 Fishery Salad with a Fried & Sliced Chicken Cutlet ..................................... 12.95 Fishery Salad with Swordﬁsh, Tuna or Salmon, Blackened or Grilled ....... 20.95 Baby Arugula Salad with Red Onion, Tomatoes, Herbs with Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar ................................................................................................................. 10.95 Baby Arugula with Fried Chicken .................................................................... 15.95 Baby Arugula with Grilled or Blackened Sword, Tuna or Salmon .............. 23.95

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4 Filets of Flounder, 1 lb. Clam Strips, 12 Jumbo Shrimp Fries, Cole Slaw Feeds Four $65.95

20 Chicken Fingers Fries Cole Slaw Feeds Four $45.95

24 Jumbo Shrimp Bucket Fries Cole Slaw • Feeds Four $54.95

(4) 1 1/4 lb. Lobsters, 1 lb. Cold Cooked Shrimp 4 lb. Clams, Mussels or Mix Fries, Cole Slaw • Feeds Four $109.95

Kiddie Fish & Fries........................................8.95 Kiddie Shrimp & Fries ................................10.95 Kiddie Chicken Fingers & Fries ..................8.95 Kiddie Pasta- Penne Pasta with butter, parmesan cheese............6.95

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GoodTimes Mark It Down: The Irish Are Coming!

aterfront Park in Ship Bottom is the scene of the seventh annual Ship Bottom Irish Festival, two days of singing, dancing, food and drink, a Sunday Gaelic Mass and the joyful fellowship that is an Irish forte. Protected under huge tents, the festival goes on rain or shine, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9. The John P. Holland, Division 4 chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (lbiaoh.com) is your host. You don’t have to be Irish to want to be at this modern LBI September tradition. But if you are (and an active member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians with your traveling card), you get in free! So do all kids and teenagers, Irish or not, under age 15! Admission for the rest of us is only $10 – and you’ll ﬁnd it’s a bargain. Here’s the lineup of entertainment: Saturday – 11:30 a.m. Celtic Con-

nection; 12:30 p.m. Emerald Society Pipes and Drums; 1 p.m. Band of Rogues; 2 p.m. Irish Step Dancers; 2:15 p.m. 50/50 drawing; 2:15 p.m. Mike Byrne Show Band; 3:30 p.m. Irish Step Dancers; 3:45 p.m. Band of Rogues; 4:45 p.m. Emerald Society Pipes and Drums; 5 p.m. 50/50 drawing; 5-9 p.m. Shorty Long & The Jersey Horns; 7 p.m. $10,000 50/50 drawing. Sunday – 11 a.m. Gaelic Mass; 12:30 p.m. The Connelly Pipe Band; 1 p.m. Mike Byrne Show Band; 2:30 p.m. Irish Step Dancers; 2:45 p.m. 50/50 drawing; 2:45 p.m. The Captain N’ O’Neil; 5 p.m. end of festival. Waterfront Park is at 10th Street and Shore Avenue. From the eastbound Causeway, take the right turn immediately off the last bridge into Ship Bottom. If that lane is blocked with arriving trafﬁc, proceed instead another block east on the Causeway and turn south to seek side street parking between 10th and 12th streets.

dation.org) Printmakers, photographers and illustrators from the Print Center in Philadelphia display their works. Reception, Sept. 8, 5-8 pm.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Pine Shores Art Assn. Meeting, Pine Shores Art Assn., 94 Stafford Ave., Manahawkin (609-597-3557) Sandra Jones gives a tempera resist demonstration. All are welcome. 7:30 pm. TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 11 & 25 Watercolor Drop-in for Seniors, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) 9:30 am.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Art Show & Sale, St. Mary’s Parish Center, 100 Bishop Lane off McKinley Ave., Manahawkin. Proceeds beneﬁt Family Promise of Ocean County and St. Vincent de Paul food pantry. 10 am-4 pm.

‘Rock ’n Ride’ at Sunset Park Aids Jersey Shore Red Cross

t jerseycoast-redcross.org, a letter is posted by a grateful resident of the MonmouthOcean County region. “You hear about the Red Cross in other countries, helping in warriddled places. And then all of a sudden, the Red Cross was on my porch,” wrote a woman who came home from work one night to ﬁnd the home she shared with her daughter was destroyed by ﬁre. “I was in shock. Then the Red Cross showed up … I’m usually a ‘take charge’ person, but I didn’t know where to start. The Red Cross gave us references and told us what we would need. “I’m used to giving, not receiving. But a lot of people came out of nowhere… They had a ‘can-do,’ positive attitude toward everything we faced. They gave me something to stand on while I put my life back together.” The Jersey Shore chapter of the American Red Cross hosts its annual Rock ’n Ride bike tour and band party fundraiser 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 at Sunset Park, Harvey

Cedars. The “family-friendly” bike tour invites participants to ride at their own pace on a 10-, 20- or 40mile route. The short route is a round trip from Harvey Cedars to Surf City. The long route goes south to Holgate, back north to Barnegat Light and return to Sunset Park. “The day will culminate with the Red Cross Party in the Park… that includes a fantastic BBQ by Got to Go Grilling, activities for the kids and live entertainment by the awesome band Generation Next,” states the website. Advance registration on the website is $65 for adults and $20 for children younger than 13. The fee is slightly higher on Sept. 9. Contact Kim Price (732-493-9100, extension 1227) to sign up. Riders are encouraged to line up sponsors who will also donate to the Red Cross local chapter. Money raised will be used to support the local chapter’s programs and emergency services. A Bloodmobile is also on site during the day to accept alwaysneeded blood donations. Check the website for information. —N.R.

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AND SHORTY’S GANG GOES IRISH, TOO: The popular shore band performs Sept. 8.

Vendors interested in joining the festival may contact Ken Thomas

(609-660-8457) or Ken Sherry (609-6985551). — Neal Roberts

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Tickets, $12.50 & $15. “The Wizard of Oz,” through Sept. 1; “Snow White,” through Sept. 2. Children’s Theater, Barnegat High School, 180 Bengal Blvd., Barnegat (www.oceantheatre.org, 609-312-8306 or ruth@oceantheatre. org) Ticket, $10. 10 am & 6 pm. “Cinderella,” Aug. 30-Sept. 1. Family Water Sport Fun Days, Bayview Park, 68th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (www.longbeachtownship.com) Island Surf & Sail presents in-water instruction, demonstrations, races and contests. All activities are free. Fri., 6 pm. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Movie Matinee: “Disneynature’s Chimpanzee,” Is land Bra nch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) The ﬁlm is rated G. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary. org. Registration Begins for Recreation & Aquatic Programs, St. Francis Center, 47th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (609494-8861 or www.stfranciscenterlbi.com) The course brochure is available online.

Aerobics Classes, Ship Bottom Firehouse, 21st St. & Central Ave. Classes include Zumba, Tobata boxing, Pilates and more. All equipment is provided. Participants should bring a towel. 8, 9 & 10 am, through Labor Day. See class schedule on a sign in front of the ﬁrehouse. Call 609-494-1601. Aerobics/Group Fitness Classes, Zion Lutheran Church, 18th St. & Central Ave., Barnegat Light. Zumba, Piloxing, step, cardio & cut and TABATA boot camp are offered in an air-conditioned facility. Steps and equipment are provided. Mon.-Sat., 8 am, through Sept. 3. Additional Zumba class, Sat., 9:15 am. Fees: each class, $15; 10 classes, $130. Call Allison at 609-713-6914. Beach Yoga & More, 26th St. beach, Spray Beach (609-492-4906) All levels and ages are welcome. Participants should bring big towels and water and wear sunscreen and sunglasses. Donation only. Core strengthening, Fri.-Mon., 7:15 am; beach yoga, Fri.-Tues., 8:30 am; Bayview yoga, Tues.Thurs., 9 am. Beginning Sept. 1, Sat.-Mon. only, 8:30 am. Fitness Programs, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, 120 Long Beach Blvd., Loveladies (609-494-1241 or www.lbifoundation.org) Continuing programs include yoga, Pilates and Zumba. Yoga on the Beach, 80th St. beach, Harvey Cedars (201-248-0725) Classes are for ages 18 and older and all levels of expertise. Participants should bring a large towel or sheet as well as sunglasses and sunblock. Fees: drop-in, $18; 5 sessions, $80; 10 sessions, $128; 20 sessions, $214. A portion of the proceeds benefits the High Point Volunteer Fire Co. and the Harvey Cedars Lifeguard in Training program. Thurs.-Sat., 8 am, through Sept. 1.

kid stuff Children’s Theater, Surflight Theatre, Engleside & Beach aves., Beach Haven (609-492-9477 or www.surﬂight.org) Call or visit website for speciﬁc dates and times.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Reading Isn’t Ruff, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) A therapy dog is waiting for beginning readers and up to come read to it. 6 pm.

theater THROUGH SEPTEMBER 16 “Once Upon a Time in New Jersey,” Surflight Theatre, Engleside & Beach aves., Beach Haven (609-492-9477 or www. surﬂight.org) See website for schedule and ticket prices. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Dinner & Theater Matinee, The South Bay Seniors Assn. sponsors the event, with “I Left My Heart – a Tony Bennett Review” at Barnegat High School, 180 Bengal Blvd., presented by the Ocean Professional Theatre Co., 3 pm; followed by dinner at Il Giardino. Cost, $55. To reserve, call Bruce Tuttle at 609-494-9949 or 908-403-2532.

‘Island Child LBI’ Author, Illustrator Meet Audience By ERIC ENGLUND Long Beach Island Branch Ocean County Library Central Avenue, Surf City (609-494-2480) Three years ago, Corinne Ruff started writing thoughts about life lessons to share with her children. And she could think of no better source for inspiration than the environment of Long Beach Island and its people. “The Island is a huge part of my life, and I wanted to see how their surroundings whispered words of truth and inspiration,” said the Surf City resident. “I wrote 80 life lessons from sea shells to bulkheads and everything in between. When I shared the project with others, they wanted to come aboard.” The end result was the reflections of more than 140 contributing authors that make up Island Child LBI, by Down The Shore Publishing. Ruff and the book’s illustrator, Lisa Benjamin, will be hosting a talk and book signing at the branch 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1. Contributions came from local students, residents, vacationers and authors, including Sandy Gingras and Margaret Thomas Buchholz. An example of inspiration would be sea glass. Ruff writes that the tiny piece of sea glass was once part of a whole glass object that the ocean broke into many tiny fragments. The motion of the ocean sanded the jagged edges so that when they wash up on the shore they are “smooth, beautiful jewels from the sea.” “The lesson from sea glass is that time changes all things,” she wrote. “Time polishes the broken pieces of our hearts. Time makes the happy heart glisten.” Another source for a lesson are fishermen, “who are responsible for bringing in their catch and would never take credit for a fish he didn’t catch.” “The lesson is that in life, we must gently cast out our own line to see what is out there for each one of us. Each person is responsible for creating his or her own successes.” The book’s forward was written by Angela Andersen, who like Ruff has children in the LBI school district. “She liked my entry so much, she asked me to write the forward and I was very honored to,” said Andersen. “I wrote about the ebb and flow of the Island, how the tides change, how the seasons change and how the species of birds and fish change throughout the year.” Benjamin, a Forked River resident who has taught in the LBI district for 23 years, added, “All of us have a

special connection to the Island and it seems like no matter what age we are, there is an Island child in us.” Or as 14-year-old Jonathan Dunlap wrote, “I am an Island child. The ocean is in my blood, the sand is in my bones.” * * * The branch teams up with the Jewish Community Center of LBI for a three-part series, “Lessons from the Holocaust.” All programs run on consecutive Wednesdays beginning Sept. 5 from 10 a.m. to noon and feature Ken Konchan, a noted Holocaust scholar who is professor of humanities, philosophy and ethics at Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio. The Cedar Bonnet Island summer resident is also adjunct professor of history at the University of Akron and Hiram College, also in Ohio. In the opening talk, Konchan will discuss how Berlin became a center for avant-garde artists in the 1920s. It led to Berlin gaining a reputation as an amoral city with rampant drug use and prostitution. Konchan said when the Nazis rose to power, one of their immediate goals was to eradicate such “degeneracy” and replace it with the Aryan “People’s Community.” On Sept. 12, the professor will discuss how acceptance of Darwin’s theory of evolution resulted in science moving from striving to understand nature to trying to control it. This inﬂuenced the Nazis to embrace eugenics, giving them the power to determine who was worthy of life, ultimately leading to “the Final Solution.” In the last lecture on Sept. 19, Konchan talks about the West’s failure to challenge Hitler’s secret armament. He wonders if similar mistakes are being made regarding Iran’s nuclear development. He said parallels could be drawn from Hitler to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “He presents himself as a messianic ﬁgure,” said Konchan. “And many times he has called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Appeasement is what helped Hitler gain power, and it seems a similar thing is happening here.” In a separate program, Konchan will discuss “Michael Collins: Patriot and Martyr” on Thursday, Sept. 13, 10 a.m. Collins participated in the 1916 Easter Rising, an insurrection against British rule, and became one of the leaders of the radical Sinn Fein movement. Beginning Sept. 11, Beach Haven artist Pat Morgan will be coordinating a drop-in watercolor painting program for seniors from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Morgan, who

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 STAC Conservatory Open House, Stafford Twp. Arts Center, 1000 McKinley Ave., Manahawkin (609-489-8600 or www. staffordschools.org/STAC) Instruction in dance, drama, music and visual arts for all ages is planned. The open house offers free workshops, classes and performances. Noon-4 pm. SEPTEMBER 19-OCTOBER 7 “Steel Magnolias,” Surflight Theatre, Engleside & Beach aves., Beach Haven (609-492-9477 or www.surflight.org) See website for schedule and ticket prices.

2480) Jim Conroy presents the program. 10:30 am. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary.org. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Opera: Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” Act 3, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-2480) Jim Conroy presents the program. 10:30 am. Call to register or visit theoceancountylibrary.org.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Opera: Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” Acts 1 & 2, Island Branch Ocean County Library, 217 South Central Ave., Surf City (609-494-

Bayberry Inn, 13th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Ship Bottom (609-494-8848) Fri., Joey D’s Doo Wop Party, 7:30 pm; Fri.-Mon., Wed. & Thurs., George Abbot; Sat., Rockin’ Renee, 7:30 pm; Sun., Steve Richter, 5 pm; Tues., Jammin’ Janice. Buckalew’s Tavern & Restaurant, Bay Ave. & Centre St., Beach Haven (609-492-1065) Fri., Jody Joseph Band, 9:30 pm; Sat., Diablo Sandwich Band, 9:30 pm; Sun., The Kootz. Fri., Sat., Mon. & Wed., piano. Callahan’s, 16th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (609-494-5776) Sat., Shay Mac, 7 pm; Thurs., karaoke. daddy O, 4401 Long Beach Blvd., Brant Beach (609-494-1300) Fri., Ted Hammock & Matt Fisher, 6-10 pm; Sun., Dan Barone, 6-10 pm; Wed., Lime Lite Reggae Band, 7-10 pm; Thurs., Brian Parr, 6-10 pm. The Dutchman’s Brauhaus, 2500 East Bay Ave., Cedar Bonnet Island (609-494-6910) The Upstairs: Fri., Flamin’ Harry, 9 pm; Sat., After Hours, 9 pm; Sun., The Following; Mon., Pat Karwan Trio with special guests, 7:30 pm. Bavarian Tavern: Fri. & Sat., Pat Karwan, 5:30 pm. The Engleside Sand Bar, 30 Engleside Ave., Beach Haven (609-492-5116) Fri. & Mon., Tropicali Orchestra & Revue, 3-7 pm; Sat., Lenny G & the Soulsenders, 3-7 pm; Sun., Face Down, 3-7 pm. The Gateway, 227 West 8th St., Ship Bottom (609-494-1661) Fri. & Sat., Weird Owl Karaoke, 8 pm; Sun., Ted Hammock & Jason Booth, 4-8 pm; Thurs., call for info. How You Brewin?, North 1st St., Surf City (609-494-2003) Fri., Jimmy on piano; Sun., open mike, 7:45-9:30 pm. Joe Pop’s Shore Bar & Restaurant, 20th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Ship Bottom (609494-0558) Fri., Screaming Broccolli, 10 pm; Sat., The Benjamins; Sun., The Nerds; Thurs., call for info. At the Tiki Bar: Fri., Screaming Broccolli Duo, 3-7 pm; Sat., Mi-

is secretary of the Pine Shores Art Association, said the program grew out of her watercolor instruction class held last year. “It’s a time for seniors to bring their own materials and have fun painting,” she said. “I wanted to focus on seniors because they may be retired and can ﬁnd time for a new, leisure activity.” The Friends of the Island Library hold a book sale Thursday and Friday, Sept. 6-7, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for both dates, and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 8. Proceeds help the group support programming for children and adults. The next book discussion group meets Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m. Topic is Blessings, by Anna Quindlen. In the novel, a teenage couple leaves a box containing a sleeping infant at the doorstep of an estate owned by

Lydia Blessing, changing the family forever. Beach Haven Public Library Third Street and Beach Avenue (609-492-7081) The library will resume off-season hours beginning Saturday, Sept. 15. Hours will not be announced until after the board of trustees meets on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Currently, the library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday, as well as additional evening hours 6-8 p.m. on Monday and Thursday. The book discussion group meets on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2 p.m. Topic is State of Wonder, by Anne Patchett. In the book, Marina Singh, a medical researcher for a pharmaceutical company, is sent deep into the Amazon Basin to investigate the circumstances of the death of her lab partner. Q

music Bluegrass & Pinelands Music, Albert Music Hall, 131 Wells Mills Rd. (Rte. 532), Waretown (609-971-1593 or www. alberthall.org) Every Sat.; doors open, 6:30 pm. Concerts on the Green, Veterans Bicentennial Park, Beach Ave. between Engleside Ave. & Amber St., Beach Haven. Wed., 7:30 pm. If inclement weather, held at LBI Historical Assn. Museum, Engleside & Beach aves. Sept. 5, Fred Lahoty & the Ragtimers. THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1 “Ring of Fire – the Songs of Johnny Cash,” Barnegat High School, 180 Bengal Blvd., Barnegat (www.oceantheatre.org, 609312-8306 or ruth@oceantheatre.org) Ocean Professional Theatre Co. presents the show. Tickets, $29-$35. Times vary. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Ocean County Bluegrass Festival, Albert Music Hall, 131 Wells Mills Rd. (Rte. 532), Waretown (609-971-1593 or www. alberthall.org) Groups expected to perform include Rawhide, Cindy G., Borderline and many more. Admission: adult, $8; child younger than 12, $1. Noon-5 pm; doors open, 11 am. SEPTEMBER 11-16 “I Left My Heart – the Music of Tony Bennett,” Barnegat High School, 180 Bengal Blvd., Barnegat (www.oceantheatre.org, 609312-8306 or ruth@oceantheatre.org) Ocean Professional Theatre Co. presents the show. Tickets, $29-$35. Times vary.

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GoodTimes chael Clayton Moore, 3-7 pm; Sun., Trippin’ Carla, 3-7 pm.

Surflight Theatre

The Ketch, 2nd St. on the bay, Beach Haven (609-492-3000) Sat., Lifespeed. Kubel’s Too, 8200 Long Beach Blvd., Beach Haven Crest (609-494-4731) Fri., Gyrl Band, 10 pm; Sat., Dan Brown, 10 pm; Sun., Guy Petersen Band. L’Assiette, 1403 Long Beach Blvd., Surf City (609-361-7800) Mon., Guy Petersen, 4:30-9 pm. The Marlin, Centre St. & Bay Ave., Beach Haven (609-492-7700) Fri., 222; Sat., LauraLea & Tripp Fabulous; Sun., Lifespeed. Nardi’s, 11801 Long Beach Blvd., Haven Beach (609-492-9538) Fri., Elvis Show, 5 pm; Steamroller Picnic, 10 pm; Sat., Face Down, 5 pm; Lima Bean Riot, 10 pm; Sun., Dave Christopher, 5 pm; Richie & the All Stars, 9 pm; Mon., Weird Owl Karaoke, 5 pm; 70s Night, 9 pm; Tues., pasta & Sinatra, 5 pm; Betsus Band, 10 pm; Wed., Weird Owl Karaoke, 5 pm; Rock Lobsters, 10 pm; Thurs., call for info. Plantation, West 80th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Harvey Cedars (609-494-8191) Fri., Dan Barone, 10 pm; Sat., Brian Parr, 10 pm; Sun., The Danksters, 9 pm; Thurs., call for info. Rick’s American Café, Fourth St. & Broadway, Barnegat Light (609-494-8482) Fri., Ted Hammock, 10 pm; Sat., No Discipline, 10 pm; Sun., John McNutt Band, 10 pm. The Sea Shell, 10 South Atlantic Ave., Beach Haven (609-492-4611) In the club: Fri., The Replicants, 10 pm; Sat., Hyperactive, 10 pm; Sun., Almost Easy, 10 pm. At the pool: Fri., The Impulsives, 3:30-7:30 pm; Sat., Monte’s Pool Party with The Replicants, 3:30-7:30 pm; Sun., Shorty Long & the Jersey Horns, 3:30-7:30 pm; Mon., Reggae Plus. Spray Beach Inn, 24th St. & Ocean Ave., Spray Beach (609-492-1501) Fri., Fred Conley, 5-9 pm; Sat., Dave Jones, 2-6 pm; Sun., Dave Sodano, Sinatra by the Sea, 5-9 pm; Mon., Smokey Starr, 3-7 pm; Thurs., call for info. Surf City Hotel, Eighth St. & Long Beach Blvd., Surf City (609-494-7281) Fri., eleven eleven, 10 pm; Sat., The Blitz, 10 pm; Sun., Bill & Andy Show, 5 pm; Shorty Long & the Jersey Horns, 10 pm. Terrace Tavern, 13201 Long Beach Blvd., Beach Haven Terrace (609-492-9751) Fri., Chris Fritz; Sat., Ted Hammock. Viking Fresh Off the Hook, 20th St. & Bayview Ave., Barnegat Light (609-494-0113) Mon. & Wed., live entertainment. Note: Many places have DJs or other entertainment on unlisted nights.

films BEACH 5 STADIUM THEATRE, Herbert Ave. & Long Beach Blvd., Beach Haven Park (609-492-6906) FRIDAY-THURSDAY, AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 6 “The Bourne Legacy,” (PG-13) 4:15 & 7:15 pm; rain only, 1:20 pm. “Campaign,” (R) 4:20 & 7:05 pm; Fri.-Sun. only, also 9:15 pm; rain only, 1:45 pm. “The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure,” (G) 4 & 7 pm; Fri.-Sun. only, also 9 pm; rain only, 1:25 pm. “ParaNorman,” (PG) 4:10 & 7:10 pm; Fri.Sun. only, also 9:10 pm; rain only, 1:35 pm.

Concert Series Will Run Through September By RICK MELLERUP he comedy portion of the Catch a Rising Star Comedy and Concert Series at Beach Haven’s Surflight Theatre is done with. But the music will go on well after Labor Day. Surflight favorite Tommy Emmanuel will play four – count ’em, four – shows in the middle of September, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, followed by performances at 8 p.m. Sept. 17 and 18. Four shows – proof that the Aussie guitarist is indeed a Surflight fave! Then, at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 on the Saturday of Chowderfest weekend, Rhode Island’s John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band will close out the 2012

CARS schedule. The band may come from the Ocean State, but it has a decided Jersey Shore sound. If you were to hear a BBB song on the radio, you could be excused for thinking it was an early Springsteen release that had somehow slipped your attention. What can one say about Emmanuel? Earlier this month he visited the Land Down Under for a series of concerts and here’s what Marika Bryant of Australian Stage said of a show in Queensland: “Back in the ’70s in Sydney, in a small local pub, the Emmanuel Brothers were playing. In awe and gobsmacked by their sheer talent, I walked over to Tommy and asked how he could possibly play a guitar like that? His answer was

‘practice every day, eight hours a day and love the music, and you, too, can play like me.’ That was the ’70s: in 2012 it is hard to tell where the man ends and the guitar begins.” Four nights later Emmanuel played in the city of Perth. Online reviewer Mark Diggins of therockpit.net had this to say: “Having seen him one solitary time back in the early nineties, I really didn’t know what to think. Sometimes as a reviewer that is part of the fun. “Tonight in Perth Tommy Emmanuel proved to me at least why he is so enduring a performer and why he’s not just an Australian music icon, but someone quite rightly revered all over

Tan Lines

Life’s a Beach By MANDY MILES here comes a time in everyone’s life when we’re faced with a monumental move. We wake up one morning and realize that by the time the breakfast dishes are in the sink, our entire lives will be in utter upheaval. No, this was not a relocation from one home to another, but it took nearly as much packing. The chaos erupted a few weeks ago at my parents’ house. Family members were hovering around the kitchen trying to be useful – shouldering bulging tote bags, artfully packing coolers with everything from juice boxes to beers, and shouting instructions over their shoulder about what not to forget, how to get there and where the back door key was hidden. (Walk until you hit sand; and the same hidden hook it’s been on for 15 years.) It was the daunting spectacle by the back door that forced me to the outskirts of the activity, shaking my head and trying to keep my coffee cup out of the line of ﬁre of a giant umbrella in the hands of a 3-year-old. Until that moment, I had thought all I needed was one towel, one chair, one book and maybe a few bucks for a sub. We were going to the beach, for crying out loud – at the end of the street – 15 houses away. It’s a trip I’ve made thousands of times over at least 21 summers. I used to know how many sidewalk squares spanned the distance from front porch to sand. I could make the trip with my eyes closed (and had, on a few occasions, when the sun seemed exceptionally bright and my head felt especially fragile.) For as long as I could remember, a day at the beach required only four items – and the money was optional. That was all before our family once again included small children – my

nephews. I watched my brother, the Sherpa, bend beneath the weight of eight canvas beach chairs, 17 tote bags, an insulated cooler, thousands of plastic sand toys and a paperback book he had no prayer of even opening once he reached his destination. Unlike the small, smiling Sherpas who help climbers summit Mt. Everest, my brother’s work did not end when the expedition reached the beach. The sand was not his summit. Upon arrival, I casually unfolded my favorite beach chair and flopped unceremoniously onto its canvas, expertly jerking on the wooden handles to achieve the proper level of recline while exchanging a knowing smile with my equally comfortable father a few seats away. Meanwhile, the Sherpa, who actually looked more like a burro when fully loaded, seemed to drop something else every time he exhaled, although I never again saw his book. There were chairs to position in a semi-circle. The baby required some folding, dome-like contraption that made him look like a screened-in pod baby. And the 3-yearold immediately saw another father several yards away digging a hole so deep that his kids were splashing in the bottom of it. Of course, an hour later, once we had lost our Sherpa in his own hole, my nephew lost interest and wanted to jump waves – not the little ones that Mommy can handle, but the big waves in deep water that require Daddy. By that time, Daddy had climbed out of the hole to wedge an umbrella into the sand and promptly stepped heavily on the plastic corner of a blue sand shovel. I awoke from a short snooze to find my book fallen onto my stomach and my brother flailing wildly on the beach, kicking every plastic sand toy he could

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reach. Fortunately, the screened-in baby was out of danger, and the cooler of juice boxes, beer and ice was too heavy to move with an already-injured foot. Besides, with his book a mere memory, the beer in the cooler was the only thing keeping the Sherpa from burying himself in his own hole and waiting for high tide. I smiled again at the chuckling ﬁgure of my father and marveled at the fact that this whole scenario was to be repeated daily during the course of this two-week “vacation.” Then again, maybe not, because the moment my brother unzipped the beer cooler with a desperate look in his eye, the 3-year-old announced that the sand was itchy, and he wanted to go home. Q Mandy Miles grew up “down the shore,” wishing summer would last forever. She lives in Key West, Fla., where her award-winning “Tan Lines” column appears weekly in the Key West Citizen. A book of her columns is available at amazon.com. She returns every summer to the Jersey Shore, where she learned the value of pizza and parking spots. Contact her at mandymileskw@gmail.com.

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RESERVE EARLY: Tommy Emmanuel (top) is in town Sept. 16-18; John Cafferty and his band come to Surﬂight Sept. 29.

guitarist I have ever heard other than, perhaps, jazz great Al Di Meola. He can play slow and sweet when he wants (what a beautiful version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”). But his specialty, what sets him apart from any acoustic guitarist I ever heard, is his ability to coax sounds from his instrument that defy description. Primal may be the best word. Remember the ﬁrst time you heard a Jimi Hendrix recording and wondered how the hell he ever did that? Well, Jimi had an electric axe. Emmanuel outdoes him without the beneﬁt of electricity! A statement such as that surely has more than a few Hendrix fans shaking their heads. All I can say is check Emmanuel out and see if your jaw doesn’t hurt the next morning from all of the hanging it did. I’ll borrow a wonderful word from Bryant – gobsmacking! Hey, whilst I’m irritating the fans of some classic rockers, I might as well go on and say the Beaver Brown Band sounds more like early Springsteen than Springsteen does today. Again, my only defense is to tell y’all to see and hear for yourselves come Sept. 29. Folks may already be familiar with the Beaver Brown sound. Remember the 1983 movie “Eddie and the Cruisers?”

Maybe not; it was a dismal failure at the box ofﬁce. The movie’s soundtrack, written by Cafferty and performed by the Beaver Brown Band, was a huge hit, selling four million copies while one of its songs, “On the Dark Side,” reached number one on the Billboard charts! Cafferty has a voice that can, as I already said, be easily mistaken for Springsteen’s. The band also features Michael “Tunes” Antunes on – you guessed it – sax. Getting the picture? It will be a rocking night, and if you close your eyes at times, well, it may seem more like the 1970s than 2012. The band started gath-

ering a following in the clubs of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1972, the same year that a musician from New Jersey was forming a group called the E Street Band. Tickets for both Tommy Emmanuel and John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band run between $50 and $89 (for “premium seating”). They can be purchased online at surﬂight.org, by phone at 609492-9477 or at the box ofﬁce, located at the corners of Engleside and Beach avenues in the heart of Beach Haven. Q Rick Mellerup is a writer for The SandPaper and a community theater actor.

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LBIF Member, Student, Faculty Exhibition 2012

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By ERIN LEONARD

ther interest with careful details that include common contents a woman might have, such as sunglasses in one and a handkerchief in another. “I find a tremendous amount of joy in my clay creations, and to be able to show them in the MSF Exhibition at the LBIF is a real bonus,” remarked Burton. “The entire community comes out to support the show, and the holiday atmosphere is reflected in the love we all have for our Island home.” The joy and passion of surfing is captured in David Bair’s “Pipeline at Dusk.” The eye moves around the painting, dances with the motion and power of the wave, and through to the center of the piece. At the focal point is the surfer, arms flung in the air, as he embraces the magnificence of his ride. I was pleased to see the work of Linda Ramsay, a local painter whose work I’ve come to greatly admire since I met her several years ago. Ramsay is inspired by the views from and near her home on Long Beach Island. She paints for countless hours, often from the back of her home, where the serenity of the bay and marshes continuously provide her with endless imagery. Ramsay’s oil painting “Moving Clouds” is a reminder to me as to why I consider her such a talented artist. Her concentration on light, as well as her application of paint and her subject matter, are reminiscent of the Impressionists. The painting is soft and soothing, and captures the essence of environment. Jules Slotnick has a different interpretation of a seascape with an oil painting titled “Rising Sun.” Big and bold, colorful strokes swirl in circles to create a fiery sun as it emerges from the rich blues of the water. The deep contrast of color makes for a dynamic piece. For additional information on this or upcoming exhibitions at the Long Beach Island Foundation, visit www. lbifoundation.org. Upcoming Art Events On Sunday, Sept. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., visit Viking Village on 19th Street and Bay Avenue, Barnegat Light for the annual end of the season Arts & Crafts Show. Approximately 75 vendors are expected with a variety of

s another summer draws toward its conclusion, the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences shares its fifth and final exhibit of the season. The annual Member, Student, Faculty show, which will be in the gallery through Sept. 3, is unique among the summer exhibits. It is special in the sense that any members of the LBIF, or students taking a course, or faculty either amateur or professional, are welcomed to contribute their work. The general parameters of this exhibition allow a broader level of skill and artwork, which in turn makes for a fun and eclectic mix of style and media. The artist reception for this event was held on Sunday, Aug. 26. Participants and visitors had the opportunity to see how the artistic efforts of those affiliated with the LBIF came to fruition within one amazing exhibition. Included are oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings; handcrafted jewelry; ceramics; mixed media; and collage, as well as a variety of other contributions. Artist Jack Toolin, a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute and an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute at NYU, awarded prizes at the reception. Sandra Kosinski’s ceramic contribution is much more than an artfully crafted vase. She adds visual appeal and interest by spiraling a ladder-like formation up and around the perimeter. Tiny figures seemingly climb their way up the creation, with a few at the top, having reached their final destination for a peek inside. The Barnegat Light dunes have always been a sanctuary for me throughout my life. Therefore I particularly enjoyed Susan Barnes’ two oil paintings, “North End Dunes” and SURF, SUN, FANTASY: Works by David Bair (top), Jules Slotnick and Sandra Kosinski. “The Dunes, Barnegat Light.” Barnes has a love for the coast that began with childhood summers spent at the jewelry, art, photography, decoys and by photographers. The artist reception Jersey Shore. Her representational more. The event will take place rain will be held Saturday, Sept. 8 from 5 to style presents atmospheric scenes that or shine. 7 p.m. Q are beloved to her, as well as many of Sept. 7 to Nov. 1, the LBIF hosts the Erin Leonard of Barnegat has a B.A. us who also have a connection to these Print Center Exhibition, which high- in art history and an M.A. in education. particular scenes. lights artists from the Print Center in You may submit your suggestions to her “The dunes found at the north end Philadelphia. Work will be featured at art_lover8@yahoo.com. of Long Beach Island in Barnegat Light are magnificent!” said Barnes. “As an artist, I find them to be quite inspirational. Their size alone is a sight to behold. The shadows cast at different times of the day, as well as the color changes of the vegetation, makes interesting subject matter. I have done many paintings based on those dunes, both plein air and studio work.” Sandy Burton’s contribution to the show was a memorable trio of stoneware titled “Sample Sale.” She fashioned the pieces into artistic representation of Photographs by Erin Leonard women’s handbags. The ON EXHIBIT THROUGH LABOR DAY: Sandy Burton’s stoneware handbags; Linda Ramsay’s oil painting of clouds and the ocean waterfront. collection is given fur-

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Unfulfilled Wishes, Mid-Life Changes

Fifty Summers – Finding Hope By ERIC HOUGHTON The next 10 summers were spent eing born on September 19th, my largely on that same Harvey Cedars first full summer was John F. Ken- street where my dad owned and opnedy’s last: 1963. During summer erated a seasonal boat rental business #2, while LBJ was working with Con- until 1986. I started working there part gress on a civil rights bill, I was working time in 1974 – my 12th summer – when, on that pesky latch on our front door in the midst of a frantic stretch of jumbo in Harvey Cedars. It was then in late crabs and sellout days at Houghton’s August 1964, during a fierce nor’easter, Rowboats, his two main workers quit I figured it out. A short time later, a abruptly, and decided to try their luck neighbor fished me out in the bay – digout of the ocean. I ging clams. By my 40th summer, it had remembered none begun to take over other aspects In those days of it. the bay bottom My first memo- of my life, and for the next seven was paved with ries are most likely years, things only got worse. bivalves, and clamfrom my third summing vessels roumer in that ocean-side home that was tinely littered the area outside of Kinsey nearly demolished by the great storm of Cove and beyond. I remember rental 1962. I remember trying desperately to boats returning to the dock during those scale the snow-fence enclosure my par- summer days in the mid ’70s, bay waents erected for me in the sandy front ter nearly swamping the overloaded, yard. I tried and tried, but kept falling 14-foot crafts. back to the soft sand. With my penchant “There must be a hundred clams in for escape fresh in my parents’ minds, that boat!” my old pal, Doug “Bones” they were determined to keep me Jones remarked, eyes wide with wonpenned in and out of potential trouble. der, after a particularly heavy-laden It worked for a while. boat made it up onto the beach at Let’s fast-forward to my seventh Houghton’s. There were actually a few summer. “Tricky Dick” was in the thousand in there, but who’s counting, White House and boys were dying in Doug? great numbers in Vietnam. I was free During the Obama-esque Carter and having a blast riding my brand new years, I worked my summers at Houghlittle red bike. I fell often, and always ton’s while older brothers Rich and had the freshly skinned knees to prove Tim went out and struck gold in the it. But on a hot July day in 1969, I flew bay. During that time my sister Holly into the driveway of my grandmother’s worked behind the counter in the clam house on 83rd Street in Harvey Cedars bar at Houghton’s, dishing out the halfwith a little extra skid and flying peb- shells, burgers and dogs and, most imbles. I hopped off and quickly dashed portantly, the Manhattan chowder that inside. It was time. Neil Armstrong was made the place well known throughout Continued on Page 18 about to walk on the moon. I was there!

By PAT JOHNSON rom the first page, Denting the Bosch (St. Martin’s Press) by Teresa Link sucks you in as she describes a homesick New Yorker stuck in sunny California, hungering to experience a howling northeast winter storm that is being forecast on TV. It’s a great read, striking in its original writing, while dealing with adult themes of adultery, unfulfilled wishes, divorce and mid-life changes. Like the Neil Simon plays, “Plaza Suite” and “The Four Seasons,” Link takes us on a stereoscopic view of the lives of three mid-life couples that have formed a friendship. We first meet Adele and Drew, Sylvia and Carl, Maggie and Paul as they return from a sylvan weekend away that was just a bluff and a blind, where Sylvia and Carl are concerned. Sylvia’s husband Carl is a CFO in a chain store and has a thing going on with his secretary, a blousy Russian émigré. Adele is shocked and a bit threatened by the news; she’s a homemaker and unfulfilled architect, who subjugated her career for her doctor husband Drew. After 9/11, they moved from Bedford, New York to San Diego, a move that has awakened Drew to an aggressive, youthful exuberance but has had the opposite effect on Adele, who has become more homesick with each passing year and more shrewish than her husband would like. Now that the children are gone – they have raised three adult boys – will their marriage survive? Maggie is angry with Carl for his treatment of Sylvia. She is passionately

political, but her husband, Paul, seems so steady – he’s in middle management at an engineering firm. So how can it be he has kept a secret their entire married life? Before the book is done, Maggie has a secret of her own. These couples are firmly “co-dependent,” spending much of their waking hours wondering about how solid is their position in their spouse’s affection. But it’s intelligent thought. Here’s Maggie, the political animal, thinking of her emotionally-distant husband Paul: Sometimes at the end of the day, Maggie would be affected with a kind of panicky melancholy, a sense of accidental momentum having thrust her into someone else’s life. She would flail around, mentally, trying to find an anchor, a bellwether to cling to. At dinner she would telegraph her need to her husband, hover anxiously, hoping he would catch her and ground her, fasten her securely to their life. Listen to the interior dialogue as the unsophisticated Sylvia finally breaks through her denial over her pending divorce from Carl: Now as she stirred milk into her coffee, a smothering sadness dropped over her, shooing away the momentary pleasure she’d taken in her orderly kitchen. What if this was the way it would always be now? What if every time she came home, everything was exactly as she had left it? Never finding the shiny granite counter awash in sandwich makings, her husband out by the pool with his lunch and the paper. The home always as clean and sterile and untouched as a magazine photo?” While cooking dinner for her husContinued on Page 18

Dog Lover’s Delight Gets Three Barks!

Beachcomber/SandPaper ﬁle photo by Tracy Mack

1992: Twenty years ago, Todd Lisella (left) and brother Paul were harvesting the bay.

f you don’t like dogs – wouldn’t have one around the place and can’t understand people who do – forget this charming, insightful and often very funny little book. Things Your Dog Doesn’t Want You to Know ( S o u rc e b o o k s . com) is, on the other hand, just about perfect for dog people, whether casual owners, enthusiastic canine cultists or dog professionals of every variety. Buy it for a friend with a new dog, a chagrined host whose eager mutt adorned your new dress with muddy paws, the harried dog walker in your building or your much snarled-at mailman. Authors Hy Conrad and Jeff Johnson have taken 11 very real dogs of

various breeds, sizes and personalities (pictures are included) and literally put words in their mouths about all the doggy-things you’ve always wanted to know: Why do dogs love toilet bowl water and hate it when you add air freshener? Why do dogs display embarrassing signs of horniness after they’re fixed? You get the idea. And the answers come in straight dog talk. Believable, informative and, for the most part, not overly cute (thingsyourdog.com). All in all, a nice little addition to your bathroom reference shelf or anyplace else you need a few minutes of relaxed reading with some laughs along the way. — David Foster

THE BEACHCOMBER/Friday, August 31, 2012

Clammer’s Diary

Beach Books

THE BEACHCOMBER/Friday, August 31, 2012

Clammer’s Continued from Page 17 the entire area. During summer #19 in 1981, by the time Reagan was fully recovered from his near-fatal gunshot wound, I had seen enough cash flashed in my face by Rich and Tim, and decided to join them out in the bay. For the next 15 summers, up until the time Clinton was messing up an intern’s dress or two, and presenting balanced budgets, I did my summer labor digging clams commercially. The halcyon ’80s were by far the best. It seemed that we couldn’t find a spot in our part of the bay that wasn’t giving up a minimum of 150 clams per hour. Every day, within four or five hours, we returned to the dock with a few thousand beauties ready for market. My total take during my commercial years has to be 250,000 at least, but Brother Richard, many times getting to the elusive thousand level, probably dug in excess of 1 million. Aside from clamming, summers 19 to 34 were filled with parties, music, teaching, marriage and then children. I was married in 1988, and our first child, Katie, was born in 1991, with Matthew to follow in 1994. Natalie made three, and arrived just after summer #38 in 2000. During this time I was performing summer piano recitals, and had begun my teaching career at the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton. We bought a house in Ewing in 1989, and I continued to dig clams – mostly for personal

Beach Books Continued from Page 17 band, Adele ponders her friend Sylvia’s bad news. It was interesting, Adele mused, blowing her nose and wiping away onion tears, how adamant Sylvia had been about trusting Carl, even as he betrayed her, she actually snapped at Maggie to stop talking about how she should protect herself, said she wasn’t going to ‘go there,’ that she was going to support Carl’s decision. First the grief, then the rage, Adele thought. How we all scamper into predictable human behavior when the ground collapses under us. And then, like a person hearing about someone else’s cancer diagnosis, Adele watched her own thoughts leap onto the hamster’s wheel: ‘Could it happen to me?’ Although Adele is the character we spend the most time with, it’s sometimes hard to think of her as the protagonist as the book’s viewpoint swings from one character to the next, from one chapter to the next. We spend most of our time with the three women, and the men don’t fare as well, being constricted by concerns with sex, money and ambition: familiar characteristics we recognize, but are all men really from Mars? Carl is the most rudely drawn, and scenes between Carl and his mistress, and Carl and his daughter, are hilarious but not because Carl is humorous. It’s because he is cleverly skewered by the women. Denting the Bosch could be construed to be a women’s book, and it is a book women will want to spend time with. Author Link builds a scene so well – an argument between Adele and Drew builds moment by moment, as a misplaced word, a thoughtless remark, bring them closer to the realization

consumption – right up until summer #42 in 2004, when my parents sold their Harvey Cedars home and moved across the bay to Manahawkin. Long after all the chads had settled, and George W. Bush was ensconced at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I had begun consulting my diary and was reporting on my life growing up in and around Barnegat Bay. I began in 2002, and my dad tells me this installment marks the 75th time that “Clammer’s Diary” has been published! As for the party aspect of my life, it all began in the summers of my youth. By my 40th summer, it had begun to take over other aspects of my life, and for the next seven years, things only got worse. Anger, obsession and health problems didn’t get me to stop drinking, or even slow down. I finally needed help or it was going to be the end. And so, by the second year of Hope and Change, I made a huge change in my life – and hoped! Well, I say so far, so good. Now, as my 50th summer comes careening to a halt, I have signed a contract to have my memoir, Boozehound! Breaking a 30Year Obsession, published. It looks like it will be out by Christmas of this year. I hope you will take a look. I am very grateful. Q Eric Houghton, a native of Harvey Cedars, was a commercial clammer for 15 years. He now lives with his wife and children in Ewing Township, where he teaches piano and regularly consults his diary. Share your memories with him at echoughton@comcast.net or on Facebook. that they may not want to continue their life-partnership post parenthood. Anyone who has had an argument with a loved one that teeters on the brink of breakup is bound to relive it. There are many such moving and insightful scenes between characters as the book pushes its characters to new awareness, finally reaching its conclusion in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Link uses a children’s rhyme to divide the book into three parts: Straw, Sticks and Bricks – by the end of the book, Link’s characters are made of stronger stuff. If I had any bones to pick, it would have to be the number of supporting characters. And I was a bit put off by the wild engagement party where a marriage finally falls apart as two sons announce theirs. Just a personal preference, I hate wild parties. But perhaps because Link has been a producer of movies and TV dramas, she knew to create visual scenes like this in case the book has legs in that direction. It wouldn’t be a surprise if it did. Denting the Bosch holds together as a book and the writing is clever and upto-date, except no one is texting. Denting the Bosch is Teresa Link’s debut book. She has a Masters in Theatre from Illinois State University, has worked as an actress, writer and producer throughout the US and UK. Like her main character, Adele, she has lived on both coasts and currently lives in Bergen County. On the advice of her editor at St. Martin’s, Link had to add a subtitle to the book: A Novel of Marriage, Friendship and Expensive Household Appliances; this in case the reading public (like myself) didn’t know that a Bosch was a high-end dishwasher. Q Pat Johnson is the Arts Editor for The SandPaper and is newly addicted to fiction writing workshops.

DEMOLITION SALE

GARAGE/YARD SALES

Peahala Park, 9001 Beach Ave. Sun., 9/2 & Sat., 9/8, 9am-5pm. Everything must go! Furniture, appliances, fencing, cabinets, rugs, housewares, etc. Selling content. Furniture (including Vermont stove), household/beach items and more. One day only, Sat., 9/1, 9am-2pm. 1063B Long Beach Blvd., North Beach.

GARAGE/YARD SALES Beach Haven, 111 East 26th St., Sat., 9/1, 9am-12:30pm. Multi family. Kids’, kids’, kids’ bikes, superhero/princess costumes, adorable dresses, tons of toys. Brighton Beach, 103 East 87th St., Sat., 9/1, 9am-1pm (rain 9/2). Household, office, beach items/decor, ab machine, Christmas decorations, clothing. Harvey Cedars, 1 West Cumberland, Sat., 9/1, 9am-noon. Furniture, pictures, windsurfer, much more. Manahawkin, 112 Thomas Ln. (Jennings to Newell to Jeremy to Thomas). Sat./Sun., 9/1-9/2, 10am4pm. THREE GENERATIONS GARAGE SALE! Jewelry, CDs, DVDs, and more! Side-by-side fridge w/ice maker also available.

Mary Gallagher’s Annual

Labor Day Yard Sale. Brant Beach, 6505 Ocean Blvd., Sat., 9/1, 8am-1pm (rain date 9/2). DOWNSIZING 2 homes. Every household item imaginable for sale! North Beach Haven, 104 East 16th St., Sat., 9/1, 7am-11am. BLOWOUT PRICES! Many anchors (Danforth, Fortress, Delta Quick Set), grapnel anchors for wreck/ reef fishing, wreck float markers, nylon line 1/2in. & 3/8in., lots of fishing equipment (rods, flying gaff, plus more), kids’ bikes, toys and pool, booster seat, kerosene garage/shop heater, propane tanks (full and empty), portable propane heaters, mahogany masks and collectibles, plus much, much more. Ship Bottom, 334 West 16th St., Sat./Sun., 9/1-9/2, 8am-4pm. Antiques, furniture, small appliances, vacuums, rugs, artwork, glass, dishes, collectibles, luggage, household items. Surf City, 296 14th St. & 1402 Barnegat Ave., Sat., 9/1, 8am (rain date Sun., 9/2). Multi family. Great variety of good stuff! Surf City, 229 North 15th St., Sat., 9/1, 9am-2pm. Rain Sun., 9/2. Must stop by. Something for everyone. Lots of great stuff!

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ANTIQUES BEACH HAVEN ANTIQUES

509 Engleside Ave., Beach Haven. Highest prices paid for gold, silver, old costume jewelry and antiques. Store hours: Sun., Mon., Fri., 11am-4pm; Sat., 1pm-6pm. Call for appointments. 609-444-8119.

SHIP BOTTOM ANTIQUES BY THE BAY

Central Ave. at 28th St.

END OF SEASON SALE! Open daily, except Wednesday. 609-361-0885.

MERCHANDISE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Friday, Sept. 21st

MetLife Stadium, section 339. 4 tickets available, $100 each. Please call 908-705-0238. Franklin Mint Harley Davidson pocket watches for sale. If interested please call 609-494-2533.

CATERING

(Thousands of articles, tired merchandise, antiques, house contents & “odds.”) Celebrate our 49th season Bargains Galore - Cheap, Cheap, Cheap!!!

Annual Yard Sale Frolic

Begins Sat., 9/1, 10am. Shop opens 11am. Sun., 9/2 & Mon., 9/3 • $2 a bagfull!

K&S Gourmet Catering. Clambakes, Barbecues, Weddings. We specialize in full service off-premise catering for all occasions. Staffing and rentals available. Call 609548-6343.

HANDYMAN

Meet The Wizard!

Wear a costume - prices cheaper!

Wizard of Odds

7601 Long Beach Blvd. Beach Haven Crest • 609-494-9384 • Open in Sept.

FRANK & SON General Home Repair Service. All types of repairs and improvements. Experienced. Dependable. For estimate: 609597-7559, cell 609-312-8254.

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Solution on Page 13

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COMPUTER SERVICES

HANDYMAN

Inside or outside, no job too small. Reasonable Rates. Please call 609-709-5452.

CLEANING SERVICES

COMPUTER TECH

12 years experience in all phases of computer programing, setup, maintenance, repairs, networking & security. For home or small business. Will come to you! Tuckerton to LBI. Call 609618-6147 or email: williamsLEH@comcast.net

DORA’S ISLAND CLEANING

PETS/PET CARE

SEASONAL/YEAR ’ROUND

609-276-5537

Professional cleaning with a personal touch. Residential, offices, rentals. Owner operated. Free estimates. Call 609-709-4267, leave message. WILL DO changeover cleanings. Sun.-Thurs., 20% off. Also available for Fall cleanings. BOOK NOW! Call Joann, 609-276-3317.

SCREEN REPAIRS LBI screen repairs, door installation, and home repairs done at your location! Lic.#13VH01016900. Credit cards accepted. Call Mike Haines, 609-290-8836.

AWNINGS & CANOPIES

ADOPT A PET

Dogs, Puppies, Cats & Kittens ready for adoption in Ocean County’s animal facility, located at 360 Haywood Rd. in Manahawkin. All animals have been spayed/neutered, vaccinated & microchipped. Hours: 1pm-4pm daily, Wed., 1pm-6:30pm.

609-978-0127

LOST A PET? Call the shelter, your pet could be there!

THE PET NANNY

Personal Pet Care. Pet Sitting, Dog Walking, Dog Care Coaching, House Sitting. 15+ years experience on LBI. The professional, loving care that your furry family deserves. Tail-wagging references!

CHERI 609-713-0866

ATLANTIC AWNINGS

Professional Installations •Residential/Commercial. Retractable Awnings, Window Awnings, Retractable & Stationary Canopies, Recovers, Repairs, Re-Hang, Take Downs, Washing. Fully insured. FREE ESTIMATES. 609-6182420. Lic.#13VH06758700. atlanticawningcompany.com

HELP WANTED BAYBERRY INN

Waiters/Waitresses, F/T & P/T, year ’round. Apply in person, 13th St. & Long Beach Blvd., Ship Bottom.

MATH & SCIENCE TUTOR

All ages. Basic to college level. Call for more info. 609-3121477.

LBI ice cream store. Excellent Boulevard location. Owned since 1980. Corner lot, 50ft.x130ft. Will hold papers. $1,000,000 FIRM! Call 732-270-0227.

VACATION IN MAINE SEE FALL COLORS

WINTER RENTALS

BOATS FOR SALE

Manahawkin, gorgeous, like new, 3-bedroom, 2-bath, furnished home on water. No pets. Available 10/1, $1,400/month plus utilities. Call 609-932-0673.

20ft. Boston Whaler Outrage, w/ 150hp Evinrude, trailer, depth/fish finder, T-top. LBI. $8,999. Please call 609-492-0156.

AH... TO DREAM. Do you want to be lulled to sleep listening to the water? Do you want to relax on the sofa with cool breezes or air conditioning while reading a good book? Perhaps you’d rather sunbathe on soft cushions while sipping Margaritas fresh out of the refrigerator or make a snack in the microwave or a meal on the stove. Indoor or outdoor dining with music is your option. Had too many cold ones and need to go? The bathroom is steps away with everything you need. Maybe you’d rather take an open air cruise to your favorite waterfront restaurant... and bring a few friends, there’s room for 12! Yes, this beautifully maintained 1997 24ft. Maxum Cruiser could be the answer to those dreams, and at $11,500 it’s not a nightmare! Call 609-276-1884 to see if dreams come true.

OPEN HOUSE, Sun., 9/2, noon3pm. 80 Gregg Drive, Beach Haven West (Manahawkin), lagoon-front, 3BR, 1BA. Fully furnished. Dock, grill, cable, W/D, internet. $1,275/month + utilities. Pets welcome. Also as winter Rental. 973-479-7826. Ship Bottom, move-in condition, 6year-old single family. 3BR, 2.5BA, hardwood floors, gourmet kitchen, rooftop hot tub, deck & porch. Available Oct. for yearly or monthly rental. Contact Laurie at 215-2371883 or email laurie@lauriecondello.com Ship Bottom, spacious, 3BR, 2BA apartment over Pottery Barge. A/C, W/D, DW. Furnished/unfurnished. No smoking. $1,200/month plus utilities. Will consider winter rental. Call 908-403-2532.

FALL RENTALS Beach Haven Gardens. 1st & 2nd floors available. 2 bedrooms each (sleeps 4-7). Sept., $500/week, $1,500/month (includes Chowderfest). Call 856-577-0371. www.3000balticlbi.com

SUMMER RENTALS BEACH HAVEN LABOR DAY/SEPT.

2-bedroom duplex, 1.5 blocks to beach. Clean, renovated bathrooms, A/C, W/D, gas grills, outside shower, four decks. Available Labor Day & Sept., $900-$1,500/ week. Josh, 917-603-3488. See web site for Calendar/Pictures/ Rates: www.204pearl.com

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YEAR ROUND RENTALS New Gretna, unfurnished, 2nd floor apartment. 2 bedrooms, full kitchen, living/family room. $950/month (includes utilities), plus security. Background check/application required. 609-296-4490 between noon-3pm.

Large spacious home w/4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths; reverse living, 2 master bedroom suites (each w/private bathroom); room w/2 twin beds; bunk room that sleeps 5. Roof-top deck w/views of ocean, bay & Old Barney; 4 additional decks. September dates available, Call 201-657-5419. Surf City, 3-bedroom duplex. All amenities, oceanblock, steps to beach. Available 6/16-6/23, 8/25-9/ 1, 9/8-9/15, 9/15-9/22. 609-5978803 or email: McCruddenOwen@comcast.net

House for rent in Camden, Maine, the most picturesque harbor town in New England. Cottage sits on a slope overlooking Hosmer Pond. Good swimming in September, foliage in October. Spectacular views across lake to mountain. Wood-burning stove. Lots of windows, skylights, views. 2 kayaks on floating dock. Fully equipped, including linens. No smoking, pets considered. Available after 9/18. $850 a week. Go to: http://maindreamvacation.com/rental/hosmer-pond-house Call Margaret Buchholz 609-494-1263 or LBIPooch@comcast.net for photos.

WINTER RENTALS Beach Haven West (Manahawkin), lagoon-front, 3BR, 1BA. Fully furnished. Dock, grill, cable, W/D, internet. Sept.-June, $1,100/month + utilities. Pets welcome. 973-4797826. Beach Haven, bay views, 2BR, loft, fully furnished, fully equipped kitchen. No pets. Long season or possible year ’round. $1,100-$1,500/ month. 609-290-2440, call after 3pm.

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Ship Bottom, BEACH BLOCK, 2BR, 1BA. Furnished, W/D, internet optional, grill, parking. $800/ month plus utilities. Small pets considered. 215-380-8508.

21ft. 1996 Bayliner Capri Bowrider. 5.7 Merc I/O, 350hp. Great family boat, well maintained. Full cover, winter canvas & trailer. In Surf City. $7,900. 609-744-3213. (View picture81040 online)

Surf City, 3 bedrooms, oceanblock, renovated & furnished. Available 9/ 8/12-6/8/13, $850/month. No smoking/pets. 40 6th St. 908-2479148.

21ft. 2006 Sea Ray 200 Select. Original owner, kept on lift 4+ years, low hours. $23,000. In Beach Haven. 973-769-9344.

Surf City, first floor, 3BR, 2BA, completely renovated in 2010. A/C throughout, walk to bay & beach. Sept.-June, $1,200/month, utilities included. 908-656-2048.

BOATS FOR SALE 13ft. Vanguard Zuma sailboat. Excellent condition. New sail & trailer. Great 2-person boat. $1,500. Brant Beach. 610-914-5790 or ejhope@aol.com 15ft. 1996 Boston Whaler Dauntless w/60hp Mercury. Includes trailer, Fisher heavy canvas winter cover, console & helm seat covers, bow cushion, front cooler seat and cushion, depth finder, compass. $12,500. Call Jeff 609-468-6266. 16ft. 2000 Sandpiper. 9.9hp Johnson. Great starter motor boat, good condition. $2,000. In Beach Haven. Call 609-492-8131. 17ft. 1998 Boston Whaler Outrage, 115hp Johnson, 2009 Load-Rite trailer (never in water), depth/fish finder, console cover, bimini top. Ver y good condition. On LBI. $13,000. 973-698-7924. 17ft. 2007 Sea Ray 175 Bowrider, 135hp IO, VERY LOW HOURS, like NEW. Trailer, bimini, covers, DF, AM/FM. In water ready to ride, Waretown. Asking $13,350. 732278-2702. 17ft. Boston Whaler Nauset, 1973. This is for the classic boat lover. Excellent condition, original mahogany CC. 1975 Johnson 85hp. Low hours. Fresh water, garage stored. $9,000. 508-221-3475. (View picture81037 online) 18ft. 1998 Sea Ray bowrider, blown 4.3 Mercruiser engine. Hull, outdrive, canvas and bimini all in very good condition. $500. Mordecai marina, 484-695-4327. 18ft. 2001 Bayliner bowrider, low hours, with trailer. New canvas. Kids grew up, we got old! $6,800. 201-805-0165. 18ft. Sea Ray bowrider 2002, 4.3 Mercruiser, 200 hours. Trailer, new canvas. Excellent condition. $9,250. BHW. 973-713-7896. (View picture81044 online) 19ft. 1985 Grady White Tournament Walk Through. 1998 Yamaha 150hp outboard, trailer, covers. $6,600. View at Surf City Marina, LBI. 201-704-1536. 19ft. 1999 Sea Ray Cuddy Cabin 205 I/O. Very low hours. See at Mordecai Boat Basin, Beach Haven. $7,500. 973-978-6606. 19ft. Penn Yan Sea Skiff, 2000 90hp Johnson Sea Horse, includes trailer. In water, Harvey Cedars. $2,800. 856-829-0563.

22ft.6in. 1990 Baja 226 DSR Bowrider w/trailer. 454 Merc IO, Bravo 1 drive. Must sell, $6,500/OBO. Call 718-909-7305. 23.5ft. 2004 Robalo R235. Yamaha F225 w/355 hours. Hardtop w/full enclosure, fully loaded. Call for details. $30,950. 609-978-1096. (View picture81041 online) 24ft. 2008 Sea Ray Sundancer. Original owner. Warranties through 2013. Only 35 hours. $44,000. On LBI. Call or text 201-925-5143. 24ft. 238 Coastal Wellcraft 1996, 225hp Mercury. Low hours. IN water. Includes all CG equipment and slip until 11/1/12. 609-494-1926. (View picture81046 online) 25ft. 1994 Crownline CR250. Runs great. Full head, kitchen w/stove, microwave & refrigerator, rear berth, front fold-down table to double bed, rear wash down & swim platform, bimini top, trailer. Asking $8,200. On LBI. 267-304-2723. (View picture81035 online) 25ft. 1996 C-Hawk Sport Cabin w/ trailer. Volvo Penta I/O, dual prop, electronics, second driving station. Low hours. $16,999. Call 609-6100795. 25ft. 2004 Aquasport Explorer w/ hardtop. Excellent condition, professionally maintained, 225hp Yamaha 4 stroke, 260 hours. Garmin color GPS Map 188/fishfinder, VHF, stereo, new cushions/coaming pads. In Manahawkin. $29,900. Call 732-439-1154. 25ft. Sea Ray Bowrider, 2001. 7.4L-V8 Bravo-3 dual prop, 340hrs. In water on LBI. Best offer. Call or text 914-522-9397. 28ft. 1983 O’Day centerboard sloop, 3ft.3in. draft. Sleeps 5. Universal 11hp diesel. Roller furling genoa, mainsail cover, DF, knottmeter, autopilot, GPS, 2-man kayak, bimini top. Wheel steering. Sailready, in water on LBI. Beautiful boat. Many extras. $14,000. Call 609-709-8322. 30ft. 2004 Grady White Marlin w/ twin 225 Yamaha 4-stroke. Loaded, plus Raymarine C120 & Smart Pilot, Apelco VHF. See at Somers Point Marina. Reduced to $79,900. Call Rob, 609-927-5900. (View picture81033 online) 34ft. 1984 Silverton w/twin 270hp Crusaders, 600 hours. 1 owner. Marina maintained. Sleeps 6. Head & shower, AC/heat, appliances, fresh water system, salt water washdown, 2 depthfinders, 2 VHF radios, 2 bilge pumps, GPS, bilge sniffer, 4 batteries/switches, battery charger, outriggers/Rupp Jr., full enclosure, Coast Guard package, cockpit spotlights, Windlass, Halon fire system, transom ladder. $16,500/OBO. In Beach Haven. 856-768-2003.

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1962: Dredges Repair Long Beach Island Editor’s Note: This article ran in The Beachcomber in August 1962, as Long Beach Island was recovering from the Great March Storm. Six dredges were sucking sand from the bay and spewing it back onto the land from which the northeaster had stolen it. It’s interesting to compare the size of the super-dredges of a half-century ago to those that work off the Island nowadays – this time pumping from the ocean. Where the old dredges used 12-inch pipe, todays have a 30-inch diameter. After 1962 the goal was to have the dunes 14 feet high; in 2009 those created in Harvey Cedars were 22 feet above sea level. — Margaret Thomas Buchholz By PHIL MUHLENBERG

uring the summer of 1962 Long Beach Island is giving new life to its greatest natural resource: 18 miles of superb beach that give the island its name, fame, and fortune. But this is a beach that has deteriorated over the years, and when the storm last March cut three inlets through the island and dumped millions of tons of sand into streets and yards—even into the bay itself—the seriousness of the beach erosion was dramatized as never before. Working closely with local officials, the State Department of Conservation and Economic Development moved fast to follow up the emergency repairs made by the Army Engineers. When the bulldozers and earthmovers and dump trucks rolled into the island communities to clean up right after the storm, they did more than that – they put the sand back on the beach where it came from, and where it belonged. But this job, which is now completed, did more for appearances than it did for beach conservation. The big job was to move sand from the bay to the beach by dredging, an efficient approach to the problem that suggests an ironical thought: tons of sand have been removed from this island by water, and some of it can be moved right back where it came from — slowly but surely — the same way. To get the dredging started as soon as possible, the State went out and hired directly all the dredges it could get, renting them on an hourly basis, and specifying a certain standard level of efficiency per hour spent on each job. With the exception of hard-hit Harvey Cedars, the local communities agreed to pay fifty percent of the cost of beach rebuilding. The State of New Jersey pays the balance. The first project after the storm was at Holgate. An inlet had been cut through there, and Barnegat Bay Dredging Co., owned and operated by Mayor Reynold Thomas of Harvey Cedars, was assigned the task of filling it in and rebuilding the beach. Financial assistance in this case came from Long Beach Township. This job has now been completed, and at present the Thomas dredge is pumping onto the beach in the vicinity of the Long Beach Town-

ship Municipal Building. The Brant Beach job began on July 3rd, and will probably be completed by Labor Day. As you read this story there are six dredges pumping sand from Barnegat Bay onto Long Beach Island’s beaches. Here’s the way they line up: American Dredging Company of Philadelphia has a dredge off Barnegat Light; New England Dredge and Dock Company has two dredges at Harvey Cedars; J. and H. Shapiro, local builders, have their dredges off North Beach; Thomas is in Brant Beach; and the New England outfit has a third dredge in North Beach Haven waters, pumping onto the beach in the Dunes. The dredges that arrived most recently were those of the New England Dredge and Dock Company. These large dredges came from their home port of New Haven, Connecticut, by the ocean route and entered the bay through the inlet at Beach Haven. The New England Company, with equipment that includes five hydraulic dredges, two clam shell dredges, and one dipper dredge, is one of the largest companies in this business east of the Mississippi. With three of their hydraulic dredges working locally, they are here in force, and the close-up report on dredging that follows was made with the kind assistance of the Captain, Chief Engineer, and Superintendent of the dredge Clifton H. Cobb, operating in Harvey Cedars cove. The New England dredges are the Cobb, the R.E. Thayer and the J.W. Hudson. The Thayer started to work at the south end of Harvey Cedars on July 30th, and the Hudson went into action in North Beach Haven about a week later. The dredge that we inspected last week was the Cobb, and at that time the pumping, which began on July 23rd, had continued more than 250 hours without a breakdown. Like all the dredges, this one works around the clock, sucking the sand from the bottom of the bay and pumping it onto the beach 24 hours a day. Up until Monday, August 6th, the longest shutdown for the Cobb was 40 minutes to move the dredge. This what I learned from Chief Engineer Anderson: The business end of this dredge is a piece of fifty-foot pipe, 14” in diameter, with a cutter at the end that breaks up lumps of clay or mud that would otherwise clog the pipe. This pipe, known as the “ladder” because it goes down to the bottom on an angle from the stern, feeds into the pump, a circular pipe five feet high made with diamond alloy steel (an extremely hard metal). Inside this pipe— the heart of the pump—a four-bladed impeller turns at about four hundred RPMs, driving the mixture from the ladder pipe at tremendous force out through the pipe that extends to the beach. This pipe, which is 12” in diameter, floats on the bay for several hundred feet on huge air tanks and, after crossing the island, ends up on the beach about 2,500 feet from the pump where it started. Since the sand-and-

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THEN AND NOW: The top photo was taken in summer 1977, when the ‘Township Cove’ in Brant Beach was finally presented to state officials as a preservation plan. The idea was first raised in 1973 by Mayor Charles Goodman but died for lack of political support. In 1977, Mayor James J. Mancini and the Township Commission launched the project that 35 years later is today’s Bayview Park.

water mixture makes a right angle corner at the pump, there’s more than one force working; on the Cobb, an auxiliary pump of 50 hp pumps sealing water in the turbine, adding pressure to put a seal on the shaft. To the casual visitor the engine room is a great big noisy circus of combustion and propulsion with lots of pipes and cables running this way and that, but the engineer and the operator, or lever man, who controls the swing of the ladder pipe, have a lot more to do than just turning on the works and watching it go. The object is to pump a consistent mixture of sand and water—in this case about 25 percent sand— and the ratio of sand to water is indicated by the heat indicator from the diesel drive. If the mixture gets too heavy the engine overheats fast. Also, the pressure from the pump, which may be 90 to 120 pounds per square inch, is gauged and watched carefully. If the pipe gets a ram, or a “snoot full” as Anderson calls it, the pressure changes. The Cobb was pumping at about twenty feet on the day of my visit, but twice that depth is possible for this dredge. “This dredge will dig deeper than any 12” dredge on the East coast,” Anderson claimed. Another dredger is Superintendent Clifton H. Cobb, who started working on dredges 27 years ago when he was 18. That was on the Mississippi River. Today, after 12 years with New England Dredge and Dock Co., Mr. Cobb has a dredge named after him. He’s more than satisﬁed with the way this job is going. The grade of sand is very good, and the dredge is producing far more than the expected minimum, 250 cubic yards of sand per hour. The Captain of the 200-ton dredge is Mr. H. B. Tonning, a resident of Connecti-

cut who has run dredges in the Canal Zone and Venezuela during his career. Mr. Tonning thinks the co-operation of local officials on this project has been “wonderful.” In fact, the only contrary incident concerns a Harvey Cedars tourist who confronted Mr. Tonning on the beach one day with the question, “Have you ever swum in the mud?” Mr. Tonning picked up a handful of “mud” from the beach and asked him in reply: “Does this look like mud to you?” The tourist admitted it looked more like sand. Mr. Tonning is captain of 20 men on the Cobb, and about seven men are working each eight-hour shift; the key man is the operator forking the levers in the control room facing aft. This job takes years to learn. Communication is carried out by two-way radio, bells to and from the engine room, and blasts from the bullhorn that can easily be heard on the beach. This last may be annoying to residents nearby, but the dredging is no menace to safety (unless you happen to be a blowfish) because dredging isn’t permitted within 200 feet of the nearest bulkhead. I asked Mr. Tonning if he thought the dredging would do much good. He feels that a series of jetties may be the best way to stop beach erosion, but his work will certainly help. Mayor Thomas shares this opinion, and he states that jetties are certain to be built when participation of local, State, and Federal government is assured. (Editor’s Note: The first ten rock jetties were installed in 1963.) The beach we so often take for granted has been abused by nature, and occasionally even by islanders, and it’s going to have to remain intact for Long Beach Island to survive this year and next year and the years that follow. Q

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19th Century St. Peter’s Church Highlights Historical Society Tour By KELLEY ANNE ESSINGER he Historical Homes and Garden Tour hosted by the Barnegat Light Historical Society was a big hit among locals and visitors last week. The event showcased five Victorian-era homes, one oceanfront retreat, the Barnegat Light Museum and St. Peter’s-at-the-Light church. The day ended at the museum with a decadent wine and cheese party, open to all and free of charge. St. Peter’s-at-the-Light Episcopal Church, located on the corner of 7th Street and Central Avenue, was originally built in 1890 as a Methodist chapel. Benjamin Archer, a ship builder and proprietor of the Oceanic Hotel, which washed away during a storm in 1920, had the chapel constructed for the town’s visitors. The building was later sold to the Presbyterian Church, before it was acquired by the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey in 1937, according to a history posted on the church website, stpetersbarnegatlight. org. The church was once known as a summer congregation only. It closed in 1946 for several years but reopened in 1955 by Diocesan Bishop Alfred Banyard, at the request of Fr. Henry Beck and William Doughty. In 1992, St. Peter’s was maintained as a Mission Church, serving the local population and its summer residents. The church now offers Holy Eucharist year-round. The pews of the church date back to 1780 and were hand-built by local craftsmen of the Revolutionary War. The furniture was obtained from a deserted church near Batsto in the Pinelands of Atlantic County. It also includes many relief-carved oak endowments crafted by local artist Tom Martie. The religious pieces have a nautical flair that reflects the community’s coastal habitat. Stained-glass memorial windows, dedicated in the 1970s, send colorful light streaming into the church building, creating a religious and artistic monument. In addition to St. Peter, these ornamental windows depict the Virgin and Child, St. Cecilia, St. Francis, St. Dorothea, St. Andrew and John the Apostle. Many of the symbols are associated with the Christian Church as well as the Island’s nautical environment. “It’s small, in that you get to know your neighbors and the people that come to church,” expressed Anne Colella, a member of St. Peter ’s Church. “It’s not too big; it’s really homey, with all the wooden pews and small but special characteristics of the building. Father Donald (Turner) is a wonderful priest,” she added. A majestic, three-panel triptych depicting the life of St. Peter rests on the east wall, behind the altar. Its Renaissance-style paintings and three-dimensional carvings illustrate the concepts

Fishing Around BY CAPTAIN JOHN T. KOEGLER

Spiny Dogﬁsh Subject Of Local Public Hearing

of the New Testament. In 1957, Bishop Banyard appointed Lewis F. Carr of Barnegat Light to create the magnificent artwork for the re-opening of the church. The sanctuary, painted red, represents the throne of God. Gold, stenciled keys represent the Kingdom and the Cross. The blue ceiling exemplifies Heaven, set apart from the Nave, which symbolizes Earth. The center panel portrays the Lord dressed in green, which represents eternal life. The red lining of His chasuble represents sacrifice, and the pomegranate designs signify the Resurrection, while the grapes refer to the Eucharist. The sides render six recesses holding ceramic statues of six of the apostles, including St. Thomas, St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. John, St. Paul and St. Philip. The side panels depict some of the most influential moments of St. Peter’s life, including the miracle of the fishes and Jesus walking on water to save him. When the triptych is Continued on Page 23

Amendment 3 to this Fishery Management Plan will be explained and comment taken at the Manahawkin Holiday Inn on Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. It is important you attend and support a higher commercial harvest quota. This species is so over abundant that it is damaging all other fish species in the North Atlantic Ocean. How the original fishery plan could have data that determined the female population was super low is impossible to explain. The data used to support this fishery management plan was totally incorrect. This is the only species under management that had its population numbers grossly under reported. This fishery management plan was strongly supported by several environmental organizations. This small shark is part of a small class of sharks named dogfish. This dogfish is called spiny because it has a small spine in front of its top large fin. Their sharp spine has glands at the base that may secrete a mild poison. This shark is known to be a longlived species. A few individuals have been documented to have lived over 50 years. This species is managed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. The original management plan was written in 2000. At that time it was believed that the female spiny dogfish was dangerously overfished. The female population was believed to be so low that the entire species was in danger of collapse. Spiny dogfish females are mostly caught and sold by commercial fishermen. Commercial fishermen harvest females because they are two to three times larger than males. In addition, dogfish have an unusual habit. They school by sex and rarely mingle until the fall spawning season. This makes a

single sex harvest possible. Most U.S. commercial landings are females and exported to Europe for the making of fish and chips. The original fishery management plan began by eliminating all commercial harvest of this species. It was not until 2006 that fishery managers determined they made a mistake. The plan was amended the next year to permit commercials to catch a small number of this dogshark. The commercial landings have been greatly increased in recent years, with a current landing cap of 35.694 million pounds. In winter this species is so abundant that they sharply reduce angler landings of more desired fish species such as cod and ling. A greatly expanded commercial landing of this species is desperately needed immediately. Mid-Atlantic $500,000 Tournament The best news is the success of the boats fishing the Mid-Atlantic $500,000 Tournament. They reported 444 white marlin released. Only 16 were weighed. The blue marlin count was 37 released, three weighed in. As a conservation measure, this year’s tournament required a winning blue marlin to weigh over 400 pounds to quality for the tournament. Only one

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MONSTER WEAK: Wesley James Davis is the proud holder of a 5-pound, 22-inch weakﬁsh he caught in the bay Aug. 18.

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LANDMARK HOMES: Mary Jane Saia dressed Victorian for the tour; above, the 1886 home of Marion and the late John Larson.

Continued from Page 22 closed, the symbol of the Virgin Mary is exemplified by the saying “Open to us the door of Salvation.” But St. Peter’s wasn’t the only historical building exuding charm and grace along the Aug. 23 tour. All of the homes featured on the outing were kept as originally built, when possible. Of course, with houses dating back as early as the 1850s, certain renovations have been necessary. The oldest home featured on the tour, nicknamed “Twisted Cedars” for surrounding old cedar trees, dates to about 1850 and is owned by Karen Larson, president of the Barnegat Light Historical Society. The house was moved to the Island from Point Pleasant by barge, after a commercial fisherman took refuge from a northeaster in Barnegat City (the town’s name until 1948). Afterward, he told his wife he’d like to live there. But she was disinclined to leave her house, weighed enough. Result: a single boat, Why Knot, collected for all three available blue marlin prizes. The tuna category was the surprise, as this is a marlin tournament. There were 43 tuna weighed in, with most being big-eye tuna. Most were caught near the Wilmington Canyon. The boat Reel Chaos caught the largest bigeye tuna, 233 pounds. The other two prizes went to those that weighed 224 and 217 pounds. Bay Weather had a major impact on fishing last weekend. A strong, dry

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(Barnegat) Lighthouse, so there’s one lighthouse in every room of the house, which is kind of fun,” exclaimed Gerry. “Make sure you check out the cedar shower upstairs. And in the front bedroom there’s a view of the tippytop of the Lighthouse you won’t want to miss either,” she added, smiling. Salvatore and Mary Jane Saia’s home, located on 12 th Street, was built in 1885 by Benjamin F. Archer, one of the founding fathers of Barnegat Light. He built the home for his married daughter, Emily. When Emily passed, her daughter Katie Zeber inherited the home. Near the time of her death, Zeber became senile. She was a hoarder, and had no idea she had squatters living with her in the home. The Saias purchased the house in 1983, after Zeber passed. “There were piles of trash everywhere,” explained Mary Jane. “It was a challenge, but it was structurally sound. So we went for it.” Five years later, the house was featured in Country Homes Magazine. But in 1991, the second and third ﬂoors of

the house were ruined in a fire, and the first floor suffered from severe water damage. The house was completely restored, but many of the former families’ possessions are still featured around the home, including Emily’s sun bonnet, a dining room table and chairs, and Zeber’s husband’s bathing suit, made out of wool. John and Marion Larson’s home, also located on 12th Street, was built in 1886 and served as a summer home for the owners of the Whitney Glass Factory. John Larson’s parents bought the home in 1944. He and Marion purchased the house from his parents in 1962, and raised their seven children there. The house has many original features, including three fireplaces surrounded by one chimney, which features the home’s initial woodwork. Whitney Glass Factory bottles dug up from the front yard are also displayed around the house. A scale model of John’s Miss Barnegat Light fishing boat sits near the dining room window. His

northeast wind started blowing on Friday night and continued until Monday. This made the ocean too rough for most anglers. The good news is this wave action put lots of additional oxygen into the ocean, and fishing will perk up for the holiday weekend. Anglers fished the inlet while hiding from the strong northeast wind and sea but the fishing was slow. Those boaters who chose to buy clam chum plus a bottom chum pot had great fun catching blowfish and releasing vast numbers of small black sea bass. Anglers caught other fish species like spot and kingfish. The charter boat Starfish had two great, small fish trips last weekend. They had over 40 blowfish on each trip, plus an equal number of black sea bass, all of which were released. If you do not know how to clean a blowfish, talk to an old timer and learn. They are great eating fish despite their modest size.

Weakfish are still in the bay but catching reports are mostly from those fishing at night under bright dock lights. The amount of spot in the bay is considered a record by long time observers. Peanut bunker are also present in very high quantity. Ocean Fishing improved for fluke. The strong winds provided a very fast drift that had been absent all week. Three days last week the ocean was so calm the ocean was like a mirror all day. Now we shift from flat calm, little drift to very windy and drift speed so quick that 10 ounces could not hold bottom. Most boaters who fished the ocean returned early because the rock and roll was excessive. A few wrecks hold a good population of triggerfish. The GSS had a few wrecks that had larger triggerfish over 3 pounds. Triggers this large give anglers such a tough battle they will not forget their experience any time soon.

Triggers are very aggressive and will school after a hooked fish. Keep one fish in the water and put baits down about 12 to 15 feet and you will catch additional triggers. Then land the trigger on the line longest for a great eating fish dinner. Canyon The hot fishing in the Tom’s Canyon area has lost its finger of hot, Gulf Stream water, plus the massive schools of baby squid it contained. Another is moving south from the Atlantis Canyon area. The approaching tropical storm will change canyon fishing. How much it will improve fishing remains for the fleet to check these waters next weekend. Surf As you expect, the large waves and strong currents made it tough to fish the surf last weekend. It will be great if the fluke stay around for an outstanding Labor Day weekend. Tight lines till next year! Q

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so they compromised and moved the house with them. The house was completely refurbished before Larson bought it as a weekend home in 1986. She now resides there year-round. “Any restoration I’ve done, I’ve tried to maintain as original of a look as possible,” Karen claimed. “I don’t have a shower, but I’m used to the bathtub. The kitchen is an add-on, and I have a new ceiling and windows, and the wood-burning ﬁreplace is now electric. The wood was too messy,” she said with a laugh. Jim and Gerry Perko’s home, located on 3rd Street, was the second oldest home on the tour, dating back to 1876. The cottage was built by William T. Bailey of Camden and once served as the lighthouse keeper’s residence when his original lodging, located next to the lighthouse, was ruined by erosion. Restorations to the house were undertaken between 1979 and 1980, long before the Perkos bought it in 2004. “Jim and I are involved with the (Barnegat Light) Museum and the

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Shore Is Fun

For Crabby Good Time, Try the Chicken Instead could be seen nesting on the side of By KELLEY ANNE ESSINGER the marshland, where the soil had rowing up, my family owned eroded. Passing a small harbor, known a small fiberglass boat, perfect as Mosquito Cove, she explained that for fishing and crabbing in the Silver Bay had once been called Mosbay. But it didn’t always work proper- quito Bay. But even though the name ly. It didn’t go in reverse, for example, was changed (because it deterred and it often stalled, forcing us to call people from buying property on the Boat U.S. to tow us in if we were far water), the cove is still referenced by out at sea, or too tired to paddle back its former name. in with the one oar we had stored on Coming up to a numbered marker the boat, for when desperate times in the water, we spotted an osprey called for desperate measures. nest and were met by the baby chick’s I hated that boat. Every time the angry mother, who began squawking motor clicked off, I immediately began at us to leave. Krystal told us that osballing my eyes out. As a little girl of preys mate for life, but often travel 10 years old or so, I didn’t enjoy the southward separately during the fall thought of being stranded on a tiny and wintertime. The male usually reboat in the middle of the bay. I’d seen turns to the nest in March to clean up the movie Jaws before, and I knew and fish for food. The female arrives what the sea was capable of. Need- a month later, when she sits on her less to say, I wasn’t too upset when the eggs until June, when the chicks hatch. boat died and we had to get rid of it. The male and female osprey take care My love of fishing and crabbing of their babies until it’s time to head died then, too. But that was many south again in September. years ago, and I’m a much braver After passing a couple of waverunwoman now than I was then. So along ner riders and a bulkhead barge, we with my dad, I recently joined a two- anchored the boat just past the Tommy hour “Crabby Good Times” evening Mathis Bridge, where Captain Diane boat excursion, hosted by the Ocean said her daughter had caught a bushel County Parks and Recreation Depart- of crabs the day before (a secret she ment in Toms River. promised her daughter she wouldn’t Equipped with crab traps, line share – oops!). and bait, (and sneakers for my dad, Because I hadn’t been crabbing who was afraid of getting pinched in years, I watched my dad hook a by an angry piece of fluke crab) we were to one of the ... after checking our traps numerous crab traps, bethe first ones to show up at times, only to find nothing but lumps fore I bravely the dock at 6 to try of bait that hadn’t even been nibbled offered p.m., where it myself. The Captain Diane on yet, the other family’s excited yelps fluke was thin Marotta and and bony, so began to irritate me. recreation aid it was easy to Krystal Smida poke through were patiently waiting on Betty C, the the wire. But when my dad encourcounty’s six-passenger aluminum pon- aged me to slide the head of the bluetoon party boat. fish onto the wire “right through the My dad finished cutting up the eye,” my stomach quivered, so I told fluke and blowfish we brought as him to do it instead. crab bait, for which we bartered with Andrea, Wassim and David began homegrown tomatoes and basil, from catching crabs right away, and at first I Pat Lauer (Captain Brownie) at Bob’s was excited for them. But after checkBoatyard in Barnegat, where we ing our traps numerous times, only docked our old boat for many years. to find nothing but lumps of bait that We were originally going to use chick- hadn’t even been nibbled on yet, the en, but Pat didn’t believe in paying for other family’s excited yelps began to bait. irritate me. I’m not usually a competi“Why would you want to use tive person, but an hour had already chicken? Crabs eat fish; they’re all gone by, and my dad and I hadn’t natural. You don’t find chicken in the caught a single crab so far. bay,” she said. “What about those hand lines, When Andrea and her husband, dad?” I asked him, a bit of jealousy Wassim, from Toms River showed in my tone. up with their son, David, 13, holding “I can rig up a few hand lines,” chicken, I didn’t think they were going he answered, in-between nibbling on to catch many crabs. But I knew that pretzels and popcorn, which we had didn’t really matter. It was a beautiful brought with us for a snack. “But night, and we were all excited to get don’t worry, the night is young!” he out on the bay. announced. “They went on the trip last year,” After hooking a hunk of bait onto said Andrea, pointing to Wassim and a piece of nylon string with a sinker David. “They had a lot of fun, so I to keep the line from floating, we sat figured I’d join them this year,” she back and hoped our extra lines would added with interest. increase our chances of catching crabs. As we made our way into Barnegat When we checked our traps again, Bay, Krystal pointed out the wildlife we were excited to find a couple of surrounding us. Belted kingfishers baby crabs, way under the minimum

Photographs by Kelley Anne Essinger

GREAT JOB: Captain Diane Marotta and Krystal Smida clearly enjoy running this trip.

4½ inches, scooting out of the sides of the cage. Anyone else probably would have been upset by this, but we were excited to ﬁnally see some action. Every time we checked the lines, the crabs appeared bigger – but not big enough. So when Captain Diane suggested we move our traps to the front of the boat, near the other family, we hustled right over. And sure enough, when we checked the trap again, we found a wily crab just big enough to take home. The next thing we knew, we caught three keepers in one trap – the biggest catch out of the whole group. “See, it’s a good thing you moved your traps up front,” said Captain Diane. “That’s why you’re the captain,” I told her, smiling. My dad and I didn’t catch any more crabs before time was up and we had to head back to the

dock. But we ﬁgured we’d probably only caught the few we did because of the runoff of the oil from the other family’s chicken. So we were perfectly satisﬁed with our catch of four male blue claw crabs. On our way back in, we passed the county’s Bay Cruiser, manned by Captain Diane’s husband, Captain Mike Marotta. We honked and waved at the passengers heading out for the county’s Twilight Tuesdays Boat Tour. Noticing the beautiful sunset before us, a bright mixture of fuchsia and orange peeking out around the clouds, we all gathered around to

BAIT OVERBOARD: Wassim (left) lowers a trap; Kelley Anne’s dad readies a hand line.

response to slashed nerve endings wasn’t easy for me to do. But that’s a whole other story… To learn more about the Crabby Good Times boat excursions ($7 a person) visit oceancountyparks.org or dial 877-OC-PARKS. Q Kelley Anne Essinger, 24, grew up across the bay in Barnegat Township but until now she had missed out on much of what this area has to offer. Comment on her 2012 Shore Is Fun journal at http:// dashorek.blogspot.com or e-mail kelleyanne@thesandpaper.net.

FIRST KEEPER: Kelley Anne and her dad ﬁnally haul one in that measures up.

Landmarks Continued from Page 23 duck decoy collection, featured in the library, also honors one of his favorite pastimes. “John was an avid duck hunter. The ugly ducks were his decoys, and the pretty ones are the ones he bought for decoration,” Marion Larson said, chuckling. Edwin Heitman’s home, also located on 12th Street, was built in 1890. Much of the work on the house was done before he bought the house in 1968, including removal of the original tower and addition of a garage. Besides painting the interior, remodeling the kitchen, scraping the paint off the ﬂoors and removing a portion of two walls on the third ﬂoor, there wasn’t much more he needed to do. He did, however, close off the front door, which lead to a large, wraparound porch. The only way to get into the house is through the backdoor. “I closed off the front for privacy,” said Heitman. “Most of my company spends their time visiting on the porch. They eat, sleep, drink and relax on the porch. It’s occupied 24 hours a day,” he said matter-of-factly. Thomas and Danette Hoffman’s oceanfront sanctuary, nicknamed “Harbor Lights,” on 8th Street was built in 1937 by Robert M. Brown, a renowned architect from Philadelphia. The house was featured in the 1948 is-

sue of Better Homes and Gardens, before it was sold to Thomas Hoffman’s father in 1952. He bought the house, including ﬁve oceanfront lots and all of the possessions in it, for $26,000. Each room is named and all cabinets and drawers are labeled, as per Brown. Mostly everything original remains intact. A deck, screened-in porch and hot tub are the only additions to the house. The view of the ocean through the living room’s large bay windows is a sight few other homes on the Island are privy to. “I think this is the best panoramic view on the Island,” said Carol Morrow, a tour-goer from Barnegat. “It’s like a postcard,” she added, looking out the windows in awe. After traipsing around the neighborhood in Barnegat Light, many of the tour-goers met at the Barnegat Light Museum, where some of its members attended the building as children when it was the town’s only schoolhouse. The day ended on a high note, as visitors tended to the wine and cheese and sat amongst the flora in the Edith Duff Gwinn Garden. The garden is maintained year-round by members of the Garden Club of Long Beach Island. Three dedicated ladies – Betty Frey, Peg Felix and Cathy Sutton – are there every Monday from May through October, leading the rest of the club in maintaining the garden. “It is a labor of love for them,” said publicity chairperson Ginny Scarlatelli.

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take pictures. Before pulling into the dock, Andrea announced that she was a vegetarian and wouldn’t be eating any of the crabs. I’m a vegetarian myself, but I couldn’t imagine not eating any of the crabs my dad and I had just caught. I’d already gone through the misery of watching them slowly suffocate to death. I thought I owed it to them to feast on their tender ﬂesh. But going home and chopping them in half and watching their claws wriggle in

HOPE CRABS LIKE FISH: But Kelley Anne later learned crabs really like chicken best.

stpetersbarnegatlight.org

CENTERPIECE: This triptych was the work of local artisan Lewis Carr in 1957.

For more information about the Barnegat Light Historical Society, visit www.bl-hs.org, or dial 609-494-8578. Q

Send your comments to Kelley Anne Essinger at http://dashorek.blogspot.com or e-mail kelleyanne@thesandpaper.net.

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