Product Review

The third in John Bailey Lloyd's Long Beach Island pictorial books reveals more about Island architecture, names, shipwrecks, storms, and the mainland too. It also includes a more personal focus of the people who have left their imprint on this sandy shore. Chapters include: Summer People; Long Beach Islanders; the Lucy Evelyn at Christmas; Township Lifeguarding; Fishing; Barnegat City -- Fever at the Oceanic, and the Signal House; the yacht San Souci; Beach Haven Houses -- Parry House and Coral Street, Curlew Cottage, Onion Domes; Beach Haven Merchants; Engleside Baby Dairy; Purkey's Pond; Tucker's Light; the Tuckerton Wireless; Pinelands Plains, Cedar Bogs; and the story of the Hawkin' Bear.