We didn’t have a lot of news in the 1963 Beachcombers – we left that job to the Beach Haven Times. Through our various columns we covered everything important to the summer vacationer, and if the news was important enough – beach erosion, new groins, development – we commented in the Beachcombings column, a real catch-all. (It’s embarrassing for me to look back and see how one story ran into the next, with no break. Well, 50 years ago I was learning on the job.)
What we did have were exceptionally good writers for such a small newspaper, and I pretty much let them write what they…
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