We all think we know all there is to know about Barnegat Light: a lovely town on LBI with a beautiful lighthouse and Viking Village fishing dock. But there is so much more to know, and it’s contained in the Arcadia series “Images of America: Barnegat Light,” written and edited by Reilly Platten Sharp for the Barnegat Light Historical Society and Museum.
Sharp is vice president of the society and the curator of the museum. He is the fourth generation of his family to summer in Barnegat Light, at least some of the time on East 23rd Street.
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