At Christmas in 1961, my parents went to their shore house on 34th Street in Beach Haven Terrace (now Beach Haven Gardens). My mother stayed for a brief respite, taking a break from her home in Glenside, Pa., where my husband, three young children and I were living with my parents while my husband attended college. My father was working and went down to the Island on weekends. Their oceanfront shore house was a Kugler-built Cape Cod with an additional living space on the oceanside.
In early March after a couple of days of hearing how bad the storm was, I called the Long Beach Township police and…
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