Last year in the Sept. 19 issue of The SandPaper, I announced the birth of the newest member of my family, my first grandchild, Stanley Joseph Wildman, who came into this world on Aug. 14, 2018. His newborn photo was the illustration for that piece. In that column, I expressed the desire to introduce Stanley to the same Island that members of my family had been visiting for a whole century, starting with my mother, Mary, and her parents, Giuseppe and Virginia De Sanctis, who traveled to Long Beach Island by train longbefore the first automobile…
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