Twenty members of the extended Fearen and Miles families, ages 5 to 67, spent an entire day digging and designing to create a fantastic sand castle city in Beach Haven earlier this month. As Frank Miles of Etter, Pa., explained, the undertaking honored Bill Fearen (1928-2021), formerly of Camp Hill, Pa., ‘who led his four daughters, all now in their 60s, in the construction of elaborate sand castle designs throughout a lifetime of summer trips to New Jersey beaches.

‘Bill specialized in the art of sand drizzling, adding unique ornamentation to standard bucket-formed sand towers,’…