The Barnegat Light Museum will host an informal gathering this Saturday, Dec. 14, to honor and remember longtime Islander Richard Plunkett, who died in November at age 86 at his home in Boothbay, Me. He was the proprietor of the Wizard of Odds antiques shop in Beach Haven Crest for generations and had a store called the Wizard of Odds and Ends in Alna, Me.
ONE OF A KIND: Richard Plunkett, aka the Wizard of Odds, stands at the back door of his antiques shop and also at the start of his yellow brick road, which led to treasures in outbuildings on his property.
The Wizard of Odds shop on Long Beach Boulevard was a curiosity itself, dating back to 1910 when it was a general store for Beach Haven Crest. (File Photos by Pat Johnson)
“He was also one of the founders of the LBI historic preservation group back in the 1980s, an organization that designated homes built on the…
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