What’s a Manx? These tailless cats have a long history on LBI. Now mine’s missing, and it’s a mystery I need your help to solve.
MELLOW MANX: ChinChin relaxes in her Beach Haven home before going missing.
When I was a child in Beach Haven back in the ’40s and ’50s, many of the Island’s wild cats were Manx. One of my friends was Walter Browning, an inventor, a rare book collector and a descendant of LBI’s founding family, the Pharos. One day Walter brought me a book that told the story of how Manx came to Beach Haven.
In the 1880s, there was a shipwreck near Harvey Cedars. The boat’s origin was the Isle of Man, also known as the home…
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