To the Editor:

I am a local, a very longtime local – in fact, so long that we used to be called natives. But I wasn’t born here. My parents were living in Manhattan when I was born during the Great Depression. My father’s family business went bust. My mother lost her job. So, what did they do? Picked up their baby daughter and came down to Harvey Cedars, where my father’s uncle had a house for them to stay in.

My father found a job as a fisherman in Barnegat Light, and I doubt if anyone complained that he had taken a job from…

May 6, 2020