Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll, who is a descendant of one of Beach Haven’s founding families, returns to her roots on Wednesday, Aug. 21, at noon with a poetry reading at the Beach Haven Public Library. Ingersoll will be reading fromWalking the Sunken Boards, for which she is one of several contributing poets. The others areLinda Blaskey, Gail Braune Comoratand Jane C. Miller. All the poems were written on retreats the four have held at Ingersoll’s family farm on the eastern shore of Maryland.
Ingersoll’s maternal great-grandmother was Elizabeth Bellerby Wilson Pharo, wife of Walter Pharo and daughter-in-law of…
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