The “Open” sign on the Pottery Barge last weekend was a thing of beauty to shoppers who love the place that had become a fixture in Ship Bottom. The new displays of glassware and seashore-themed gifts and housewares that were so visible through the window for the past few weeks are now within reach for purchase.

Restoration is something to celebrate- Superstorm Sandy had charged through the plate glass windows like the proverbial bull in the china shop.