This column is always a good opportunity to tell a good story. This is not the usual story like Beach Haven locals paddling to an outer shoal during Hurricane Belle in 1976 or the story of when the Trans Megetti played the Ketch in 2000 and all hell broke loose in the best possible way.
This is an older tale. I assumed everyone knows this story, but perhaps not in some time. It’s originally from the 1800s, something of a children’s fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen called “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” which many of us were told as children.
It’s a story of a king who was extremely vain, self-absorbed to the point where he didn’t really care about the…
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