At the end of Summer 2019, I wrote an column for The SandPaper about how much we were looking forward to the next summer. I ended with “Summer 2020 cannot come soon enough.” Little did any of us know what 2020 would bring nor the chaos it would wreak!

Now, at the end of 2020, I think back to the differences between this past summer and all the others we’ve spent on LBI. It was a different and strange time because of many things going on in our country and the world, especially the pandemic.