My neighbors are newbies. Before building their dream house – and we all know that a true LBI dream house must include an elevator and a swimming pool – they had never been to Beach Haven. They are lovely people, but I cringed when a troop of men in coveralls began power washing their house. Not because of the noise but because of the timing, at the beginning of April.

They’re not down here year ’round, so I couldn’t school them on the pollen festival, that yearly event that covers the Island in…