Columns
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•August 10, 2013
1973: ‘Watergate Sales,’ Bay Pollution, Offshore Nukes!
This Watergate summer of ’73 Richard Nixon was president. On July 23 he refused to turn over the presidential tape recordings. A Beachcomber reader quoted a letter from a Boston newspaper that said…
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•August 7, 2013
Hubbub Over Shark Handling; Sand Tigers Make Lousy Moms
Boy, was that some seriously superb weather. For those who might be reading this in the distant future, I’m hoping that crystal clear, mild summer days are still around in your globally-warmed world.
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•August 4, 2013
Candlelight Christmas
The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 6.
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•August 3, 2013
Depression Era in Ship Bottom: Enjoying ‘Real’ Childhood
We didn’t have a lot of news in the 1963 Beachcombers – we left that job to the Beach Haven Times. Through our various columns we covered everything important to the summer vacationer, and if the…
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•July 28, 2013
Community Thanksgiving
The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 5.
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•July 27, 2013
1963: Not Digital, But Lots of Digits for Local Phone Service
Fifty years ago the Island was assigned its own telephone area code: 609. Our writer reminded us, if we complained about having to dial – that’s dial, not press – too many numbers, we should remember…
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•July 26, 2013
Beautiful Island, Brutal History
To me, the name has always spelled romance. My family once owned plantations there, places named Sunbury, Fisherpond and Golden Grove. My great-great grandmother, whose portrait hangs in my house…
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•July 25, 2013
Meade Chases Lee After Gettysburg
Today as we look back on the events of July 1863, we know the battle at Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. The news that Ulysses S. Grant had captured Vicksburg on the Mississippi…
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•July 23, 2013
Gangster Book Is More Vegetable Than Meat
In 2009, Marc Mappen – a former dean at Rutgers University then serving as executive director of the New Jersey Historical Commission – and Rutgers University Press published a book titledThere’s…
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•July 21, 2013
Steps Toward ‘Normalcy’
The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 4.
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•July 20, 2013
1973: ‘P-U!’ Predicament; Girls’ Softball; Angst With Russians
The lack of sewers was a pungent, highly charged issue on the North End during the summer of 1973. Residents invited officials to come smell their overflowing cesspools or their toilets backed into…
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•July 18, 2013
Life After Life: Trying It Over
Kate Atkinson is a true original. Best known for her crime novels featuring the shambolic but charismatic detective Jackson Brodie, Atkinson has a Dickensian ability to create numerous quirky…
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•July 18, 2013
I’m Beyond Spittin’ Cotton; Complex Easement Trials
Water temps have taken advantage of the offshore and land/sea breezes. In one day, the suds went from the goosebumpish 50s into the ain’t-bad 70s. By week’s end, solar heating could kick the surf…
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•July 16, 2013
Baldwin Hotel: The Hurricane of ’44
This is the second in a series about the Baldwin Hotel, on the oceanfront in Beach Haven from 1883 until it burned down in September 1960. The following memories are from the diary written by Beryl…
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•July 14, 2013
Agonizing Addiction, Wonderful Escape
Eric Houghton chose to put his admission picture to the Carrier Clinic for alcoholism and cocaine addiction treatment on the cover of his tell-all recovery book to underscore the physical wreck he…
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•July 13, 2013
1919-1944: ‘Over There,’ Commander von Trapp, September ’44 Hurricane
Editor’s Note: With America’s entry into the “Great War” in Europe, small town newspaper writer Josephine Lehman left her home in Ionia, Michigan in 1918 to work for the War Department in Washington…
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•July 13, 2013
Of Things Once Known
The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 3.
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•July 11, 2013
I Need to Go Head Shopping; We Love the Despicable AC
WHERE WILL THIS HEAD: To fill my weekly weirdness requirement, I turn my head – cautiously holding onto it – toward Italy and a highly respected neuroscientist, Dr. Sergio Canavero. This week, the…
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•July 10, 2013
Shore Protection and Sandbars in One: A Straw of Hope Regarding Beachfill?
This one never ceases to amuse. It’s a beautiful early summer day and the beach is a sunny landscape of umbrellas, lotion, skimboards and secret beverages in Solo cups.
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•July 8, 2013
Our Revolution: Up Close and Personal
Faithful readers will recall that I often celebrate the Fourth by reviewing something about the American Revolution, usually the latest contribution of David McCullough, Joseph Ellis, Jack Rakove or…
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•July 7, 2013
Ghastly Dawn – The First Week
The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 2.
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•July 6, 2013
1942: New Owners Give Old Baldwin a New Life
Beach Haven’s Baldwin Hotel, which filled the block between Pearl, Marine, Beach and Atlantic – the site of present day Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church – was a magnificent edifice 130 years ago when…
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•June 30, 2013
Part One: ‘All Hell Broke Loose!’
Editor’s Note: Part 1 in a series on the Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled by the staff of The SandPaper.
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•June 20, 2013
Anything Goes on LBI for Summer 2013
I’m probably going to feel differently by the end of the summer, but right now, everything and everyone on LBI is just awesome.
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•June 20, 2013
Yep, That Was a Real Tsunami That Hit; There’s a Way to Help the Lady Terrapins
When do things get so far into the weird zone that they just about come out the other end? Per usual, I’m not totally sure what that even means, but this week I’m surely seeing the light at the end…
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•June 13, 2013
Hot Slices: Surf and Pizza With Tropical Storm Andrea Swell
Have you ever had bad pizza? Due to our close proximity to New York and Philly, New Jersey has the best pizza on the planet. This region isn’t “one of the best” or “arguably the best,” it’s the…
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•May 29, 2013
A Chilly Welcome After 17 Years; Folks Go Blowout Debris Hunting
And might we finally be seeing a steadier flow of spring-into-summer weather? I’m so confident I’ll soon go shopping for my new summer wardrobe. You can always tell the new additions to my apparel by…
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•May 23, 2013
Lawrence the Toast of New York City
For young naval officer James Lawrence, the spring of 1813 would see his star reach its zenith. Born in Burlington, N.J., in 1781 into a Loyalist family, he had spent much of his life trying to…
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•May 9, 2013
All Aglow Over Cloned Kitties; It Gets No Smarter Than Earth
GLOWCATS: It’s a flash of brilliance – with maybe a delicate glow of madness. South Korean scientists have genetically engineered the DNA of Turkish Angora cats to make them glow in the dark. I kid…
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•May 2, 2013
PETA Takes on Chinese Epicures in Race Toward Total Wackiness
It’s gotta be a race to some ultimate freakiness finish line. It’s PETA v. Asian epicures. They’re constantly running neck-in-neck for battiness domination.
