Every generation brings a different outlook.
It begins with adventure travel by stagecoach, when the shore was still a wild frontier and concludes with the opening of the Garden State Parkway. In the two centuries between we read of an auction of goods from an 1828 shipwreck on Long Beach Island, visit the opulent resort of Long Branch in the late 1800s, and experience an 1878 bluefish blitz right here in Point Pleasant, an account reprinted on the other side of the newsletter. The editor of this book, Margaret Thomas Bucholz will be our speaker at our next meeting Monday, May 14. A resident of Long Beach Island, Margaret is also the co-author of Great Storms of the Jersey Shore. Dues come due for your Point Pleasant Historical Society membership each April.