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CEDARS DREAMS

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The Waves and Riders That Shaped the Borough's History

By JON COEN

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imply driving through Harvey Cedars, there’s a certain inviting charm to the place; cedar-shake houses nestled into backstreets along bay neighborhoods, businesses in historic buildings, far less private drives than in neighboring Loveladies and North Beach. Day lilies burst through the grass around Adirondack chairs and English ivy climbs picket fences under more trees per capita than anywhere on the Island. Sailboats glide through Kinsey Cove, as kids pull fish from the dock at Sunset Park.

But what one might not know driving through this borough (watch the bikes, that’s a tight shoulder) is that offshore from Harvey Cedars are three deep channels, irregularities in the offshore bathymetry. These chasms, combined with shallow sandbars close to the beach, tend to funnel wave energy from the Atlantic into Harvey Cedars.

Harvey Cedars is one of the East Coast’s great surf towns. In addition to the consistent waves at the ocean beach, a one-block walk down Salem Avenue toward the bay brings you to Sunset Park, with ample parking and showers. It rests on Harvest Cove, a great, protected spot for windsurfers in the ‘80s, which turned to more kayakers in the ‘90s, and stand-up paddleboards today.

Most of LBI’s early surfing history revolved around Beach Haven and Ship Bottom, with Kosseff and Ron Jon surf shops.

The old fishing pier, jetties and sandbars created rolling waves, more suited to the longboards of the time. But there were enough waveriders that Harvey Cedars decided to make Hudson Avenue a surfing beach in the ‘60s. It remains one of the longest-running, guarded surf beaches in the state. The Long Beach Island Surfing Championships were held here in 1965, sponsored by the local Jaycees.

But Harvey Cedars became a focus in the 1970s when locals sought heavier, hollow waves. They gravitated toward Bergen Avenue, known as “The Toilet Bowl.” In those anti-establishment days, it was all about VW vans, experimental boards, and finding the barrel.

Kim Leary grew up on Lee Avenue.

For his 13th birthday in 1968, his mother bought him a 9’10 pop-out board from A Summer Place, a Harvey Cedars shop owned by Bill Fitzgerald. It was so heavy he would have to drag it all the way to

Bergen Avenue. But this was the dawn of the shortboard era, so he and his brothers cut the board down to 7 foot.

“It was a pretty radical time overall,” recalls Leary. “There were no more dress codes in school. That was when the town first instated beach badges, which incited protests on the beach. There was a lot of free love, drugs. I was an athlete, so I stayed away from the acid, but it was all a part of surfing then.”

Leary, now a longtime owner of Harvey Cedars Marina, shared waves with surfers like Ricky French, Jeff Jorda and Gene Keller, and had some boards shaped

by Bob Baker. He recalls Roger Holden shaping boards for local shops as well as surfing “The Nunnery,” so named for the Maris Stella retreat owned since 1959 by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth.

“Coffee Shop,” the break at 76th Street, had powerful bowls, named for the coffee shop that sat by the Boulevard (the former Cinnamon Bay Caribbean Grill). Bill Willem of Surf City and the late Koko Platt were regarded as great barrel riders. Surfers started to rent the houses here to be closer to the wave, creating something of a surf enclave on the North End. Bob Selfridge, now the Barnegat Light Beach Patrol assistant captain, grew up on Burlington Avenue. A wave site once as good as Hudson, without the crowds, he remembers.

“I vividly remember snapping my 7’2” Shaun Tomson single fin in half at grinding overhead Hudson Ave, sharing waves with Mark Laman before and after school (at Southern Regional) while we were on split sessions. And surfing the full moon with bioluminescent plankton,” he recalls.

“In the late ’70s, there was the ‘Commune House’ at Coffee Shop, and a group of guys who lived there. They would hoot me into gnarly waves. And as a 15-yearold grom, I was more than happy to go on any wave they would let me.”

He surfed with the likes of John Law, George Merchon and Tom Luker, as well as Skip Miller and Vince Balas, who established themselves as shapers under the Line Drive and Planet Blue labels, respectively. The next generation included Justin Citta, Greg Luker and Eric Pirie, who were pushing surfing even harder.

Pirie lived on 82nd Street. He considers himself most fortunate to have grown up in Cedars.

“That beach was our backyard. I used to get in trouble for falling off the jetty

Photo: Paul Carr

Photo: Paul Carr

RELOAD: (Clockwise from top left) Bill Willem, of Surf City, regarded as one of the best barrel riders in Harvey Cedars in the '70s and still surfing with his sons, rides a heavy one in the early 2000s. Summer mornings in Cedars often come in the 'dreamy' variety. Surfers flocked there 40 years ago when heavy waves became the focus. Kim Leary, Harvey Cedars native, now co-owner of Harvey Cedars Marina, handles a backside bomb. Leary was front and center for the radical times of the late '60s and '70s during the shortboard revolution. into the water in the winter. We started surfing mostly in the summer, because it was hard to get wetsuits for kids back then. We wore some front zips and we froze our ass off, but we wanted to be out there,” says Pirie, a fiberglass specialist who now lives with his wife and three kids on the mainland. He grew up surfing

with Jamie Whitesell as well as the Marti brothers Sean, Jason and Justin, who all still live in the area.

As he got older, Pirie’s family moved to Warwick Avenue, where his parents’ house became a home away from home for his Southern Regional friends.

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and Tom Rubel, they would crash for days.

Especially Mark Tesi, Tommy Quinn, Brian Strahle. My garage became a hangout, stacked to the ceiling with boards, and wetsuits hanging everywhere.”

In the ’80s, surfing was growing, but this local crew was the core of the burgeoning Southern Regional High School Surf Club, which would host home meets at Hudson Avenue. At one particular meet, the team surfed a foggy day in four-foot waves in Ocean City, only to return to Harvey Cedars and find the fog had lifted to reveal six- to eight-foot glassy bombs. It was a reminder of how good their home break was.

Pirie and Quinn also worked for Rob Batista, who owned Y-Knot Surf Shop in the classic A-frame building right on the Boulevard. Later Skip Miller bought the shop and Selfridge used to sell handmade jewelry out of it.

A New Generation The flash, overexposure and neon of the 1980s eventually crashed. The start of the 1990s mirrored the ’70s, somewhat. Surfing’s shiny image may have slipped out of the spotlight of pop culture, but that had very little effect on what was happening in Harvey Cedars.

A new generation was emerging. Ben McBrien became LBI’s most progressive surfer, spending much of his time in Cedars. Randy Townsend and Brendan Willem were quick to follow up. Townsend is one of the few surfers in the state who garners a paycheck for his efforts today.

He is also captain of the Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol. In 2015, his squad had perhaps the best competitive season of any Island lifeguard team in history, anchored

by Billy Webster, who rides a longboard better than anyone in Harvey Cedars to this day.

“It’s funny, but when we were growing up, there was always tension between the lifeguards and the surfers,” remembers Pirie, “but today, all the best surfers are on the beach patrol.”

Mark Tesi remembers when Zeke Hill took over as head of the guards. He was a surfer and allowed the guards to surf on their breaks.

“He and Greg Cachoogian recruited me, and then Randy and Sarah into guarding, with the allure of working at Hudson with surf privileges,” says Tesi.

On summer days in the ’90s, Hudson Avenue was the epicenter of high performance surfing. In the winter, the most powerful swells could be ridden, thanks to wetsuit technology. And while a few girls had been summer surfers to this point, Sarah Dodds was the first female to surf through the bitter winters. Today, she lives and surfs in Hawaii, without need for all that neoprene.

At this time, photographer Chris Pfeil

Photo: Chris Pfeil

Photo: Chris Pfeil

Ann Coen

Ann Coen

CREST VIEW: (Clockwise from top left) Eric Pirie was born and raised getting these barrels in Harvey Cedars. Now he’s passing the legacy on to his family. Greg Luker, shown here in the slot in the late '90s, has always had a great rapport with Cedars' grinding barrels.

After the first Jetty Clam Jam surfing tournament, in 2007, brought the LBI wave riding community together, the 2008 Clam Jam on Oct. 19, 2008, was held in huge, blustery northeast swell. Barnegat Light commercial fisherman Danny Mears heads for a death pit in the infamous Doomsday Swell of Dec. 20, 2012.

of Barnegat Light, who had captured countless days of throaty tubes here, saw his photos of Harvey Cedars get into international surf magazines.

Of course, the history of Harvey Cedars only became richer when Jetty held the first Clam Jam at Hudson Avenue, set up to showcase local surfers and bring the community together.

On October 7, 2007, 64 area surfers, friends and family came out to a fantastic day of little waves and bright sunshine, with dogs and kids playing by the water’s edge. Teams had been chosen at random from two age groups with the intention of joining the generations. At the end, Conor and Brendan Willem were crowned champs. Their names were the first to go on the coveted Clam Jam trophy. It proved to be a pivotal point of the Island’s surf timeline. The following year, the Clam Jam was held in huge nor’easter surf, and in 2009, the first Jetty Coquina Jam, a celebration of local women’s surfing, was also held in Harvey Cedars.

Surfing Paradise Jeopardized The Clam Jam and all the other epic days in Harvey Cedars came to a screeching halt in 2010. For years, the middle portion of town was losing an ongoing battle with erosion. On powerful winter storms, the ocean would come lapping at the oceanfront homes. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers came in to do the first Harvey Cedars beachfill project, the northern portion of town was starting to see sandbars offshore before the work was even completed, looking like a very

good scenario for everyone.

But because that winter was so active and so much of the recently pumped sand was no longer on the beach, the U.S. ACE decided to go back and re-pump the entire town right when the active storm pattern ended. All through that calm summer, the sand further settled in. It was nearly two years before the sandbars fully returned, meaning LBI’s most consistent, go-to wave site was buried that whole time.

Harvey Cedars was breaking well again in 2012, so well, in fact, that the Jetty Clam Jam returned on October 20, with peaks up and down the beach. No one was paying much attention to a tropical depression way out in the Atlantic Ocean that would become Superstorm Sandy.

The following Saturday, a few surfers jumped in the water as the swell began to rise. By Sunday, there was a mandatory evacuation. On October 29, Sandy made landfall just south of Long Beach Island.

Harvey Cedars took a punch right to the face, but aside from a very few points, the engineered dunes saved the town. The High Point Volunteer Fire Company became a hub of resilience.

Other parts of the Island were not as fortunate, and the effects of that fateful storm can still be seen today. In the following weeks, residents returned to the Island, and surfers returned to very different sandbars in Harvey Cedars, when not gutting their homes or volunteering in disaster recovery for the community. Still in the throes of recovery on December 20, locals surfed one of the most massive swells ever

at Cape May Avenue. Because it coincided with the day the world was prophesized to end, according to the Mayans, it is still remembered as “The Doomsday Swell.”

Danny Mears, Brian Farias, Royce Weber, Pete Machotka, Connor Willem, Ron Ferrara and others surfed it fearlessly.

“That is the swell by which all others are measured off,” said Willem of Surf City. “When I walked off the beach that evening with a broken board, I knew in my heart that I might never surf waves like that in New Jersey again for the rest of my life. I think a lot of top New Jersey surfers would agree that it could be the swell of the century, as far as huge, powerful, clean, make-able A-frames go.”

The summer of 2013 saw yet another round of beach sand replenishment. However, with so much sand in the system, sandbars reformed by October. The surf has never fully returned to his former glory without the prominent jetties, but the sandbars still provide some of that old magic. In 2015, a rare June low-pressure system gave all of LBI a healthy shot of swell, and Harvey Cedars happened to have the most juice. Some called it the best June swell in history.

Last November, after so much turmoil from Sandy and beach replenishment, the Jetty Clam Jam returned to Harvey Cedars to put another phenomenal year in the books. At one point early in the day, Pirie and Selfridge, now veterans of the surf community, picked off consecutive barrels in the same heat.

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Jersey-Brewed IPA Salutes Timeless Shark Tale

By JEFF LINKOUS

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omage. It exists in practically every craft beer. It’s virtually a core ingredient, not quite on par with the latest trendy hop, but as the headwaters of inspiration, it’s rather close to being indispensable.

Backstories, shout-outs to fame, tributes to the critically acclaimed, American craft brewers regularly pay homage to the pop culture, people, places, events, and sights and sounds that stir and excite those brewers to create flavors and distinctive beers.

Delaware’s Dogfish Head brewery, a longtime craft beer darling, remains a master at it, though perhaps some of its best examples go back a few years: Bitches Brew imperial stout (a tribute to jazz legend Miles Davis and his seminal album of the same name); Hellhound on My Ale imperial India pale ale (blues godfather Robert Johnson); My Antonia imperial pilsner (American writer Willa Cather); and American Beauty imperial pale ale (the Grateful Dead).

Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y., sets the stage for anticipation with each entry into its flight of beers based on the popular HBO series “Game of Thrones.”

But honestly, you needn’t look much farther than your local brewery to find a pint of homage: Little Egg Harbor ’s Pinelands Brewing explores South Jersey bay heritage and the outdoor living of the Pine Barrens with its craft brews; JJersey ersey maritime themes grace Tuckahoe Brewing’s labels on beers that name-check northern Cape May County locales. The beers from Ship Bottom Brewery are a thirstpleasing postcard from Long Beach Island.

It’s in such a tide of inspiration that Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing in Cherry Hill likewise cast a line, landing a catch of Jersey Shore lore

that’s filled with curiosity, mystery and a shark tale.

And not just any shark, either.

We’re talking “Jaws.” Or at least the set of jaws that reportedly lent inspiration to the mid-1970s novel and film echo to a couple of gory, terrifying shark weeks that happened generations before the discovery of cable TV-ratings gold in “Shark Week.” (Or the outlandish shark-filled waterspouts of the “Sharknado” madefor TV movies, for that matter.)

Forgotten Boardwalk’s 1916 Shore Shiver India pale ale – a beer style with a hop bite – revisits the shark encounters that made screamer headlines a century ago, first from the ocean waters off Beach Haven, then Spring Lake and Matawan.

“In the summer of 1916, a shark haunted the New Jersey coastline killing four & injuring seven,” the beer’s label reads.

“While there is much debate over what shark was responsible, there is no question that the attacks found their way into pop books & films depicting one great white shark who made the shore shiver.”

As a reflection of that summer of panic, the beer reminds us, via that brief inscription, that the story of sharks feeding on bathers along the mid-Atlantic doesn’t unpack as neatly as the fictional takes on it, notably author Peter Benchley’s bestseller and Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster, culturalmeme-spinning film adaptation (bigger boat, anyone?).

Questions about the type, or types, of shark involved in the series of attacks still gnaw at the story, ensuring the waters of the narrative stay unsettled.

Nonetheless, our continued fascination, à la man vs. nature, ensures the saga has legs and longevity.

Benchley’s (and Spielberg’s) distilling it down to a single species – the great white shark – unintentionally helped make it easier to think of sharks in general as sea m o n -

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BEER WITH BITE: Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing in Cherry Hill has released its 1916 Shore Shiver in honor of the shark-tennial and in so doing, landed a catch of Jersey Shore lore filled with curiosity, mystery and a shark tale. sters first and the ocean fauna that they actually are last. Benchley’s later career and non-fiction works would turn to conservation and protection of sharks.

(Benchley, who resided in Princeton, died in 2006.)

Forgotten Boardwalk founder said the real events Jamie Queli Q surrounding the shark attacks surroun as well aas the 1934 Morro Castle liner fire, to which the ocean li brewery pays homage with a porter, exist as part of the smoked p fabric of the communities where played out. those events ev That’s a big part of what Queli likes to explore with her brewbeer lineup, and Forgotery’s be complements the tten te n Boardwalk Boar engaging synopses brews with w of the cans and the on the labels la special rreleases in large-format bottles. love the beer itself, too, “I lov don’t get ge me wrong, but I think favorite part of Forgotten my favo Boardwalk is diving into these Boardwa stories, finding out more about them, not no the story on the surface, but the story behind the sursaid Queli, who opened the face,” sai

brewery two years ago.

“With the Morro Castle (fire), we talk about it a bit on the can, what happened to that ship. We did the smoked porter in large bottles, where we talked about the captain (and his sudden death) even more,” she said. “I like to dive into the stories and not be clichéd about it. … We say this is what happened, and it’s interesting because there’s a little bit of mystery to it, and take it from there.”

The public’s continued interest, if not obsession, in sharks, she said, is twofold.

“I think it’s a curiosity, and I think it’s a little bit of fear. ‘Jaws’ did a good job scaring the crap out of people when that movie came out. Not knowing what’s underneath the water when you’re swimming sometimes is actually definitely fearful,” Queli said.

Last summer, Forgotten Boardwalk marked the 99th anniversary of the shark attacks by brewing variations of Shore Shiver, using different hops and additional hop treatments, plus creating some new brews as

straight-up additions to the brewery’s shark-themed beer lineup.

This year, to commemorate the centennial, Forgotten Boardwalk plans to release 100 Years Later, a new imperial IPA. Some of the brewery’s shark beers made for last year ’s observance will be brought back for the centennial.

As it did last year, the brewery is planning a commemorative event for its tour tasting room and events in the towns where the shark attacks happened (look for one to be held at Buckalew’s Restaurant and Tavern in Beach Haven).

Like Benchley, Queli is mindful not to cast sharks as a deepsea menace, but as a part of the ecosystem.

“We kill more sharks than sharks kill humans. It’s kind of a strange symbiosis going on,” she said.

But, she added, “I think we’re growing up as a country to understand that this is their water; we’re just swimming in it.

Don’t mess with the sharks, and hopefully they won’t mess with you.”

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2005 Seventeen-year-old Ryan Horton of Forked River was out surfing in Surf City with his brother on Sunday, June 5. It was a small swell, early summer. After a wave, Horton was pulling his Hot Buttered thruster back toward him when something slammed into his leg. “Like a baseball bat had whacked my foot,” he told reporters.

“It was a large, gaping wound,” said Horton’s aunt, Megan Flynn-Sindoni, who met

the pair in the emergency room at Southern Ocean County Hospital in Manahawkin. “You could see into it. You could see bone; you could see the tendons.”

The unnerving gash was photographed and stitched up.

SOCH would only confirm that Horton was treated and released.

The pictures were sent to George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File, at the University of Florida, who concluded that it was a shark bite, although many locals remained skeptical.

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Prehistoric Sharks Are Right at Home In Barnegat Light Stop in, See What’s ‘New’ Among the Old

By MARIA SCANDALE

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eering at vicious-looking shark’s jaws in a museum is so much more convenient than during the live shark’s heyday!

The deadly sharpness, the frightening number of them in a ready arrangement – adults are as fascinated as kids.

The Barnegat Light Museum is the place on the north end to see the toothy mouth of two types of prehistoric sharks, plus individual teeth in various sizes.

Our Love Affair With Mary Lee

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ow things have changed.

A hundred years ago, Beach Haven was having one of the worst summers in its history, as The Engleside hotel had become the site of the first shark attack ever recorded in the eastern United States. “Sharks had been around, but suddenly everyone was extremely conscious of them,” goes the story as written in John Bailey Lloyd’s Eighteen Miles of History.

Today we are still extremely conscious, but on a whole different level.

The 16-foot-long, 3,500-pound great white shark known as “Mary Lee” is revered as a celebrity of the sea, tagged and tracked by the organization OCEARCH, which generates telemetry (tracking) data and biostudies of “keystone marine species” such as great white sharks, in conjunction with conservation outreach and education “at a measurable global scale.”

Since she was tagged on Sept.

17, 2012, OCEARCH has tracked Mary Lee over 34,000 miles by documenting a “ping” every time her dorsal fin breaks the surface and sends a signal to a satellite to geo-locate her.

She returned to the Long Beach Island area earlier this month. And instead of striking fear in the hearts of shore dwellers, she Tweeted her whereabouts and evoked affection.

How much of the social media pageantry is rooted in true scientific fascination, and how much in the evolutionary psychology of using knowledge (and personification) to combat fear? Who knows? But the stir she causes whenever she’s in the neighborhood helps to advance the cause of sharks, as marine creatures deserving of respect and in need of protection.

OCEARCH founding chairman and expedition leader Chris

Holding one three-inch tooth, museum president Karen Larson mused, “Can you imagine the size that this shark must have been?”

The southern half of New Jersey was underwater hundreds of millions of years ago, so there were plenty of sharks out there losing teeth.

As a matter of fact, sharks can lose their teeth without sweating the consequences. “When a tooth is lost or broken during a meal, it is replaced with the one behind it in about seven days,” says the website njfossils.net. And each tooth has at least seven more replacements behind it in various stages of development.

A card near specimens at the Barnegat Light Museum points out fossilized specimens found in a sand pit near Red Bank. The sharks they came from 5 to 10 million years ago were about 30 feet long. Mark that length out on the floor and watch the kids’ eyes grow wide!

A must-stop on Central Avenue at 5th Street, nearly as far north on the Island as the road goes, the museum is located in a one-room schoolhouse that served from 1903 to 1954, when it became the museum. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places. The magical haven of the Edith Duff Gwinn Garden wraps around the side and the back.

Both are free of charge to visitors.

The time to find the museum open is weekends from June to September, and seven days a week in July and August, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The shark’s teeth are just one topic of nautical lore on display.

The museum’s largest focal point stands in the northeast corner, the prismatic Fresnel lens built for Barnegat Lighthouse in 1858.

But in this 100th year since the legendary July 1916 great white shark attacks in Beach Haven, it’s Fischer named Mary Lee after his mom. “My parents have done so much,” he explained. “I was waiting and waiting for a special shark to name after her, and this is truly the most historic and legendary fish I have ever been a part of, and it set the tone for Cape Cod.” OCEARCH shares its data in real time, in a collaborative environment, via Global Shark Tracker. In that way, the organization “inspires current and future generations of explorers, scientists and stewards of the ocean and enables leading researchers and institutions to generate previously unattainable data.” By the end of this year, OCEARCH will have completed 26 expeditions. —V.F.

natural to give the shark’s teeth artifacts due attention!

Children are welcome to touch the teeth carefully; in fact, children are generally welcome. The museum also has dinosaur bones and a treasure hunt whose reward at the end is a sand dollar.

“We’re a very child-friendly museum. We’re not saying, ‘Don’t touch!’ They can touch the shark’s teeth” (carefully, that is!), said Larson. “We stress friendliness and children. The docents here are very friendly.

“One family told us they had so much fun, they came back the next day.”

Another note card next to the specimens in Barnegat Light says that other teeth were found in clay pits and phosphate mines.

The triangular-shaped ones are from bottom-feeding sharks.

These sharks twisted and tore their clams and other shellfish.

The longer, pointed teeth are from sharks that lived closer to the surface and ate fish.

The website Shark Savers adds that there are four different kinds of shark teeth. Their shape reveals their diet and what kind of shark they belonged to: • “Sharks that typically eat fish have long, narrow, needlelike teeth ideal for gripping something as slippery and streamlined as a fish.”

• Sharks that eat bivalves and crustaceans have thick, plate-like teeth built for crushing the shells of their prey.

• Tiger sharks, great white sharks, and others that prey on seals and other mammals “have sharp, serrated cutting teeth for tearing off chunks of flesh.”

• Finally, the gentle basking sharks and whale sharks that eat plankton have many teeth, but they are tiny, as these sharks feed by filtering water through their gills.

Other displays cover sea and land lore, from shipwrecks to German U-boats lingering offshore in World War II, to the big hotels that once stood waterside in town. Artifacts and pictures cover not only Barnegat Light’s

Photos by Maria Scandale

LITTLE HOUSE OF HISTORY: (Top) Teeth identify sharks by their diets.

The docents are much livelier than the model holding a gaping jawbone. storied history, but also artifacts and photos from the whole Island area.

If you haven’t been to the museum in a few years, step in and see what’s “new” as it pertains to presenting the old, exciting times.

A large-screen TV was installed to present a slide show featuring over 100 pictures of the history of “Barnegat City.” It also shows historical videos.

“We have about 20 or 30 videos about LBI,” said Larson, listing “a short video on pound fishing, a 1950 newsreel of Sinbad, the Coast Guard dog ... a film reel of the 1962 storm.”

The Barnegat Light Historical Society operates and maintains the Barnegat Light Museum.

Historical Society meetings are held the second Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the museum, featuring a guest speaker.

The annual wine and cheese party is Aug. 28 this year. That event is open to the public at no cost. It is the annual Open House party of the museum.

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Most Common Sharks Near LBI Prefer Seafood T here are plenty of sharks living in the waters around Long Beach Island: in the bays, lagoons and even the surf.

But except for the famous 1916 attacks off Beach Haven and in the Manasquan River, no other mortal shark attacks have been recorded in New Jersey.

That’s not so surprising since our most common species of shark are not considered man-eaters or even man-tasters, only interested in eating seafood.

Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Science’s most eminent ichthyologist, Ken Able, Ph.D., is the long-time director of the Rutgers Marine Field Station, located at the end of Great Bay Boulevard in Little Egg Harbor. Able and his graduate students have been tallying the number and types of fishes in the waters off Great Bay and Little Egg Harbor since 1989. This is done in a variety of ways: by plankton net off a bridge at night during times of flood tides; by nets, weirs, throw traps and trawls; and, most recently, by acoustic video from kayaks.

In his book about the Rutgers Marine Field station, From Lifesaving to Marine Research: Station 119, published in 2015 by Down The Shore Publishers, Able notes that despite all the sampling and research into the fish of the Mullica River basin and Little Egg Harbor (and, by extrapolation, Barnegat Bay), there are still gaps in the life histories of even the more commercially important fishes. He writes: “The ongoing studies of fish in estuarine habitats clearly show that use is highly seasonal, with most species abundant from spring to fall and particularly in the summer. Much of the abundance at the warmest temperatures is due to reproduction in the estuary or the movement of larvae and juveniles into the estuary after spawning in the ocean.”

Able recounts that records and specific studies of the Mullica, Bass and Wading rivers, Great Bay and Little Egg Inlet since the 1970s have documented about seven shark species. Our most abundant shark, the smooth dogfish, is a migratory fish.

“The best information available on shark migrations is that for smooth dogfish, which are known to over-winter off North Carolina and to the south,” wrote Able for his next, yet-to-be-published book, used here by permission. “A Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal sciences graduate student, Rodney Rountree, tagged about 200 pups and had two tags returned. These were recaptured together in the same net the following March off North Carolina, by a commercial fisherman.

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HARMLESS: The docile smooth dogfish (top and above) is the most abundant shark in East Coast waters. It grows up to 4 feet long, bears live young in the local estuary, and eats shellfish and crabs.

“These large-scale seasonal movements are complemented by smaller-scale movements by the sharks when they are in southern New Jersey.

“From our extensive collections with weirs, seines, gill nets, trawls, and by hook and line, we know that adult smooth dogfish ‘pup’ (bear live young) in the Great Bay/Little Egg Harbor area from May to July and then leave the estuary. The pups are born live in litters of 3 to 18, are 11-15 inches at birth and reach 22-27 inches by October. The smallest pups spend most of their time in marsh creeks during this time. Eventually, pups leave for deeper water as they grow and by October they leave the estuary.

“In the warm waters of summer and autumn, they are most abundant in creeks during nighttime flood tides. Their occurrence can also be influenced by short-term environmental factors such as temperature. In the summer of 1988 there were numerous upwelling events that resulted in very cold water moving into Great Bay. In a trawl survey at that time, we caught numerous adult smooth dogfish in a small 16’ trawl. In the subsequent 28 years of similar sampling, few were found.

“That same year, we tagged ten adult smooth dogfish (36-44 inches) with acoustic tags that allowed us to track them for up to 90 days, with a sonar system that functioned like an underwater E-Z pass.

As a result, we learned that they preferred the lower portions of Great Bay and Little Egg Harbor near Little Egg Inlet, an area with the highest salinity. However, one individual moved upstream and into the Mullica River as far up as the Garden State

Parkway Bridge.”

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History website, the smooth dogfish usually grows to 3 or 4 feet in length and is the most abundant shark on the East Coast. It’s called the dogfish because it has a habit of fishing in packs; however these small sharks have flat, blunt teeth, more suitable for crunching and grinding the prey they go after: shellfish and crabs.

Able can attest to their docile nature as he was once startled by one as it bumped the floating dock he was standing on one night as he peered into the gloom. Later he found they frequented the station’s lighted boat dock. One night a graduate student caught one of them just using his hands, and they put it on the grill for dinner – not all that tasty, Able reports. Another time he held a small, live dogfish in one hand while driving to the field station in order to give it to a visiting scientist.

Smooth dogfish seem to be harmless creatures though numerous – as anyone surf casting off LBI can attest.

But our area is also host to the sandbar shark and the dusky shark.

The sandbar shark, also known as the brown shark or thick skin shark, is shaped like a fearsome shark. It can grow up to 8 feet long, and has a very large dorsal fin – one that would grab attention if seen slicing through the water off any beach if the shark ever came to the surface. Luckily it seldom does; it prefers to coast along the muddy or sandy bottom looking for its favorite prey: fish and crabs.

It is the most common shark in the Chesapeake Bay to our south but also frequents our lagoons, harbors, bays and

the mouths of rivers. According to the International Shark Attack site, which keeps records since the 1970s, it has rarely been associated with attacks on humans.

“The sandbar shark also occurs commonly in Great Bay,” said Able. “The adults are off North Carolina and south to the Caribbean in the winter, then migrate back along the east coast to Great Bay where detailed studies have indicated that they pup. Great Bay is the northernmost area of their range on the east coast. We captured pups that averaged 19-24 inches, with umbilical scars, indicating that they were born in the summer.”

According to the National Geographic website, torpedo-shaped dusky sharks are long-distance swimmers; some migrate up to 2,000 nautical miles. Yet they return to the same geographic region where they were born to give birth. Though fearsome looking, they have more to fear from us.

Distinct regional populations mean they are more susceptible to overfishing. In 2000, the United States banned both recreational and commercial fishing for the dusky, but they are overfished elsewhere for the shark fin trade.

These sharks are long-lived and don’t reproduce until they’re 22 years old. Females gestate for 22 months so can give birth only once every three years, adding to the need to protect them.

Able has included rays in his account of local sharks because they have become so numerous in our area.

“The cownose ray is worth noting because when they are at the surface, something they often do, their fin tips extend out of the water and look like shark fins.

The only common skate is the clearnose skate. These are not residents; the cownose ray migrates into our waters from the south and the clearnose migrates inshore during the summer and outshore during the winter.”

Other species of sharks and their relatives that can stray into the Mullica/Great Bay/Little Egg area include the spiny dogfish; during the last winter, several pups were captured just inside Little Egg Inlet. The tiger shark and hammerhead have also been recorded. In the summer of 1998, a youngster captured a juvenile smooth hammerhead in the inlet. The southern stingray, the bullnose ray and the little skate have also been collected

by Rutgers.

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cour social media channels and you’ll find plenty of sharks to follow.

Great white Mary Lee has more than 95,000 followers on Twitter. Chessie the tiger shark has more than 39,000. And Lydia – aka the first great white ever recorded to cross the Atlantic Ocean – has more than 25,000.

You can even find sharks named after some famous individuals, such as Einstein, a scalloped hammerhead, and Bindi, an Australian-based great white named after Steve Irwin’s daughter and last season’s winner of “Dancing With The Stars.”

In a society with seemingly constant internet access by computer, tablet or smartphone, anybody with even a remote interest in sharks can find hundreds of pages about these magnificent marine creatures, along with thousands of pictures of them.

Beyond that, of course, are a whole bunch of TV shows and wildlife documentaries dedicated to sharks, as well as museums and aquariums with shark exhibits, while educational resources abound for youngsters interested in learning more about them.

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a search for sharks on Amazon.

You’re bound to find thousands of shark-related items, such as books, toys, games, clothing, jewelry and, yes, aqua socks for kids.

However, the overall awareness, interest and fascination with sharks hasn’t always permeated American society like it does today. In fact, at one time, sharks mainly were the subjects of lore and tales told by captains who stopped by the local tavern after spending weeks or months at sea.

But all that changed on a sandy stretch in Beach Haven on July 1, 1916, when the first documented fatality by shark was the kick-off event in a series of attacks along the New Jersey coast during a 12-day span and ultimately sent shockwaves across the nation.

RUNNING DEEP: Charles E. Vansant (top left), on July 1, 1916, became the first of five shark attack victims during a 12-day span along the Jersey coast. (Top right) Following the ‘Jaws’ scare of 1974-75, many sharks were slaughtered out of fear and loathing. But as more advocacy and conservation groups developed during the 1990s, tagging sharks became a frequent practice in an effort to track and better understand them within their wild environment.

Great white sharks (above) frequently patrol the Atlantic Ocean. Dozens of species of shark, including the lemon shark (right), inhabit the Atlantic Ocean and may occasionally bite a human. But most shark bites are the result of accidents or simple curiosity by the shark.

Photos Courtesy of Shark Research Institute

The victim was 23-year-old Charles E. Vansant, the stockbroker son of Dr. Eugene L. Vansant, a throat and nose specialist from Philadelphia, and his death – late in the afternoon on the Saturday before the July Fourth holiday – rocked Beach Haven.

“In 1915, there was an increase in shark sightings along the coast, and that led to the questioning of scientists, mostly in New York,

on whether it was dangerous for bathers to go in the ocean,” said Dr. Richard G. Fernicola, a physician from Allenhurst and author of Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks.

“But there was virtually no such thing as field knowledge regarding sharks back then, and there was a lot of skepticism among scientists as to sharks at-

tacking humans without provocation. Recreational bathing had been going on in some form since the late 1870s and started becoming more popular around the turn of the century. But in the 20, 30, 40 years prior to July 1, 1916, no one had any negative interaction with a shark along the Jersey Shore. A shark attacking a human essentially was non-existent to Continued on Page 18

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Shark-tennial Continued from Page 16 that point.”

As told in several books, including Eighteen Miles of History on Long Beach Island by John Bailey Lloyd, and dozens of articles printed in news publications across the country, the story of Vansant’s death was indeed both disturbing and unprecedented.

After arriving in Beach Haven from Philadelphia via train, the Vansant family checked in at the Engleside Hotel and the young man made his way out to the beach for a pre-dinner swim. En route to the surf, Vansant coaxed a playful Chesapeake Bay retriever to enter the 68-degree ocean with him. Not long after getting into the water, the dog turned and went back toward the beach.

Vansant continued with his desired swim and shortly thereafter began screaming and flailing. Once it was determined Vansant was in some sort of danger, several beachgoers trailed lifeguard Alexander Ott into the water to retrieve the struggling Vansant.

According to John Q. Everson, whose letter to The New York Times was published on July 10, 1916, he “saw vividly the whole sad affair at Beach Haven.”

“Several strong and willing men went to the assistance of the bather, and when he was being dragged in I actually saw the great shark retaining his hold on the boy, and it was with great difficulty that he was shaken off by the kicks and blows of the bathers who rescued him,” states Everson’s letter.

“No one can ever accuse Vansant of being reckless or venturesome, for I am positive that the water was not over four or five feet deep where he was attacked.”

After being dragged to safety, the gruesome markings of a shark attack were evident – the back of Vansant’s left thigh had been completely torn away, the bone exposed, along with a large gash on the right leg. Vansant was rushed into the Engleside Hotel and, after losing too much blood, died there some 90 minutes later.

One witness, W.K. Barklie, who had an office in Beach Haven, said Vansant’s death “was the most horrible I ever saw,” according to a newspaper report published July 4, 1916.

In Spring Lake on July 6, 1916, Charles Bruder, a bell captain at the Essex & Sussex Hotel, was fatally attacked by a shark just offshore. Six days after that, on July 12, two more individuals became fatality victims and another was seriously injured by shark attacks, all within an hour’s time, in Matawan Creek.

For certain, four dead and one critically injured in shark attacks was big news.

Besides The New York Times, newspapers across the country published stories of the Jersey Shore attacks, including the Boston Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle.

Some New York scientists who had previously shunned the idea of sharks attacking humans changed their viewpoints.

Sharks became one of the prime caricatures of cartoonists depicting anything negative to do with politics and troubling world events. President Woodrow Wilson even signed documentation permitting the U.S. Coast Guard to begin eliminating sharks posing any threat close to shore.

“The 1916 attacks were an anomaly within an anomaly, and those attacks still are very puzzling to shark experts today,” Fernicola said. “But at the time, they certainly were disruptive to a lot of things that summer. Everything was at Def-Con 5 and everybody was on high alert after those attacks. And Vansant’s death, along with the others, obviously, became the

catalyst for many things afterward.”

Immediately following Vansant’s death, the impact doesn’t seem to have been too harsh. One report published in the Philadelphia North American on July 10, 1916 stated this about the July Fourth holiday: “Independence Day found the beach filled with bathers, and it was apparent that all fear of man eating sharks has passed. The tragedy of Saturday before when Charles E. Vansant was killed by a shark, was discussed, but the majority of the people decided that it was something probably never to occur again.”

While such an incident has not occurred in Beach Haven to date, another report estimated the cost in lost tourism that summer at some $250,000, and ocean bathing declining 75 percent in some areas.

Keep in mind, there was a polio epidemic ravaging the region at the time.

But despite another fatal shark attack in Sea Bright in 1926 and what Fernicola described as “a couple of serious attacks in Sea Girt and Ocean City in 1960,” the Jersey Shore, and particularly Long Beach Island, has been spared of any major encounters with sharks.

Then Jaws came on the scene in 1974, and Peter Benchley’s novel, followed up

by Steven Spielberg’s film, reignited a fear long forgotten. At least, to some.

“The summers of 1974 and 1975 definitely were down years for swimming in the ocean,” said Anna Serbek, who grew up in Beach Haven and now is the Beach Haven Public Library’s museum curator.

“I was in junior high at the time. And for locals, who knew enough about the ocean not to care much, the whole Jaws thing didn’t really have an effect. But for the tourists – those coming from New York or Pennsylvania who only vacationed here – they were freaked out about getting in the water.”

Fernicola said “the fictional power” of the Jaws novel and film helped to magnify fears of shark attacks for several years.

“The Jaws phenomenon absolutely highlighted the predatory capability of sharks, particularly the great white,” he said. “But everybody seemed to forget that shark attacks were still very unlikely.

Thousands were being mauled and killed by tigers and other animals in the wild, but for some reason that didn’t draw the same attention as the possibility of being attacked by a shark.”

Unfortunately, Benchley learned, his fictional story became part of the basis for a sudden spike in the worldwide slaughtering of great whites and other shark species.

“Jaws definitely created more of an awareness of sharks,” said Marie Levine, executive director of the Princeton-based Shark Research Institute, which maintains a global shark attack database available at the website sharkattackfile.net. “Unfortunately, it wasn’t a positive awareness, and, apparently, a lot of people didn’t realize you bought the book in the fiction section.”

Well into the 1980s, shark slaughters continued in large numbers, but the trend began dissipating when conservationists started seeing the negative consequences, mostly the rapid decline in certain species, Fernicola said.

“Peter Benchley was especially aware of that negativity and he began being a primary advocate for shark conservation,” Fernicola said. “All of a sudden, there was a great need to spread the awareness that we just can’t kill every shark in the ocean.”

In 1988, the Discovery Channel began airing its now-popular series Shark Week, soon followed in the 1990s by the uprising of many advocacy and conservation groups, including the Shark Research Institute, founded in 1991.

“We’ve definitely seen a big increase in education, advocacy and conservation since

Beach Haven Library Is Home to Treasures Bounty of the Historical Kind to Behold

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f you’re interested in checking out Beach Haven history, the oneroom museum on the second floor of the Beach Haven Public Library is open on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 1 to 3 or by special request.

Established nine years ago by borough historian Jeanette Lloyd, the museum contains photos, hotel ledgers, diaries, deeds, newspaper clippings, whale bones and other artifacts from Beach Haven’s earliest years.

“Our ledgers are from the Engleside Hotel, the Parry House and Thomas Bond’s Long Beach House,” said Lloyd. “These books date back to the 19th century.”

Lloyd, who is borough historian and the widow of historian/author John Bailey Lloyd, said the main purpose of the museum is to be a resource for people who want to research history about Beach Haven.

“We have the LBI Historical Museum in town, but they’re involved with the history of the whole Island, and there is also the Maritime Museum, which focuses on our maritime history,” said Lloyd, who chairs the Beach Haven Historic Preservation Advisory Committee. “What we have here strictly deals with Beach Haven.

We’re really fortunate that in Beach Haven, we have three museums. We hope that many people take advantage of the library museum and that it can grow into something very special.”

Lloyd said that over the winter, she and library director Jean Frazier fi nished the herculean task of poring through many boxes fi lled with historical information.

“These were part of my husband’s collection,” she said. “The end result is that we have more than 240 binders fi lled with documentation about our fi rst families, streets, houses, events, government, schools and a lot more.”

Lloyd said she recently received photos from Larry Cranmer, grandson of Floyd Cranmer, who founded the Cranmer Lumber Co. in 1922.

“There’s a big picture of the men milling lumber on the second floor,” she said.

Frazier said the library’s fi rst floor contains artifacts on the top shelves.

“We have decoys, dishes, silver and many other things from Beach Haven’s past,” she said.

Anna Serbek, library assistant and the museum’s curator, said the facility “is a local hidden treasure.”

“One steps down into a well-furnished museum with high, beamed ceilings and a huge stone fi replace,” she said. “Our goal has been to house all the important documents and articles that record our borough’s history from 1874.”

She said the museum contains copies of a journalist rarity: The Breeze, which was published by Charles Edgar Nash, author of The Lure of Long Beach.

“It was published only in 1906, 1907 and 1927,” she said.

Local history is close to home for Serbek, as she is related to the Grant and Crane families, which Lloyd said are among the original families in town.

“My t wo g reat-g ra nd fat hers, Enoch Grant and Thomas Crane, both worked for Thomas Bond at the Long Beach House,” Serbek said.

“I’m very pleased that we have Anna helping us with the museum,” said Lloyd. “She is someone who lives Beach Haven history.”

Serbek said anyone who has any documents or artifacts may call the library at 609-492-7081. She said information is also available on the library’s new website, beachhavenlibrary.org.

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the 1990s,” Levine said. “The awareness that sharks needed to be protected really kicked up in the mid-’90s. And back when we started the Research Institute, we really made an impact with educating children.”

Nowadays, with more educational programming on TV and the plethora of information available online during the past 15 years, many of yesteryear’s children are becoming the next generation of shark researchers and conservationists, Levine said.

And perhaps the best part? The stronger awareness surrounding sharks has led to a less fearful approach to dealing with them. Rather than kill them before any of them kill a human, it’s best to understand their importance in a greater ecosystem and realize they most likely don’t fancy human body parts as an afternoon meal.

“The number of people across the world going into the water is at an all-time high,” Fernicola said. “Boogie boarders, surfers, kayakers, swimmers ... all kinds of people are in the oceans of the world on

a daily basis, even though the awareness that sharks are out there also is very high.

“It doesn’t seem like too many people are too concerned anymore. In fact, it seems a lot of people are not just intrigued by sharks, they’re almost enamored by them. And I guess that’s a good thing. All the educational programming and resources about sharks are making a difference in some way. Education is the main root of the solution.”

Still, it’s a wonder where such awareness of sharks would stand today had Vansant’s death, or the subsequent ones some 100 years ago, not occurred.

“That’s an interesting question that I’d never thought about,” Fernicola said.

“There probably would have been another attack somewhere that would have ignited what we’ve seen during the past 100 years.

But Peter Benchley probably would have had two less lines in his book and there would have been two less lines in the film, because there would never have been any need to mention that epic attack.”

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f you’re interested in various aspects of the Island’s past, the LBI Historical Museum, located in Beach Haven on the corner of Engleside and Beach avenues, will hold a series of Monday night talks during the summer. All programs begin at 7:30; admission is free, but donations are welcome.

Housed in the original home of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, built in 1882, the facility is owned and operated by the LBI Historical Association and is now in its 41st year. Inside, you can relive the Victorian era by learning about the grand hotels, which set the standard for luxury and hospitality and helped establish Beach Haven’s legacy as the Queen City.

Other exhibits include the history of the Tuckerton-Long Beach Island Railroad from 1886 to 1935, tools and implements of the Barnegat baymen, the Tucker’s Island resort, historic storms, shipwrecked artifacts, Barnegat Lighthouse and the tradition of sailing on Barnegat Bay. The Monday night talks open on July 11 when Trish Schuster discusses “The Shark Attacks of 1916.” The horrific attacks shocked the Jersey Shore. Those attacks will again be in the spotlight during the talk by Al Savolaine, Matawan town historian, on Aug. 8.

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Entry fee for participants is $15. Admission to the show is free.

Cars will be registered beginning at 8 a.m. and judging starts at 11. A trophy presentation ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m. There will be special “dash plaques” awarded to the first 100 vehicles preregistered. T-shirts can be purchased for $10.

“We had about 130 cars last year, so this year I’d like to get around 150,” said David DiEugenio, museum director. “Cars must be at least 25 years old.

Our range will be from early 1900s to 1991.”

He said there would be special trophies for Best in Show, Best Pre-War, Best Post-War, Mayor’s Choice and Director’s Choice. In addition, 30 Judge’s Choice awards will be given out.

“That will be based on points accumulated,” DiEugenio said. “It could be for a great interior, paint job, a real cool engine or other factors.”

The Ship Bottom Volunteer Fire Co. will sell hamburgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, soft drinks and bottled water.

The museum opened in the summer of 2012 at 1800 Bay Ave. in Point Pleasant, next to the New Jersey Museum of Boating. It draws approximately 5,000 visitors per year. The current special exhibit features pick-up trucks from 1922 to 1956.

To register for the show or for any information about the museum, log on to vintageautomuseum.org. —E.E.

On July 18, Karter Larson will discuss “The Fishing Industry on LBI.” From firsthand family experiences, Larson will discuss the current and past fishing industry based in Barnegat Light.

Authors Margaret Buchholz and Scott Mazzella present “Great Storms of the NJ Shore” on July 25. Dramatic photos will punctuate their program, which also includes the causes and effects of Superstorm Sandy. Books inscribed by the authors will be available for purchase.

Beach Haven Borough Historian Jeanette Lloyd speaks on Charles Beck and Beck’s Farm on Aug. 1. Beck’s innovative skills led to the construction of the 1914 Causeway Bridge, the formation of the Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club and the conversion of Sherbourne Farm to a historic showplace.

Joel Mott presents “The Sights and Sounds of the NJ Pine Barrens” on Aug. 15. Mott, who is public programs specialist for the Pinelands Commission, will discuss the history of the Pinelands and its ecological importance.

On Aug. 22, Deb Whitcraft and Gretchen Coyle discuss “Shipwrecks of the NJ Shore.” Those wrecks, of which hundreds lie directly off LBI, had a large impact on the early population of the shore and led to the formation of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, predecessor to the Coast Guard.

For the final program on Aug. 29, Jeanette Lloyd and Ron Marr give a talk about “The Lucy Evelyn.” From 1949 to when a fire destroyed it in 1972, the Lucy Evelyn served as a unique gift shop. It was one of the last Maine lumber schooners built when it was constructed in 1917.

The museum sponsors walking tours through historic Beach Haven on Tuesdays and Fridays, June 28 to Sept. 2. Participants leave from the museum’s porch at 10 a.m. Tickets are $10 ($2 for children).

New on the activities list this year is a Derby Night on Saturday, June 18, 6 to 9 p.m., featuring horse races and an auction.

Admission is $20.

If you have paranormal tastes, check out evening ghost walking tours at the museum with Maggie O’Neil, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, June 21 through Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. The fee is $15 for adults; children younger than 12 pay $8 (museum admission fee included).

The Trash, Treasure and Bake Sale is Saturday, June 25, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Island Singers perform in concert on Saturday, July 9, 8 p.m.

Appetizers from various Island restaurants will be featured at a “Taste of the Island Porch Party” on Sunday, July 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person.

Bus tours of historical Beach Haven are scheduled on Wednesday, July 13 and Aug. 17, beginning at 10 a.m. Tickets are $20 per person.

“All Things Chocolate” takes place Thursday, Aug. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($5 for children younger than 12).

The LBI Historical Association holds its craft fair and market on Sunday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at nearby Veterans Bicentennial Park. Admission is free. The event features a bake sale on the museum porch.

Currently, the museum is open Saturday and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m.

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hether or not residents and visitors are fearful of or fascinated by sharks, Sharkfest at Veterans Memorial Park in Beach Haven on Saturday, June 18, will be an event everyone can enjoy. The festival, hosted by Beach Haven Future from 3 to 10 p.m., will have plenty of activities for the entire family from contests, tournaments, book signings and lectures to games, a photo booth, local vendors and organizations, shark paraphernalia and much more.

“We like to open each season with a kick-off event to get the residents, visitors and businesses together, and what better reason than to commemorate the 100th anniversary of our nation’s first recorded shark attack, which happened right here on Engleside Avenue?” said Lisa Mack, a BHF board member.

The infamous attack, which is thought to have inspired the blockbuster movie “Jaws,” took the life of Charles VanSant, a 24-year-old stockbroker from Philadelphia, who was enjoying his first dip in the ocean after just arriving in town with his family.

“Beach Haven Future is looking forward to this event because we will be celebrating a significant piece of our town’s history,” said Mack. “It also gives us a chance to raise awareness on the important role sharks play in our oceans.”

The festival is the brainchild of James Yuhas of Barnegat, who hopes the event will alert people about the issues surrounding shark finning, which involves the removal of shark fins while the rest of the shark is discarded in the ocean.

Live entertainment will be performed throughout the event. Dan Brown and The Empaths will play from 3 to 7 p.m., and Garage Kept will go on from 7 to 10 p.m.

Barbecued pulled pork, burgers, hot dogs, sausage and peppers, peeland-eat shrimp, steamers, shark bites,

baked beans, various sides, snacks and desserts as well as beer and wine will be available for purchase. Admission is free.

Buckalew’s Restaurant and Tavern, located at 101 North Bay Ave. in Beach Haven, is also hosting a Shark Fest Dinner in partnership with BHF’s Sharkfest Weekend, on Friday, June 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. The event will include a Dog Fish Head beer tasting as well as shark discussions by guest speakers.

The menu includes family-style appetizers such as Sriracha lime baked oysters, sweet chili grilled shrimp and tuna tartare wonton chips. The entree includes a choice of wasabi pea crusted yellowfi n tuna with sticky rice, Japanese long beans and ginger sauce, or grilled filet with whipped potatoes, Parmesan garlic green beans, frizzled buttermilk onions and bacon herb butter. The meal also includes a salad with Burrata cheese over balsamic greens with Jersey tomatoes, as well as elephant ear and shark fin ice cream for dessert.

Tickets cost $75 per person and include tax and gratuity. To purchase tickets, call 609-492-1065.

A number of other shark-inspired events will take place in Beach Haven throughout the summer season, including a private dinner at Buckalew’s, hosted by the New Jersey Maritime Museum, on Wednesday, July 6, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event will include presentations by the Shark Research Institute as well as Dr. Richard Fernicola, author of 12 Days of Terror, which investigates the Jersey Shore shark attacks that occurred between July 1 and July 12 in 1916. The author will also be speaking at the museum's annual fundraiser, dubbed “The 1916 NJ Shark Attacks – 100 Years Later,” on Sept. 10, which will offer guests a chance to ride on a mechanical shark.

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WET, WILD: (From top) Sarah Dodds (left) and Jenn McConnell surfed in the ďŹ rst Coquina Jam in August 2009. Steve Jones, an aggressive backside surfer in the ’70s and ’80s, is still out there today.

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Continued from Page 7 “I was looking at Selfridge, going, ‘Man, this is like 1986 all over again,’� said Pirie.

Today, Harvey Cedars is still a go-to spot. Black Eyed Susan’s, owned by surfers Chris Sanchez and Ashley Pellegrino, was named one of New Jersey’s top ten restaurants last year. Neptune Deli cranks out breakfast and lunch for hungry watermen and women. Hudson Avenue still sees some of the best surf action. Paddlers launch into Harvest Cove. And Sunset

Park is a favorite for weekly summer concerts.

Pirie, like most of the surf community, laments the loss of the jetties and the sandbars he grew up with. Yet last December, he found himself out, alone, on a six-foot, peeling south swell that reminded him of growing up. Now he is most excited for his daughter, Emma, 14, who inherited the surf bug. “Whenever we go over to surf, she always wants to go right to Cedars. It’s probably because she’s heard me talk about it so much. “It’s a special place.�

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hook and line in the vicinity of the former menhaden plant (fish factory) on Crab Island in Great Bay, when the plant was processing ďŹ sh meal and attracting lots of sharks in the process,â€? said Able.

Bull sharks of various lengths have been reported in the Mullica River at Lower Bank, but there are no known photographs to conďŹ rm these identiďŹ cations, he notes. “The occurrence may be uncertain because other species of sharks are much more abundant. “Time will tell if the sharks and their relatives become more abundant, as we continue to study these fascinating ďŹ shes,â€? said Able.

It’s comforting to know for those of us who swim, surf and otherwise frolic in the water that no shark attacks were reported last year in New Jersey, and from 1837 to the present there have been just 15 conďŹ rmed,

ways welcome. Dues are only $10 a year, or $100 for a lifetime membership.

The museum is run 100 percent by volunteers. Becoming a docent is a nice way to get involved, and docents are needed, particularly young people to add to the list of those who keep the museum open for the future. New docents don’t need to know all the history at the time they sign up; they are usually paired with those who have been around for a while, Larson said.

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orth America set a record for unprovoked shark attacks, 76, in 2015. There were 59 in the United States. As has been the norm for decades, Florida had the most attacks: 30, North and South Carolina had 8 each and Hawaii, had 7, including the only fatality. California and Texas had two each, and single bites were recorded in Mississippi and New York.

Climate change and warmer ocean temperature may be a reason for the increase because more people are in the water for longer and shark populations are rebounding.

These statistics are from the International Shark Attack File, maintained by the American Elasmobranch Society – which studies sharks, rays and sawďŹ sh – and by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

A 2010 study by the University of Florida found that shark attacks were most common on Sunday, in less than 6 feet of water, during a new moon and involving surfers wearing black and white bathing suits. The study used statistics on shark attacks occurring between 1956 and 2008 in Florida’s Volusia County. Volusia County’s 47 miles of Atlantic coast is called the “Shark Attack Capital of the World� because it holds the distinction of experiencing 21 percent of all global attacks between 1999 and 2008. Two reasons are because it includes popular New Smyrna and Daytona beaches that are available all year to residents and tourists.

The International Shark Attack File asserts that most of these attacks were “hit and run� incidents by smaller sharks, and many shark bites were only as bad as a dog bite.

Most of the attacks were on surfers who were bit in the leg while sitting on their boards between waves. Contrasting clothing is attractive to myopic sharks. The attacks happened more on a Sunday because it was the end of the weekend and also many day trips to the beach are made on Sunday.

Forty-nine percent of the shark attacks last year were on surfers and other participants in board sports. No scuba divers were bitten. Waders and swimmers made up 42 percent of the victims and 9 percent were snorkeling.

Splashing may be a factor.

Worldwide, in 2015 there were just six fatalities and that can be reected

in beach safety practices and increased public awareness on how to minimize the chance encounter with a shark.

In general, the ISAF makes these recommendations: When in the water, stay in groups, do not wander too far from shore, and avoid swimming in darkness, dawn or twilight, when sharks are most active. Do not enter the water if you are bleeding. Enter with caution if menstruating – no attacks have been linked to menstruation but it seems a sensible precaution. Urine in the water could also be attractive to sharks.

Don’t wear shiny jewelry, as these reect light and can be mistaken for ďŹ sh scales. For the same reason, avoid bright colored or contrasting colored swimsuits or clothing. Perhaps uneven tan lines could spark a shark’s curiosity!

Refrain from excess splashing, and don’t allow pets in the water with you because of their erratic movements. The Beach Haven attack of July 1916 happened after the unlucky swimmer had been playing with a dog in the water.

Avoid murky water or places with known efuent discharge pipes. Avoid water being used by commercial or sport ďŹ shermen, especially if there are signs of bait ďŹ sh – sea birds diving in the water indicate the presence of bait ďŹ sh.

A popular misnomer is that porpoises keep sharks away. Not true: they are often after the same food. And don’t swim near sandbars or steep drop-offs, as these are favorite shark hangouts.

It may go without saying but ISAF also cautions: do not enter waters where sharks are present, leave the water if you see one and for heaven’s sake do not harass a shark if you see one.

Here’s what to do if you are the unfortunate who is experiencing an unprovoked attack by a shark: be proactive! Hit the shark on the nose, ideally with an object other than arms or feet.

If nose hitting doesn’t stop the attack and it bites, gouge at its eyes and gills, the most sensitive area of the shark. “Do not react passively, as sharks only respect size and power,� ISAF suggests.

Nonetheless, enjoy the ocean and the bay. Remember, it’s far more likely to be struck by lightning, bitten by a lethal spider or killed in a household accident than to be bitten by a shark. —P .J.

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ISBN 978-1-59322-106-5 184 pp. $17.95

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Margaret Thomas Buchholz A delightful collection of over 60 fascinating essays and articles that capture the authentic LBI over the SDVW ÀIW\ \HDUV ISBN 978-1-59322-095-2 230 pp. $16.95

Too Many Summers I Love You, Long Beach Island The Best of Artoons Leslee Ganss

Sandy Gingras

This collection of witty, often laugh-outloud LBI cartoons is selected from the last 20 years of the “Artoon by L. Ganss,� published every week in The SandPaper.

After two decades of creating insightful, charming “How To Live� books, LBI’s own Sandy Gingras turns her talents homeward with a focus on our favorite island.

ISBN 978-1-59322-094-5

240 pp. $16.95

ISBN 978-1-59322-093-8

56 pp. $12.95

... and 2017 Calendars

John Bailey Lloyd’s Celebrated Histories of LBI Long Beach Island’s beloved historian and author, the late John Bailey Lloyd, has given us a rich sense of place. His collection of beautifully produced pictorial histories give residents and visitors alike the Long Beach Island we know and love. Each book is full of remarkable Island history and fascinating photographs and illustrations.

Six Miles at Sea Eighteen Milses of History Two Centuries of History 11� x 8.5� hardcovers, $38

Our classic Down The Shore Calendar has been a part of the lives of LBI visitors and residents since 1985.

ISBN 978-1-59322-102-7

$12.99

Th large-format The l f t NJ Lighthouse Li hth Calendar features beautiful images of the Shore’s scenic and remarkable lighthouses.

ISBN 978-159322-105-8 $12.99

All calendars include removable 2016-17 tide charts, a six-month calendar grid of the last half of 2016 and large grid spaces for notations.

Available at most local book and gift retailers and online Long Beach Island’s Publisher

www.down-the-shore.com

email: orders@down-the-shore.com

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