Labor Day is here but many say the Jersey Shore's 'shoulder season' is even better.
We're now in the last gasp of summer at the Jersey Shore. Beachgoers ride their bikes along the boardwalk in Wildwood earlier this season.Never take the seawall home after a night at the Anglesea bars. It’s too dark, with too many turns, and you’ll hit a lot of boulders before you fall in the inlet. Stick to the sidewalks.
It was a real windfall, and perilous, having that condo around at the height of my bar-going days, when the annual Irish Fall Festival felt larger and evenI’d cram a dozen friends in there, sleeping off the Guinness on couches and floors till noon. A friend once slept outside, only to be carried onto the lawn for a sprinkler alarm clock. Do I know someone who was bloodied by the seawall? Maybe.
I was thinking of all this recently because summer’s coming to an end and I’ve barely been down there. The condo survived two hurricanes, but a faulty ice cube maker turned it into a swimming pool last summer. Almost everything had to be gutted because of mold, and the work’s still not done, heading into Labor Day weekend. The few times I’ve been down, it’s been a quick overnight for Inquirer stories.
Shore guru Amy Rosenberg has covered the affordability issue at length this summer and even pondered the philosophical questions of just who owns the Shore and whether the “Shore” as we know it, is over? Readers weighed in, some defending the whims of the marketplace, others deriding second-home owners who bought high and have to rent high to stay above water.
“Too much money, too many people, too much time, too much drama. As a Black family, we have had innumerable run-ins over the years with folks who do not look like us and who do not want us there.”I think about Amy’s question — who owns the Shore? — often. In this, the last scheduled edition of the Shore newsletter for this year, I wanted to return to it.
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