Expanded, with an artistic color cover, improved reproductions and newly discovered historic photos, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a fitting tribute to the legacy of John Bailey Lloyd.
 In its pages you will travel back to Edwardian Beach Haven, discover the origins of Barnegat Lighthouse, and know the fortitude of the men of the U.S. Lifesaving Service. You'll experience nature's fury -- the hurricane of '44 and the March northeaster of '62 -- and learn how the Island's shifting southern end has changed -- with a ''new inlet,'' ''old inlet,'' and a disappeared Tucker's Island.
 You'll know how and where bootleggers smuggled alcohol ashore during Prohibition, and delight in the Island's favorite watering holes ''When Beer Was Ten Cents A Glass.'' You'll learn about an eccentric Barnegat Light resident and the U.S. Supreme Court.
 ''In the Days of the Dune Hoppers,'' during World War II, a largely forgotten period on the Island, hotels boarded soldiers, the military patrolled beaches on horseback, and oceanside blackouts were mandatory. ''Ducks, Guns, and Money on Old Barnegat Bay'' explores the era of adventurous aristocratic men drawn to this shore.
 You'll learn about town names (Beach Arlington, Long Beach City, Peahala, ''Harvey Cedars or Harvest Cedars?''), summers of baseball and the famous Roger ''Doc'' Cramer. The Lucy Evelyn, a schooner that was as much an attraction as Barnegat Lighthouse, is fondly remembered.
 In this loving history: Travel the first automobile highways to the Shore or take the train to one of the grand old hotels. You'll even learn the origin of that enduring phrase, ''Six Miles At Sea.''
 The late John Bailey Lloyd's lyrical and pioneering writing about Long Beach Island has been the inspiration for many books about Jersey Shore history. Here is the source -- providing a true sense of place. His three elegant companion books explore much of the history of the Shore with a focus on LBI. The Island of today is strikingly different from that of a century ago but here are images of an innocent and wilder past that cement our present-day bond with this place.
 Modern-day Shore lovers will find their long-ago counterparts here. These books give us an opportunity to rediscover a unique place at the sea's edge -- a beautiful, sometimes dangerous, more personal LBI and the people who came to know and love it.

Six Miles At Sea: A Pictorial History of Long Beach Island, New Jersey

History

John Bailey Lloyd

Americas

Down The Shore Publishing

The first of three elegant companion books about Long Beach Island by John Bailey Lloyd, ''this loving history'' (as the first edition was described by The Record of Hackensack) brings the shore's past to life. Filled with historic photographs, old engravings, maps and illustrations carefully reproduced and printed, this hardcover captures a sense of the Jersey Shore that residents and visitors long for today. 
Readers will rediscover the lost resort of Sea Haven and Tucker's Island in this book, they will ride the Tuckerton and Long Beach railroads to the new resort of Beach Haven, stay in its delightful and airy seashore hotels, and stroll its elegant boardwalk. They will experience the fear of the legendary 1916 shark attacks, visit the early gunning and yacht clubs, and watch pound fishermen haul in boats brimming with fish caught just off the beach. John Bailey Lloyd's wonderful writing style, combined with extraordinary old images, will fill readers with a true sense of place.

Eighteen Miles of History on Long Beach Island

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

A selection of 22 fascinating images of Long Beach Island's past provide a look at the history of this beloved New Jersey Shore resort through a romantic viewfinder. The delightful images -- from historian John Bailey Lloyd's books about the island -- include the beach, bay, fishing, summer pleasures, the Beach Haven boardwalk, landmarks, and important and quirky historical events unique to this New Jersey Shore island. This quality, pocket sized (7'' x 5'') paperback book is perforated so that the heavy, coated-stock postcard pages can be removed and mailed.

Long Beach Island Historical Postcards

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Shore Stories: An Anthology of the Jersey Shore

This acclaimed anthology takes the reader on a literary journey along the Jersey Shore from the tip of Sandy Hook to Cape May Point. More than 40 short stories, essays and poems capture this beloved stretch of sandy beaches, bays, boardwalks, and towns, along with documentary photographs and art. Contributors include nationally celebrated authors (John McPhee, Gay Talese, Robert Pinsky, among others) as well as talented writers whose work promises future acclaim. A great beach book in any season, this anthology will transport readers to the Jersey Shore wherever they may be.

Literature & Fiction

GAY TALESE

Sandy Gingras

Kay Boyle

Robert Pinsky

Stephen Dunn

Christopher Cook Gilmore

Robert Kotlowitz

Pete Dunn

Rich Youmans

Frank Finale

Margaret Thomas Buchhholz

and other contributors

John-McPhee

william-wharton

United States

The Tides of Barnegat

''The Tides of Barnegat is a romance spanning a twenty year period from 1854 until 1874, with a highly melodramatic final chapter involving the newly organized U.S. Lifesaving Service in a tragic ship wreck....This scene of high drama comes as the resolution of a tightly constructed novel by a remarkable man.'' -- from the new Introduction by John Bailey Lloyd... Out of print for more than half a century, the text and original illustrations are carefully reproduced here in a reprint of this classic 1906 seashore novel by F. Hopkinson Smith. In a Victorian style capturing the gentle ebbing and the fierce moods of the ocean -- and the moods and personalities of the people living along its shores -- Smith's novel is a rich portrait of its time along the coast. It ''makes you yearn for the time when things such as honor and duty and responsibility and commitment were actually taken seriously,'' said one reviewer. The novel follows two sisters, Jane and Lucy Cobden. Jane, the older by ten years, had vowed alongside her father's deathbed long before to raise and protect Lucy. When Lucy returns from boarding school in Philadelphia, Jane gives her younger sister all she needs and desires with a caring hand, but does not find in Lucy the same forthright and dutiful character that she possesses. Misled by her love, Jane protects Lucy at the expense of her own life's happiness and a marriage to a man who loves her. A new introduction by Jersey Shore historian John Bailey Lloyd explains some of the peculiarities of the novel, as well as keying the reader in to what is below the surface of all the strident virtue -- strength commingled with human weakness -- and provides a fascinating look at the author, a remarkable man who was a marine engineer, builder of lighthouses, writer, and fine artist. This is high quality reprint of the original book. (It is not a print-on-demand facsimile edition.) This softcover edition features an original oil painting by Jersey Shore artist Marilyn Ganss and it is published simultaneously with a limited edition hardcover (ISBN 0-945582-83-8). Both editions are complete reprints, featuring the 12 original illustrations by George Wright. (The smythe-sewn hardcover carefully recreates the distinctive original gold foil and white dye stamping on a deep teal case.)

Francis Hopkinson Smith

Literary

Romance

Contributor

Historical

The third in John Bailey Lloyd's Long Beach Island pictorial books reveals more about Island architecture, names, shipwrecks, storms, and the mainland too. It also includes a more personal focus of the people who have left their imprint on this sandy shore. Chapters include: Summer People; Long Beach Islanders; the Lucy Evelyn at Christmas; Township Lifeguarding; Fishing; Barnegat City -- Fever at the Oceanic, and the Signal House; the yacht San Souci; Beach Haven Houses -- Parry House and Coral Street, Curlew Cottage, Onion Domes; Beach Haven Merchants; Engleside Baby Dairy; Purkey's Pond; Tucker's Light; the Tuckerton Wireless; Pinelands Plains, Cedar Bogs; and the story of the Hawkin' Bear.

Two Centuries Of History On Long Beach Island

Travel

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