Two Centuries of History on Long Beach Island

Two Centuries of History on Long Beach IslandThis, the third of John Bailey Lloyds classic LBI pictorial histories, reveals much more about Island architecture, local names, shipwrecks, and storms, as well as stories over the causeway of the pines and the mainland. In delightful writing that captures the adventurous spirit of an earlier age, Long Beach Island's beloved author shares with us true tales of Life Saving Service crews, shipwrecks, rum runners, wartime summers and dirigibles, innocent

We come to understand the fellow baymen's unwritten "code of the bay

hiding from the British the disarray of the American army and the horrific conditions

In a foreword by Atlantic City's noted historian

Author Steve Liebowitz begins with a brief history of seaside entertainment piers

along with fascinating stories about the town's first merchants when the center of Beach Haven was closer to the ocean

It includes a removable 2025-26 tide chart

The book carries us through incarnations of Steel Pier into the late 20th Century

There was that faded

The anthology takes readers on an evocative trip “down the shore

It's who ate over

The softcover edition cover features a commissioned original oil painting by Jersey Shore artist Marilyn Ganss

Author Ken Able