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Description: Fourteen tales spanning the decades 1950-1970 invite us into the private lives of the colorful denizens of communities like Coney Island, Long Beach, and the Jersey shore.
short stories (819) long beach (588) independent publisher (84) blue eft press (1) blue eft (1) boardwalk stories (1) roslyn bernstein (1) shael shapiro (1) kenneth tydings (1) kenneth s. tydings (1)
Reviews: Long Beach Patch
Boardwalk Stories by Roslyn Bernstein uses this wondrous man-made part of beachfront communities, especially the one in Long Beach, as a center of story action and plot. The author, a long-time Long Beach resident and college creative writing professor, also posits that the boardwalk and its environs seem to breed strange and unusual characters that figure into her stories, a point with which I strongly agree.
The subjects touched upon in Boardwalk Stories range from childhood memories of “Digging to China” while excavating that deep hole at the beach to playing skeeball and other boardwalk arcade games to spying on your best friend and her family during the McCarthy era and watching for German submarines from a special beachfront observation tower. The author includes boardwalk-related vintage photos from a collection by the late Dr. Kenneth Tydings.
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