Echoes of LBI

07/23/2024

Starlit Seashore by Bella Helena Ayres

By Bella Helena Ayres Photography by Nancy Rokos A million stars reflected on the sea of a million dreams, a world of wishing and woe, wonder and Atlantic awe: a place no person could ever entangle from their heart. The water sings of your name as it rhapsodizes along the rocks and shells of perfect...

07/21/2024

🍦🍦🍦Need your ice cream fix? Check out Dippers (formerly Iceberg Ice Cream) and The Big Dipper. Your summer must have! 🍦🍦🍦

07/20/2024

Diane Stulga, a staff writer for Echoes since 2010, was fortunate enough to interview Phyllis Gee in 2012, sharing the story of her extraordinary life:

"My deepest sympathy and condolences are sent to the entire Gee family on the loss of one of LBI’S true icons. I was fortunate enough to run into Phyllis and her daughter Becky throughout the years after her interview. Each time our paths crossed, she was so happy that she shared her memories of a life well lived on LBI with Echoes. It was my priviledge to share Phyllis’s memories with her. Rest in peace Phyllis. "Echoes of LBI" will resonate your legacy on LBI forever. ~Sincerely, Diane Stulga"

07/17/2024

Echoes of LBI Magazine had the privilege of interviewing Phyllis Gee back in 2012. She was warm, gracious, and generously shared her memories and family photographs with us.

Original interview and story by Diane Stulga, 2012 Midsummer Dream Edition; updated by Susan Spicer-McGarry, July 15, 2024 If ancestry determined destiny, it could be said that long before her birth, Phyllis Parker Gee was predestined to a life on Long Beach Island. Because she was, as some would sa...

07/10/2024

Congratulations Garden Club of LBI!

THE GARDEN CLUB OF LBI RECEIVES FIVE AWARDS! By Gillian Rozicer The Garden Club of LBI received five Garden Club awards for their community work in 2023 -two from The Garden Club of New Jersey, another two from the Central Atlantic Region of State Garden Clubs, and one additional award from The Nati...

07/06/2024

🌊NEW LOCATIONS🌊
We've added copies of Echoes here:

BARNEGAT LIGHT:
Barnegat Light Museum
Kitty Hawk Kites

HARVEY CEDARS:
BLue East Studio

SURF CITY:
Ocean County Library
The Cheese Shoppe

SHIP BOTTOM:
Chamber of Commerce
Things A Drift
A.R. Aitken Builders
Big Dipper Ice Cream
Mary Allen Realty
Pagnotta
Surf City Marina
Walter's Bicycles

LOVELADIES:
LBI Foundation if the Arts & Scieneces

BRANT BEACH:
Hutchison Pools
Dippers Ice Cream

BEACH HAVEN TERRACE:
Mensa Eats

BEACH HAVEN:
LBI Historical Museum
NJ Marintime Museum
Surflight Theatre
Beach Haven Library
Compassion Cafe
Coastal Living Real Estate

MANAHAWKIN
AtlantiCare Health Park
Hackensack Meridian Health
Manasquan Bank
Reynolds Garden & Landscaping
Bloom at the Shore/Peggy Ann the Girls Florist

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07/03/2024

🌊STILL LOOKING FOR ECHOES?🌊
Here's where to find it today:

BARNEGAT LIGHT:
Kitty Hawk Kites

HARVEY CEDARS:
BLue East Studio

SHIP BOTTOM:
Things A Drift
A.R. Aitken Builders
Big Dipper Ice Cream
Mary Allen Realty
Pagnotta
Surf City Marina
Walter's Bicycles

SURF CITY
The Cheese Shoppe

BRANT BEACH:
Hutchison Pools
Dippers Ice Cream (formerly Iceberg Ice Cream)

BEACH HAVEN TERRACE:
Mensa Eats

BEACH HAVEN:
Compassion Cafe
Coastal Living Real Estate

MANAHAWKIN
AtlantiCare Health Park
Hackensack Meridian Health
Manasquan Bank
Reynolds Garden & Landscaping
Bloom at the Shore/Peggy Ann the Girls Florist

07/01/2024

Congratulations to Johnny Walson, previously featured in Echoes of LBI Magazine in 2022 and 2023 and a life-long fan of Long Beach Island, for beating cancer and on the arrival of his awesome new pup, Yoshi. Johnny’s loving Cavalier King Charles Spaniel was a gift from award winning breeder Susan Weeks of West Virginia. Pictured is John Walson, Michal Walson, Susan Weeks, Johnny Walson and Yoshi. Photo by Flynn Weeks.

06/29/2024

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Honored to be highlighted in this issue of Echoes of LBI available online now to read or in print at our visitor center in Ship Bottom.

https://echoesoflbi.com/read-online/

06/27/2024

📖🏖🌊HARD COPIES NOW AVAILABLE🌊🏖📖
Over 150 pages of new stories, photography, art, and history, along with some of your favorites. Here's where to find it today:

SHIP BOTTOM:
Things A Drift
A.R. Aitken Builders
Big Dipper Ice Cream
Mary Allen Realty
Pagnotta
Surf City Marina
Walter's Bicycles

SURF CITY
The Cheese Shoppe

BRANT BEACH:
Hutchison Pools
Dippers Ice Cream (formerly Iceberg Ice Cream)

BEACH HAVEN TERRACE:
Mensa Eats

BEACH HAVEN:
Compassion Cafe
Coastal Living Real Estate

HARVEY CEDARS:
BLue East Studio

BARNEGAT LIGHT:
Kitty Hawk Kites

MANAHAWKIN
AtlantiCare Health Park
Hackensack Meridian Health
Manasquan Bank
Reynolds Garden & Landscaping
Bloom at the Shore/Peggy Ann the Girls Florist

06/20/2024

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈
Love, Respect, Peace & let us unite all together. We are all Equal. ❤️
With love from McKenzie, Roxie, and Dazzle. Photo by Diane Keeler

06/13/2024

💐🪴🐘ELEPHANT SALE GOES GREEN!🐘🪴💐
THE GARDEN CLUB OF LBI
June 20, 10am-3pm, located on the parking lot at 28th and Long Beach Blvd in Ship Bottom. All manner of garden goodies, gently used and priced to sell, will be available! Part of the Outdoor Living Garden Tour and Art Show on the same day (it’s not required to have a ticket to attend the sale).

“There is something for everyone from pretty linens, artwork and mirrors, platters and pitchers, bar and bath accessories along with all the garden necessities imaginable” -Judy Bouton, Garden club member and chair.

Tickets for the Garden Tour are $40.00 and available through the club’s website at thegardencluboflbi.com

Six private gardens from Beach Haven to Barnegat Light and the club’s three public gardens open their gates to beautiful displays of flowers and shrubbery ideal for growing on LBI. Each garden includes Pine Shores award-winning artists working plein air, local vendors with summery offerings, and Garden Club information tables on such current topics as saving monarchs and native planting. Lots of prizes as well.

The Garden Club funds its extensive community work, scholarships and senior and children’s services through the Garden Tour and the Holiday House Tour scheduled for December 12.

06/10/2024

***ECHOES OF LBI - ISLAND TREASURES EDITION***
NOW ONLINE! 150+ pages! NEW local stories, artists and history. Click below to read online today. Hard copies coming soon!

The arts and leisure magazine for Long Beach Island, NJ. Featuring local arts, stories, and history of our Island and surrounding areas.

06/02/2024

Interested in learning how to write? One of our contributors Fran Pelham is hosting a class at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Brant Beach. More info below:

05/25/2024

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Memorial Day Weekend
Photo by Diane Stulga

05/17/2024

Congratulations Echoes of LBI Magazine - Cheryl Kirby, 2024 Recipient of The Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission Special Award of Merit in recognition of extraordinary achievements and contributions to the quality of life in Ocean County through her magazine, Echoes of LBI. The commission honored Kirby for publishing Echoes of LBI to keep local history alive and to promote local artists, photographers, poets and authors, and for providing the magazine for free thereby making the heritage of LBI accessible to the broader public; and recognized the magazine as a reverberation of the people, places, and arts that have shaped LBI over the years that is dedicated to retelling the memories of those who have lived, vacationed, and love LBI as well as publishing the artwork of local artist and photographers, and poetry about LBI. Photo by Maggie O'Niell. See the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gihzUQHBQ7c

04/23/2024

Happy Birthday to Carol Freas! Local artist and great friend! 🎂🎂🎂

A Fun Little Ditty ‘bout a Girl from Surf City By Andrew Flack Not everyone can remember such a fateful day When an experience so monumental swept them away But Carol (Smith) Freas has found a way To reimagine the wahoo and whoopee she was given that day Her 1st grade teacher, the kindest, Miss [....

03/17/2024

🍀Irish poo-lassies sending
Tail wags & kisses🍀
May the luck of the Irish be
With you all year long 🍀
McKenzie Roxie Dazzle 🍀
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Photo by Diane Keeler

03/07/2024

On the anniversary of the March 1962 storm, article by Reilly Sharp of Barnegat Light Museum

By Reilly Platten Sharp Photography courtesy of the Barnegat Light Museum “Today, tonight, and tomorrow cloudy, chance of snow developing, possibly mixed with rain. Highest temperature today and tomorrow in the 30s, lowest tonight about 30 degrees. 10 to 15 mile-an-hour northeast winds tomorrow. W...

02/04/2024

Winter Visitors

By Irene Bausmith When you live on the bay at the Jersey shore… Summer company arrive by car almost every weekend, if the sun shines, and leave when it rains. Winter visitors are overwhelming. They fly in from all over the world with no off‐season reservations. First the Swan bring their teenage...

01/01/2024

Happy New Year!

By Maggie O’Neill On this solstice, when night is long, I look to the sky and find the new born sun. When the world turns to winter and my soul seeks a rest, my heart is warmed by the knowledge that each day will be a bit brighter. Wrapped in the eternal circle of the […]

12/23/2023

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

By Randy Rush Photography by Robert Schlichting There’s a star up in the heavens For every soul on Earth And a new one is created For every single birth Each one’s glow is different Some brilliant – some not so bright Each one’s own uniqueness Represents a single life And the star that glows...

11/25/2023

Lovely Coke bottle sea glass found today by Staci Wagner on LBI

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

By Caitlin Furio To most people on LBI, December 9 through 11, 2022 was a typical quiet off-season weekend. For us, it was the best three days of the year: Dia de New Friendsgivingmasnukkalloween, the sixth edition of our quirky annual party celebrating at least five fall and winter holidays over th...

11/10/2023

SAVE THE DATE!
Mark your calendars! The LBI Sea Glass & Art Festival, hosted by Things A Drift in Ship Bottom, NJ is returning October 5 & 6, 2024! Don't miss it!

11/08/2023

🧿📖📌RARE HARD COPIES AVAILABLE📌📖🧿
Back editions of Echoes of LBI Magazine available at Things A Drift in Ship Bottom for a limited time Sunday, November 12 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. Editions from 2013 to 2023 available for free. Original RARE editions (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012) available with a $10 donation - proceeds going to our local firehouse. Limit one per person each issue. While supplies last.