Where the Bruce is loud and the Rolling Rocks are cold
Jennifer Finney Boylan is a Philly girl who's family went to the Jersey Shore in the summers. She is now an author, transgender activist and English professor at Barnard College. She wrote this wonderfully evocative piece in the New York Times on Thursday August 20, 2020. I didn't grow up going to the Shore; I grew up in Ohio and we'd to Lake Erie which isn't a scene like the Atlantic coast. Not until my brother married into a Philadelphia family who went to the Jersey Shore, did I understand how wonderful and what an escape it is. My family started to join Tom and Leslie on Shore vacations. We rode out Hurricane Bob in 1991 at Cape May. My son loved the beach just like Jennifer Finney Boylan's friend Mickey said, "You know, this beach is a good idea." Families change where they vacation. Tom and Leslie tend to go to the Outer Banks and reside part time in the Poconos. My son Drew and his wife Sarah go to Virginia Beach. But this article will bring back those sights, sounds and smells which directly link to the memories of summers past.
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