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JERSEY SHORE PEOPLE
An Interview with
Gordon Hesse
The Author Discusses His Timeless New Book,
"Island Beach – A Sonnet in the Sands"
by Christine Menapace
O
ver a span of centuries, man has been living—fishing and hunting, looting
and life-saving, working and vacationing, and even beach buggying—
on the timeless shores of Island Beach State Park. A gorgeous new coffee table
book, Island Beach – A Sonnet in the Sands, chronicles this last significant
stretch of undeveloped barrier island ecosystem in the state. Beautifully written
by Gordon Hesse, with a foreword by former New Jersey Governor Christine
Todd Whitman, it includes more than 385 photographs and images. The book
is both a poetic love letter to Island Beach's three thousand acres and an
important historical document on the march of time through the sands—from
the Lenni Lenape foraging and fishing to shipwrecks, Henry W. Phipps Jr., the
"Sedge House," beach shacks, and even a WWII secret project.
"Island Beach – A Sonnet in the Sands"
will be available at bookstores and online
in late November 2017.
