Mom and Dad bought on the bay as soon as they could afford. Dad’s justification for the bay versus beach was if you lived on the beach you can’t access the bay, but by living on the bay, you can have both. I remember well swilling cocktails and watching 70 or so of these sunsets every summer for the last 25 years…you can have the beach.
When he was 19, Garrett Dutton, a Philadelphia native and Avalon
“shocal” (def: summer local, not a shoobie but not a local), left home to make it in the music biz. He went to Boston and played his brand of hip hop blues on the streets, selling his CDs out of an open guitar case at his feet. There he met drummer Jeffrey “The Houseman” Clemens and bassist Jim “Jimi Jazz” Prescott. Together, the trio formed the band G. Love & Special Sauce.
Many of his songs were written on the front porch of his parents Avalon home. He has been coming down the Shore his entire life.
“Avalon is my favorite place in the whole world,” says the musician. The town has profoundly influenced his career; he began writing songs on his family’s front porch when he was just 15 years old. Now, he carves out half of the summer to be down the Shore spending time with his son and sitting on the
porch getting down to the nitty gritty of his craft.
Full article can be found in Sea Isle Times link to the right.
(From the NY Times)
It may seem bizarre, but it is no joke. Leaping sturgeon have injured three people on the Suwannee this year, including a woman on a Jet Ski and a girl whose leg was shattered when one of the giant fish jumped aboard her boat. Eight others were hit last year, and with traffic growing on the storied river, sturgeon are joining alligators and hurricanes on the list of things to dread in Florida.
These injuries are very impressive,” said Dr. Lawrence Lottenberg, director of trauma surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine in nearby Gainesville. “You’ve got people sitting on the front of an open boat, and the boat is going 20, 30, 40 miles per hour. The fish jumps up and usually slaps these people right across their face and upper chest. Almost every one of them universally has been knocked unconscious. If you’re not wearing a life jacket, you’re going to fall in the water and potentially drown.”
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