Snow-covered "Indian paintbrushes" near the Bay Head House
Bay Head Station. End
of the line for New Jersey
Transit. Only a thousand
three hundred residents
year round. Katherine
Hepburn lived here.
The bygone Lorraine movie house
is specialty shops now, but
All Saints Episcopal and
the Yacht Club endure
into the new millennium.
The salt-white clock tower
and cross of the Sacred Heart Church
shine over Route 35 blacktop.
Sea and wind sculpt
this beach of high dunes,
and tourists still come
to sun and praise.
The Northern Cross takes
its place in the August sky
just as it did when
the Lenni-Lenape looked up
from their longhouses
and all things
possessed a spirit.
...Last Stop by Frank Finale, Toms River
To the shore once more with Frank Finale. I wonder what those Lenni-Lenape would think now. Romanticizing the past is not really a good thing either. (Especially, in general, for women) Think about how many were accommodated in a long house and how many occupy a long house in Bay Head now.
Keep reading and writing,
Maureen
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