Time-Travel the LBI Beach with Bob Kugel at the Ocean County Library Long Beach Island Branch

SURF CITY – Remember pinning on your first beach badge for all-day access to surf and sand on LBI? Bob Kugel, author of the Benjamin Franklin Book Award-winning 55 Years of Long Beach Island Beach Badges 1967-2022, has a passion for them. Join him for a look at their fascinating past and share your memories at the Ocean County Library Long Beach Island Branch, 2 PM Wednesday, July 17.

LBI beach badges have captured happy, sandy recollections of vacations, first loves, summer jobs, and family events for more than a half-century. Bob’s extensive LBI badge collection, gathered during his many years on the Island, can be viewed in the Branch’s lobby display case throughout July.

The colorful, photo-filled 55 Years published by West Creek-based Down The Shore Publishing in 2023 depicts the evolution of beach badges in LBI’s six communities with histories, fun facts and a sampling of daily, weekly, senior, holiday and specialty issues. Copies are available throughout the OCL system and all of the Long Beach Island Library’s copies are signed. Bob chronicles daily LBI life on Facebook.
 
Please register at https://tinyurl.com/OclLbiBadges for this free program. For more information, stop by the OCL Long Beach Island Branch, 217 South Central Avenue, Surf City, call (609) 494-2480 or visit https://theoceancountylibrary.org/events.

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