VENTNOR, N.J. — A taste of winter came early this year, and the reasons to head to the beach in New Jersey quietly blossomed.
One day it was a late summer, local’s summer, with familiar faces spreading out blankets for their toddlers, dogs welcomed anywhere, surfers and cold-water swimmers no longer so rigidly organized and partitioned.
If there was a better place to sit and listen to the Phillies on the radio broadcast as they started their epic postseason run with a dramatic six-run ninth inning against St. Louis, cheers going up from isolated beach chairs as the afternoon sun warmed our faces, people running out of houses and onto the boardwalk joyously, I haven’t found it.
