Sometimes when you start a series on a topic like the history of Beach Haven’s most famous gift shop, the Lucy Evelyn, the projection is for a couple of weeks. Then there are times as you dig into the topic you discover there is more to the story than you imagined.
Launched in 1917, the schooner Lucy Evelyn survived a fire, suicide, a near sinking in gales and a voyage from Maine to New York that had it blown off course to the coast of Africa not once, but twice.
A 1942 article in the American Neptune by Robert H.I. Goddard Jr. picked up the story.
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