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Another Jersey Shore causes holiday confusion
Home News Tribune Online 05/29/06
By TOM BALDWIN
GANNETT STATE
BUREAU
JERSEY SHORE, Pa. — There is no
boardwalk here, and no sandy beach.
There is a boat ramp.
And just like in New Jersey
on this Memorial Day Weekend, sun-seeking tourists arrive in this central Pennsylvania borough that for centuries has tricked
folks into confusing their Jersey
Shores.
Barbara Weaver, the town librarian, recalls just such a
clanger from her college days. "There was a student there who thought
they were going to be able to visit the seashore. The best they can do is
the Susquehanna River," Weaver
laughed.
Rachel Ulmer, spokeswoman for Jersey
Shore Hospital,
remembered: "When I took this job, I told my mother I was going to be
working in Jersey Shore, and she said, "You live in central Pennsylvania. Won't
that be an awfully long commute?' "
A similar saga was spun by the late author Hunter S. Thompson.
He covered high school sports here. Thompson, a stumbling monument to
disorientation, accepted the job without looking at a map.
He believed he was fulfilling a dream to live by the sea. Not
until he actually drove here did Kentuckian Thompson realize the closest
salt water was then, before Interstate 80, another six hours to the east.
Jersey Shore, Pa., is located in a
pastoral valley, some two broad mountain ranges north of I-80. It lies just
over two hours by car west of New Jersey's
frontier with Pennsylvania
at the Delaware Water Gap. Rutgers fans motoring to games at Penn State University
will zoom by just south of this quiet hamlet of under 5,000 people.
Jersey Shore is backed by mountains and curled by the
West Branch of the Susquehanna River. The
deer, the bears, coyotes, elk and trout grow big here, and the rattlesnakes
long. Thrilling white-water canoeing is just up the valley.
"That is our most-asked question," sighed librarian
Weaver. "How did a town in central Pennsylvania
get the name Jersey
Shore?"
Scott Sagar, curator of the Lycoming County Historical
Society, said, "People from New Jersey
settled there, and the side of the creek that they settled on was called
the Jersey Shore."
That was 1785. One Reuben Manning and his nephew, Thomas
Forster, arrived from Essex
County. A Lycoming County
history says, "As the settlement grew, it came to be called "Jersey Shore,' because Manning and Forster
were Jerseymen. At first, the name was applied in derision."
Derision? Seems that even back then, New Jersey was a target.
The valley's history is pocked with New Jersey names — Caldwells,
Parkers, Bodines. Small farms, orchards, tanneries, lumber camps and mills
marked 19th-century commerce, and railroading provided jobs until the
1930s.
Today Jersey Shore is trying to build
on its longtime popularity with hunters and fisherfolk, increasingly
appealing to tread-lightly travelers such as kayakers, cross-country skiers
and bicyclists.
In New Jersey,
the town's name prompts wrinkled brows and bemused smiles.
"It's hard to imagine a town by the name of "Jersey
Shore' that would be in the mountains," said Sen. Leonard Connors,
R-Ocean, whose district includes the veritable symbol of the Jersey Shore,
"Old Barney," the red-over-white lighthouse at Barnegat Inlet.
"I'm looking at a copyright problem. Not that we would sue
because we, as a state, are broke," joked Sen. William Gormley,
R-Atlantic.
"People going to the Jersey
Shore should be able to view the
Atlantic Ocean," sniffed State Assemblyman Jim Whelan, D-Atlantic, a
former mayor and lifeguard in Atlantic
City.
"I think it should be called "Susquehanna Shore,'
" quipped Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance, R-Hunterdon.
"There is only one real Jersey Shore
— ours," snarled Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Bergen, who owns a beach
house in Lavallette.
"Maybe we need a branch office," said Jim Leonard,
lobbyist for the state's Chamber of Commerce.
One can purchase a sturdy, three-bedroom house in
Pennsylvania's Jersey Shore for under $120,000, with many listings in the
$70,000 and $80,000 ranges, said Realtor and lifelong resident Connie
Barger, who vacations with her family in Ocean City.
Doctors here don't deal with a lot of sunburn cases, or with
boardwalk splinters and sand burns. Walk into the emergency room in the
hospital, however, and one sees a wall chart with turgid data on
rattlesnake bites.
Attorney Craig Harris said, "We, in fact, are in the
process of considering putting in a boardwalk, of sorts — along the
river. A river walk."
Lawyer Marc Drier grew up on Long Island, married a Pittsburgh girl and
landed here because it was halfway between their two families. He pointed
out that this Jersey Shore can match New Jersey's even when it comes to
fun-time shenanigans.
Here they have the "Fanny Susquehanny" flotilla,
when thousands of residents raise money for charities by "putting
their fannies in the Susquehanna" and tubing with barrels of beer down
the river.
There is even a surfer here in alpine Jersey
Shore, Pa., far from the
heaving Atlantic.
Just one.
Rich Best, owner of Sunken
Treasure Scuba
Center here, took up
the sport years ago while summering in Beach Haven. "I've still got
the Hobie surfboard on the side of my shed," said Best.
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Tip #19
Home Buying Tip, Online Searching:
Searching online is a very effective way to look for real estate in New Jersey, or anywhere
for that matter. Good websites
allow you to search through multiple MLS’s so you can cover a wide
range. For example here you can Search for NJ Real Estate.
After you find the house you are interested
in you can inquiry with the real estate agency to find out more
information or to arrange an appointment to view the house.
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Tip #18
Home Selling Tip, Targeting Out Of State:
When you sell your home you sometimes have to put yourself in the
potential buyers’ shoes. In New Jersey many home buyers are from the
surrounding area, like New York or Pennsylvania.
Knowing this can allow your agent to
market your house more effectively.
If he/she will advertise in a New York publication they can describe
the proximity to NY. This allows
your potential Buyer Base to expand.
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