To The Shore Once More, Volume II

Frank Finale’s Classic Sequel and Companion Volume of "To The Shore Once More"

   Containing more pages and artwork than Volume I (with 180 pages of text and 144 full-color paintings by more than forty area artists), this oversized coffee table book of prose, poetry, and works of art takes readers on a journey down the Jersey Shore—from the tip of Sandy Hook to the point of Cape May.

   Join once more acclaimed author and poet, Frank Finale, and his family on a journey through the past and present as he once again captures life along the shore while exploring universal themes that touch us all. These graceful personal essays and poems elicit an emotional response and lingering memory. They are also perfect for reading aloud throughout the year and, as with Volume I, may even become a family tradition in years to come!

   The essays and poems are organized from north to south taking place in all four seasons in many of the towns and regions along the coast including Highlands, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Bradley Beach, Belmar, Spring Lake, Point Pleasant, Seaside, Island Beach, the Toms River area, Bayville, Long Beach Island, the Pine Barrens, Brigantine, Atlantic City, and Cape May.

   Also inside, you'll find resplendent, full color paintings of some of the loveliest landmarks and locations at the Jersey Shore. Each have been painted by area artists including Al Barker, Barbara Cocker, Dede Esenlohr, Dennis Foy, Carol Freas, Tine Kirkland Graham, Stephen Harrington, Dawn Hotaling, Paula Kolojeski, Dick LaBonte, Susan Walsh McLean, Sheila Mickle, Sue Oliver, Virginia Perle, Muriel Rogers, Nicholas P. Santoleri, Ludlow Thorston, Margaret Tourison Berndt, Theresa Troise Heidel, and over twenty additional artists.

   The book is hard bound with a protective dustjacket, and the full color text is printed on heavy, acid-free glossy paper.

   This companion volume is one of the most enchanting and beautiful books about the Jersey Shore ever published, and makes a great gift for special occasions and the holidays. It will bring you closer to the places you love at the Shore and is sure to bring many nights of reading and viewing pleasure—you, your family, and friends will treasure it for years to come.

Donna Ayers • Al Barker • Alan S. Brown • Carole Clarke • Barbara J. Cocker • Carla Coutts-Miners • Symon Cowles • Kate Leigh Cutler • Cathleen P. Engelsen • Dede Esenlohr • Dennis Foy • Carol Freas • Lloyd Garrison • Beverly Golembeski • Tine Kirkland Graham • Stephen Harrington • Ann Hayes • Linda Hejduk • Dawn Hotaling • Beth Kantor • Edward J. Kojola • Paula Kolojeski • Dick LaBonté • Jane Law • Joyce Lawrence • Robert A. Loder Jr. • Susan Walsh McLean • Pauline Mickle • Sheila Mickle • Patty Niebling • Sue T. Oliver • Virginia Perle • Patricia Rainey • Greg Rogers • Muriel Rogers • Nicholas P. Santoleri • Elaine Sgambati • Ludlow Thorston • Margaret Tourison Berndt • Theresa Troise Heidel • Lea Colie Wight 

Frank Finale has more than four hundred poems and essays published in more than one hundred different books, journals, and magazines. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, regional bestsellers To The Shore Once More, Volumes I, II, and III and three beloved children’s books, A Gull’s Story, Parts 1-3. He has also co-edited two acclaimed poetry anthologies: Under A Gull’s Wing and The Poets of New Jersey. 

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Frank is a graduate of Ohio State University and received a Master of Arts degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1976. He taught elementary school for thirty-eight years in the Toms River Regional School District in New Jersey. During his time as an educator, he received numerous awards and was named to the State of New Jersey’s Governor’s Teacher Recognition Program. 

 

Frank was one of the founding editors of the poetry journal Without Halos (1983-1995) and was poetry editor (1996-2012) of the new renaissance, an international, prize winning literary magazine of ideas and opinions, emphasizing literature and the arts. 

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Frank is a regular essayist for Jersey Shore Magazine and has been widely published in hundreds of magazines and journals including The Baltimore Review; Blue Unicorn; Chelsea; The Christian Science Monitor; The Georgia Review; Journal of New Jersey Poets; LIPS; Long Shot; The Long Story; Middlesex: A Literary Journal; Negative Capability; The New York Quarterly; The Paterson Literary Review; Poet Lore; and Sensations among others. His essay “A Walk Along The Beach,” appeared on the State of New York’s Regents High School Examination in English (August 2010), and several of his poems have been nominated for Pushcart Press prizes. 

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His poems and essays have been anthologized in numerous books including A Celebration of Cats; A Loving Voice II: A Caregiver’s Book of More Read-Aloud Stories For The Elderly; Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (various editions 1985-1997); The Best of Reminisce; Blood To Remember: American Poets On The Holocaust (first edition); Dear Winter; First Light: Poems, Stories And Essays of The Winter Holiday Season; Howl of Sorrow; Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning To Be American; Italian American Writers On New Jersey; Life On The Line: Selections On Words & Healing; Movieworks; Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands; Peace Is Our Profession: Poems And Passages of War Protests; Shore Stories; Teaching Poetry In High School; Tree Magic; and Tree Stories: A Collection of Extraordinary Encounters among others. 

 

Frank Finale regularly gives readings of his work throughout New Jersey. Born in 1942, he currently lives in Manchester, at the Jersey Shore.

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