The impulse for non-involvement beyond our shores runs deep in our history.
It is still among the longest, with its center span stretching 3,800 feet and its roadway, from shore to shore, running almost five miles.
About 250 people are expected to participate in an annual anniversary run planned by the Jersey Shore Running Club on Tuesday evening.
All this with amazing first-time-ever views from a place a boat has never before been: it is "haze resting on the low shore running out to sea in a vanishing flatness", as Conrad put it.
It was the home shore, running from a sedge fen off the tip of a neighboring island and along a white-pine forest on the mainland to the near side of another island.
Mr. Littlefield said having a talent like Mr. Shore running the show would be a great advantage to a new "Rockford," but he added, "I don't think there are many gumshoe detectives around anymore, so the key will be how they reinvent the character".
Near the larger George Lake, the roadway curved back east along the lake's southern shore, running parallel to the main highway before turning south to connect to the main highway.
So it came as a great surprise when, in Destin, the prospect of restoring the shore ran into fierce opposition.
For a while, Mr. Shore ran LongevityDrugstore.com, an online drug retailer that he started, but it went nowhere.
Along the middle of the sand, parallel to the shore, runs a row of metal-and-plastic trash barrels set in concrete foundations.
