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Memories of Ocean Beach

June 22, 2018 12:00 am • Last Updated: June 22, 2018 5:04 pm

Author Ken Keeley talks about his new book, "A Pictorial Journal of Ocean Beach Park," recalling the New London beach's early days as a fun spot for the wealthy, along with its evolution into a honky-tonk area and then, after the Hurricane of 1938, its transformation into a public park.

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