Two superstar authors will touch down in Avalon when historical nonfiction author David Grann appears at Community Hall on July 21 and uber-popular novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid appears at Surfside Park on July 28. While their bestsellers are in different genres, both authors are considered masters of their craft, beloved by readers, and coveted by the film and TV industry.

Whimsical, yet complex. Buoyant, yet deep. Colorful, yet spare. The paintings of renowned American artist Craig Alan hover in the exquisite balance of these contradictions and will be on brilliant display at Ocean Galleries’ exclusive Craig Alan Exhibition over the July 4th weekend in Stone Harbor.

For the past several years, The Wetlands Institute (TWI), working with our partners at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, have been pioneering innovative approaches to building coastal resilience using dredged sediments derived from maintenance dredging of New Jersey’s Intracoastal Waterway.