High Tide

In this season of holiday gingerbread houses, let us open the pages of a storybook about a gingerbread church.

It was a time when the city had no Convention Hall due to the previous one having been washed away in a storm when Dave Teel, our city manager, came to me and said, “Mayor, how would you like to have a new Convention Hall?”

Like every other boy I knew, none of us could ever wait for summer to arrive. Growing up in the summer, my evenings would be spent on the Pier.