SEA GIRT, NJ – Is Emma Spreckels the mysterious girl from Sandwich Island, the “Gay Queen of the Waves,” who embarked on a surfing expedition in Asbury Park in 1888, possibly the first of its kind on the East Coast?
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After four years of research, Sea Girt author Vincent Dicks believes he’s found the likely surfer, and she’s the subject of his new novel, “Forsaken Kings: Emma Spreckel’s The Surfer of Asbury Park.”
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