@whatshappeningnj: The hurricane of 1938 devastated fishing villages up and down the Jersey Shore, and the recovery that followed relied entirely on people willing to give far more than they had. In one small village near Barnegat Bay, a local boat builder spent over a year quietly rebuilding an entire fleet for families who had nothing left to pay him with. He kept track of what was owed, then simply erased the debt once the work was done. Stories like this rarely make it into the history books, but they represent exactly how so many coastal communities across this state managed to survive their hardest years. There's something worth remembering about someone who gave everything to rebuild a community, and never once expected anything back for it. What's something someone rebuilt for your community after everything seemed lost? #NewJersey #BarnegatBay #NJHistory #JerseyShore #CommunityStories

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