Tales from the Beach Cottage Sharon Johnson Pond

978-1-933251-24-8 1-933251-24-7 $14.95 paperback 6 x 9 124 pages Parkway Publishers

The author's family had one of the first houses in the Sandbridge section of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was not on the ocean, but it was close enough so that at night, the best time for storytelling, residents could hear the waves breaking against the beach, and the wind whistling around the house. When the grown-ups were reading or playing cards, children would sit beside their grandmother and listen to her ghost stories. With the sounds of the waves breaking and the wind sighing, and with few lights from other houses so that the night was very dark, children would get as close to their grandmother as they could and try not to look toward one of the windows where, they were certain, they might see a ghostly face looking in. The stories in this book are ones that were told during those summers by the much-loved grandmother. about the author Sharon Johnson Pond spent her summers in one of the first houses built in the Sandbridge section of Virginia Beach, a house that had been in the family for years.