I GREW UP with my brothers and cousins at Hampton Beach during childhood summers. My grandparents would rent a beach house each season and then bought one years later off Ocean Boulevard in a quieter spot far from the cool kids at the beach’s lively Casino.
ONE OF BASEBALL’S finest, Ted Williams, once said: “That’s the life, being a fireman. It sure beats being a ballplayer. I’d rather be a fireman.”
