Humankind's obsession with living near the ocean. The good, the bad and the sandy.
Host Keith Shortall was joined by
John Gillis: author of "Islands of the Mind"; "A World of Their Own Making: Myth Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values"; and "Commemorations". A professor of history emeritus at Rutgers University, he now divides his time between two coasts: Northern California and Maine.