Labor Day in a Beach Town and What It Means

I live in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I don’t know what it means. I just got here.

I moved to a shore town to be closer to work during the final crescendo of summer. On an evening walk last month I overheard a child complain to his mother that it was still too hot, even after sundown. She joked, “We’ll have to start vacationing in Alaska.”

I cannot imagine being a person who uses “vacation” as a verb, let alone doing that verb.