COVID memorial removed from Belmar beach. What's next?
For now, that home is a storage garage. A dozen volunteers spent Sunday removing the approximately 2,800 fist-sized rocks — each bearing the name of someone who died from COVID-19 — from the beach. The rocks had been arranged to form 12 four-foot hearts, each of which was ringed by yellow-pained seashells. Each heart — 11 of them, because the 12th was consolidated into the others — was glued to wooden shadow boxes for eventual display. “They’ll be sitting in storage this week while the glue hardens and we’re awaiting the display glass to arrive,” memorial creator Rima Samm...
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