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Beach, the place for building sand castles

Originally published: August 14, 2012 5:00 PM
Updated: August 15, 2012 9:43 AM
By ELIZABETH GYORI  elizabeth.gyori@newsday.com

Photo credit: Barbara Alper | Sand artist Andrew Gertler instructs a class in Long Beach on how to build sand castles. (July 30, 2012)

There's a strange scene unfolding on Long Beach's National Beach as the sun begins to set. Adults and kids are furiously shoveling sand into piles, dumping buckets of seawater strategically onto the sand and hitting the piles with the palms of their hands.

They're not digging for treasure or burying someone. This group is getting a sand-castle lesson from professional sand sculptor Andrew...