The luminous island -- The pirates and money island -- The mystery of the blockade runner -- "Another Atlantic City" -- The storm of 1899 -- Lumina -- Shell Island and a separate paradise -- Trouble washes ashore -- The great fire of 1934 -- Emerging from the ashes -- The island goes dark -- Escaping Donora's deadly smog -- Hazel crashes in -- The lights go out at Lumina -- Holding back the sea -- Wrightsville today -- Fishing piers and the waters beyond -- Guarding the coast -- Modern-day treasures -- Loop around the past -- Wrightsville tomorrow.