Time changes everything.The driftwood-strewn sand wouldn't have featured a single stick in the days before Europeans arrived to start cutting down trees.

摘要

And now we are back. As it happens, Jessie and I are about to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, and on this trip, we will be summering not in 1974's superannuated schoolhouse or 1990's musty motel but at the Wickaninnish Inn, a renowned luxury seaside resort. In revisiting my past and this now famous beach, I'm hoping to learn what sparked the transformation from local secret to global hot spot. And something even more important: can a place that is now so thoroughly discovered still possess the soul that endeared it to us in the first place?