The story of the famous opera “Madame Butterfly” started in Spray Beach on Long Beach Island, where long-time summer resident John Luther Long, a Philadelphia lawyer, took a story told to him by his missionary sister and turned it into a heartbreaking short story that appeared in the January 1898 issue of The Century Magazine. - READ MORE

By The SandPaper

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:00:00 GMT