People gather at one of the famous Atlantic City lifeboats (August 2016) ‘It’s a town whose mayors seem to regularly go to jail or get investigated by the FBI – but also one whose mayors charmingly can be found riding bikes on the Boardwalk at dawn, or walking daily, until one day they’ve walked enough and now run. One mayor, the late Jim Whelan, was both a teacher and a lifeguard, a time-honoured AC combination. He could be found many mornings in a lifeguard boat, rowing around his city. They named an around-the-island swim after him’