OCEAN PINES, Md. — A few years after his parents paid $4,500 for a wooded lot here in 1968, Bill Russell began visiting the summer retreat regularly with his wife, Gemma, and their infant daughter, Kim, making the 2½ -hour trip from their Philadelphia home to the Worcester County community just north of Ocean City.
“We had to get enough gas money to get here, but then we had Mom’s food and Pop’s boat. It was our vacation,” said Bill Russell, now 62, who bought a house 10 years ago in north Ocean Pines, near his parents’ old place. Like many retirees here, Russell has not stopped working completely; he is a part-time dock attendant at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club and Marina, where there is a three-year waiting list for boat slips.
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