This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it ...

Kids love playing make-believe games, and living in a castle is the ultimate fun. Whether it be a princess castle or a king’s majestic home, kids love imagining themselves living in one with their ...

“Is your first name Sand?” asks the boy being introduced to the man building the sand sculpture on Revere Beach. “I wish,” wistfully replies the man sometimes known as Sandcastle Matt and some other ...

CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. -- The beach is empty. It's 7:45 a.m. Along comes Matt Long and his wheelbarrow full of tools and buckets, ready to create magic on the sands of Coney Island. For the last 15 years, ...

Joining the summer tourists at the beach this month was The Early Show correspondent Melinda Murphy who went to the 16th annual New Jersey Sand Castle contest in Belmar, where travelers are going more ...

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Brian Denny and his two sons couldn’t contain their shock Sunday. The trio had just been announced as the group winner of the of the International Surf Festival’s sand castle design contest for their ...