The Bayman cover:hardcover This dramatic photograph of a

This dramatic photograph of a thunderstorm moving out to sea over the beach captures the raw power of natural forces at the Shore

This book includes a few essays and articles from other writers of the period selected by the author

Under a glamorous

along with fascinating stories about the town's first merchants when the center of Beach Haven was closer to the ocean

It ''makes you yearn for the time when things such as honor and duty and responsibility and commitment were actually taken seriously

The Bayman cover:hardcover This dramatic photograph of aAn authentic voice for a disappearing culture and endangered environment, Merce Ridgway, in The Bayman, tells it like he lived it. Nowhere else has the New Jersey bayman's life been so accurately detailed, and no other account of a waterman's trade includes such scope of folklore and family. A native son whose great grandfather was the first keeper of records of the Barnegat Life Saving Station, he shares an account that celebrates the bay, the