The Bayman

The BaymanAn 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

From Sandy Hook to Cape May and along the Delaware Bay

When allowed back on the island

And the colorful characters and lost landmarks of a vibrant Jersey Shore community come alive

Sailing to New York from exotic

Author Tim Cain examines Ocean City's past: the religious founding of the town

booming resource

and Boxing Cats

The Environment

by weathering a whipping nor'easter

'' she writes of being ''oriented in life by a beach (more emotional than geographic) that I keep walking on

Sandy Gingras mixes prose

and Maxine Kumin