The Bayman cover:hardcover There's also the fierce performance

There's also the fierce performance of the New Jersey militia in defense of their homes and farms

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

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

travel the first automobile highways to the Shore — or take the train to one of the grand old hotels

The Bayman cover:hardcover There's also the fierce performanceAn 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