This book features 58 fascinating people who are collectors, veterans, hobbyists, authors and, in their own way, unique. There also is a chapter by Jaime Cherundolo. The concept of "Friends, Neighbors and Folks Down the Road" is that fascinating people live just up the street, down the road and around the corner, but are often overlooked. In this book, they get their day in the spotlight. A sampling of the people featured include: Ted Stegura makes lighthouses and nautical art out of scraps and discarded building materials. Rich Humphreys, the Gnome Man, operates Gnome Countryside in Kirkwood, Pa., and uses it to teach about the environment. Jim Flood Sr. is founder of the Dover Post newspapers chain that reaches throughout Delmarva. Elbert Chance recently retired, after 50 years, as the University of Delaware football game announcer, Chuck Wehrle, WW II Coast Guard veteran, photographed the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach, Ray Russo, WWII Army Air Corp veteran, was involved in "The Last Mission" of World War II, Jay Lutz has collected more than 600 foul balls at Wilmington Blue Rocks baseball games, Wally Jones and the late Bill Lowe worked for years as Delaware River pilots, George Reynolds is an archaeologist, UFO expert and man of many talents, Archaeologist Ron Thomas was responsible for moving 3,300 forgotten bodies from a forgotten cemetery beneath a parking lot, Bob Trapani Jr., is in charge of an organization restoring lighthouses, Ron Whittington creates living history in the person of the late Judy Johnson, a member of the old Negro Baseball League and Baseball’s Hall of Fame, Joanna Alford discovered a letter signed by Thomas Jefferson worth $750,000—and Elkton historian Mike Dixon initially ignored her find. Bob and Jean Patterson collected 250,000 signatures and caused the U.S. Postal Service to issue the POW/MIA postage stamp, . . . and the list goes on with a few dozen more folks you will enjoy meeting.

Friends, Neighbors and Folks Down the Road

OKONOWICZ, Ed

Rhodes, Jerry

Biographies & Memoirs

Myst and Lace Publishers, Inc.

Shipwrecks and suicides, storms and fires, invasions of beetles and cats—and even a ghost story or two—are captured in this coastal history spotlighting 10 New Jersey and 10 Delaware lighthouses. The featured beacons range from Sandy Hook to Cape May in New Jersey and from Fenwick Island in Delaware and throughout the Delaware Bay. Through stories and 55 modern and vintage photographs, learn the surprising events that occurred in and around these silent sentinels, that are an important part of the mid-Atlantic region's history and lore.

Lighthouses of New Jersey and Delaware: History, Mystery, Legends and Lore

History

Bob Trapani Jr.

Americas

Ghosts roaming a Civil War ishalnd prison—plus eerie tales in nearby Delaware City and Olde New Castle—come alive in this haunted history of Pea Patch Island. The small spit of land in the Delaware River, between Delaware and New Jersey, held 33,000 Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Those who died on the island took a final ride on the "Death Boat" to be buried on the New Jersey mainland. The author, co-developer and host of the island's Ghost/History tours, shares spooky stories—and more than 70 photographs—of haunted locations, fort history and restless spirits. Comments by fort staff and visitors, plus an apparition captured on film, make this a great book for both Civil War fans and ghost hunters. Also, a tombstone ranking rate's the haunted prison's most spirited sites.

Civil War GHOSTS at Fort Delaware

Ed Okonowicz

Lighthouse historian and storyteller Bob Trapani Jr. spotlights Maryland and Virginia lighthouses through stories of shipwrecks, bombings, Civil War ghosts, murder, romance, disasters and ice storms. Dozens of modern and historic photographs, plus comments from lighthouse preservationists, add detail and insight about the challenges associated with these mid-Atlantic coastal treasures that remain an important part of the region's history, mystery and lore. This book features stories about lights that are and were in the Chesapeake Bay and along Virginia's Atlantic Coast, and it is the follow-up volume to the author's 2005 release, "Lighthouses of New Jersey and Delaware: History, Mystery, Legends and Lore."

Lighthouses of Maryland and Virginia

Bob Trapani

Take a tour of Baltimore's haunted historic sites in this book based on more than a dozen personal interviews with park rangers, graveyard workers, saloon keepers and museum curators. The book includes more than 60 photographs of graveyards, tombstones, forts, ships, haunted restaurants and historic locations. The book's highlights include the city's colorful history as explained through ghost tales and legends, featuring: unexplained activities at the Edgar Allan Poe House and Poe gravesite; 19th century grave robbing practices at the University of Maryland Medical College; spirits in the "catacombs" graveyard beneath Westminster Church; the "Gallows Ghost" and many other active spirits at Fort McHenry; graves and stories in Green Mount Cemetery (including the burial plot of John Wilkes Booth); sailor spirits on the USS Constellation in the Inner Harbor tourist area; several saloon ghosts and sightings in Fells Point; the Legend of "Black Aggie," an active tombstone statue; secret tunnels under Federal Hill; the story of the mysterious Phantom of O'Donnel Heights... and more. In addition a special 1-to-5 "tombstone rating," which was provided by the Baltimore Society for Paranormal Research, is included at the end of each chapter. These tombstone symbols indicate the level of hauntings at each of these public sites. To help teachers use this book in the classroom, a special teacher's guide is available separately. The book is entitled "Baltimore Ghosts and History Teacher's Guide" and was prepared by Cassandra Cogan, a middle school special education teacher in Cecil County, Md. This second edition includes the story Concert by Candlelight, which received a Storytelling World honor award.

Baltimore Ghosts: History, Mystery, Legends & Lore (second edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Philadelphia firefighter and bartender Joey Novak experiences a life-changing experience when he discovers an old suitcase holding the lost gold presented to the Christ Child by the Three Kings. In a materialistic, seemingly uncaring world, this everyday father and husband learns he has been selected as the next Keeper of the Coins. His job: to share his newfound riches and powers with the desperate and needy who will cross his path. With the help of an ornery, impatient mentor, Joey Novak eventually learns, and lives, the wisdom of the proverb: It is better to give than to receive.

GOLD, Frankincense & Myrrh: A Tale of Love, Magic and a Miracle or Two

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