The Bayman: A Life on Barnegat Bay

An 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 and the traditions of the Jersey Shore and Pinelan...