Meet 58 interesting people
who live next door,
down the road or
around the bend
This hardbound, coffee table-style book features 58 people and nearly 150 photographs, about interesting individuals and their hobbies, collections and achievements.
Readers will meet Churck Wehrle, the U.S. Coast Guard photographer who captured historic scenes on the beaches at D-Day, and Ray Russo, an Army Air Corps mechanic involved in The Last Mission of World War II.
The pages present Richard Humphreys, Lancaster County's Gnome Man, and Jay Lutz, Wilmington's Master Foul Ball Chaser, as well as Delawareana collecton Ken Brown from Smyrna and light house preservationist Bob Trapani from Lewes.
Find out what it's like to run Dagsboro's single screen Clayton Theatre, or discover a letter signed by Thomas Jefferson worth nearly $750,000. Is there really a market for a typewriter repariman in the 21st century? And what motivated an Elkton couple to collect 2 million signatures to convince the U.S. Postal Service to issue the POW/MIA postage stamp?
These and dozens of other stories are included in this new volume about the Mid-Atlantic region's overlooked heroes and characters.
“This book reminds us how easy it is to overlook folks right next door who are so full of life and character. Reading the first chapter is like finding a $20 bill in the pocket of your jeans on laundry day; unexpected, a pleasant surprise, an omen of good things to come.”
David Healey
Managing Editor of the Cecil Whig and author or Sharpshooter and Rebel Fever
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