Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities – MAC Music Festival Auction 2012
Auction Ends: May 28, 2012 12:00 PM EDT

Books

Basket of Cape May Books

Item Number
132
Estimated Value
85 USD
Sold
38 USD to dtavaglione
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

Basket of Books signed by John Bailey, including Sentinel of the Jersey Cape 2nd Edition, Sentinel of the Jersey Cape 3rd Edition, Juet's Journal, and Cape Island, Jewel of the Jersey Shore.

Item Special Note

He began his writing career as a computer technical writer, writing user manuals for National Cash Register Co. and Digital Equipment Corporation. His writing credits include, Sentinel of the Jersey Cape, The Story of the Cape May Lighthouse and Cape Island, The Jewel of the Jersey Shore (a history of the City of Cape May, NJ). He is a past president of the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities, the organization that saved and restored the Physick Estate, now an important Cape May house museum designed by the architect Frank Furness. During his tenure the group restored and opened the Cape May Lighthouse to visitors. The citizens of Cape May twice elected him to their City Council. He and his wife Nancy are master leather craftsmen and operated the Baileywicke Leather Shop on Washington Street in Cape May for 30 years. They are now semi-retired while John explores his water color talents and writes the books he’s dreamed of for those thirty years.