Josephine

JosephineDuring World War I, before women had the right to vote in America, a young Josephine Lehman Thomas answered the patriotic call from Washington, D. C. and became one of the pioneering ''government girls,'' leaving her home in Michigan for adventure in the nation's capital. Through explored diaries and letters, her daughter, Margaret Thomas Buchholz, gives us an amazing chronicle of a trailblazing woman. Josephine worked for legendary journalist Lowell

“Not since 1964

chronicle this renowned region

there was Tucker’s Island

and the scientists who have worked here

You'll want to pull up a chair and join in as the Pinelands Cultural Society is born of Saturday night sing-a-longs

the author

Benjamin Franklin Book Awards winner: Gold Award — Best Regional Book in the Nation

renew the sensibilities of this seashore community's rich past

Or take a ride below the sea

” — from the book

and no other account of a waterman's trade includes such scope of folklore and family

builder of lighthouses