Ocean City

Ocean City
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061067488

Five strangers share a beach house during their summer vacation.

Old Ocean City

Old Ocean City
Author: Robert Craighead Walker
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801865855

"When the Walkers journeyed to Ocean City, Maryland, it was to enjoy summers filled with target practice on the beach, hunting the abundant waterfowl, fishing, boating, picnicking, and bathing in the ocean. In 1908, William and Nannie Letitia Walker purchased a lot from the Sinepuxent Beach Company of Baltimore and built a small hunting lodge that, by 1910, had become a sturdy cottage. The Walkers named their summer home, which still stands at the corner of Baltimore Avenue and Seventh Street, "Romarletta," for their children Robert, Margaret, and Letitia.".

Haunted Ocean City and Berlin

Haunted Ocean City and Berlin
Author: Mindie Burgoyne
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625852843

A vacation destination and a historic small town: two places that make Maryland great—and ghostly. More chills from the author of Haunted Eastern Shore. A ghostly sea captain, an ill-fated lover and jazz musicians who go on playing long after their last songs—these are the spirits that make their presence known from Ocean City’s Boardwalk to the picturesque town square of Berlin. The phantom scent of a woman’s perfume floats from Trimper’s carousel, while the Ocean City Life-Saving Station is haunted by the ghost of a drowned sailor. In Berlin, some guests never check out of the Atlantic Hotel, and strange happenings have been reported at the Rackliffe House, where legend has it that a cruel plantation owner was murdered by his slaves. Author and guide Mindie Burgoyne takes a chilling journey through the haunted history and lore of Ocean City and Berlin. Includes photos!

Between Ocean and City

Between Ocean and City
Author: Lawrence Kaplan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231128483

Lawrence grew up on the long peninsula, and though he is a professional historian, they say that Carol brought a degree of detachment and scholarship that prevented the account from being a personal memoir. They describe the transformation of the urban community in southern Queens during the decades immediately after World War II. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Sammy's Adventures in Ocean City, NJ

Sammy's Adventures in Ocean City, NJ
Author: Cindy Fortunato
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Monkeys
ISBN: 9780615214702

Captures the scenes and scents, through scratch and sniff stickers, of a little monkey's visit to Ocean City, New Jersey.

Peck's Beach

Peck's Beach
Author: Tim Cain
Publisher: Down the Shore Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Methodist Church
ISBN: 9780945582045

The classic book about Ocean City's founding and history is now available as a newly re-designed hardcover, with all the fascinating photos and text of the popular original. The roots of this unique seaside community are explored in stories and historical photographs in 21 chapters. Author Tim Cain examines Ocean City's past -- the religious founding of the town; the Boardwalk, and the Music Pier; the resort's glamorous royal family -- Princess Grace and the Kellys; the lifeguarding tradition; shipwrecks, coastal storms, and the Sindia; Ocean City's famous moments, firsts, and facts, and much more.

City on the Sand

City on the Sand
Author: Mary Corddry
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

In a little more than a hundred years, a desolate barrier island in Maryland became a teeming resort city. The story of how that feat was achieved is the heart of Mary Corddry's absorbing book. It is also the tale of opposites: the special affection thousands of Marylanders have for this unique place and the growing concern over the dune and marsh ecology and the effect of high density development on it. Here is a narrative of shifting sands and shifting fortunes, recounting how Ocean City has weathered natural and economic setbacks to become, every summer, Maryland's second-largest city.

Ocean City's Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay: The Fisher Collection

Ocean City's Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay: The Fisher Collection
Author: Robert Craig
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467160326

With 275 postcard images, this visual account of Ocean City's historic boardwalk, renowned beach, and surrounding bay and ocean waters draws on the extensive Fisher Collection--perhaps the best private postcard collection on the Eastern Shore.