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The Not-So-Big Beach House

April 27, 2018 by Janice Wilson Stridick

The Not-So-Big Beach House

I wrote the blog,  "It's Just a House! Do something with it!!"  when Paul and I were getting ready for the first tenant in our not-so-big beach house that had been in my family for forty years. I was freaking out, quietly, in my way. Emotionally, I was pushed to the edge with the intention of making the house perfect, having happy tenants, and ensuring that nothing went wrong. And nothing did go wrong, at least nothing to do with the beach house or the tenants. But six days before our first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Caregiving, Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Death of a Parent, Family Caregivers, Historic Preservation, Jersey Shore Renewal, Memoir, Mothers and Daughters, Sisters, Women's Stories

“It’s just a house! Do something with it!!”

June 25, 2017 by Janice Wilson Stridick

“It’s just a house! Do something with it!!”

  Last year, Paul and I bought the family beach house and these words from my mother's painting class keep me going. She charged her painting students with this and other pithy sayings when they were blocked. Today, the words seem prophetic. On the 15th anniversary of my mother’s death, my dear husband and I became sole owners of the Cape May house she adored. It’s a house that has served generations of our family and friends as a respite, a place of celebration, a center for art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Historic Preservation, Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Death of a Parent, Family Caregivers, Hoarding or Curating, Jersey Shore Renewal, Memoir, Mothers and Daughters, Women and Creativity, Women's Stories, Writing Tagged With: Alice Steer Wilson, Cape May, Emotional strength, Gratitude, Historic Preservation, memoir

Cape May’s Avenging Angel: Carolyn Pitts

March 23, 2015 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Cape May’s Avenging Angel: Carolyn Pitts

Well before Hurricane Sandy, there was the Great March Storm of 1962, a nor'easter that decimated the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. For the 23rd tribute of Women's History month, I'm smiling in gratitude as I think of Carolyn Pitts, an architectural historian who saved Cape May, New Jersey from the folly of urban renewal. Raised in Mount Airy, she graduated from Germantown High School, earned a bachelor's degree from Moore College of Art, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1962, as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Cape May NJ, Historic Preservation, Jersey Shore Renewal, Women's History Month, Women's Studies, Women's Wisdom

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