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It’s a beautiful holiday house, and we’d love to see you!

December 13, 2017 by Janice Wilson Stridick

It’s a beautiful holiday house, and we’d love to see you!

Last Friday evening, Paul and I opened the doors for our first holiday house tour to benefit the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts. Click this link for the virtual Lamplighter Tour of Ocean Alice's. It's not too late for the holiday house tour Don't worry that you missed it -- we're on a second tour Wednesday, December 27th. If you're anywhere near and would enjoy the winter sparkle of festive Cape May, get your tickets now -- they will sell out! Just click this link -- and update me, please. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Historic Preservation, Memoir, Peace Tagged With: #metoo, Alice Steer Wilson, Cape May, Connection, Gratitude, Historic Preservation, Janice Wilson Stridick, memoir, Mother-Daughter Way, mothers and daughters, openness, Winter Holiday

“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: Alice Steer Wilson, Blog, Cape May NJ, Death of a Parent, Family Caregivers, Historic Preservation, 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

Linda Waller Shockley, Protector of Stories and Places that Matter

March 20, 2015 by Janice Wilson Stridick

Linda Waller Shockley, Protector of Stories and Places that Matter

Today, on the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Selma, I'd like to bring to light a woman whose quiet, steady work on behalf of social justice and memory has impressed and inspired me from the time I met her more than twenty years ago. Although her project has not gained the attention of Hollywood, yet, it should. We like to think of our democracy as just and equitable, but these painful stories of oppression, abuse, and prejudice continue to show up in our communities. Linda Waller … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Peace, Social Justice, Women's History Month, Women's Stories, Women's Studies, Women's Wisdom, Writing Tagged With: Civil Rights, Historic Preservation

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