OCEAN CITY – The author of a popular book series chronicling life in Ocean City is set to release his third and final installment this month.
Available online and in stores beginning Friday, “Ocean City Chronicles” will be the final book in Bunk Mann’s three-volume series about Ocean City’s rich history. Following the success of his first two publications – “Vanishing Ocean City” and “Ghosts in the Surf” – Mann said he is eager to share photos and stories from 1868 to present.
“It covers a lot of years of Ocean City history,” he said. “And that’s the idea of Chronicles.”
In 2008, Mann began interviewing Ocean City residents for a new book about the resort’s historical buildings. By the third interview, however, Mann realized there was more to the story.
“Originally it was going to be about all the old buildings that were washed down, burned down, torn down, and what replaced them …,” he said. “By the time I had done some of these interviews, I realized the story was really about the people, not the old buildings.”