NEW BOOKS

MY BUSINESS WAS TO FIGHT THE DEVIL

Recollections of Rev. Adam Wallace, Peninsula Circuit Rider

1847-1865

Edited, with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Joseph F. DiPaolo
Foreward by Dr. Frederick E. Maser
Hard Cover with 70 Illustrations
$22.00

A fascinatiing first-hand account of life on Delmarva in the mid-19th century.

Rev. Adam Wallace (1825-1903) was an Irish immigrant who became an itinerant Methodist preacher, Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, newspaper publisher, author of Parsons of the Islands (still an important source for Eastern Shore history) organizer of the first Black Methodist Conference, ardent Unionist during the civil War, church historian, a fuonder of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and a leader in the camp meeting and holiness movement of the post-civil war era.

For more information write to:
Rev. Joseph F. DiPaolo
2536Aquetong Road
New Hope PA 18938

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Jack Burn jackburn@swva.net

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