■ • . y ■ Louis Lambert's Hideaway Is "A Thousand Summers"

By Jacob Schaad Jr. ERMA - As th^seagull flies, it’s only a short distance from Wildwood to Erma, but for the lord of “A Thousand Summers” it’s worlds apart Much of his business day Louis Lambert spends in his Wildwood office, a short stroll from the boardwalk and smack in the middle of the busy summer activity of the seashore resort. When he seeks refuge he returns to his family on a seven acre tranquil Erma estate where peacocks and swans roam the grounds and an 11 room, four bathroom house provides the ultimate in leisurely living. There are some who would call the estate "Paradise Found” or “Lambert’s land " The owner calls it “A Thousand Summers" after a book written by Garson Kanin Hope springs eternal that he will spend a thousand summers in this paradise of keclusion. When one enters the long driveway of lambert's estate off Tabernacle Road, there is immediate indication that he is a Bout to join a different world. Lambert has lined the driveway with life sized statues of animals. APPROACHING THE HOUSE, one secs on . the left immaculately manicured grounds graced by such exotic birds as Australian swans, African geese, peacocks, mallards and ducks A lake the sizc-of a football field is stocked with bass that weigh as much as four pounds. Visitors are fiermitted to fish, but must return their catches to the water. Adding to the charm of the property is an old fashioned grist mill at one end of the lake. Also on his property Are two windmills, one a 100 foot high Mehrkham machine and the other a 65 foot Jacobs windmill. Among. the many enterprises of the

65-year-old businessman is the selling of windmills. He also owns nine Laura’s Fudge Stores from Cape May to Ship Bottom and is president of a tourist organization in which he arranges vacation trips to such places as Hawaii, Nassau and Virginia Beach. <1 ONE OF THE FASCINATIONS about "A Thousand Summers" is that it truly is another world by itself. Lambert has his estate so equipped that life could continue on its own there. He has an emergency 15 kilowatt generator for electricity and there are artesian wells for water. He has his own sewage system and his pantry room is stocked with enough food to feed, if dot an army, at least a platoon of hungry soldiers. Lambert’s house is basically early American except for the master bathroom whi<^h is Chinese and houses a bathtub and whirlpool large enough for five people. "I’m a fidnd.on Oriental," Lambert explains. While Lambert's house is the epitome of leisurely living, the best is yet to come. In ‘the planning stage is a huge Florida room which will be erected around his outdoor swimming pool. He plans to bring in from Florida some real palm and banana trees and to keep the room at 70 degrees temperature It will not be uncommon for his family to pick a banana or two for breakfast in the middle of January when the cold Cape May winds are stirring his windmills outside "Once this room is built in September, we won’t have to go to Florida in the winter." Lambert said, "We’ll bring Florida here." THE LAMBERTS ACQUIRED the pro^ perty and what was then a small house about seven years ago. They have been ex-

I Photo* by Dor It Ward)

of Louis Lambert’s home on his "A Thousand Summers” he seeks refuge from his busy outside world with his books.

pending ever since.

The concept for spacious grounds came

ONE OF the many feati estate is his library wl

from Lambert's youth. An orphan, he spent his early years at the Christ Home for Children which had considerable farmland. Many of his hours were devoted to attending animals at the home and he vowed that if successful he would some

day acquire his own animals. Lambert and his wife, Marion, have three sons, Marc, 12; Christian, 11, and

Jason, 17 months.

He also has on his property three dogs, a German Shepherd and two Dobermans. They are attack dogs and are trained to keep away interlopers.

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THE 2nd ANNUAL

CAPE MAY CLASSIC HOBIE CAT REGATTA SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JUNE 26th & 27th

THIS YEARS REGATTA IS THE SITE OF THE NORTHEASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP AND NEARLY 200 HOBIE CATS ARE EXPECTED TO COMPETE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT THE CAPE MAY DEPARTMENT OF .CIVIC AFFAIRS AT 884-8411 EXT. 20 or 27.

4, JUNE 23. 1982

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