The 1776 Retreat will be release on Sept. 17 . The book honors the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and comes out on the anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. Pre-order sales are available now at amazon.com/author/louiseharris. Buy your copy for Christmas sales or for fall reading. It's Labor Day weekend, the end of summer. When I was young, we didn't go back to school until the Tuesday after Labor Day. Football began this weekend. We did have to go into the second week in June, but summer still began on Memorial Day weekend. That was when all the shops opened in Cape May, N.J. My parents opened the house that weekend or the weekend before Memorial Day, so we officially started summer days then. The last two weeks of school weren't much in the learning department anyway. On Labor Day weekend, we would go the beach one final time. Then, we would close up the house for the fall and winter. Although autumn in Cape May wa...