Founded as a Christian resort on the Jersey Shore at the turn of the century, Asbury Park was carved from a small but striking stretch of sand dunes and towering forests. Home of the East Coast's first baby parade and boardwalk music, Asbury Park has grown to host a variety of cultures and faiths.
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Author and local historian Helen-Chantal Pike shares her noted knowledge of New Jersey history in this volume of vintage images chronicling the development of a resort from foundation to its present diversity and dynamism.
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I was born in New Jersey's second oldest seashore resort, Long Branch, in the middle of the Suez Crisis. I grew up in a city suburb, attending the public school system until my father, the late author Robert E. Pike, and I were a package deal (student/language professor) at a private day school. I chose to go to college on the Piasa Bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River (thank you, Mark Twain) so I could see another part of the country: art museums in St. Louis and Chicago; the Cahokia Native American burial mounds in Illinois; the Elephant Rocks in the Ozarks; a medieval fair in Swanee, Tennessee, and Nilo Farms where I sat in a duck blind to count birds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. My next stop was Paris to attend the Sorbonne, and backpack around Europe. My first newspaper job at the Asbury Park (NJ) Press led to my attending the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University where I wrote my master's thesis on the impact of real estate redevelopment around Tompkins Square Park in the early '80s. Six years of covering high tech and another six as a travel writer and photographer, and by the mid-'90s I was producing books. Still am! And, I use a ripped-from-the-headlines approach to lecture on media at Rutgers University. I also teach writing.
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Left: Designed to Bradley's specifications, this two-and-a-half-story frame building was the hub of Asbury Park in 1871. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Street, Grand Avenue, Ocean Grove, Long Branch, Mattison Avenue, Second Avenue, Asbury Avenue, New York, Deal Lake, Cookman Avenue, Emory Street, Fourth Avenue, Kingsley Street, First Avenue, Coleman House, Methodist Episcopal Church, Wesley Lake, Loch Arbor, Ocean Avenue, Ocean Township, Sunset Lake, Bond Street, Civil War, Helen Bradley, Salvation Army New!
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Left: Designed to Bradley's specifications, this two-and-a-half-story frame building was the hub of Asbury Park in 1871. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Street, Grand Avenue, Ocean Grove, Long Branch, Mattison Avenue, Second Avenue, Asbury Avenue, New York, Deal Lake, Cookman Avenue, Emory Street, Fourth Avenue, Kingsley Street, First Avenue, Coleman House, Methodist Episcopal Church, Wesley Lake, Loch Arbor, Ocean Avenue, Ocean Township, Sunset Lake, Bond Street, Civil War, Helen Bradley, Salvation Army New!
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