"None of this is orderly, store-bought legend or folklore. This is the way people talk, sought out and recorded by one who loves both the people and the talk."--The New York Times Long regarded as folklife classics, Henry Charlton Beck's books are vivid recreations of the back roads, small towns, and legends that give New Jersey its special character. Father Henry Charlton Beck, who lived in New Jersey nearly all his life, was the author of numerous books on New Jersey folklife, state editor of the Camden Courier-Post, and writer for the Newark Star-Ledger. He is considered New Jersey's first folklorist and his painstaking work has left us with a rich collection of tales.
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Henry Charlton Beck has done historians, folklorists, and folks who love New Jersey a great service with The Roads of Home and the rest of his series of books on old-time New Jersey, told by the folks who lived it. He captures people, places, and events of a New Jersey long since paved over with McMansions and strip malls, in the voices of those who remembered when New Jersey was farms and fields, grand old inns and rustic cabins, old railroads and older canals.
It was a New Jersey that once was, and in the pages of this and Beck's other books, it lives again.
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bier right, mine holes, glass towns, mine road, forgotten towns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Jersey, New York, Port Elizabeth, Tom Quick, John Honeyman, Old Mine Road, Schooley's Mountain, Jim Still, Ananias Lutes, Bound Brook, Mount Holly, Big Sea Day, Delaware River, Joseph Francis, Old York Road, Frog War, Heath House, Henry Bliss, Morris Canal, Black Doctor, Burlington County, Green Bank, Charles Read, Leslie Coss, Gallows Hill New!
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bier right, mine holes, glass towns, mine road, forgotten towns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Jersey, New York, Port Elizabeth, Tom Quick, John Honeyman, Old Mine Road, Schooley's Mountain, Jim Still, Ananias Lutes, Bound Brook, Mount Holly, Big Sea Day, Delaware River, Joseph Francis, Old York Road, Frog War, Heath House, Henry Bliss, Morris Canal, Black Doctor, Burlington County, Green Bank, Charles Read, Leslie Coss, Gallows Hill New!
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- Mount Holly (Images of America) by Heidi J. Winzinger on page 129, page 131, and page 132
- Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Beck in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Autobiography & Selected Writings by Wector on page 196
- The Revolutionary War Set on page 252
- Kidnapped and the Ransomed by Kate E. R. Pickard in Back Matter
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- Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It by Mindy Fullilove in Back Matter
- Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State by Patricia A. Martinelli in Back Matter
- Haunted Jersey Shore: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State Coast (Haunted Series) by Charles A. Stansfield Jr. in Back Matter
- Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town by Kevin Coyne in Back Matter
- New Jersey's Multiple Municipal Madness by Alan Karcher in Back Matter
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