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~ Henry Beck (Author)
Key Phrases: bier right, mine holes, glass towns, New Jersey, New York, Port Elizabeth (more...)
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"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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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 15, 1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 081351018X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813510187
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,286,142 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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bier right, mine holes, glass towns, mine road, forgotten towns
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for fans of Jersey or folklore, March 12, 2008
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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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