Helen-Chantal Pike

Home is where the story begins

Selected Works

Anthology
"Although its rock-and-roll legacy is well known around the world, other music forms - gospel and blues, jazz and even classical - have an Asbury Park address that contribute to the American music treasury." - Bob Santelli, author of Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
American Studies
“The new edition contains rare photographs and an insightful foreword by the author’s daughter.”
-Dr. Barbara Tomlinson, Princeton, N.J.
This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume.
-The New York Times
"The collapse of American towns and cities is now so complete that our collective memory of why they existed and how they came to be is nearly lost. Helen-Chantal Pike's history of Asbury Park is a worthy, lively, and well-researched effort to correct this cultural amnesia."
- James Howard Kunstler, author of "Geography of Nowhere".
“a Jerseyana journalist”
-The New York Times
Business
Tracks the evolution of leading industries across a 300-year span.
Local History
Four volumes of illustrated history about New Jersey's North Shore communities.
Historical Fiction
"In the swish of a flapper dress, the smell of the potato mash or the shape of looks-just-like-it liquor bottle, the period details are superb."
- Pamela Waterman, Mesa, AZ

Can a Jersey Girl Survive a Move to North Woods?

I Can See the Finish Line!

December 31, 2011

Tags: David Brooks, New York Times, CBS, Amazing Race, Asbury Park, Robert E. Pike, Connecticut River Valley

Riverside Cemetery, peaceful home of my ancestors who had led an industrious farm life settling Waterford, VT after the Revolution.
Behind me is a course I've run for a little more than 20 years here on the north Jersey shore, in my childhood home in Eatontown, once a bugler's call away from Fort Monmouth that was decommissioned a couple of months ago. Click any menu tab to discover what I've been up as the (more…)


spiked boots:
new stories for old calk

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