Selected WorksAnthology
"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?Where the GPS Are We?February 3, 2012 
Thanks to Peter Lucia for this illuminated version of the Upper Connecticut River Valley at night
Odd question from Carolyn Kinne Grass as she climbed into my SUV Thursday, armed with an oversized atlas left-over from the era of open touring cars, goggles and silk scarves. “Why would I need one?” I retorted. (more…) Making Kodak MomentsJanuary 20, 2012
I loved them all: the cool blues of Ektachrome, the Hollywood movie colors of Kodachrome, and the 3200-speed of B&W film that enabled me to photograph through a hole in a boarded up wall the interior of the Palace Amusements in Asbury Park, NJ. It was the early '90s.
(more…) I Can See the Finish Line!December 31, 2011 
Riverside Cemetery, peaceful home of my ancestors who had led an industrious farm life settling Waterford, VT after the Revolution.
|
|
1 Comment