Helen-Chantal Pike

"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

“The new edition contains rare photographs and an insightful foreword by the author’s daughter.”

This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume.

"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”

Tracks the evolution of leading industries across a 300-year span.

Four volumes of illustrated history about New Jersey's North Shore communities.

"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