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

Q&A

Tell me your story. Or, ask me a question. What's your pleasure: Asbury Park? The Connecticut River Valley? The Garden State? Censorship issues? Too shy? Click the link above.

According to the fine print written by Peter Lucia, "Helen Pike is the Jersey Shore." To read how writer Cathy Newman from "National Geographic" quoted Helen in 2004, please go to the Greetings From New Jersey page.

"Asbury Park: Music and Municipal Madness" bowed at the inaugural Bruce Springsteen Symposium, September 2005. Want this power-point presentation for your group? Helen@HelenPike.com.

Need a wordsmith?
Writing coach?
Images?

Here's how I
can help:


* editorials
* radio scripts
* corporate writing
* ghost writing
* manuscript review
* proofreading
* copy editing
* PR pitch letters
* tours
* workshops

Hourly and
per-project
rates available.

helen@​helenpike.com


Need visuals?

Such as historic photos
for advterisements
or
to illustrate
a book or
magazine article?

Go to Titles Page
for examples
of where
Pike Archives pix
may be seen.

There's more!

Need a presenter?

In addition to my
own lectures,
I will gladly
provide leads for
groups who want
specialists from
the fields of business
and history.

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