Pinelands Folklife

Pinelands Folklife

Author: Rita Zorn Moonsammy

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Looks at the Pinelands region of New Jersey, describes farming, glassmaking, charcoal burning, trapping, oystering, and clamming in the region, and discusses the local ecology.


The Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil

Author: James F. McCloy

Publisher: B B& A Publishers

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780912608112

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In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print


Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey

Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey

Author: Henry Charlton Beck

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780813510194

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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. Rutgers University Press is pleased to make these important books available again in newly designed editions.


Jersey Genesis

Jersey Genesis

Author: Henry Charlton Beck

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780813510156

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Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey

Author: Henry Charlton Beck

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780813510163

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Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps. Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey. A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches. Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.


New Jersey Folk Revival Music: History & Tradition

New Jersey Folk Revival Music: History & Tradition

Author: Michael C. Gabriele

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1626198241

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New Jersey shaped folk revival music into an art form. The saga began with the bawdy tunes sung in colonial-era taverns and continued with the folk songs that echoed through the Pine Barrens. "Guitar Mania" became a phenomenon in the 1800s, and twentieth-century studio recordings in Camden were monumental. Performances by legendary artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan spotlighted the state's folk revival movement and led to a flourishing community of folk organizations, festivals and open-mic nights at village coffeehouses. Author Michael Gabriele traces the evolution and living history of folk revival music in the Garden State and how it has changed the lives of people on stage and in the audience.