Author:
Beck, Henry Charlton, 1902-1965.
Imprint:New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 1956.
Description:289 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Note:Map on end papers.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Land of waiting -- Lake of the mountain -- New Jersey's sodoms -- Switchback canal -- Schooley's Mountain springs -- Methodist medicine -- Purses of the dead -- the Old York Road -- The Tenting School and Mount Ployden -- The butcher who was a spy -- The wonderful auger of Ananias Lutes -- The frog war -- The man in the iron casket -- The black doctor -- Nobility in the pines -- The hidden land -- Glass past -- Glass present -- Of rascals and trials -- Woman's town : Port Elizabeth -- To the sea -- Toms River genius -- Borderline case : the two Tappans -- Tom quick and the ninety-nine Indians.
Note:Henry Beck conjures up lost town and legendary people. New Jersey's engaging folklorist brings to life people whose exploits have added humor, horror, wisdom, whimsy to the sum of folk-history. He gives each reader a personally conducted tour through many places which no longer appear on the map, through others whose names have been changed, their origins forgotten, their houses, stores, churches abandoned or torn down. Starting with the Old Mine Road that runs through Sussex and Warren counties along the bank of the Delaware, Henry Beck travels the byways rather than the highways southward.
