Pine Barrens: Legends & Lore - Softcover

McMahon, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912608196 ISBN 13: 9780912608198

Publisher: Middle Atlantic Pr, 1987

Synopsis

The New Jersey Pine Barrens is a legendary place with a fascinating history, rich in mystery, adventure, and romance. Across its great green canvas flash pirates and plunder, patriots and villains, boom towns and ghost towns, brawling millworkers and firebreathing preachers, witches, wizards and, of course, the Jersey Devil.

Today, all that remains of the colonial settlements and once-thriving, boisterous mill towns are occasional bits of crumbling rubble in the deep woods-and a wealth of stories about the past that have been handed down from one Pine Barrens family to the next.

This book is a delightful grab bag collection of just such lore, accumulated by the author in the course of a lifetime's fascination with the Pine Barrens. A number of these yarns are pretty good local history, some are of the strictly-for-fun variety, and some are read late at night with the lights turned down low, and the doors and windows securely bolted!

About this title

About the Author:

William McMahon has spent most of his life in and about the Pine Barrens. Newspaper, lecturer, and local historian, he is the author of six previous New Jersey books and the recipient of many awards, among them citations from the American Association for State and Local History.

Review:

"A fascinating Book" -- New Brunswick Home News

"The ancient pines have stories to tell and William McMahon knows how to listen. Better still, he listens and records..." -- Burlington County Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Middle Atlantic Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0912608196
• ISBN 13: 9780912608198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 149