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Jim Waltzer - Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities - 9780813530079 - KRS0018839
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Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities

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Description for Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities Paperback. A collection of almost 50 tales about New Jersey's southernmost counties. While the focus is on Atlantic City and its remarkable people, outsize structures and quirky events, the storytelling ranges across the wider region to provide an insider's look at history as it was being made. Num Pages: 230 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; HBJK; WQH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 329. An excellent, clean copy

There's much more to southern New Jersey than the Pine Barrens and the Jersey Devil, and this collection by journalists Jim Waltzer and Tom Wilk tells readers all about it. Oceanside and bayside towns offer a box seat from which to observe the regions rich history and the summery lore of the wonders of nature. Landlocked towns boast their own homespun and hell-raising traditions and idiosyncrasies.

Waltzer and Wilk have compiled almost fifty stories about the state's southernmost counties. Although the focus is on Atlantic City and its remarkable people, outsize structures, and quirky events, the storytelling ranges across the wider ... Read more

The authors divide their book into six sections: entertainment, famous and infamous events, innovations and innovators, leisure and recreation, room and board, and sports legends. Within each section are the rich and varied stories Waltzer and Wilk have collected for New Jerseyans reading pleasure.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rutgers University Press New Brunswick
Number of pages
230
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813530079
SKU
KRS0018839
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Jim Waltzer
Jim Waltzer is a journalist who has written for Atlantic City magazine, Delaware Today, the SandPaper, and New Jersey Monthly. Tom Wilk is a copy editor for the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill and coauthor, with Harry Armstrong, of New Jersey Firsts: The Famous, Infamous, and Quirky of the Garden State. He has also written for Atlantic City magazine ... Read more

Reviews for Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities
In a New Jersey that seems to believe that south of New Brunswick only dragons and bumpkins roam, Tom Wilk and Jim Waltzer's tales are refreshing, delightful, and corrective. 
Richard Aregood
Newark Star-Ledger, winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing

Goodreads reviews for Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities


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