| Description |
xi, 210 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
How we got to where we are - - When prehistoric elephants roamed New Jersey - - New Jersey was paradise - - Move over, Betsy Ross - - Good golly, Miss Molly - - The Caldwell murder case - - "The cow chace" - - Classical gas - - The congressman's cold - - The first flight - - John Adams's ass - - Man eats tomato and lives ! - - Explosion on the USS Princeton - - Two New Jersey soldiers in Confederate prisons - - General Grant skips the theater - - The Jersey general and the secret of Custer's last stand - - Poor Mary Smith - - Mrs. Stanton steps out in Tenafly - - It's about time - - Leprosy in the laundry - - Stephen Crane gets into trouble - - The ghostly sphynx of Metedeconk - - Annie Oakley lived in Nutley, New Jersey - - Scandal at the girl's reform school - - Alice goes for a drive - - Billy Sunday came to Trenton on Monday - - Ezra Pound insults Newark - - Cher ami - - The poet, the athlete, and the war to end all wars - - The applejack campaign - - Swan song for Shoeless Joe - - The tragic fall of the Mexican Lindberg - - On the boardwalk with Al Capone - - The Morro Castle mystery - - The rise and fall of a great detective - - Mommy was a commie - - The Martian invasion - - When New Jersey was a Nazi target - - Teleporting penguin lands in New Jersey - - The serpent in the garden state: a brief history of corruption - - Postscript: how to write an encyclopedia of New Jersey in nine easy years - - Suggestions for further reading. |
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New Jersey -- History.
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New Jersey. |
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History. |
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. |
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Morro Castle (Steamship)
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Morro Castle (Steamship) |
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Asbury Park (N.J.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780813545868 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813545862 paperback alkaline paper |
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