Roads of Home

by Henry Charlton Beck

Book Overview

"None of this is orderly, store-bought legend or folklore. This is the way people talk, sought out and recorded by one who loves both the people and the talk."--The New York Times
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. Father Henry Charlton Beck, who lived in New Jersey nearly all his life, was the author of numerous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081351018X
• ISBN13: 9780813510187
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great for fans of Jersey or folklore

Henry Charlton Beck has done historians, folklorists, and folks who love New Jersey a great service with The Roads of Home and the rest of his series of books on old-time New Jersey, told by the folks who lived it. He captures people, places, and events of a New Jersey long since paved over with McMansions and strip malls, in the voices of those who remembered when New Jersey was farms and fields, grand old inns and rustic cabins, old railroads and older canals. It was a New Jersey that once was, and in the pages of this and Beck's other books, it lives again.