Helen-Chantal Pike - The Pike Log: Random Entries About Making His Story Mine

The Pike Log: Random Entries About Making His Story Mine

I am Thoreau (and so can you!)

March 19, 2013

Tags: Marion Winik, Asbury Park's Glory Days, Sy Safransky, Boston, The Sun, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Writer, The Notches, Upper Connecticut River Valley

Trading Places: tall trees for concrete canyons

Two years. Two months. Two days.

I might not make.

That’s the record Thoreau set with his little experiment of living by himself in a cabin by the pond outside of Concord, Massachusetts. A little more than 780 days. Me, I’m 420 days living in rural America, and I’m not sure I’m Read More

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Selected Works

American Studies

Spiked Boots:
Sketches of the North Country

“The new edition contains rare photographs and an insightful foreword by the author’s daughter.”

-Dr. Barbara Tomlinson, Princeton, N.J.

Tall Trees, Tough Men

This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all
rolled into one top-quality volume.

-The New York Times

Asbury Park’s Glory Days:
The Story of an American Resort

"The collapse of American towns and cities is now so complete that our collective memory of why they existed and how they came to be is nearly lost. Helen-Chantal Pike's history of Asbury Park is a worthy, lively, and well-researched effort to correct this cultural amnesia."
- James Howard Kunstler, author of "Geography of Nowhere".

Greetings From New Jersey:
A Postcard Tour of the Garden State

“a Jerseyana journalist”

-The New York Times

Local History

Images of America

Five volumes of illustrated history about New Jersey's North Shore communities.

Anthology

Asbury Park: Where Music Lives

"Although its rock-and-roll legacy is well known around the world, other music forms - gospel and blues, jazz and even classical - have an Asbury Park address that contribute to the American music treasury." - Bob Santelli, author of Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Business

Crossroads of Commerce

Tracks the evolution of leading industries across a 300-year span.

Historical Fiction

Spirited Ladies of Liberty Street

"In the swish of a flapper dress, the smell of the potato mash or the shape of looks-just-like-it liquor bottle, the period details are superb."
- Pamela Waterman, Mesa, AZ