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

The Pike Log: Random Entries About Making His Story Mine

Making Kodak Moments

January 20, 2012

Tags: Eastman Kodak, Upper Connecticut River Valley, George Russell, Kilburn Brothers, University of Masscahusetts Lowell Center for Lowell History, Asbury Park, Robert E. Pike, ABC World News

When archiving my photos, 1999 emerged as the year that defined two passions: the Jersey Shore and the Upper Connecticut River Valley. Click this link to Facebook, and friend me if you want to see the mini digital albums I've created.

I loved them all: the cool blues of Ektachrome, the Hollywood movie colors of Kodachrome, and the 3200-speed of B&W film that enabled me to photograph through a hole in a boarded up wall the interior of the Palace Amusements in Asbury Park, NJ. It was the early '90s.

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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