These resources that may be utilized with the reading of John McPhee�s The Pine Barrens.

Prepared by Dan Noonan and Arlene Sahraie

OBNJ 2004

 

 

Books:

 

  • The Pines Barrens� physical world:

 

p       Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey's Pine Barrens (Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development)
Robert J. Mason

p       Cranberry Cookery Complete

R. Marilyn Schmidt

p       A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey : Its Flora Fauna Ecology and Historic Sites
Howard P. Boyd

p       A Key to the Woody Plants of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Michael D. Geller

p       Natural Wonders of the Jersey Pines and Shore
�Robert A. Peterson

p       New Jersey Off the Beaten Path, 6th: A Guide to Unique Places
Kay Scheller & Bill Scheller

p       New Jersey: A Guide to the State
Barbara Westergaard

p       A Pine Barrens Odyssey: A Naturalist's Year in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Howard P. Boyd

p       Pine Barrens: Ecosystem and Landscape
Richard T. T. Forman

p       Protecting the New Jersey Pinelands: A New Direction in Land-Use Management
Beryl R. Collins & Emily W. Russell (editors)

p       Seasons of the Pines: A Photographic Tour of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Bob Birdsall & Jean Sault Birdsall

p       The Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
John W. Harshberger

p       Water, Earth, and Fire: Land Use and Environmental Planning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Jonathan Berger & John Walter Sinton

p       Wildflowers of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Howard P. Boyd

 

 

  • Pines Barrens� history, folklore and legends:

 

p       Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stories of the Pine Barrens
Larona Homer

p       Chaseworld: Foxhunting and Storytelling in New Jersey's Pine Barrens (Publications of the American Folklore Society)
Mary Hufford

p       Chicken Foot Soup and Other Recipes from the Pine Barrens
Arlene Martin Ridgway

p       Heart of the pines: ghostly voices of the Pine Barrens
John E. Pearce (out of print)

p       Iron in the Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron
Arthur D. Pierce

p       The Jersey Devil: 13th Child
James F. McCloy, Ray Miller

 

Books:

 

 

p       More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
Henry Charlton Beck

p       Patriots, Pirates and Pineys: Sixty Who Shaped New Jersey

Robert A. Peterson

p       Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil
James F. McCloy, Ray Miller

p       Pine Barrens Legends, Lore and Lies

William McMahon

p       Pineylore; history and folklore of the New Jersey pinelands

Lillian Arnold Lopez (compiled and edited by Karen Lopez Bishop)

p       South Jersey Towns: History and Legend
William McMahon

 

 

  • Fiction set in the Pine Barrens

 

p       The Barrens: A Novel of Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamond Smith)

p       Cape Mayhem

Jane Kelly

p       Cranberry Queen
Kathleen DeMarco

p       Danger in the Pines
Ruth Nulton Moore (Young Adult)

p       Kate Aylesford or The Heiress of Sweetwater

Charles J. Peterson

p       Killing Time in Ocean City

Jane Kelly

p       To Tell Me Terrible Lies: A Romance of the Pine Barrens (Wainwright Chronicles 1778-1783, No 1)
Katherine St. Clare

p       Pinelands: A Novel
Robert Bateman

p       Whitman's Tomb: Stories from the Pines
Robert Bateman

 

 

  • Recreation in the Pine Barrens

 

p       Coasting Along: A Bicycling Guide to the New Jersey Shore, Pine Barrens and Delaware Bay Region
Kurt B. Detwiler

p       Paddling the Jersey Pine Barrens, 6th edition
Robert Parnes

 

 

  • Books of the same genre

 

p       Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

p       My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir

p       Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard

p       Refuge : An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Terry Tempest Williams

p       A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold

p       The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich

 

Festivals:

 

  • Baymen's Seafood Festival

Tuckerton Seaport
120 West Main Street, P.O. Box 52
Tuckerton, New Jersey 08087

http://www.tuckertonseaport.org/

 

  • Cranberry Festival of Chatsworth
    PO Box 286
    Chatsworth, NJ 08019
    Phone: 609.726.9237
    Fax: 609.726.1459
    e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.cranfest.org/

 

  • Hammonton Red, White and Blueberry Festival

Phone: 609.561.9080

http://www.ushbc.org/hammonton.htm

 

  • Pine Barrens Festival

Annual Festival sponsored by the

Church of the Holy Eucharist
520 Medford Lakes Road

Tabernacle, New Jersey 08088
Phone: 609.268.8383

http://www.pinebarrensfestival.org/

 

  • Pine Barrens Jamboree

Wells Mills County Park

Route 532

Waretown, NJ 08758

Phone: 609-971-3085

http://www.co.ocean.nj.us/parks/jamboree.html

 

  • Powhatan Renape Nation Juried American Indian Arts Festival

PO Box 225
Rancocas, NJ 08073
Phone: 609.261.4747    

Fax: 609.261.7313
e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.powhatan.org/upcoming.html


  • Whitesbog Blueberry Festival

Whitesbog Preservation Trust

120-13 Whitesbog Road

Browns Mills, NJ 08015

Phone: 609.893.4646

e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.whitesbog.org/

Film/Video:

 

p       The Earth Speaks

p       Ghosts of the Pines

p       The Glassmakers

p       In the Barnegat Bay Tradition

p       It's Red, It's Edible, It Bounces

p       Journey to Survival

p       Lenape Indian Village at Waterloo

p       Lyme Disease: In Our Own Back Yard

p       Mother Leeds' 13th Child

p       My Pine Barrens Land

p       New Jersey Pinelands

p       Pine Barrens Journey

p       Pinelands Sketches

p       Sand in Our Shoes

p       Sled Dogs of the Pines

p       The Still Family Reunion

 

�        Pinelands Preservation Alliance

(More information about the titles below can be found at: http://www.pinelandsalliance.org/Pages/Merchandise/merchandise_nav.html#video)

p       New Jersey's Pinelands: A Region at Risk?

p       The Pine Barrens: Up close and Natural?

 

  • Commercial Films/Video

 

p       The Last Broadcast (1998)

�Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect in the disappearances of the other two. However, a local filmmaker examines extensive footage found at the scene and arrives at a different conclusion.�

Director: Stefan Avalos & Lance Weiler

Starring: David Beard, Jim Seward, Stefan Avalos, & Lance Weiler

 

p       Satan's Playground (2003)

��a supernatural shocker chronicling a family's spine-tingling odyssey in New Jersey's legendary Pine Barrens region. En route to a wilderness camping retreat, their car inexplicably breaks down. As darkness falls, panic sets in. Then the marooned family stumbles upon an ancient and seemingly abandoned house. And it is here that they meet the bizarre Mrs. Leeds who lives there with her equally unhinged children. Offering no assistance, she warns of a violent, unseen force lurking in the forbidding countryside. Soon, the family will encounter a supernatural evil older than the woods themselves��

Director: Dante Tomaselli

Starring: Felissa Rose, Ellen Sandweiss, Michael Berryman, & Irma St. Paule �

 

p       13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil �(2002)

�People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true?�

Director: Steven Stockage

Starring: Cliff Robertson, Robert Guillaume, and Leslie-Anne Down

Web:

 

  • Guide to New Jersey Pinelands

This is a listing of pinelands resources found on the Burlington County Library System�s website.

http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/pinelands/

 

  • The Jersey Devil

http://www.pressplus.com/content/njdevil/

 

  • The Jersey Devil

http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm

 

  • "The Jersey Devil" Elk Township (on-line) Local Area Mythology Page

http://www.diskworks.com/myth.html

 

  • The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens

by Anthony Perticaro

http://www.strangemag.com/jerseydevil1.html

 

  • Leut�s Jersey Devil Page

http://home.adelphia.net/~leuter/

 

  • Michael Hogan Photography: Fine Art Photography of Southern New Jersey

Mr. Hogan is a noted photographer who specializes in photography of the Pine Barrens, the Jersey Shore, the Delaware River and Bay, and southern New Jersey.

http://www.hoganphoto.com/

 

  • New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Parks and Forestry

http://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/

 

  • New Jersey Audubon Society
    9 Hardscrabble Road
    PO Box 126
    Bernardsville, New Jersey 07924
    Phone: 908.204.8998
    e-mail: [email protected]

List of articles pertaining to the Pine Barrens found in the New Jersey Audubon magazine

http://www.njaudubon.org/NJASIndex/List.asp?subject=Pine+Barrens

 

  • The New Jersey Pine Barrens Education Page at edusite.com

http://www.edusite.com/nj/science/njpine.htm

 

  • New Jersey Pinelands Commission

PO Box 7

15 Springfield Road

New Lisbon, NJ 08064

Phone: 609.894.7300

http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/

New Jersey Pinelands: Educational & Recreational Materials

http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/njpem.htm#materials

New Jersey Pinelands Commission On-line Curriculum Project

http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/pinecur/index.htm

 

  • NJ Pine Barrens: Exploring the ghost towns of southern New Jersey

This site is devoted to exploring the often overlooked history of the people, places, and industry in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

http://www.njpinebarrens.com/

 

  • The Pine Barrens

An extensive site, run by the Pine Barrens Enthusiasts, covering history, folklore, the environment, and recreations.

http://www.thepinebarrens.com�

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  • Pine Barrens Press

Pine Barrens Press specializes in books of the New Jersey Pinelands. There are cookbooks on blueberries, cranberries, herb oils and butters, chutneys, mustards, herbs, salsas, vinegars, as well as books on gardening in the Pinelands and the East Coast seashore region.

PO Box 607

Route 563 & First Street

Chatsworth, NJ 08019

Phone: 609.894.4415

Fax: 609.894.2350

http://www.themoose.com/barnegat/pbpress.html


  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance

114 Hanover Street

Pemberton, NJ  08068
Phone: 609.894.8000

Fax: 609.894.9455
e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.pinelandsalliance.org/

 

  • Pinelands Web Services of New Jersey

http://pinelands.com/

 

  • Piney Lore

A website dedicated to Lillian Arnold Lopez, author of "Piney Girl," "Story Poems of the Coastal Pinelands," and "Pineylore."

http://home.midmaine.com/~lopez/

 

  • PineyPower

Presents an insider�s tour of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

www.pineypower.com

 

  • Plants of the NJ Pine Barrens

http://www.georgian.edu/pinebarrens/

 

  • Plants of the NJ Pine Barrens

http://www.mikebaker.com/plants/plants.html

http://www.mikebaker.com/plants/slidesho/index.html (slide show)

 

  • Plexus Publishing Inc.

143 Old Marlton Pike

Medford, NJ 08055

Contact:� Pat Palatucci, Sales Manager Book Division

Phone: 609.654.6500 x144

www.plexuspublishing.com

 

  • South Jersey Cultural Alliance

Find out about theaters, museums, galleries, symphonies, presenting organizations, educational and multicultural organizations, dance companies, cultural and heritage agencies, and artists from Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and Salem counties.

http://www.sjca.net/

 

Speakers:

 

  • Elizabeth Carpenter (Betsy)

p       Contact Information:

P. O. Box 365

Chatsworth, NJ� 08019

Phone: 609.726.1019

p       Honorarium required:�

$125.00 per program; $75.00 for a second program offered the same day at the same location

p       Audiences:

Age 17 and up

p       Travel Area:�

Atlantic, Burlington, Camden and Ocean Counties

p       Topics:

�       �The Pine Barrens, a Quarter Century after McPhee�s Book� -- Investigate changes in Chatsworth, dubbed the �Capital of the Pines� by John McPhee.� Explore other special places noted by McPhee like Hog Wallow, Jenkins Neck and Apple Pie Hill. Presentation highlighted by slides.

�       �Topographic Maps -- A Hiking �Must� in McPhee�s Pine Barrens� -- These maps are great for planning class field trips and hikes. Discover what map numbers and symbols mean, and apply your knowledge to places you discover in McPhee�s classic.� You�ll have a hands-on opportunity to locate old towns, a fire tower, historic cemeteries and churches and cranberry bogs.� Slides will introduce you to each site.

 

  • Michael Hogan

p       Contact Information:

Phone: 609.476.2086

email: [email protected]

http://www.hoganphoto.com/

p       Honorarium required:�

Slide Show Presentations: $100

p       Audiences:

Doesn�t matter

p       Travel Area:�

Central & South Jersey

p       Topics:

�       Slide shows �Wildflowers of the Pine Barrens� and �The New Jersey Pine Barrens�

�       Will set up exhibits of his photography; please contact Mr. Hogan for additional information.

 

 

  • Burlington County Library Speakers Directory

The Burlington County Library has assembled an extensive list of speakers regarding the Pine Barrens and related topics.� The list includes contact information, availability, and cost.

http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/pinelands/speakers.html

 

Miscellaneous:

 

  • The Albert Music Hall

Home of the Pinelands Cultural Society, where the ��"Sounds of The Jersey Pines" has rung out every Saturday night since November 1974��

http://www.alberthall.org/

 

  • Batsto Village

Batsto Village & Wharton State Forest

4110 Nesco Road

Hammonton, NJ 08037

Phone: 609.561.0024

Fax: 609.567.8116

e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.batstovillage.org/

 

  • Sugar Sand Ramblers

��bring together a cross section of musicians from the  New Jersey Pinelands area, each with their own talent and appreciation for the region, an appreciation expressed in the songs they sing and music they play��

http://www.olnet.com/sugarsandramblers/

 

  • Wheaton Village

1501 Glasstown Road

Millville, NJ 08332-1566

Phone:800.998.4552

e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.wheatonvillage.org/