In Search of Small-Town America: Volume 11
In Search of Small-Town America: Volume 11
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland
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- 219 Pages
- 247 Photographs
- 25,200 Words approx.
- 38.5 MB PDF Download
Cover: Ocean City – Maryland. 2006
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Content
Chapter 30 - New Jersey: The irresistible draw of the ‘Big City’. Loving it – then loathing it. 'Madam Marie', the roots of the Jersey Shore sound, and a misdemeanour or two. 'Closed-for-the-season' seaside motels, underpopulated funfairs and boardwalks. Lucy the elephant – and her protégé.
Chapter 31 - Delaware: 'Hooters' and 'Happy Harry's'. Used cars and clairvoyants. Nationalism, unerringly passionate Patriotism, and 'The Pledge of Allegiance'. God's house of deliverance, and basketball hoops.
Chapter 32 - Maryland: A brief excursion to the political, ‘centre of the universe', and the much anticipated mid-term elections. Cobbled-together steel bridges, and a near total non-event, on the road to Damascus.
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What Readers are Saying…
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Wayne Jackman
Read moreThe work is a unique and innovative mix of superb photographs, and an eloquent but quirky, daily diary – as the author voyages on a daunting solo trip through every State in America – in one year!
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Susan Toft
Read moreThis is unlike anything I've ever read before, with an intriguing combination of pictures and prose, interwoven in such a perceptive, and imaginative way. This is 'Click-Lit' – and I'm coining the phrase.
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Michael Hearn
Read moreI was captivated by this work, and the ambitious intention, but the methodical way in which the author has carried it out in such wonderful detail of words and images, is nothing short of astonishing.
His aim is to discover and document the small town ethos that was once all pervasive in this wonderful Country, but is now sadly, in slow but steady decline. It needed to be documented. And this is it! Add to this mix some fascinating facts, and often biting observations, and you have a gripping account of one man's quest to record the hidden and fading treasures that constitute 'Small-Town America'. The sole drawback is – America has only fifty States. I wanted more.
Wayne Jackman – Award-winning scriptwriter and author
This is 'Click-Lit' – and I'm coining the phrase.
I entered a truly special world when I opened this book. It felt that I travelled every mile, along with the author. The triumphant highs, the stoic lows – joy, tears and laughter. Absolutely beautiful photography, amusing but insightful words, and with a generous helping of social history thrown in. I have been educated and very thoroughly entertained.
Susan Toft – Retired Publican and consummate reader
The reader will be struck by how well the diary entries are linked with the photographs, with either leading the eye to the other. As with every honest diarist, from Pepys onward – his disappointments, his successes, the expletives, the arguments – and so we read on, to find out 'what happened next'. And not only are we treated to a rich and intelligent narrative, and a collection of thought-provoking pictures, we are also learning something about the Country, as the journey progresses.
Michael Hearn – Retired Librarian and book collector