North Jersey legacies
Subtitle: hidden history from the Gateway to the Skylands
By: Gordon Bond
Publisher: History Press; The History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781609495565
Subjects: Local History; Biography; History
Description: 158 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dust in the Garden : The Days the Dust Bowl Came to the Garden State; title: 1/3,000th of a Second in Fort Lee : A Mysterious Experiment in Subliminal Advertising; title: Train Talk : How New Jersey's Belvidere-Delaware Branch of the PRR Helped Modernize Rail Communication; title: Scooping Sputnik 2 : How America Learned of Sputnik 2 from New Jersey; title: The Constitutional Courant : Was New Jersey's First Printer Responsible for New York's Most Virulent Anti-Stamp Act Broadsides?; title: Newark Airport : Where Aviation Became an Industry; title: "To Cast a Freedman's Vote" : How a Handyman from Perth Amboy Made Civil Rights History.