My latest book, Nearer Home: Short Histories, 1987-2019, is now available on Amazon.com. Its distribution was delayed due to the pandemic. It includes chapters on the Asbury Park Riots of 1970, the Morro Castle, the Battle of Monmouth, Laird's Applejack; early horse-racing; iron forges in Ocean County; Pine Robbers; murder in Highlands; Tennent Church; Old Brick Church; the Mormons of Toms River who went to Salt Lake; town histories of Scobeyville, Roosevelt, Adelphia, Wickatunk; Manalapan, a few pieces on Thomas Edison, and more.
