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: lgiamalis@aol.com

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: powhatan@powhatan.org

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: Whitesbog@hotmail.com

http://www.whitesbog.org/