Costco to Host Book Signing for Raritan River Author

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Sept. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Along the Raritan River: South Amboy to New Brunswick, by local author Jason J. Slesinski, boasts 200 vintage images, many of which have never been published, and showcases memories of days gone by.

The Raritan River is the largest river in New Jersey, flowing from the state’s western mountains for approximately 16 miles toward the tidewaters of New Brunswick, from which point it widens over 14 miles before reaching the Raritan Bay. By the end of the 20th century, this estuary, known as the Lower Raritan River, was one of the most polluted in the nation. The very industrialization that brought economic prosperity to the communities along the Lower Raritan River was also the origin of the river’s contamination.

Today, however, the waterway is making a comeback. Along the Raritan River: South Amboy to New Brunswick includes historical maps and photographs to tell the story of this changing cultural landscape and its natural beauty and resources, historic floods, economic enterprise, devastating pollution, and continued renewal and recovery.

Highlights of Along the Raritan River include:

The images have been donated from multiple libraries and historical societies along the length of the Lower Raritan, as well as from private collections.
The book tells the colonial history of the Lower Raritan, which played an exciting, dramatic, and somewhat forgotten role in the American Revolution.
The book contains images of landscapes along the river that are today completely altered.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

100 Grand Avenue, North Brunswick NJ 08902

When: Saturday, September 13^th, 2014; 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit http://www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Along the Raritan River: South Amboy to New Brunswick

by Jason J. Slesinski

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: August 18,  2014