Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Legendary Locals of Asbury Park

HOWELL, N.J. - Aug. 7, 2015 - PRLog -- Barnes & Noble to Host Book Signing for Legendary Locals of Asbury Park

Local author celebrates notable residents using spectacular, vintage images

It is a pious paradise wrested from the dunes; a salty carnival of dreamers, drifters, and just plain folks; a city made legendary by Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Crane but grounded in generations of turbulent American reality. Even those who never lived there feel proprietary about Asbury Park—a place of shared experiences and strong passions, where grand sandcastle plans wash up against changing times and tides. Legendary Locals of Asbury Park captures a parade of personalities, from the visionaries who challenged nature to the true believers who sought, against tremendous odds, to make a year-round life in this city of summers. The shopkeepers and show people, the advocates on the front lines of social change, and the chroniclers who witnessed history are all among those who helped a small town cast a giant profile, here and on the big boardwalk beyond.

Highlights of Legendary Locals of Asbury Park include:

Captures the people-powered lightning of an ever-evolving city of summers, where the grandest sandcastle dreams have often crashed against the realities of changing times and cultural tides.
Showcases the vivid personalities who put their indelible stamp on the beaches, boardwalk and boulevards.
Chronicles 145 years of whirlwind history through over 140 vintage and contemporary photographs, period cartoons and original artwork.

Each book in Arcadia Publishing’s Legendary Locals imprint delves into the history of some of the unique individuals and groups, past and present, which have made a memorable impact on their community throughout its history.

Join the author for a signing:

Where:  Barnes & Noble

4831 Route 9

Howell, NJ 07731

When:  Saturday, August 29th, 2015; 1:00pm -3:00pm

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467122894/South-River).

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.