The Roads of Home

bobpbx

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"The lanes and Legends of NJ"

I lent the subject book to my good friend Mickey Coen. He returned the favor by giving me a new one he had never read in return. It is a paperback copyrighted 1956, sixth printing.

I just wanted to remark that, as I turned it over a few times in my hands, it feels good to hold a brand new book by Beck in your hands. It doesn't matter that you've read it before, it just feels special, like a jewel recently discovered and brought to light. As I stood there, I saw myself cozily curled up on my favorite chair, in a warm comfy house, in the dead of winter, taking another trip with Henry Charlton Beck, to lands that he made us love through his own special love of them.

I lived not in those days, but how I long for their measured simplicity.
 

Teegate

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Very nice Bob! I am sure he would be proud reading that. I am for him.

Guy
 

LARGO

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You're gettin' a little Gooshy but it Sounds like a book I would enjoy.
Bet it just has that smell of days past. Savor the book Bob.

G.
 

woodjin

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I picked up that book a while back and have jumped around a bit with it. I can't say I have had an opportunity to get into it deeply yet. Let us know of any good excerpts.

Jeff
 

bobpbx

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Let us know of any good excerpts. Jeff

Here's a good 'un for you Jeff from page 173:

"I first went to Martha Furnace with Warner Hargrove when there were mountains of slag not yet carted off...when there was still evidence of houses in the clearing, and when the great dam was visible not far under the water above the pool where the big pike awaited a tempting lure to their liking".
 
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