{"product_id":"9780945582724","title":"Stafford Chronicles: A History of Manahawkin, New Jersey","description":"Stafford Chronicles is a collection of historical accounts, photographs, and profiles of township residents whose impact on the people around them has been more than simply ordinary. \u003cbr\u003eThe stories are based in southern Ocean County, NJ, but they range to high points of New Jersey Shore area history from the 1600s to the present. With histories of lives, families, and landmarks, Stafford Chronicles vividly reconstructs different ways of life in a town that has seen many changes. The profiles of long-term families capture indelibly such happenings as the feel of salt spray that braced men working in the now-defunct pound fishing boat industry on their way through the breakers \"\"over on the beach\"\". Or how women made their mark in the local workplace, such as at New Jersey Bell Telephone in the 1940s. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe research encompasses history of the region's transportation, government, religion, education, Manahawkin Lake, and businesses \"\"gone but not forgotten\"\" and retains the fervor and sense of necessity of the residents who had created them. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is an essential book for both the families of the founders, and newer residents to the township; it gives both a sense of the place they call home, and binds the community together. It is also an essential historical document about the New Jersey Shore.","brand":"Down The Shore Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020441174256,"sku":"9780945582724","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780945582724_p0.jpg?v=1763874848","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780945582724","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}