The History and Folklore of the New Jersey Pinelands

Foreward by
Lillian Arnold Lopez

Folklore and Legends
The Mansion of Health
Ballad of Leeds Devil
Hey Mother Leeds
The Witch of the Pines
The Ha'nted Tavern
Fiddlin' Sammy Buck
The Serpent of Long Beach Island
Ghosts of the Pines
The Barnegat Pirates
Legendary Joe Mulliner
The Pine Gnome
The Jersey Skeeter
How the Cricket Got His Tune
The Spirit Song
Lenape Lore
Lenape Wedding
Quail Hill
  Bathsheba
The Grasshopper War
Indian Ann
Indian Will
Memories of My Youth
Teddy
Don't Spill the Beans
  The Fireman's Fair
The Lamp Chimley
Country Kitchen Morning
'Lassus Cakes
Reflections of Childhood
Whippoorwill Shoes
A Staggering Tale
  Medicine Woman
Follow the Signs
Signs and Omens
The Great Fire
Shades of Yesteryear
Flaggin' Down the Train
  Button Buzzer
The Hobo
  Depression Days
in South Jersey

Mary's Schooldays
Penny Candy
The Crazy Quilt/The Quiltin'
The Naming of Waretown
The Medicine Show
The Legend of the Church Bells
  "'Mums' the Word"

Note to educators:
Please share Lilli's
story poems with
your students!


 

 

www.pineylore.org

The author, Lillian Arnold Lopez,
visiting the ship, Lucy Evelyn,
on Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
Children (left to right) are Frank
Krupansky, and Lilli's children,
Patty and Billy.
"To students of all ages who enjoy
New Jersey's and Ocean County's
early history and its folklorish
characters, real and embellished.
This is my legacy to all!"
-Lillian Arnold Lopez
Pinelands author
and historian

  Piney Links &
Recommended Reading
(updated 9/04)


  A Piney Photo Album
(From the great locomotives of the
Tuckerton Railroad, to a teenage Lillian
& her sisters in 1940's Forked River.)

A legacy of good eatin' from
the shores of South Jersey

(family recipes, or "receipts,"
as mom used to call them)

Are You In Touch With Your Roots?
(an essay by Lillian Arnold Lopez)

  Our Family Tree
(Lillian's genealogy chart)



Pineylore presented
by Lillian's children:

William Norwood
Patricia Norwood Mackie
Anita Lopez Racz
Karen Lopez Bishop
Dana Lopez

Seasonal Favorites
Mom's Geranium
One Hallere'en Night
Almost Thanksgiving
When Santy Comes
A Memorable Christmas
People of the Pines
Doctor James Still
The Hermit of La-Ha-Way
Village Tom
Pearl
  Stagecoach Stop
The Family Ridge-a-way
  A Great Escape
The Humbug Man
A Life at Sea
Matching Eyes
Aaron the Whalecatcher
The Feather-Footed Banty
The Seafaring Lad
Life Savers
Ship Bottom
Revolutionary War
  Our Coastal Revolutionary War Involvement
Molly Pitcher
The Patriots 'Long the Shore
To Those Jerseymen of Militia #5
The Visitors
Toms River


"The year 1886, in this little village of Waretown on Barnegat Bay wasn't much different than any other year in that era, except that Grandmom Ara had just turned twelve and was growing up with a bittersweet awareness of life around her..."
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four

lopez@midmaine.com

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