If you’re in the Lehigh Valley or Warren County, N.J., you may want to visit the Warren County History Trail today. Today is the last day of the historical society’s Open House weekend, where many of the sites will host open houses.
Parisian Phoenix will join the Phillipsburg Historical Society at the Roseberry-Gess House (540 Warren Street, Phillipsburg, N.J., 08865) volunteering — where else? — but at the local history book table.
The Parisian Phoenix anthology Not an Able-Bodied White Man with Money will be among the books available because of the essay by contributing author, Maryann Ignatz, proprietor of the iconic Steve’s Café/Morris House. The tavern has been in Maryann’s family for more than 100 years and her essay chronicles life in working-class Phillipsburg throughout the 20th Century.
Copies of the nostalgic novella, The Death of Big Butch by Larry Sceurman will also be available. Its cover features the interior of the Phillipsburg tavern.
Committed to Phillipsburg history, Parisian Phoenix will be assisting Wayne Sherrer with his book on the African American history of the town. His mini-book, the first to display his research, will debut in January 2024.
These titles are only a few of the nonfiction Parisian Phoenix books dedicated to history. Others include the holocaust memoir, Stops Along the Way by Charles Ticho, and the small town mid-Century mini-memoir, David’s Little Town, written by educator David Scott Campbell and edited by Julian Costa.
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