Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden

Acknowledgments

xv AC K N OW L E D G M E N T S Many people helped in the writing of this book, but some I especially thank: Laurel Hessing, with her encyclopedic knowledge and generosity of spirit, who really started me on this road, and Dr. Fernanda Perrone, archivist, of Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University Libraries , who was unfailingly helpful and efficient. I also thank Jillian Jakeman , of the Dyer Library in Saco, Maine, for prompt and intelligent help, as well as the staffs of the following libraries: Rutgers Special Collections, the New York Public Library, the Philadelphia Jewish Archives, the Asbury Park Library, the Neptune Library, and the libraries of Englewood, Union, Spotswood, Ocean County, Ocean County Historical Society, Cape May County, and Vineland. I also thank the many people who took the time to talk to me: Helen Barth, Tom Beisler, Terry Conner, David Freedman, Peter Goodman, Martin Hrynick, Allan Mallach, Sal and Tami Passalacqua, Clare Nadler Sacharoff, Leonard Sacharoff, Marjorie Rosenfeld, Rodham E. Tullos, and Lydia Wolniansky. I am also grateful to the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe for a Carol K. Pforzheimer research grant that allowed me to look at unpublished papers in its collection and in the Ishill Collection at Harvard. Thanks also to Charlie Spiler and everyone at the UPS store for copying help. I owe a special debt of gratitude for all kinds of help and support to my daughter, Cressida, my son-in-law, Tom, and to HEC, who joined me on some fairly peculiar expeditions. It’s been quite a journey. Utopia,   ...