PREVIOUS EVENTS 2022 – 2024
2024
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BOOK SIGNING EVENT!
Sunday, September 8, 2024 • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Titles: All books published by Jersey Shore Publications
Annual Beach Plum Festival, Island Beach State Park, at the first bathing pavilion. For more information, please call (732) 793-0030 or visit www.thefriendsofislandbeach.org
Attending: Authors Frank Finale and Gordon Hesse will meet readers and sign books. All Jersey Shore Publications titles will be available at a special discount for the event. Speakers, demonstrations, games, food, and attractions for children and adults. Free admission.
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2022
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BOOK SIGNING EVENT!
Sunday, September 11, 2022 • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Titles: All books published by Jersey Shore Publications
Annual Beach Plum Festival, Island Beach State Park, at the first bathing pavilion. For more information, please call (732) 793-0030 or visit www.thefriendsofislandbeach.org
Attending: Authors Frank Finale and Gordon Hesse will meet readers and sign books. All Jersey Shore Publications titles will be available at a special discount for the event. Speakers, demonstrations, games, food, and attractions for children and adults. Free admission.
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BOOK PRESENTATION & SIGNING EVENT!
Saturday, August 27, 2022 • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Titles: ”Island Beach - A Sonnet in the Sands“
Bay Head Borough Hall, 83 Bridge Avenue, Bay Head
Attending: Jersey Shore author Gordon Hesse will give a slide presentation and talk on Island Beach State Park. Afterward, books will be on sale, and Mr. Hesse will meet readers and sign books. Sponsored by the Bay Head Historical Society.
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POETRY READING & BOOK SIGNING EVENT!
Monday, July 4, 2022 • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Titles: The two poetry anthologies “The Poets Of New Jersey” and ”Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands”
8th Annual Long Branch Poetry Festival At Pier Village. The reading will be held during OceanFest by the oceanfront gazebo at Pier Village, Ocean Avenue and Centennial Drive, Long Branch
More than ten poets, many of which were published in the anthologies “The Poets Of New Jersey” and “Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands.” Featuring: Long Branch Poet Laureate Emanuel DiPasquale (co-editor of “The Poets Of New Jersey”), Mayor John Pallone, John Thomas Pallone, Jr., and Congressman Frank Pallone. With poets: Frank Finale, Estelle Bajou, Gregg G. Brown, Jennifer Stahl Brown, Charles Bruns, Olivia Calabrese, Marshall Harth, Linda Johnston Muhlhausen, and Daniel Weeks.