ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Ann Godoff; Tony Petrosino for his Web searches and for the poster of Journal Square; Jamie Vena Gottschall for her family research; Bob and Joseph Vena, Robert Vena, Jill Worthington, Susan Yenni, Edward and Elaine Stapinski, Michael Bell, Julie and Stephen Nowatkowski, Terri Gradowski, Mary Ann Koch, Mary Ann DelGreco, Eddie Meehan, Paula Muia, Colin Egan, Bret Schundler, Frank Culloo, Marcos Navas, Gene Scanlon, Anthony Cucci, Jaime Vasquez, Angie Wendolowski, Marybeth McGovern, Guy Catrillo, Bill Miller, William Rashbaum, Bob Leach, and Fred Friesendorf for their memories and expertise; to Pete Weiss, John Petrick, Olga Torres, Margaret Schmidt, Judy Locoriere, and the staff of The Jersey Journal; to Bessie Jamieson, Tom Boyle, Maria Schembari, Doug Roy, Brenda Tyson, Peg Latham, and the Millay Colony for the Arts, for giving me the space, both physical and mental; Sara Eckel, Laura Kriska, Jerome Gentes, Russell West, Kurt Jaskowiak, Andrew King, Luc Sante, Le Anne Schreiber, Kim Rich, Jodi Honeycutt, Jim DeRogatis, Deirdre Fretz, and Lauren and Paul Spagnoletti, for their encouragement; Ken French, Bruce Brandt, Charlie Markey, and John Norton in the New Jersey Room, Paula Spagnoletti, Stanley Stapinski, and Kathy and Walter Jamieson, for the answers to my many questions; my mother, Irene Stapinski, for her astounding memory and her nurturing skills; Dean Jamieson, for the luck and love he brought; and most of all, to my husband, Wendell Jamieson, for his countless edits, his boundless faith, and his incredible patience.