A Long Lane

"When the longing would no longer down, I began my recital. I use the word advisedly. So little of the narrative is the work of imagination, and so much is supplied by memory, that I can hardly claim the authorship. The task has been to me one long delight. If I have-fallen short of my cherished ambition to do for Northern New Jersey something of what Margaret Deland has done for Old Chester, and Mary Wilkins and Alice Brown have done for rural New England, I may indulge the hope that I have led the way for abler explorers and miners." - Marion Harland. A chronicle of the Dutch customs and traditions in colonial New Jersey.