Live Meeting at MaGerks Fort Washington – 582 S. Bethlehem Pike, Fort Washington, PA 19034
We recommend that you get here before 6:30pm to order your food and drinks before the lecture. Bring $1 or $5 cash for our used book raffle and you could win a Revolutionary War book!! Program begins around 7:15pm, Lecture around 7:30pm.
On the Jersey Shore, the Revolutionary War was more than a contest between the Continental and British Armies. In this neglected region, locals divided into pro- and anti-independence camps that fought a tumultuous six-year war only intermittently tied to the larger conflict. This war brought unprecedented economic opportunity to the Jersey Shore’s formerly poor and secluded villages, as locals risked their savings on speculative salt-making ventures and risked their lives in privateer vessels. British ships bound for New York were hunted by smaller vessels lurking in shore inlets. Local leaders sought to find and punish stealthy “London Traders” smuggling provisions behind British lines, and militia battled so-called Pine Robber gangs that frequently bested them.
Richly documenting and vividly narrating these events and others, award-winning historian Michael Adelberg explores the shore’s roll in America’s war for independence. In modern times, the Jersey Shore is a popular place for Philadelphia area residents to go to for entertainment and relaxation. During the American Revolution, the region was a somewhat barren area, that wasn’t teeming with residents and tourists. But residents in the region divided into patriot and loyalist camps, and fought a pretty ugly six-year war. Author and independent researcher, Michael Adelberg, has spent 35 years researching and writing about the American Revolution in New Jersey. Join us as Adelberg makes a return to ARRTOP, to discuss his 2026 book, The American Revolution on the Jersey Shore.
Book Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1467170607
About the Author:
By day, Michael Adelberg is a health policy wonk in Washington, DC; by evening, he is an historian of the American Revolution; about midnight, he turns into a fiction writer and reviewer.
Sleep is overrated. Adelberg is the author of publications across all three interests, including: the award-winning American Revolution in Monmouth County: Theatre of Spoil and Destruction (History Press, 2010), and three well-reviewed novels: A Thinking Man’s Bully (The Permanent Press, 2011), The Razing of Tinton Falls (History Press, 2011), and Saving the Hooker (The Permanent Press, 2014). Visit his website, www.michaeladelberg.com, to learn more about him and his publications.