At 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, Frenchtown Bookshop will host author Neil King, Jr., the former Wall Street Journal reporter whose “exquisitely felt memoir of an American journey” (Ken Burns) …

Just about a year ago, Neil King Jr. started on a walk that would take him from his home in Washington, D.C., to Manhattan to learn about some of America’s “originalists.” On Friday, the former …