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    Piney Poetry at Buzby's

    Thanks for the lead!
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    Piney Poetry at Buzby's

    Another question, if anybody can help. People were talking about "Jack" Buzby. Is that Willis Jonathan Buzby, son of Willis Jefferson Buzby?
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    Piney Poetry at Buzby's

    It was open Saturday - fundraiser for Marilyn.
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    Piney Poetry at Buzby's

    I witnessed someone recite the following epic poem the other day at Buzby's and have tried to transcribe it the best I could, but there were parts I couldn't understand. And many mysteries even among the audible parts. For just one, I don't know if the protagonist is "Old Zeph?" or "Old Zeth?" I...
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    Episode 38: The Wisdom of John McPhee

    I'm a lapsed McPheeite, so it's been a few years, but I remember loving the books on geology. They're sold separately---Rising from the Plains, Basin and Range etc.--and together in cinder-block form as The Annals of the Former World. Maybe if you're reading on a Kindle book-girth is less a...
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    Review – The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil

    WTF, I had a whole chapter devoted to Whimsy! :)
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    Not the Blue Hole Again ?

    How is this still a thing...
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    I'm tempted to say there are no new stories, only new reporters, but this guy wrote the same story this time last year. http://www.app.com/story/news/local.../?hootPostID=bdf55c6c564af017b1a1de62efbb35c4 http://archive.courierpostonline.co...5-years-ago-something-terrorized-South-Jersey
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    I need to go to the library.
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    At some point I'd like to see Jerseyman's ranking of early twentieth-century South Jersey historians...
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    Thanks, Jerseyman, for undertaking that. I'm updating my file. I do think there are some echoes of that writing in the WPA Guide a few years later. In other JD news, the Weird NJ/Paranormal press apparatus has begun its annual peddling of the 1909 terror meme, so if you have your Jersey Devil...
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    Did anyone figure out what Heston said about Estellville in his wagon jaunt?
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    Nice. I think I remember a Buddtown and a Bowker's Corners or something too...
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    Jersey Devil Alternate Origin

    Does anyone know if Herbert Halpert mentions Estellville? I guess he would have been writing/doing his fieldwork after Heston, but might be interesting anyway. My shoddy memory tells me he didn't, but I'm not sure...
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