Recent content by GermanG

I guess I addressed only one side of the potential argument, but I'd criticize a lone stakeholder group, agency or individual for independently determining the public good as much as I would any one group for opposing it. There should be a reasonable process, and democracy never leaves everyone...

The proposal uses an existing ROW and is having a negligible impact of the environment. It seems like a good plan, moving people from congested roads in that area to the rails, but the quote certainly could have been stated more tactfully. I've heard railfans and rail transportation advocates...

It's nice that the mill has a continued life. Several waterfowl decoys in my collection were purchased there.

Very sad. The last time I saw him was a few years ago at the Lines on the Pines. I was at Ted Gordon's table, filling a few holes in my cranberry label collection, and Bud stopped by. The three of us chatted for a while. Those wonderful few minutes are even more precious to me now. I'd only...

Are you looking for other marked, narrow, designated bike trails, similar to what you've done, or are you open to unmarked sand roads as well? If the later, your distances options are endless, given a park brochure, printed topo map or a phone/gps. I prefer that type of riding myself, exploring...

This is a photo I took of what's left of the gristmill perhaps 15-20 years ago. The street separating the gristmill and the Harris mansion is now a barely discernible, overgown path in the woods, not the current paved road. Now McCarty's home was on the other side of the paved road from the...

Was that chain link fence removed since your photo? The only such fence at the site surrounds the factory, not the gristmill ruins, which are on the other (Northeast) side of Rt 679. Also, what is left of the gristmill walls were nowhere near that high when I first visited the site in the early...

The holly farm was a pet project of the owner of NJ Silica, named Wolf. The corporate owner after he died had no use for the farm and sold it off, I think to a former employee of Wolf who had botany education from Rutgers. A bad snowstorm devastated the farm and structures and it closed after...

It's not just about knowing what the hunter is drawing a bead on Al. It's about what is beyond his target, sometimes way beyond. Getting ready to pull a trigger or release an arrow on a game animal triggers a level of predatory excitement that is buried deep inside us. At that moment you are...

Thanks. I'm good! For another 1/3 bottle, at least. ;)

Darn. My Acme is going to run out of bread, milk and Depends.

When my boys were young I felt obliged to buy several Stooges VHS tapes to expose them to a finer cultural education than they were getting from mom. She was convinced they would start whacking each other with sledge hammers. I told her that was silly, they could never lift the sledge hammer...

I was raised by my grandparents in Paterson. By that time there were no "good areas" left in town. When I'd walk to the store or park with my grandfather he'd have a machete hanging from his belt, out in the open for the world to see. I asked him if he could get in trouble for that and he...

Were some of the old bogs converted to blueberries? The closely spaced lines north and south of the more recent bogs give me that impression. I've never explored that tract but my interest is piqued! Edit: I didn't realize the post I was referring to was from 2018, but still curious!