Recent content by Leewardian

I've been annihilated by allergies since Sunday. Only just today lifting after tons of Zyrtec, Mucinex, Afrin and, ultimately penicillin for the resultant sinus infection. Whee!

There's a supernatural element to it in parts; it's not so much a mystery overall as a rolling history of this fictionalized area and the people who pass over it, change it, etc. But very well done.

I've just finished North Woods by (Pulitzer prize nom) Daniel Mason, which came out a couple months ago, and rather than focusing on a specific character or characters it very interestingly focuses on a New England property over the centuries, beginning with the earliest British colonists, two...

Didn't see this mentioned here yet, so I thought I'd make the post: dirtbags took Lucille's JD last night. Their public social media has the videos: https://www.facebook.com/Lucillescountrycooking Here are some direct Facebook links of the same: Initial incident post...

Having an agency to mark out, manage and collect fees for ATV activity and then use that money to properly (and strongly, to send a message) enforce the activity in unauthorized areas seems like a win for everybody but the small outliers who generally don't like rules anyway and their opposite...

The sites of Beachwood Plaza and adjacent former mining/pollution dump known locally as Johnson's Pit, in Berkeley Township, has been a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic ruined industrial wasteland for two full decades, where ATV and dirtbikes regularly roam. Nobody appears interested or willing to...

Caught a news item in the February 16th, 1923 New Jersey Courier (Toms River weekly), during prohibition, that revives this generation-old thread (text shared here as it falls before the now-1927 public domain cutoff) - == Troopers Bring in Two Stills Tuesday, at noon, the two...

I was there; very nice as always.

Yeah I used the slider comparison tool between the cleaner 1940 aerial and 2019, then cross referenced it to Google Maps to verify the trail pattern where the buildings were. Then I dove right down the research rabbit hole and clipped a bunch of articles on it. I've had success using Ancestry to...

To follow up my own post, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on Crossley on Newspapers.com (am aware of the no-posting-newspapers-here rule, with good reason). The historic aerials site shows the buildings gone by 1956.

Someone somewhere else posted this video, which I'd never seen before (apologies to the original poster, wherever you are - I saved the video but forgot the source). The stunt was neat but seeing the old village from the various camera angles was really cool. Anybody know of publications or...

Oil speculation ran through Jackson in the early 1920s; I included an account from the Newark Call that outlined it in one of my Ocean County 100 years ago posts for Toms River Seaport Society, here - https://www.tomsriverseaport.org/news/this-week-in-ocean-county-1922-january-27th I'd included...

A brilliant new book came out from Hard Case Crime, titled Five Decembers, in which Midway (and Wake) play a role. I've read it twice in the past month. Wartime noir but so much better. For those interested, here's a bit about it: December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in...