Recent content by Todd Hansell

Hmmmmmm... A Beer, the Pines and Ghosts... sounds like we should meet at The Pic in Shamong! Which also means the best wings in NJ!

There are also wild turkeys and vultures... vultures like to stand on tombstones and can be quite odd looking upclose. I remember seeing pictures of a cemetery in Mt Holly that had vultures on the tombstones. Whatever I saw that night was translucent and very dark. But it wasnt right at my hood...

I did... When I was a kid the Watson and the Hansells were like family. It was very sad when Dick Watson passed a couple of years ago. Even sadder that I had to be the one to tell my dad and mom.

Still trying to figure that out :)

Thinking about it after all these years it's still weird and freaky.

He sure was... he and his friends Dick Watson, Boyd Hitchner, Eddy Glassman, the Binders of Collingwood, etc (as well as others in their circle of friends) were pioneers in South Jersey bottle collecting. Sorry YES his name is Lee Hansell. He lived in Collingswood, Turnersville, and Marlton...

I was born in South Jersey in the early 1960s and raised as a bottle digger/collector. My father Lee Hansell and his friends Dick Watson, Eddy Glassman, Boyd Hitchner and others used to use old topo (and other types of) maps as well as Beck's very famous books to locate old towns around the...

The only way the amount of children I heard would have gotten to the ruins was by bus and or cars and none were around besides me and two companions. We were just at the ruins and no one else was around. They sounded like they were just ahead of me and I never found them. Spooky but cool.

Hi there! New dude to this site, old dude to the Pines. When I was youngER (back in the late 1960s) My dad and I used to bottledig in the pines. Yeah yeah I know we are evil whatever... soooooo back then we used to call Brookbrae the Pasadena Terracotta Works. I am not sure how it ever got that...

Most of my Hansell ancestors were firmly planted in Philadelphia since the 1750s however a branch of them became fruit and berry farmers in the area of Willingboro, Beverly, Rancocas, and Delanco. From there the family spread further but not far into the Pines. My great-great-great grandfather...

Hi!!!! New member however old school enthusiast of the Jersey pinelands. Found this and thought it was interesting. An ancestor of mine from the Tabernacle area filled out a draft registration card in 1942 and reported that he worked for Plains Corp.