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Lou2700, Let us know what you find out about Dowars Ferry, which crossed the Great Egg Harbor here and possibly on occasion at Clarkstown. One oral account has it potentially crossing as far north as Hewes, near Sugar Hill (before Farmer Hamilton built his bridge, the township being his...

STOCKTON UNIVERSITY KRAMER HALL PRESENTS— The Lure of South Jersey: The Resettlement of Migrants Fall Lectures Stockton University’s Kramer Hall, Noyes Museum of Art and the South Jersey Culture and History Center have collaborated to raise awareness of South Jersey’s long-standing cultural...

Yes, I did just as you said after her query to the audience. Others learned of the talk through the local papers like the SandPaper.

This was a fun night out! Hart's talk was based on a box-load of jetport archives donated to Ocean County. I'll have to pay more attention to this "Lectures at the Lake" series. Thanks to Ij762 for posting this event on NJPineBarrens, which otherwise would have been unknown to me. S-M

ditto..., except an earlier date of their arrival.

I am the bearer of sad news. Geohydrologist Ed Rhodehamel, on August 24, 2017, passed away in Virginia at the age of 97. Here is his obituary in the Washington Post: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?fhid=2195&n=edward-rhodehamel&pid=186517679 S-M

Yes, OJG, that is the place, the King of Spades. You can read the history of their landscaping products on the company's website. WW products are amazing. In a former life I was a nurseryman, and have a true appreciation for the workmanship. Some firms in China have tried to copy WW, but so far...

Oh, so that's how pea gravel got its name!

I too noticed how the clouds thickened, but then realized that cloud layer had been there before and after in about the same density. Apparently eclipse darkening had made those clouds appear darker, that's all. Patty made a hole-in-cereal box eclipse viewer, which worked fine for our purpose...

Boyd, I judiciously cleared my lot during torrid summer weekends in 1996, trying to minimize harm to flora and fauna. I tried to convince myself a green approach would be forgiving. Time has proven otherwise. The first year I could count a dozen box-turtles in a week; each with their own...

WaretownMike, I can attest to spider bites in the Pines. Old downed logs are a hot-spot. When clearing oak/pine woods for building my house, I too became a target. Scary large red patches appeared in the worst instances—itchy and sore. Half the homestead parcel was last farmed when I was a kid...

That was one of two rail stations for Pomona! The last issue of Sojourn (Winter 2016/17) had an article by Pullaro & Schopp (2017: 101) titled "Reimagining a Remnant of the Past at Stockton" about Lake Fred—the Pomona bogs. It is the location of a twentieth century cranberry operation, of which...

Anecdotal accounts have the Hospitality Branch railroad bridge as dual use for both early road and railroad traffic crossing. The nearby excavation pond, made for the bridge abutment, was used as a swimming hole—sometime called the Newtonville Blue Hole where a legendary drowning occurred...

Bob, 12th Street is basically the same as Route 54, the original road laid out for the colony of New Germany or Germantown in 1854 with the advent of the Camden & Atlantic (today Folsom & Newtonville), although Chalmers in Down the Long-A-Coming indicates the bridges crossing the Penny Pot...

I'm relaying an email from Stockton's South Jersey Culture & History Center that was posted July 20, 2017. SoJourn 2.1, the third issue of South Jersey history, culture, and geography has arrived from the printers (about a week sooner than we anticipated). You can purchase it from the Stockton...

How’s are the 2017 gardens? Every darn time I want to post on the topic—distraction. Here’s a couple 2017 photos before anything else wilts, gets eaten, falls over in a storm, or is incinerated by an asteroid. It’s a toss up every year as what works and what doesn’t. 2107 cucumbers were a bust...

I am not a hydrogeologist (only play one in a blog?), but see myself as a natural historian and periglacial geomorphologist who has always used the 17-trillion figure in talks. My realm is thin, extending only 3 or 4 meters into the regolith. In drafting the first post the literature was quickly...

Bob, He is in good spirits and we had a great talk about his his opinions on Pinelands hydrology and geology. It wasn't too long before old synapses in his brain re-fired just fine. We also broached into the broader Pine Barrens cultural community itself. Rhodehamel had a distinguished—albeit...

The metric 17-trillion—of course—describes how much water fills the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer. Everyone who paged through McPhee knows this one. It is a USGS hydrogeologist who came up with this figure. Actually the more accurate amount is 17.7 trillion (based on Rhodehamel 1979, as quoted by...

Mary Ann meant a lot to many participants to this site, and is dearly missed. She was a mentor to my daughter, who wrote a tribute in SoJourn: A Journal Devoted to the History, Culture, and Geography of South Jersey—Demitroff (2016: 89, "Mary Ann and the Cranberry Farm, a Transformative...