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Someone (I can't recall who) told me years ago that he was buried there. I couldn't locate him on the Find A Grave list of interments for that cemetery and didn't give it much more thought until recently. While visiting the site today with a few friends I used my favored "boots on the ground"...

I viewed most of those graves today while visiting the Batsto-Pleasant Mills Cemetery, not to mention quite a few "Westcott" graves. I wonder if they are a totally different family or another example of creative South Jersey name spelling ;). I also found what I was looking for, the grave of...

I've been involved way too often in searches for lost hikers in the last 25 years and the reasons given by the hikers for having become lost never fail to amaze me. It's normally a case of either setting off too late in the day for the trail length, which wasn't checked in the first place, or a...

I can see why one might suspect that, but it is important to remember that ironstone is a sedimentary rock, formed by sediments being put down in layers. These layers often have bands that contrast in color and and density, causing different rates of erosion over time. A denser band of sediment...

I think I'd stop short of referring to South Jersey sandstone as brownstone. While it is a brown stone it isn't brownstone. Sort of the way blueberries are blue berries but not all blue berries are blueberries (don't read that after drinking a bit or smoking something medicinal, lest you end up...

Looks like a calendar-confused emerging skunk cabbage

There is a misconception that artesian water is somehow healthier for you than other water. It is merely water between two sloping impermeable layers, usually clays in our area, which builds up pressure as it becomes increasingly confined due to the angle of the layers. Punch a hole through the...

I must have sold my geology textbook when I was done with it but I still have my '78-issued Cook/Douglass pub card! I sure needed a haircut back then.

I was just perusing the Bass River History Blog and found some additional info on the Munion Field area. It seems that one of the many failed real estate schemes in the pine barrens was attempted at this site as well, called Appleby Estates. Based on the maps posted on that blog entry, it might...

Hmmm. How about sandwort?

I would say #1: Sand Myrtle, #2: Gallberry (AKA Gallbery Holly, AKA Inkberry), #3 Hudsonia, #4 Winged Sumac

I just canoed past the Superfund site on the Maurice with a group Sunday. Aside from the concerns over the water quality, it was the most obstacle-ridden stretch I've paddled in the last 20 years. Only Cedar Creek, just downstream of Bamber, was worse. A brave soul had done some clearing, but it...

Well I'm glad I'm not alone in sometimes expressing my feminine side. A good while back, I stopped my truck on a sand road and walked ahead to shoo a snake out of harm's way. When I was almost on top of it I realized it was a big rattler. My daughter, who was in the truck, said I screamed like a...

It looks like the culverts clogged with debris and the water took the next easiest path. Even if back-filled, the culverts would have to be cleared as well, but I don't think it's an issue of how easily it could be done as much as who is going to do it, and why. The state forest doesn't own it...

I paddled the Batsto yesterday, from the millpond down to the Forks, then back up the Mullica. It's a neat trip, with no shuttle and a 15 minute walk back to where you left your vehicle at the start. There were a few trees down near the sawmill portage and quite a few more blocking the river...

That will be a disappointment if it's true. Most of those I hike with find long hikes on railbeds monotonous, but I enjoy them and have done this stretch a few times and losing a trestle would be a bummer. I'm getting too old for attempting a Wallenda-style crossing. I'd think Wharton SF has no...

Maybe, but one needs to have fun where one can find it. Anyway, one of the cardinal rules of safe gun handling during hunting is being sure of your target and beyond. It is the beyond part that concerns me, not the target, which I not only have to identify but discern the vital zone of. Hard to...

Al, the hunter orange, or any other bright color one might wear, isn't so much to differentiate a human from a game animal as it is to avoid taking a shot at game when there might be a person off in the distance, who you might otherwise not notice. A person walking across an open field might be...

I take issue with the first half of the letter, as I do not feel that the financial contributions sportsmen make to public lands and to local economies are a relevant and an effective response to what most opponents consider a safety issue, even though the statements are true. The writer does...