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a Friday night venue Hi Bob, The audience turnout was very good, especially for a Friday night venue! We stayed until 9:30 PM in keen discussion over various aspects of climate change, cultural settlement, and groundwater dynamics. It was great fun to present to a lay audience that had...

Hello friends, I have the honor of presenting at the new Jakes Run Nature Center this Friday, April 17 (7:00 to 9:30 PM). http://www.ocean.nj.us/parks/Lecture%20Programs.html The talk will include both cultural and environmental geographic elements of the Pine Barrens, new insight into...

Glowordz, Car-driven sawmills were actually quite common in the Pines. Every piece of equipment earned its keep. Those old vehicles were tractor-like, with plenty of torque available to navigate through sugar sand and mire. In Old Uncle Jenks' case, vehicle-driven woodcutting filled frequent...

Thanks for the kind words. Nothing smelled sweeter than the cedar-dust at Batsto sawmill! Have you noticed how warblers pluck Atlantic whitecedar bark off the trunk and line their nests with their bounty? I bet they too benefit from the aromatherapy, or at least get deloused in the process...

There were oodles of sawmills throughout the Pines, at least six in Richland alone if the hoop-pole factory is included. Two were in my “backyard”: 1) Uncle Jenk Evans’ Model T-driven mill; and 2) the Lafferty diesel-powered mill. The latter was built (c.1935) during the Great Depression of...

a standard of measure If this was cord-wood, logs usually chopped in 4-feet lengths for firewood, are sawmills necessarily involved? I've always associated the term cord as a fuel-use measurement. Are other lumber products measured in cordage?

Excellent! We would love to hear about your family's association with the sand plant, Mitzpah village, and Gigantic City. Are we on the right track?