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Oh Lordy Yes! Sad to tell, one of my ex's has the original vinyl set from the early 70's. My mind's standard versions of a bunch of BG classics were solidified by those get-to-gethers of the greats with the NGDB - Tennesee Stud, Orange Blossom Special, Wabash Cannonball... Damn! Was the divorce...

I'm of the distinctly pre-boomerish persuasion and my early tastes in music were formed by listening to the Dorsey brothers, Maguire Sisters, Burl Ives, the Sourwood Mountain Boys, Art Tatum, Josh White, and later augmented by Sachmo , Woody Guthrie, Huddy Ledbetter,Mozart, Carlos Montoya...

Yeah; Hogmanay is New Year's Eve, and I always celebrate THAT, but I've thought that celebration of Hogmanay Eve would be yet another grand excuse for revelry... and then perhaps , the following year, that glorious "Night before Hogmanay Eve"... So many celebrations, so few single malts... Dave

Dammit, dammit, dammit ! I just found out that friday night was Hogmanay Eve ... and I missed it! Dave

Beats me, but that incident was my Dad's entre to telling me about his days as a reporter on the Toms River paper during prohobition accompanying the feds and other "authorities" on still busts in the pines. I think I have related his story about the still in the central building at Pinewald...

In '52 while on a family vacation we stayed at a motel ("Lazy Pines" sounds like the name) somewhere near Stark, Florida. We stayed there because my Dad thought the area reminded him of the Pine Barrens. As soon as we unloaded I took off with my snake stick and bags to explore the extensive...

Great article and really ... really ... well written; well organized, substantive, cast with concision and obvious feeling for the topic. No excuse to put off those books. Dave

Day-um, Bob, Yew sure do know how to turn a phrase ! Dave

Apple Jack! I'd forgotten about that. My grandad's black sheep brother - my Great Uncle Harry Washburn - (ambulance driver in WW I, carney shill and barker, moonshiner, who finally died of tertiary syphilus in his late 80's) lived up in the mountains somewhere north of Bloomsburg, PA - and...

You can take the kid out of the pines, but ... This thread reminds me of an episode I can't remember if I've recounted to you. If I have, chalk it up to a fading short-term memory and just move on ... Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s I was giving a talk on birds-of-prey in Portland to...

I love it ! Very well-put ! My wife, a native Oklahoman, said "I don't know what goes on at that website, but you sure seem the better for it!" (Makes me kinda wonder what I was like BEFORE I found www.njpinebarrens,com ... ??? ... and if, at long last, she's finally glad she married me...

Yeah, I agree that kestrels and Cooper's wouldn't routinely be expected in the suburbs - but during migration all bets are off ! A few years ago I as visiting in-laws in the suburbs of Syracuse,NY and they are avid bird feeders. They had boucoup lbj's -hundreds 'n' hundreds of 'em - at their 8...

Another geographic perspective: I've long thought that NJ would best be considered to exist as three distinct regions, to wit: South Jersey, North Jersey, and Jersey's Perineum ( otherwise known as Jersey's " 'Taint") The limits of the last-named region generally and loosly define the...

I think onehand's got it nailed! Dave

Y'sure this isn't a re-play of the old campfire tale? Mort and Clem, a couple o' ol' Idaho sheep herders, were sittin' 'round the campfire and occassionally they'd see reflected in the firelight a pair of coyote eyes. For a couple of nights they took to carefully shooting between the...

Yeah. Well, I shoulda taken that with a grain o' salt, I s'pose. Maritime influence and all that... The weather map folks do tend to be geographic "lumpers". I can recall more than a few times when they've said "the Dakotas are shivering in "minus figures" - when, in fact, eastern SD was at...