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I've had the pleasure of paging through Frank Wainwright's book, courtesy of the Lakehurst Historical Society, but do not personally own a copy. One of his pieces for the Advance Nickel News ended up being cited source for this book. A lot of the business-related stuff on the Torrey family...

Hi folks. Excuse the plug, but this might be something you'd be interested in. Some years ago I penned a big, 20-part series on the history of Lakehurst for a local paper. It got such a great response I told myself I'd one day revise, expand, update, and turn it into a book. And now I've...

Recently spoke to one of the brewers there and he said chances look pretty good that more of the Exit series beers will appear in 12 oz bottles, possibly in mixed six-packs. He told me they'll for sure he reviving past beers of the series. That's exciting news.

Some of those landscape photos are just astonishingly beautiful. Fantastic work. People think New Jersey begins and ends on the NJ Turnpike, but look at that beauty. Very nice.

Hey Jerseyman, No worries on the correction, sharing accurate information is a good thing. I'm familiar with the distinction between rigid airships and blimps. My error was one of memory; I recalled the Helistat being a dirigible, with the infamous framework being an extension of that internal...

The Forest Service did test a dirigible made for heavy lifting, meant for lifting timber and the like way out where there are no roads, but that was in the 1980s and to the best of my knowledge the craft never actually left the Lakehurst base. I'm sure folks here are familiar with it. It was...

What, great reports in this thread. Very glad I was pointed to this forum. Happened to be talking on another forum about a regional history book I wrote and someone pointed me here. Since a portion of the book deals with the Blue Comet (among other topics), I gravitated towards this thread. The...