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Here is another view of the Reeve house, taken from the east/Cohansey River side, plus closeups of the windows from what I think is the oldest part of the house and from the wing to the west. Incidentally, we noticed that the brick pointing work was not completed on the south/street side wall...

Wow! I'm glad I posted that picture. Some more to follow. Ro and I have visited this area and viewed the Reeve house over many years. At our first visit some 30 years ago the house was in sad shape. At visit a year or so ago we were happy to see that someone had begun to restore the building...

While in Greenwich, NJ, yesterday, we remarked on many very large trees. Below is a picture of largest on "Greate Streete". State record is bigger: 25'8" circumference 4.5' above ground, located in Warren Co. but this puppy is close......

Ro & I and friend visited old port of Greenwich. Oldest house is in on-line book “Colonial and Old Houses of Greenwich, New Jersey”, Bessie Avars Andrews, Vineland, New Jersey 1907, G. E. Smith, printer, Vineland, N.J." as follows: *** CHAPTER 111. There is a fine old brick house at...

Teegate: your and Manumuskin's reports and pix read like a detective story. Great stuff! Please write down somewhere what the "old man" named Taylor told you; it (and your Taylor family information) will make someone's day some time later - written from my genealogical perspective.

Since we live on the fringe if not inside the Pine Barrens, thought this oughta be recorded. Ro photographed a bumblebee on Lantana in our backyard. Doug Yanega, U of Cal/Riverside entomology prof and bee expert and Ken Shields, another college entomology prof, confirmed identification. Pix...

Bill Haines Jr. a couple of years back agreed to withhold mowing the road shoulder on the east side of 563 until plants had gone to seed,where a few Platanthera blephariglottis/White Fringed Orchids were growing. In exchange, that shoulder would be policed to remove trash. A couple years later...

Ro and I were down on Great Bay Boulevard admiring migrating Monarchs and Herons yesterday. I thought the Fish Factory profile looked different/lower, so I asked Ro to take pictures with her new telephoto lens. Here's the results. Looks like a good place to stay out of while it falls apart...

Howdy Teegate: thanks for the information and rapid response. My wife had one of these a few years back - I borrowed it when I went on a PPA led trip to see Swamp Pinks/Helonias bulatta in Lebanon State forest. I slipped while clambering over a cedars roots and went into the drink up to my...

Howdy Jokerman: From what I could learn that's what I guessed, so thanks for confirming my suspicions. johnny b

Since we're now living quite close, we use/cross Burrs Mill Road often. Recently we walked a bit of the little Burrs Mill run paralleling Rte 70 and the questions arose: where was Burrs Mill? What is the history of Burrs Mill? When did Burrs Mill disappear? Is it named for a member of the...

Howdy Teegate: Ro and I were admiring the orchid pix you posted on 25 May 2013. She would like to know what camera and especially what lens you used for these pictures. My question: did you use a tripod for these pix or was the camera hand held? tnx PS Great pictures! Hadn't seen them...

I know this is taking this thread further afield, but I just hadda comment. (1) Bob - no way are you old! (2) The sorry part of it is, when a competent oldster is gone, so is all the history they know gone with them. That's why genealogists tell newcomers the first things to do are find all the...

Comparing the 1931 aerial photo with recent Google Earth view there's been considerable smoothing of the shorelines of both ponds, especially the southern/western one.....

Captions - from top to bottom: East Point lighthouse - mid 1860's, last one operational, runs by local historical group, building damaged by vandals' 1998 fire and repaired by locals - open in summer to visitors - mouth of Maurice River on Delaware Bay Osprey with nice fish - he kept calling...

We didn't see/hear a single skeeter in the several hours we were down in the marshes. BUT, as the financial guys say, past performance is no indicator for future results. It was breezy....... MAYBE their season's over? Manumuskin might be a better source...... Pix still on the way.

Ro and I continued today our exploration of the Jersey shore of Delaware Bay - pix will follow. We "did" East Point and its lighthouse, drove the dike road from near there to the shore of the Maurice River at Heislersville WMA. Terns, Mute Swans at latter. We then visited the 3,700+ acre PSE&G...

Ooops! Ro and I were in there a few weeks back, checking to see if Bladderwort/Utricularia we'd seen there years ago was still evident. It wasn't. Obviously a party site. Didn't realize back part is private property - no way to tell that on site. From aerial it's pretty evident lake...

Shelby L: in addition to Ancestry.com you might want to check out Family Search. This is the FREE on-line access to the records that the LDS Family History Library has put on the web. You don't need to be, or even agree with, the LDS to use the site, it's for everyone, and they have never...

My wife Ro got this allergy from a tick bite. She was tested where we get allergy shots and they confirmed her sesitivity. Turns out she's allergic to beef, but not some other mammal meat and not to chicken or seafood, so, like a lot of other things, different people get afflicted differently...