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Today was the first ever Concours d' Elegance held in Monmouth County, NJ. It was at Hop Brook Farm in Holmdel which seems to be a cross between a farm and a McMansion housing development. It's also across from the corporate headquarters of Vonage, which donated the use of their parking lots for...

It's that time of year again! Batsto Country Living Fair: This year it will occur on Sunday October 19, 2008 from 10 am to 4:00 pm. http://www.batstovillage.org/country-living-fair.htm Chatsworth Cranberry Festival: October 18-19, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Admission to the festival is FREE. A...

Anybody have any of these guys living on their property? We have one that's built quite an impressive web by my side door. The spider has to be the size of a quarter. It's the biggest spider I've ever seen apart from a tarantula. From what I've read, they're not poisonous, so I haven't...

After what was the worst database crash I've ever seen we're back and running on a new server. The hard disk on the old one corrupted and unfortunately my backups were no good. Anybody who registered past May 6, 2008 will need to re-register their accounts. Knock on wood most of the posts...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=625057 :ham:

Gabe and I have been having some discussions about iron slag. There's furnace slag and there's forge slag. This article also talks about foundry slag. From what I've seen, there's two types of furnace slag. Slag that I've seen at Batsto, Hanover, and Federal Furnace (Lakehurst) looks like...

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080830/NEWS/80830014 Just reading the comments, it's amazing to see the contempt that people in New Jersey have for their own history. The attitudes of the common New Jerseyan make me sick. All they care about are taxes and how close they are...

My wife hasn't been feeling well, so I decided to take Dana out for the day. The destination was Batsto. Gas has gotten cheap enough where I don't feel guilty about making the drive, plus we had done Allaire the previous weekend. Somehow I always end up on the Parkway on the weekend. I've...

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Who owned Friendship before it was sold to the state? DeMarco?

Here's a small then & now. I had to watch my daughter all day, so I took the day off of work and went to Allaire State Park. I took a bunch of photos, but here's some then and now's that people might like. I also got a small case of chiggers!!! They mow all of the grass there. Nobody is safe...

When you first sign up there is a good chance that your first few posts will be flagged for moderation. This means that a member of the admin team will need to manually approve your post before it appears. We do this as a spam prevention mechanism. So, if you're new and you post something...

Well, perhaps it's not such a new feature, but I have been lax in explaining it. When you create a new thread, you can now "tag" it. Tagging basically means you add some keywords to the post data and it will show up in the "tag cloud" on the bottom of the forum home page. For example, lets...

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http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/njhwy20s.htm Pretty interesting site.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/washington.boyhood.home/index.html

Bourbon is my favorite drink after beer. I was introduced to it by a co-worker at a quaint New York City Bar. Here's an interesting article about how they make Makers Mark, my favorite bourbon. What's interesting to me is that the distillery is over 100 years old, and for the most part...

Not quite Pine Barrens related, although this has to deal with Abe Lincoln's ancestors in Imlaystown, which Beck wrote about. http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/NEWS01/806190553/1004

Wharton State Forest will be hosting a screening of the documentary, "Goodwill: The Flight of Emilio Carranza" on June 21 at 3pm. Known as "Mexico's Charles Lindbergh", Emilio Carranza crashed and died in the New Jersey Pine Barrens on July 12, 1928. This film documents the life of Carranza and...

Tonight I made a black and purple: 1/2 raspberry lambic 1/2 Young's Double Chocolate Stout The problem is that the purple is so dark you have to hold it up to a light to see the separation from the stout. The taste is very, very good though. Fun to pour. :dance: