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Come out in the beautiful autumn weather, Saturday, November 14, for Reading South Jersey. (Campus Center Bookstore, 12:30pm-2:00pm). Since 2013 Stockton students have been publishing and republishing attractive and well-edited paperback editions of significant but hard to get titles...

Folks, Stockton University is launching a new history, culture, and geography periodical that is much in line with our interests at NJPB. Here's a great opportunity to get that story in print! reproduced with permission of SJCHC Call for Articles SoJourn: Journal of South Jersey History &...

There is an ongoing exhibit of images from a 2013 Polar expedition at the The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University, which provides a glimpse into just how awesome (daunting?) New Jersey's Ice Age world might have been. A good excuse to visit is an upcoming venue, CLIMATE CHANGE: A PANEL...

Here's a new paper by a dear colleague—a friend of the Pleistocene—that helps explain why NJ's sea-level-rise rate appears twice that of other areas. Not only did that rampageous thug the Laurentide Ice Sheet freeze-dry the Pine Barrens, that behemoth sunk the Earth's crust north of us and we...

Hats off to Pat Martinelli, Tom Kinsella, Jerseyman, the Vineland Historical Society, and Stockton University's South Jersey Culture and History Center for a job well done. Charles K. Landis, founder in part of the Pinelands towns of Elwood (1854, including New Germany – today Folsom – and...

Folks, I'll be giving a talk for the Greater Elmer Area Historical Society on ice age landscapes and their cultural use. One feature, Broad Pond, was once a pond three-quarters of a mile long. By the 1930s it dried up. Ancient Climate Change and Cultural Use of Ice Age Landscapes...

During the 1960s our family business, Richland Grain Company, was the economic hub for Richland, a racially mixed Pinelands community. We were all greatly saddened by the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968, and my father wanted to show our solidarity with black members of...

Small school forged big memories MILMAY — For more than 70 years, the former Milmay School educated scores of students inside its quaint two-room schoolhouse on High Street. Youngsters in grades K-5 were taught to read and write, and learned about the world around them. But more importantly —...

Folks, On October 13, botanist Joe Arsenault, historian Paul Schopp, geographer Mark Demitroff, and archeologists John Lawrence and Jack Cresson will get together to celebrate the cultural and environmental treasures of New Jersey’s Inner Coastal Plain found at the Rancocas Nature Center. We...

Folks, This October I’m giving a talk in Mays Landing for the Atlantic County Park System, with a repeat in Cape May for NJ Audubon. Stories of the Jersey Devil and Beyond Local natural historian Mark Demitroff grew up on a western Atlantic County poultry farm. There he enjoyed hearing...

I was helping a friend delineate reputed old Catholic church in Estell Manor that no one could remember. Jerseyman kindly offered to run with the few clues I had to go on. As usual, he did not disappoint. Here’s three relevant excerpts from Leahy’s (1906) The Catholic Church of the Diocese of...

For resolute Pinelands’s enthusiasts: Physical and Cultural Geography of the Pinelands National Reserve I’ll be back at University of Pennsylvania’s Morris Arboretum teaching a one-day geography course this Fall. It is hosted under the School of Arboriculture, so there will be lots of...

Folks, I’m giving a talk for Atlantic County Parks, which will be repeated at the Vineland Historical & Antiquarian Society a couple weeks later. Our Forest Heritage: Pine-Belt Employments This session provides a natural science-based overview of man's use of Pinelands forest resources. For...

Folks, I’m giving a talk for the Buena Historical Society. Eight ancient trails in the Pine Barrens of western Atlantic County are documented, as well as old sites associated with their traces. Trials include: 1) Long-A-Coming; 2) Cohansey; 3) Tuckahoe; 4) Woodbury; 5) Hance Bridge; 6) Bears...

It’s Memorial Day weekend and a good time to relate this story about someone who came from the southern Pinelands. I recently returned from the University of Alaska - Fairbanks, where I went to discuss Pine Barrens soils with permafrost experts at the College of Engineering and at the School of...

The Press of Atlantic City posted a feature article on the little known hamlet of New Kuban. http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_128df5aa-aae0-11e2-9c2b-0019bb2963f4.html. New Kuban is the last in a long line of Eastern European colonies in the Pines. Russians...

Stockton’s South Jersey Culture & History Center continues to celebrate our rich cultural heritage. The latest event is titled Galloway’s Graveyard: Unearthing the History of the Boling Settlement, a little known hamlet near the school's campus. The story of Black Pinelands communities is...

As part of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance's Heritage Series, I will present: Our Forest Heritage: Pine Belt Employments. http://www.pinelandsalliance.org/exploration/ourforestheritage/ This session provides a natural science-based overview of man's use of Pinelands forest resources...

Now is the time to let the Pinelands Commissioners know your thoughts on the Comprehensive Management Plan. Ignore it, and it will slowly go away. Public asks Pinelands Commission for stricter rules, fewer deals...

I thought it might be fun on Memorial Day weekend to provide an account of someone who lived on my farm, Evard Snell. He came to the property as a young boy to live with his Aunt Rachel and Uncles Jenk & Thomas, original Welsh settlers to Richland. Things weren’t so good back home in Vineland...