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I see vehicles from New York quite frequently, some with empty trailers parked at Atsion and other places. If you search YouTube you can find videos of people from New York and Pennsy who came to the barrens to go "wheelin'". Ben, I agree that the risk of getting caught is the primary...

Excellent, George. Thanks for that. I only wish there were more of Bud in it.

Who would want to ride in a park when they can ride in a 100,000 acre forest? I know when I was riding it would have been no contest. But then, when I was riding we didn't get our thrills from digging mudholes.

Aha, now I get it. Pretty amazing bird.

A friend of mine and I gave another friend's son a tour of some sites on Saturday. Our last stop on a generally eastward progression was the pumping station north of Martha. I was last here perhaps 3 months ago. On this visit I noted that the spit of land adjoining the inlet behind the pump (now...

I was going to guess that it's one of those cell towers made up to look sort of like a conifer. Great pictures, Guy. Now... are you going to tell us what the "amazing sight" was? :)

I suspect that barrier is in the process of being pulled down, rather than put up. The bridge has been closed to vehicles for quite awhile, if I recall correctly.

There is a free image viewer/editor called FastStone that I use for stuff that doesn't merit booting up Photoshop. It includes a good and flexible screen cap feature, and once the image is grabbed you can save it to disk or tweak it first.

Great work, Jerseyman! Your reputation as the King of Research continues to grow :). What I gather from those articles is that the trade was in windings, which makes perfect sense, and a shipload of baled windings is not the same thing as a shipload of mummies in my book! Certainly you're...

Haha, Scott wins. Should have known it would be on Wikipedia. Wow, I just still can't believe this actually happened. First, as German notes, were there really that many well-wrapped stiffs available? Second, wouldn't the Egyptians want to keep the corpses and just export the wrappings?

I just finished "Iron in the Pines", and among a number of interesting assertions the following one jumped out at me: Pierce mentions offhand during a discussion of the paper mill at Pleasant Mills that "a number" of paper mills in the country were importing "shiploads of Egyptian mummies" in...

I don't know whether there's a "legal" definition, but I am going to go with: establishing a shelter or sleeping place for the purpose of staying the night. Also, ditto what Guy said about the fire. I think a fire will draw attention pretty quickly.

I'm not an expert on it, but I think we can agree that many of the buildings the state already inhabits are historic, and they must have guidelines regarding what can and can't be changed. Heck, some private buildings in our town can't be changed because they are listed. My basic point is that...

Just to toss a little nugget of Devil's advocacy out there... can we agree that there is nothing wrong with the state occupying an historic structure for office work? They already occupy many such, and I think anyone who crawls around the state looking at old buildings would attest that the best...

Did someone actually see a piano there in the past? Was the club in operation right up to the time of the fire?

Exactly my understanding. I stay on travelled roads wide enough to admit the Toyota and not retain too much of her paint, and trust that with a ranger density of something like 1 per 100 sq. miles (or less!) I will be fine.

Case proven!

Nice pics, Jeff!

Well, I am serious enough to be doing a little armchair ironmastering to see whether it can even be done. Some others have expressed interest, so perhaps a little discussion will prove worthwhile. I've already managed to learn a fair bit about the facilities and process, but much more remains to...

If anyone has further interest in this subject, then this treasure of a book will prove illuminating: http://books.google.com/books?id=F38PDnxPi_cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=manufacture+of+iron It is a technical treatise on the manufacture of iron published in 1854 by Frederick Overman, a...