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With school and work out and my summer job not yet clobbering me, I've been trying to catch up on my reading. I've gotten through the first hundred and fifty pages of <i>Heart of the Pines</i> (with large amounts of other sections of the book read as I saw topics that jumped out at me) and I'm...

Summer is here, the woods are full of ticks, and I have no school. Thus, after years of looking, once and for all, I'd like to finally find Ong's Hat. This is my summer resolution. I know that there isn't really anything there. I definately know that there are no time traveling...

What is going on? A tarp over the roof of the Atsion schoolhouse? Construction equipment at Batsto Lake? Something about a fish run? Has that sign just over Quaker Bridge new or do I just have a really poor memory?

Went camping with the Scouts in Bass River State Forest this weekend. Weak turnout (only 11 Scouts plus adults, when I was a Scout, 40 kids was a below average turnout), but good times. Friday we drove down and set up camp. Saturday morning there was a hike from Harrisville to the bridge just...

My friend Pat and I went out in the woods today trying to locate Harrisville, and I think I goofed somewhere. Acording to a friend, Martha Furnace is located right off the highway there, next to the sign for Bodine Field (right by the highway, not the sign on the dirt road), and then...

Some intresting bits of history on Atlantic City, although they keep hitting on the Monopoly thing too much... 8-30-04 Casino, park, memorial found along Park Place By WILLIAM H. SOKOLIC Courier-Post Staff Full article

It's that time of year again, time to sit around a fire and tell some ghost stories that'll leave everyone staring up at the tent rooves to all hours of the night. Anybody know any good ones?

Myself, Red (from Barry's list), and our friend Kate went up to Asbury Park on Saturday to see Clarence "Big Man" Clemons and the Temple of Soul at the Stone Pony. We went up a bit early and poked around Asbury Park for a spell, got some good pictures. Kate took some pictures at the show that...

It wasn't a trip into the Pines, so I figured it belonged here rather than in the trip reports section... Anyway, 'bout a week and half ago, I went to Sharpsburg, Maryland with my Uncle John and friend Hiroki. I finally saw a locust there, which was cool for the first one, kind of cool for...

I figure it's a long shot, but has anyone heard of/know anything about the Ariel Hotel in Atlantic City? My uncle is visiting from Japan and esearching family history. What we do know: His great-aunt (my great-great aunt) owned the place in the early 1900s, which we've discovered from the...

Did anyone else read the article in the June issue of South Jersey Magazine about the lady who traced her heritage back to Mother Leeds? My mom saved it for me, but then forgot that she saved it for me and tossed it... I think they have copies at CVS, in Cherry Hill, I'll have to go and...

I went down to the central Camden County Library in Voorhees today to pay off a book fine I've been avoiding (I can never seem to get them in on time!), and went up to the history section. While browsing, I realized that although I've coming to the library since before I can remember, I've...

Here's what's in the new Weird NJ issue... I didn't spot too much to worry about 'round here. CHERRY HILL RACE TRACK NO MORE, can't be too much trouble 'caused there, what are they gonna do, hang out at the Country Buffet and then visit THE ANCIENT SITE OF THE CHERRY HILL RACE TRACK, now...

Not quite the Pine Barrens, but certainly a beloved Jersey icon... April 3, 2004 Asbury Park demolition will save beloved Tillie ASBURY PARK -- There's more than one way to save face. Even when it's a very big one. The Palace Amusements building -- a beloved but decrepit 19th century...

I posted this on Barry's list, but didn't get a reply, so now you folks are burdoned with it :P I finished reading Tales and Towns of Northern New Jersey the other day, and I realized that Father Beck must have had a whole lot of material that was not included in the book, or that came in...

One lady's motorcycle ride through Chernobyl This is a facinating page full of photographs and descriptions of a lady's trip through the ghost town of Chernobyl, USSR. Chernobyl, of course, was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster to date. The population of the entire area was...