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Close up of the truck in Friendship

Carranza Memorial Sep 1971. I also have another one from July 1973.

Funny how Chatsworth hasn't grown over the years. Guess it's just haunted, like the rest of the Pine Barrens.

Probably especially noticeable in the Plains, I guess. And that was what made the Plains so awesome back then, the low forest and the 360 degrees of sky.

Nice! But the frogs don't sound the way I remember them grunt grunt grunt grunt nor do the whippoorwills. Here's the whippoorwills I remember: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Whip-poor-will/sounds Whip-oor-will! And I don't think there even were coyotes in the Barrens back then, were...

The detail is so bad, Guy, that all I can make out is that the first word is longer than the second.

I found another photo of the Jersey Central wreck that I came upon in Sept. 1971. Wrecked cars are visible on both sides of the tracks.

I remember how loud those summer woods were with frogs. I don't know if it's ever like that any more.

Thanks for posting that. I used to stop by the old original Busby's. Can't they incorporate it into the State Park system, a historical building, like those in Batsto?

Handyman special for sale by owner. Ask for Albert in Friendship. Needs some work. Front fender in pretty good condition.

By the tree in Friendship

Blowup of truck lettering. Also sharpened.

In retrospect I think that's what that feller I mentioned above may have been doing, and then an overly good good samaritan, me, came along out of nowhere . Good thing you said Maverick or I'd think that might have been you!

It's probably still seldom visited there. I didn't see any evidence that anyone had been on or around the road I was stuck on for a very long time, no tire tracks, no footprints, no garbage, nothing. That thought was in my mind as I was up to my shoulder squeezed under the car trying to dig it...

Do you have them? Is that member still here? If so could you scan them? Did you see writing on the side of the truck? I just looked again, and think you're right. I also wanted to see what it's loaded with, and what's propped against the tree on the left. It looks like an old refrigerator.

Nice. Besides hiking and camping and canoeing in the Barrens I used to go on long bicycle trips in south central NJ on into PA. I used to like it around Princeton before the roads got too busy. Cranbury was my favorite starting place. Crosswicks was sometimes on my route. Another Meeting...

Oh that looks so nice! "It's the ONLY thing... nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats" - Water Rat, in The Wind In The Willows

Getting towed. When my low slung rented car got bogged down in that remote part of the Barrens for two days 6 or 8 years ago (appropriately enough near Lost Lane), and I finally hiked out 8 miles through the Air Force bombing range ("All persons are forbidden to enter!!!") in the rain, and a...

When I get back home I'll scan that Friendship color slide at maximum detail. See if there's anything of interest in the blowups.