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Thank you, Ed, for volunteering to check this site out; I appreciate it! I look forward to your report when you return. Best regards, Jerseyman

Cudgel: I would be very interested in hearing about the stories that your grandfather and great aunt recounted to you about Timbuctoo! Do you live on or near the Washington Street corridor? This is the traditional black neighborhood in Mount Holly. When African Americans first settled here...

I fully understand your skepticism, Ed, but my interpretation of the 1951 aerial photo includes the enclosed sawmill shed at the red arrow with Capewell standing about where I placed the red “X”: So if someone could check this location on their next visit to Sandy Ridge, I think they will...

German: Thanks for undertaking a hike out to this location. I will be most anxious to hear what you find there! Best regards, Jerseyman

Ed: You may be correct and I appreciate the due diligence you put into your fact-finding. Here, however, is a 1951 aerial view of the same sawmill from HistoriAerials.com: My sense is that all of the roads line up exactly with the Capewell photograph and even the long enclosure for the...

Cudgel: I am very familiar with Timbuctoo and, until last year, I served on the committee overseeing the archaeological investigation there and the development of this once vibrant community as a world-class black history site. I resigned due to the press of other activities. I have assembled...

True, although pioneer settlers, sawyers, and colliers would often hollow out the side of a high stream bank for makeshift living quarters. A cabin built over the opening or nearby it could easily garner the moniker “Cave Cabin.” Best regards, Jerseyman

Ben: I’ll send you an email about the map a bit later. Best, Jerseyman

German: I cannot find any Ridley living in Union or Ocean Township, Ocean County, during any of the federal decennial censuses that are currently available. So, it makes me wonder how the area received its name. I also wonder if “Field Branch” of Oyster Creek might take its name from Ridley...

Cudgel: When you are writing a post and want to insert a photograph, use the "Upload a Files" button at the bottom of the post composition window. It works every time!

Cudgel: Whether African Americans settled near Chicken Bone during the nineteenth-century is conjecture at best, likely based on the toponym itself. Here is the location of Chicken Bone ridge, which climbs vertically to a height of 104 feet, as shown on the 1872 Beers map of Ocean County...

Folks: Willceau Illo sent me two similar photographs today to identify for him and he will be posting one of the images this Thursday. Capewell evidently exposed these two negatives on the same day as the sawdust pile and the sawmill scene posted over the past two Thursdays. Based on the well...

S-M: While one of Janet Jackson-Gould’s current position is chairwoman of the Medford Arts Center, she has had a long and distinguished career working in the Pine Barrens, including serving as the director of the Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Preserve; and as a member of the Pinelands...

Gibby: Don’t give RednekF350 any ideas or he might end up calling it “Jim Beam me up, Scottie!” ;) Best regards, Jerseyman

Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggg! :p Guy: You obviously wear your Cape well! Best regards, Jerseyman

A wonderful photograph of an early twentieth-century enclosed Pine Barrens sawmill! Please see my comments on willceau’s page linked above. Best regards, Jerseyman

In an exchange between Linda Stanton and John Bryans of Plexus about the new book versus the cover design for Howard’s book, John noted, I guess they mean the font, because otherwise it's nothing like any of Howard's covers. Anyway, it's not an issue--you can take that to the bank. So...

Boyd: Typeface is the term used to describe a family of type and font is the actual size of that type. So, with a Garamond 36-point, Garamond is the typeface and 36-point is the font. With the advent of digital typefaces, people began to use typeface and font interchangeably, but...

Not to mention the title typeface is identical on both books, although the font is about 2-4 points larger on Linda’s volume!

You are so right, Boyd! In this case, however, since Plexus published Howard’s work and John Bryans is assisting Linda and Jim Stanton with their book, I don’t think they will encounter any copyright, trademark, or design infringement issues. Best regards, Jerseyman