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He wasn't caught. He choked on his meal.

Looks like this pickerel bit off more than it could chew.

Henry Beck suggests that it is really Ongs Hut.

I dedicate this one to you, BobPBX: https://gabrielcoia.bandcamp.com/track/let-the-barrens-burn

Is that so?

Senseless!

Is LIP back?

That price is steeper than the mountain. I've enjoyed immensely my back country, primitive camping experiences in the Whites. I have little desire to return to the summit of Mt. Washington. Just a bunch of tourists.

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Yes, sir. I think the same thing happened along the south-west side of the nearby Hammonton Creek.

Bob, These are questions for Spung-Man, but, if you will, allow me to speculate: The dunes in question were probably re-worked by the paleo river whose wide drainage is now occupied by the Nescochague, Mechescatauxin and Atsion branches. The water reoriented the dunes to where the align with...

Thanks, Al. Those trenches remain a mystery. I was poking around the area a few weeks ago and I noticed that it is only the dunes/islands near the 1808 road that have them, so my best guess is that they were borrowing sand in order to build up the road through the swamp.

Holy Hell! That's some beautiful LIDAR!!

Bill, Halpert 's documentation does not mention Estellville as the birthplace of the devil. Neither is Leeds Point mentioned, for that matter. Well's Mill and Calico are mentioned, however.

This is the often repeated claim I was speaking of. Unfortunately, my Algonquian leaves much to be desired. Jerseyman, can you speak to the veracity of this claim?

I can neither confirm nor deny this claim, but I've not been able to trace the claim to any reputable source. What would a "dragon" be to the Lenape Indians, anyway?

It's OK, Guy. We like you nonetheless, just like we like Bobpbx despite his constant misspelling of 'excellent'....

That last song was inspired by a story that folklorist Herbert Halpert recorded in 1941. It is essentially a variation of the old Will-o-the-Wisp/Jack-o-the-Lantern legends: "Old Jimmy Wells who built Wells' Mill -- they say he was so queer he wouldn't have anything to do with no one hardly. He...

Very cool.