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    Whippoorbill's gift to us

    I was there when them geese came through.....we was knee deep in goo looking for leopard....not the feline kind.The here dey come....flyin oer the treetops,slidin in like Garry Maddox on home plate.Just a little ole Belleplain bog where Whip tried to feed me to a black snake oncet. Alfie
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    what kind of frog?

    Whippoorbill taught me how to use a thesaurus.Till he showed me one I thought it was some kind of dinosaur he found in a varve.You are correct though,most millbillys don't know Whip so most of them are limited to four or five letter words,most of them not nice:-) Al
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    A Botanical Trip to the Pine Barrens, c. 1900

    I would love to know where that well is.I've been all over Calico and the Adams farmhouse site and have never found a well.Probably caved in and filled in by now. Al
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    Coal stoves

    Granny said when they were younguns they used to pull coal out of the road cut and take it home on a cart pulled by Betsy but then again she lived in west virginny.Pray tell would you get coal around here?Not a Tertiary coal deposit nowhere in site:-) Bet you didn't think I'd know that:-) Al
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    You Tell Me

    Jeff your funny story reminds me of one of my own. I learned to swim at camp hollybrook on manumuskin creek off of port cumberland road when i was seven.when i was still in the non swimmer group we had to stay in close to shore while the older kids got to go in the deep part.Us little ones...
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    Some Info

    that piece in friendship you show,i used to pick blueberries there back in the early 90's before the pines grew up and shaded out the bushes.never saw a posted sign there.wonder if some of these people even remember they own these places.I imagine at tax time their reminded. Al
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    Flower ID

    Bob, I took that book out of the millville library several times as a teenager and often wondered where the photo was taken of a pond in the pygmy plains.the only pond I know of now that looks anywhere similar to it is Govenors pond but i don't think thats the place because the hill at...
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    what kind of frog?

    Jackwood Welcome to the forum.Are you a herper?At one time Me and whip were actually misidentifying leopard choruses as wood frog choruses? I have never actually seen more then one wood frog on any given day but of course see leopards by the dozens.I have seen wood frogs in little bitty...
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    What Happened to the Foreign Message?

    all i know is FAHAAN!
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    What Happened to the Foreign Message?

    I grew up listening to my dad sing that song! he told me he made it up.He always was a BS artist.
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    The TeeGate and Manumuskin Adventure

    hey Karl I was just surfin over on whiteblaze and seen your pic over there.man your everywhere ain't you? :-) it's a wonder I never rean into you before the day shown in this picture:-) Al
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    We are not alone.....

    I think it's a hologram.no missile blowing up is going to look like that,the fact it is being beamed from the ground says hologram to me.
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    Tree Identification Query

    I don't think it's white oak.white oak is lighter colored,almost white and is very flaky not corrugated like that.I still go with the tulip poplar.will have to stop and check it out sometime.looks just like the trunks of poplar planted in vineland and hammonton to me. Al
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    quaker bridge tavern ?

    I can dig it! Mom could never get me to take out the trash but i would dig holes all day long.she looked outside once and i had a two foot deep hole in the back yard and was going down with every shovel full.i was about seven.upon questioning me as to what my intentions were i told her i was...
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    quaker bridge tavern ?

    Devilstoy there is a cellar hole exactly where Guys map shows one of the buildings,also another barely noticeable foundation area to the north of the hole.go on the east side of the bridge and bare left like your going to lower forge.then immediately on the right you'll notice some grape...
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    Wild West Wading, A PBX Hike

    If Alfreda had of came she would have expected to be carried across too and frankly I didn't see anyone there that would have been up to the task:-) I think it good that Alfreda stayed home on that hike:-)
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    transition

    was the iron toss into the pond on purpose in the midst of a temper tantrum or an accident? I thought they would have tore that treacherous bridge out by now.I know it's nostalgic but some simple kid is going to get hurt on that thing,hopefully they can swim or the pond is shallow:-) Al
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    Wild West Wading, A PBX Hike

    those were the exact words i shouted as he carried her across! :-)
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    Wild West Wading, A PBX Hike

    poppin motrin here for sore feet and shins but otherwise good.twas a beautiful day and some purtiful medders.I really liked that rippin crik,makes me wanna drag my yak back there:-) Al
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    Happy Thanksgiving!

    yeah just like this fakery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man Did anyone consider that injuns are people too and they have their good and bad ones as we do?Some injuns did engage in human sacrifice,such as the Aztecs but then again so did some ancient Celts and pre viking...
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