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Wahoo! Rime came but missed the garden. The drip irrigation provided just enough of a temperature buffer to cheat jack frost for a couple more days. Hot peppers, bitter gourd, and luffa are still going strong—time for Panang curry.

BL England could shut down in May https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/cape_may/bl-england-could-shut-down-in-may/article_feb89b6a-bc02-5105-b778-6ecd38076303.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Breaking%20News&utm_campaign=BREAKING The power line towers behind my house are...

Looks like the yellownecked caterpillar, Datana ministra. Here's a good way to identify them. If disturbed, the caterpillars lift their head and tail to form a "U"-shape. If so, then natural predators usually keep them under control. S-M

Willy, I am not surprised to see a Swain at Fordville, a suburb of Gouldtown. I am under the impression that there was a large Black and small Native population in western Atlantic, eastern Cumberland, and northern Cape May Counties that no one bothered to acknowledge. This was the Great...

Manumuskin, You are right, at least in the modern sense. Strong natural springs were once called blue holes too, the best known being the Inskeeps (Inkskips) and Mt. Misery Blue Holes. Their former hydraulic head has dropped, likely because of aquifer over-withdrawal...

Earth, Wind and Ice: Ancient Climate Change Geologist and adjunct professor at Stockton University, Mark Demitroff gives a fascinating talk on how the last Ice Age fashioned our Pinelands terrain and produced their natural oddities: rare orchids, carnivorous plants, spungs, savannahs, blue...

That is a good question, Manumuskin! Hmm, I had to look this one up. When first scientifically described by Linnæus in 1753, he named the genus and species Cupressus thyoides. Cupressus is cypress. In 1889 it was changed to Chamaecyparis thyoides (Britton, Cat. Pl. New Jersey, 299 [1889])...

Howdy Brandon, You might start with: Swain, R., 1792: Journal of Rev. Richard Swain While on the Salem Circuit, N.J. (transcribed and edited by Steelman, R.B., Old First United Methodist Church, West Long Branch, NJ, January 12, 1977). S-M

There is a 22-page index titled "Contents listing articles and illustrations — South Jersey Magazine" that covers Winter 1972—Spring 1992. I think I have a complete run, which ends with July, August, September 2002 (Volume 31, Number 3), so the last decade is missing from the index. It is an...

There is a little-known work titled Artistry and Industry in Cast Iron: Batsto Furnace, 1766–1840 (Giordano, M. M., 2005: MS thesis, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 122 pp.). In my personal library is the ProQuest version (UMI Microfilm 1428756), which by authors request lacks all Figures...

Manumuskin, That is a tricky one! I haven't been able to nail North Newark down yet, but have three potential candidates: 1) Is it associated with Newcombtown—Bears Head trail? But that place already has a name...

To know the area is to love it. I’m slowly putting together a log of the many forgotten Pinelands places in western Atlantic, northern Cape May, and eastern Cumberland Counties, hamlets in or around Vineland like Osborne Village, Parsonstowne, Canute Neck, North Newark, Punch Bowl, Buckhorn...

Fiddleheads, eh... But we do like okra! https://forums.njpinebarrens.com/threads/fiddlehead-saga-a-culinary-mystery.234/#post-1501 Restoration of the Last Trout Stream in Southern New Jersey https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/40695%282004%2923?src=recsys& We called fringetree...

Manumuskin, That is Vanaman's Thick n' Hole tract in Vineland's New Italy. Look at the Hartman maps. It is an eighteenth century livery center for naval store and charcoal production associated with a couple hundred spungs. Pine-tar cordial, a medicine for dyspepsia, was made here. Multiple...

Strong density-driven winds pouring off the nearby Laurentide Ice Sheet lifts grains of sand from a barren landscape. The sands leap and spin in a process called saltation. You may have been pelted by stinging sand in saltation at the beach on a very windy day. These wind-carried grains...

This is what I had in mind—the smaller etchings look like flutes, the larger ones scallops, and the dark holes could be root casts or glaebules; pending a closer look.

Now you gone and done it... OK, it a hard piece of sandstone? It would help to see the bottom surface, which might be a better clue to the original stone color. Is that a thick glossy skin-deep rock coating on the cobble, or is the cobble matrix glossy tan-to-orange all the way through...

Boyd, I cannot thank you and others at NJPB enough for putting together an amazing interactive map resource for all to enjoy! S-M

Here's one I missed, covered in a Petroleum History Almanac report by the American Oil and Gas Historical Society: Fake New Jersey Oil Well "There would be no New Jersey oil boom, despite capers to launch one after the Steelman family of Millville decided to expand from real estate into oil...

Manumuskin, Ice Age Squatches, hmm... I am acquainted with Zamora and his work. Most geomorphologists, myself included, assign basin genesis to strong Pleistocene wind-action. I work with both the impact- and eolian-science community, so have a basic understanding of arguments on both sides...