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Just returned from permafrost meetings during the American Geophysical Union fall gathering in New Orleans. With forty beers on tap in the Howlin’ Wolf Den, this was the owner’s choice of beer for me… OK, while not on the Best Beer list above, Delta Momma was so good I walked to the Urban...

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This is what's happening at the adjacent woodlot in Richland Village.

I assume this structure is near Thompsontown. Are those bits of seashells? The West family had lime kilns in the area, which I would imagine to have been near the river for convenience. They are mentioned in Rebecca Estell Bourgeois collection at Bjork Library, without a specific location. See...

Well, blankets and drip irrigation saved the tender crops for another week. For firkin sakes, can't you see my Yukon Jack Perm Frost glass is empty. How 'bout a wee dram to celebrate?

Chilehead, I will try Sweet Aperitif next season. The tomatoes went bust early. It is the first year that I lost every last one to Fusarium, but the peppers are the best ever! (above) White Thai pepper is a favorite! (above) Asian varieties continue to perform, plants like white bitter...

Lou2700, Let us know what you find out about Dowars Ferry, which crossed the Great Egg Harbor here and possibly on occasion at Clarkstown. One oral account has it potentially crossing as far north as Hewes, near Sugar Hill (before Farmer Hamilton built his bridge, the township being his...

STOCKTON UNIVERSITY KRAMER HALL PRESENTS— The Lure of South Jersey: The Resettlement of Migrants Fall Lectures Stockton University’s Kramer Hall, Noyes Museum of Art and the South Jersey Culture and History Center have collaborated to raise awareness of South Jersey’s long-standing cultural...

Yes, I did just as you said after her query to the audience. Others learned of the talk through the local papers like the SandPaper.

This was a fun night out! Hart's talk was based on a box-load of jetport archives donated to Ocean County. I'll have to pay more attention to this "Lectures at the Lake" series. Thanks to Ij762 for posting this event on NJPineBarrens, which otherwise would have been unknown to me. S-M

ditto..., except an earlier date of their arrival.

I am the bearer of sad news. Geohydrologist Ed Rhodehamel, on August 24, 2017, passed away in Virginia at the age of 97. Here is his obituary in the Washington Post: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?fhid=2195&n=edward-rhodehamel&pid=186517679 S-M

Yes, OJG, that is the place, the King of Spades. You can read the history of their landscaping products on the company's website. WW products are amazing. In a former life I was a nurseryman, and have a true appreciation for the workmanship. Some firms in China have tried to copy WW, but so far...

Oh, so that's how pea gravel got its name!

I too noticed how the clouds thickened, but then realized that cloud layer had been there before and after in about the same density. Apparently eclipse darkening had made those clouds appear darker, that's all. Patty made a hole-in-cereal box eclipse viewer, which worked fine for our purpose...

Boyd, I judiciously cleared my lot during torrid summer weekends in 1996, trying to minimize harm to flora and fauna. I tried to convince myself a green approach would be forgiving. Time has proven otherwise. The first year I could count a dozen box-turtles in a week; each with their own...

WaretownMike, I can attest to spider bites in the Pines. Old downed logs are a hot-spot. When clearing oak/pine woods for building my house, I too became a target. Scary large red patches appeared in the worst instances—itchy and sore. Half the homestead parcel was last farmed when I was a kid...

That was one of two rail stations for Pomona! The last issue of Sojourn (Winter 2016/17) had an article by Pullaro & Schopp (2017: 101) titled "Reimagining a Remnant of the Past at Stockton" about Lake Fred—the Pomona bogs. It is the location of a twentieth century cranberry operation, of which...

Anecdotal accounts have the Hospitality Branch railroad bridge as dual use for both early road and railroad traffic crossing. The nearby excavation pond, made for the bridge abutment, was used as a swimming hole—sometime called the Newtonville Blue Hole where a legendary drowning occurred...

Bob, 12th Street is basically the same as Route 54, the original road laid out for the colony of New Germany or Germantown in 1854 with the advent of the Camden & Atlantic (today Folsom & Newtonville), although Chalmers in Down the Long-A-Coming indicates the bridges crossing the Penny Pot...