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I'm relaying an email from Stockton's South Jersey Culture & History Center that was posted July 20, 2017. SoJourn 2.1, the third issue of South Jersey history, culture, and geography has arrived from the printers (about a week sooner than we anticipated). You can purchase it from the Stockton...

How’s are the 2017 gardens? Every darn time I want to post on the topic—distraction. Here’s a couple 2017 photos before anything else wilts, gets eaten, falls over in a storm, or is incinerated by an asteroid. It’s a toss up every year as what works and what doesn’t. 2107 cucumbers were a bust...

I am not a hydrogeologist (only play one in a blog?), but see myself as a natural historian and periglacial geomorphologist who has always used the 17-trillion figure in talks. My realm is thin, extending only 3 or 4 meters into the regolith. In drafting the first post the literature was quickly...

Bob, He is in good spirits and we had a great talk about his his opinions on Pinelands hydrology and geology. It wasn't too long before old synapses in his brain re-fired just fine. We also broached into the broader Pine Barrens cultural community itself. Rhodehamel had a distinguished—albeit...

The metric 17-trillion—of course—describes how much water fills the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer. Everyone who paged through McPhee knows this one. It is a USGS hydrogeologist who came up with this figure. Actually the more accurate amount is 17.7 trillion (based on Rhodehamel 1979, as quoted by...

Mary Ann meant a lot to many participants to this site, and is dearly missed. She was a mentor to my daughter, who wrote a tribute in SoJourn: A Journal Devoted to the History, Culture, and Geography of South Jersey—Demitroff (2016: 89, "Mary Ann and the Cranberry Farm, a Transformative...

Willy, The HABS document is for the Twin Lake Holding Company, and this is what I understand to be their real estate interest known as Twin Lakes (now Harding Lakes), seen here on the c.1931 aerial photomosaics...

I directly use the NRCS Web Soil Survey through this portal: https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm USDA-NRCS is an amazing soil data resource, now made even better! Thanks for the tip. For more dish on local dirt: Tedrow JCF. 1986. Soils of New Jersey. Malabar, FL: Robert...

Thank you 46er, I didn’t even want to open that can of worms. The images I excerpted (Little 1946; et al. 1967) are government documents that are in the public domain. The old-growth pine-stand photo is over 100-years-old, so it too would no longer be subject to copyright restriction. I took...

bobpbx, I'm all for open use of photos, and work hard to get my old documents reprinted. Still, some do not share my views and so I have to keep promises to honor their wishes. I once displayed a photo in presentation that belonged to a blog member. It had source citation, but still he was hot...

bobpbx, I am sorry if my earlier post was cryptic. Let me explain this serendipitous record of what appears to be old-growth pine without understory shrubbery as Little (1946) envisioned. The photo was received from the now-deceased local historian John Madera. He gave me permission to use it...

Oh.... I can't pass up any chance to bring up my favorite Pinelands citation—Little, Little, and Doolittle! Silas Little was also a keen observer of spungs and savannahs, and mentored Jack McCormick, the botanist who wrote the ecological inventory for the Pine Barrens and another one for...

Forester Silas Little imagined that frequent fires meant there was little underbrush in early Pine Barrens forest, and that travel by horseback or cart could be accomplished through tall stands of old bull pines without need of a trail. The forest canopy was imagined to be tight, which also...

It is not uncommon in the Pine Barrens for ironstone blocks to used in farmstead and other graveyards, especially to mark child burials. In one instance, I know of an old log-cabin-church burial ground associated with Black colliers with perhaps 35 interments, yet only a couple of ironstone...

As I understand there is an old Quaker tradition of planting a “marriage tree” at a wedding. This planting task involved ceremony and silence. I too have seen a number of reputed marriage trees planted in pairs, often being sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) or its hybrid cousin London plane...

The South Jersey Culture & History Center at Stockton is proud to announce the second issue of SoJourn, a journal devoted to the history, culture, and geography of South Jersey Contents of this issue: “Kate Aylesford: Modernity and Place in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens” by Matthew G. Hatvany —A...

There will be a talk tomorrow night (Wednesday, January 11, 2017) about Ice Age landscapes of South Jersey, hosted by the Friends of Ewing Library. http://www.shop.minutemanpress.com/news/northeast/new-jersey/ewing/ewing-goes-back-to-the-ice-age-98794.html S-M

As I understand from Mizpah historian Virginia Gale (and former postmaster), the toy factory was at the end of DeHirsch between Railroad Boulevard and the tracks (now open park land). http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.485832591308466&lng=-74.83512717884065&z=17&type=nj1930&gpx=...

Archie (aka Junior) is gone, but I still see Antoinette in town. Their story is told in Legendary Locals of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and in a lot of newspaper articles. The general store remains a treasure to locals. In the redevelopment plan the institution has been envisioned as a...

Mr. Riggin, NJ Certified Tree Expert #366, estimated the tree's age to be 135-year old in his report to the municipality. Mr. Demitroff, NJ Certified Tree Expert #285 estimated the tree's age to be 175-year old in his communications to the municipality. I suspect the true age to be somewhere...