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Nat Ewan and Henry Beck didn't really get along, or at least that is mentioned in one of the forwards of Beck's books. Ewan was involved with the Historic American Building Survey (a WPA project in the 1930s) and it's through this that we have many really good photographs of old buildings in...

It's a fun thing to do but wow that policy basically kills it on state land unless you're willing to jump through all of those hoops.

As do I. They look impressive. That's about it.

I find Jersey "Waggon" Jaunts to be pretty much unreadable. I just get so annoyed at him making the State of NJ into a narrator character.

Thanks! It looks like there's logs stacked up on the other side of the building.

Where is the sawmill in the top picture?

Holy crap this is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

I clicked from that link on to Deborah Smith's info and was dismayed by the person citing "Brigid's Charge" by Cynthia Lamb, which is a fictional story of Deborah Leeds, as fact. Seriously, it's almost as bad as citing Weird NJ as a source. I'm sure the book is great and an entertaining read...

I think his right tire is just hanging really low. Why would anybody drive through that mess? Seriously, someone needs to put a sign up: "Not a good idea. This means you."

I encourage any and all to pick up a copy of the book that I just reviewed. I think it has the most solid theory of the origins of the Jersey Devil to date, and is a really entertaining read to boot.

Merry Christmas!!

Yes. The problem with those maps is when you change the zoom level it doesn't switch what scale map you see. So you can zoom in and see nice 1:24000 scale maps, but as you zoom out you just get a jumble of smaller 1:24000 maps covering a larger area which end up being unusable. With Terraserver...

I remember when the were going to shut down Terraserver back in 2012 that there weren't any free sources for topographic maps that were decent. I'll have to see if that's changed. If not we'll probably be without topos.

I hope the rangers at Batsto read this and get as much of a kick out of it as we do.

I had a good editor.

It looks like Microsoft Terraserver is down, so topographic maps will not work until it comes back up.

Not to sound cynical but I'd wager it originated from the people who were/are making a film about the Jersey Devil called "Popuessing." I can't find a historical or scholarly source for the word.

I have never actually heard about any Lenape connection to the JD. The vast majority of the "sightings" in phenom week were footprints, and the descriptions of what the beast supposedly looked like differed wildly. I would consider none of those "sightings" to be credible.

Not at all. :)

don't judge