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Robert, I urge you to take a look at pp. 37-44 (The 1960s: A Decade of Jetport Controversy) in Beryl Robichaud Collins and Emily W.B. Russell's, editors, book Protecting the New Jersey Pinelands. Cheers, Lost Town Hunter

Woodjin, I'm pleased that you enjoyed my article and the photos. The Bakelys were as genuine a piney family as there ever was, and SureSue's remembrances are precious. The hamlet of Friendship was in the heart of rattlesnake country, and I've heard several rattlesnake stories from folks that I...

Mike and Guy, your memories serve you well. During her childhood in the 1960s, Margaret "SureSue" Bakely lived at Friendship with her late parents, cranberry laborer Vernon "Pudgy" Bakely and talented folk artist Margaret. In the 1970s, I became a close friend of the Bakelys while they lived at...

Ben, local cranberry growers, no doubt, share your wish that the Parker Preserve had continued to produce cranberries.

Johnnyb, you raise a very interesting point about the omission in these articles of the degree of the State's involvement both in the purchase and management of the Parker Preserve. I would think that Emile De Veto or Michele Byers or Russell Juelg of the NJ Conservation Foundation are best...

As a member of the Whitesbog Preservation Trust, I just received a printed black/white copy of the 3rd quarter newsletter containing my article on Friendship. Regrettably, this printed issue contains several errors that I did not have an opportunity to correct before it was sent to the printer...

I"m pleased that you enjoyed the article and share your feelings about all these special places, Rednek. I'm working on producing a more comprehensive booklet about the history of Friendship. That will include many more photos of the hamlet as well as a few of the people that lived there.

It was not my intention to portray Garfield as a conservationist, but I simply wanted to point out that I had long ago observed another side of this complex, enigmatic personality, a side that few others, it appears, had noticed. While it is clear that there were numerous economic considerations...

Bob, I already had the above articles in my files but am pleased that you posted them here. I met Garfield De Marco in the early 1970s and became acquainted with him when he was head of the Pinelands Environmental Council. During those years our paths crossed many times because of our...

Bob, What Teegate said is correct. James or J. Garfield De Marco's mother was an Alloway, Gladys Alloway, raised in the Alloway house at Friendship. She married Anthony De Marco, Garfield's father.

WOW, Scott, thanks for posting Bill's photos. It's nice seeing an early photo of an old friend, the late Davie Amato, at whose house (which is still standing, tho abandoned near Dutchtown), I spent many hours discussing the Sleeper Branch back country and bog ore mining, not to mention...

Chris, I agree with Guy. That is a nice shot of Slender Blue Flag.

These photos are stunning and show the differences in petal width of the two species.

Guy & Scott, sorry for the mix-up. Thanks for making the adjustments. Guy, I still would like you to change your caption of your first iris post to read "Slender Blue Flag, Iris prismatica" and also post that image under Scott's "fuzzy" photo. Although a bit out of focus, Scott's image shows...

Guy, it appears that you did not totally understand my comments. We definitely saw two species of iris in flower on the day of our trip: yours at the beginning of the report which is the Slender Blue Flag, Iris prismatica, and Scott's, which is the Larger or Northern Blue Flag, Iris...

Thanks, fellows, for your assistance especially at the deep water section of the swamp. Somehow I managed to keep my feet dry during the entire exploration. Regarding the unusual "follow the leader" behavior of the immature Buck-moth caterpillars, Hemileuca maia, I was unable to find any...

Both Guy (early in the report) and Scott (preceding his picture of Bob) each posted a beautiful photo of an iris. I'm pleased to say that they are not the same species. Guy's image depicts Slender Blue Flag, Iris prismatica, with very narrow leaves (especially noticeable at the lower right of...

Great photo documentation, Guy and Bob, of another fine exploratory excursion. Aside from a small number of hunters, few have likely explored this wild, remote country known as Penn Swamp Branch or Goodwater Run more extensively than our small group. However, back in the late 1950s and...

Patricia and I were invited today to take a maiden canoe voyage, a trial run, (along with about 8 other participants) sponsored by the newly-formed Pinelands Adventures down the Batsto River from Quaker Bridge to the head of Batsto Lake. The water level was good, the temperature brisk, the...