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"...Accidental discharge of the cannon..."? Sounds like quite a Piney party!

I just wanted to add another sawyer story from the pines from my family that my grandmother recently told me. Apparently, my great grandfather Archer that I mentioned in a post above a few yrs back, was staying in one of the cabins around in the woods the sawyers would stay at while working...

Thank you for the great info on the sawmills of the Pines throughout the forum. My Great-Grandfather Edward Archer, was a sawyer in the Pine Barrens back in the early 1900's. I never got to meet him, but I'm sure he had some great stories about the area. My grandmother remembers every Sunday...

They give people with mini vans a bad name! Lol. If you see a gold one in the woods it's just me, and I look, but don't touch ruins- it's rare and beautiful first of all, plus who needs that guilt and bum karma? Idiots. They wouldn't like it if people walked up took stuff out of their yard. Even...

Ah, memories... I love the Jersey Devil folklore! It's good for scaring Princeton jocks who come down to Leeds Point to find him on Halloween night. It was probably about 10 years ago now, but my friends who lived down there had a party and at one point around midnight saw several cars drive by...

The Giants Hi! I'm a newbie. Ran across NJPB recently. Anyway, I thought it was interesting that you mentioned giants, and it brought to mind something I read recently in a book, "The Grandfathers Speak, Native American Folk Tales of the Lenape People." In it, Hitakonanu'laxk (Tree Beard)...