John McPhee quoted in another Marilyn Schmidt article (front page of Inky)

[Hinchman's Hill]

"McPhee, now a Princeton University professor, said in a rare interview that Buzby's was instrumental in his work. His book is credited with saving from development a million acres of rare "pygmy" pines, cedar swamps, and cranberry bogs. It was at Buzby's, McPhee says, that he met many of the misunderstood Pineys, the dwindling group of locals who live off that land. They would sit on "an oak plank" atop a radiator near the door and spin colorful tales."

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[Pan]

Thanks for posting that. I used to stop by the old original Busby's. Can't they incorporate it into the State Park system, a historical building, like those in Batsto?

 

[Hinchman's Hill]

Tough time to be putting that (or much of anything) on the real estate market. Even worse time to get government funding to do something like that; maybe the least propitious time in the last 100 years. Too bad, I agree with you, Pan.

 

[Pan]

Funny how Chatsworth hasn't grown over the years. Guess it's just haunted, like the rest of the Pine Barrens.