I think "Pine Barrens" should be changed to "Pine Borings". Of all the words I can think of to describe this place, "boring" tops the list. Sugar sand - boring. Pine trees -boring. Poop brown rivers - boring. It is a well-known fact that virtually any one place in the Pine Borings looks like a thousand other places in the Pine Borings. I have gone tubing and canoeing on several rivers in the Pine Borings, and I might as well have done the same river each time. Going to the Pine Borings is like watching the same movie again and again. Sure, you might notice something small you hadn't before, but you basically already know what you're going to see next. Boring!
Sure, you might say that there's alot of history here. Sure there is. The Lenni-Lenape thought of the Pine Borings as just something in the way of their fertile Delaware Valley and the Shore. For the Lenape, the Pines were only good for burning. Most of the history of the Pine Borings was based upon the raping and pillaging of what was otherwise considered to be a wasteland. The trees were only good for building and burning. The streams were only good for powering the mills, furnaces and forges that ate trees like Andy Reid eats cheesesteaks. Ok, ok. I suppose the streams had other uses too, such as for dumping waste! Yeah, you've got history here. The history of the Pine Borings is such that they were exhaustively exploited in order to enrich the lives of the people who lived and worked where the real history was taking place, e.g. New York and Philadelphia.
The Pine Borings!
Sure, you might say that there's alot of history here. Sure there is. The Lenni-Lenape thought of the Pine Borings as just something in the way of their fertile Delaware Valley and the Shore. For the Lenape, the Pines were only good for burning. Most of the history of the Pine Borings was based upon the raping and pillaging of what was otherwise considered to be a wasteland. The trees were only good for building and burning. The streams were only good for powering the mills, furnaces and forges that ate trees like Andy Reid eats cheesesteaks. Ok, ok. I suppose the streams had other uses too, such as for dumping waste! Yeah, you've got history here. The history of the Pine Borings is such that they were exhaustively exploited in order to enrich the lives of the people who lived and worked where the real history was taking place, e.g. New York and Philadelphia.
The Pine Borings!
