With no disrespect to King, I have to agree with you Gabe. I think many of this countries problems are because we are not culturally sensitive. I wish it was not true but I believe it is.
Guy
With no disrespect to King, I have to agree with you Gabe. I think many of this countries problems are because we are not culturally sensitive. I wish it was not true but I believe it is.
Guy
Sustainability science is a fancy word for old-fashioned Piney cheap living know-how!
Thanks Paddler. My point is that Pinelands rural lifestyles are generally less consumptive than the current unsustainable consumer-driven economic model we’re becoming accustomed to. Pineys and Down-Jerseymen (“gravel-hoppers” south of the Mullica, the other half of the Pine Barrens) are a hardy self-sufficient bunch. On a personal note, I’ve never been to a Walmart in my life preferring to purchase goods at small locally owned establishments like Richland General Store. We pick oodles of vegetables out of a big garden, fighting with pine voles all the way. I make a parsnip venison pie that will knock your socks off. Much of the furniture is refurbished second hand stuff my wife’s restored. We’re here for the long haul, revel in the local beauty, and try to respect the natural world around us.
Our family chooses to make small changes with the way we live to become better environmental stewards – while saving money in the process. Our all-electric house self-built in 1997 is very energy efficient, using water-to-water geothermal technology to drive a radiant floor heating system. Its peak heat- and cooling-load is calculated at 20,000 BTU for 2,600 square feet of living space, a direct benefit of using continuous stress-skin sheathing. Hydronics are provided by two high-efficiency heat pumps: an 800-watt unit for potable hot water and a 1,200-watt unit for central heating/cooling. It’s so cheap to run that it’s not cost-effective to fire-up the woodstove! Instead of cutting wood I hike. Building materials – oak timbers, 22-guage metal roof, and concrete Hardiplank siding to last a lifetime. Sinks, doors, and various other building materials were salvaged, another Pinelands tradition. Pineys, outnumbered but not necessarily outsmarted...
Thanks Paddler. My point is that Pinelands rural lifestyles are generally less consumptive than the current unsustainable consumer-driven economic model we’re becoming accustomed to. Pineys and Down-Jerseymen (“gravel-hoppers” south of the Mullica, the other half of the Pine Barrens) are a hardy self-sufficient bunch. On a personal note, I’ve never been to a Walmart in my life preferring to purchase goods at small locally owned establishments like Richland General Store. We pick oodles of vegetables out of a big garden, fighting with pine voles all the way. I make a parsnip venison pie that will knock your socks off. Much of the furniture is refurbished second hand stuff my wife’s restored. We’re here for the long haul, revel in the local beauty, and try to respect the natural world around us.
Our family chooses to make small changes with the way we live to become better environmental stewards – while saving money in the process. Our all-electric house self-built in 1997 is very energy efficient, using water-to-water geothermal technology to drive a radiant floor heating system. Its peak heat- and cooling-load is calculated at 20,000 BTU for 2,600 square feet of living space, a direct benefit of using continuous stress-skin sheathing. Hydronics are provided by two high-efficiency heat pumps: an 800-watt unit for potable hot water and a 1,200-watt unit for central heating/cooling. It’s so cheap to run that it’s not cost-effective to fire-up the woodstove! Instead of cutting wood I hike. Building materials – oak timbers, 22-guage metal roof, and concrete Hardiplank siding to last a lifetime. Sinks, doors, and various other building materials were salvaged, another Pinelands tradition. Pineys, outnumbered but not necessarily outsmarted...
White bread, mayonnaise
We've come a long way since Pinelands hamlets had racially based exclusionary clauses written into deeds. Good riddance. Eastern and southern Europeans were at times considered non-white. Shades of Kallikak may unjustifiably still stigmatize the Pines. So if I seem a bit sensitive to cultural issues, please understand why.
Fig. 1. Excerpt from a 1946 deed from Richland Village. “…shall never be rented, used, occupied or sold by or to than the Caucasian race.”
We've come a long way since Pinelands hamlets had racially based exclusionary clauses written into deeds. Good riddance. Eastern and southern Europeans were at times considered non-white. Shades of Kallikak may unjustifiably still stigmatize the Pines. So if I seem a bit sensitive to cultural issues, please understand why.
Fig. 1. Excerpt from a 1946 deed from Richland Village. “…shall never be rented, used, occupied or sold by or to than the Caucasian race.”
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Spungman:
Socially restrictive covenants of such an exclusivity nature are common from about the 1920s on. Prior to that time, restrictive covenants usually referred to dispensing spirituous liquors and refraining from certain industrial activities. However, the rise of eugenics and social Darwinism, along with the gathering strength of the Ku Klux Klan and other such hate groups, provided a strong impetus for placing such covenants into deeds with impunity. You will find analogous language in deeds from just about every county in New Jersey as well as other states. Collings Lake had similar restrictive covenants, referring specifically to “negroes” and “Jews” within the offending paragraph. Elitist lakeside communities in North Jersey contained comparable language in their deeds. These types of restrictive covenants could be found in new deeds consummated up through the 1960s and even into 1970 and 1971, but then such wording disappears completely in the age of desegregation and the flower-child era.
Best regards,
Jerseyman
Sigh. I'm going to have to start using the
emoticon again, even though it's like laughing at your own joke, and I still think Gabe won the thread with "Hello, bot", over which I still chuckle these many hours since.