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- The Refugee John Bacon
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- Exploring the Lost Lake at Colliers Mills
- On the Trail to Union Clay Works
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- Charles Read: Part 4 – Exile
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Henry Beck Archive
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Ghosts of By-Gone Glories Haunt Quiet Lanes and the Memories of Batsto’s Old-Timers
Posted on November 19, 2007 | No CommentsI could lead you down ordinary ways to Taunton, Etna, Atsion and Batsto, without more to-do. I could tell how that old sailor with the Creole wife, Charles Read, listed... -
Old Jersey Forest Fire Fighter Borrowed System Used by the Indians
Posted on November 19, 2007 | No Comments“An observant traveler, taking his way through the bleak woods in November, especially, along the tangled and moss-carpeted trails among forgotten towns, must sooner or later acquire something of a... -
Ghosts of Old Jersey Fiddlers Still Haunt the Back Woods
Posted on November 19, 2007 | No CommentsWhenever I walk the Tallertown road, the ghosts rise up around me. There is, to begin with, the ghost of the town itself for in these days no one seems... -
Famed South Jersey Estate is a Romantic Area
Posted on November 19, 2007 | No CommentsNow that the vast Wharton estate, tri-county treasure trove of many of these stories, is back in the news, I feel impelled to refresh your memory concerning it. I do... -
Lore of New Jersey’s Forked River Mountains
Posted on September 7, 2007 | No CommentsNow we have come to a land where clam and corn fritters are often “flitters,” where wasps are “waspers” and where the industrious ant, according to size, is either an... -
Abode of Jersey Hermit Blossoms Into New Fairyland
Posted on March 15, 2003 | No CommentsIf the ghost of Turner Brakeley is as benign as I feel he must be, he must approve, I feel very sure, of the La-Ha-Way he knew in the quiet...