Famed South Jersey Estate is a Romantic Area
Now 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 that knowing that there...
Author: Henry Charlton Beck
Ghosts of By-Gone Glories Haunt Quiet Lanes and the Memories of Batsto’s Old-Timers
I 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 Taunton as Tanton when...
Old Jersey Forest Fire Fighter Borrowed System Used by the Indians
“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 philosophic viewpoint. “If he...
Lore of New Jersey’s Forked River Mountains
Now 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 “antymire” or something not...
Abode of Jersey Hermit Blossoms Into New Fairyland
If 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 days he passed there...