A Hobnob With Otters
In 2001 my husband and I went to see a litter of yellow Labrador retrievers in Deerfield. It was a big litter and one was cuter than the next; the […]
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The Great Outdoors
Down Jersey
CU Maurice River and the National Park Service’s missions share many common goals and tenets. Both are concerned with stewardship and protection of natural and cultural resources for this and
Shy as a Fox
My parents had an old lithograph of a fox hunt over their sofa. It depicted long-legged hounds and people on horseback with English saddles. Some were off their horses just
When Ice Was King
Until I was 10 years old we lived in northern New Jersey where we got more cold weather and snow than here in “the south.” As ponds showed signs of
Sitting Pretty
Early on a quiet and brisk Saturday morning, with your coffee cup in hand, you glance out of your window and your eyes are almost immediately drawn to a flash
Busy Beavers
In the late 1980s one of my friends took me to meet Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci, the founder of Unexpected Wildlife Refuge in Newfield. There was a peculiar entrance in her
On the Trail
There is exciting news for those of you who love to discover new places to wander and explore. A 383-mile hiking trail is being developed from High Point (New Jersey’s
Dropping By…
If you recall, as part of my article about opossums last year my tale took a strange turn when I discovered that at least two towns drop opossums in celebration
Pucker Up
Many years ago, when the Campbell family had a salt hay farm in Dennis Township on Stimpson Island Rd., my husband and I use to visit them. Young George Campbell
Kiss and Tell
As a child growing up in Cresskill, New Jersey, I lived in a small Cape Cod-style house with two dormer windows. It was a very modest home with a central