Wow did the White Horse Pike (off to the left there) look different in 1916.

So, I disappeared off the blog for about a month and a half there (Sorry!), which was partially due to helping my church get ready for…

Our 100th Birthday!

Due to a deficiency in my birth year, I missed the first 65 years of our time as a church, so I volunteered to go through the picture archives and scan hundreds and hundreds of pictures and to make a slide slow.  You know, for fun.

This is what fun looks like.  Look how happy those people are to have a pump!  Also, [...]

I don’t reblog often, but a buddy sent this to me today, and it’s really awesome. Drove by here a bunch of times and even snapped some pictures from outside the fence, but these do an amazing job of capturing the last remains of a passed moment in South Jersey history…

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Historic Smithville Park Trails – Eastampton, Burlington County, NJ Distance – 4.1 miles of trails Type: Out & Back or Loop.  We made a 3 mile loop or so of the Red and Green our first time here, and did 2 miles with the Ravine Trail and wandering around our second time here. Hours: 8AM to dusk.  The mansion grounds are open weekdays, 8AM to 5PM. Mansion tours are also available on Wednesdays and Sundays from May through October, and Holiday tours in December.

Difficulty: 3 out of 10. Total score: 9 of 10. Updated: January 7, 2016

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Terrain – Woods, riverside, and [...]