Scenes from the Garden State
While on an extended visit to New Jersey, we made several excursions that took us all over the place. Here are some random snaps, along with some books and movies related to the state. The …
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The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
We are both fans of architecture and the Arts and Crafts movement, so I’ve been watching and waiting for the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in Morris Plains, New Jersey to reopen. It had been …
Museum of American Glass
I love glass objects, so it’s no surprise we found ourselves at the Museum of American Glass at the Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (WACC) in Millville, New Jersey, in an area where there is …
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An Afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey
We went to Princeton to go on a guided birding walk that was a bit of a dud, and then spent some time walking around town taking in the sites. We have both been to …
The Morris Museum Murtogh D. Guinness Collection
The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey was founded as a children’s museum in 1913. Over the decades it grew its children’s collection and expanded into other areas, such as art and natural sciences. But …
Winter Birding
We did some birding while traveling around over the holidays. These are from the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, Codorus State Park in Pennsylvania, and Cape May Point in New Jersey. These are very common birds, …
Emlen Physick Estate
We went to Cape May for their holiday house tours, and squeezed in a tour of the Emlen Physick Estate while we were there. The 18-room mansion was designed by renowned architect Frank Furness in …
New Jersey State House
When home for the holidays what else are you gonna do but go tour the state capitol? Logging in number 17 with our tour of the New Jersey State House in Trenton. The original 150-by-150-foot …
Cape May Christmas Candlelight House Tours
Doug was absolutely thrilled when I proposed we go to Cape May to do their Christmas Candlelight House Tour, so I quickly bought the tickets. One tricky part of this is that the events sell …
Nature Scenes in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens
We had to make an emergency trip home to New Jersey, so we naturally took some walks and tried to find new birds while we were in town.