The Tundra Swans that come to Whitesbog every year are in town now, and we're planning on going out to take some pictures and record their honks.
There was a full moon tonight - Sunday, January 11, but it was pretty cloudy and cold.
Last night there was a walk scheduled from the town of Whitesbog to the lake or cranburry bogs where the birds hang out and nest.
More to come on this one.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Ed Gillespie in New Jersey Monthly
From New Jersey Monthly, November 2004 - Garden Variety, p.27 Party Animal
NOT LONG AFTER GRADUATING from Pemberton Township High School, Ed Gillespie got his first job on Capitol Hil - parking cars in the Senate lot. This month, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, Gillespie hopes to drive George W. Bush back to the White House.
Gillespie, 43, whose father, Jack, until recently owned a tavern in Browns Mills, stands out from the suited spin doctors on America's political stge as a blue-colar guy. Well known in Washington as a skilled political strtegist, he's taken on the campaign role of Bush-adminstration pit bull.
After high school, Gillespie attended Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (also the alma mater of Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe). Gillespie took the reins of the GOP in July 2003, and in the ensuing sixteen months helped the party set a presidential campaign fund-rasing record.
Earlier this year, at a church assembly on the campaign trail, Gillespie tapped into his roots. "Growing up in the southern-New Jersey-Pennsylvania area," he said, "I acquired a strong sense of family, work, neighborhood, and community."
When he completes his tenure as chairman, Gillespie plans to return to his own bipartisan lobbying firm, Quinn-Gillespie & Associates, which he co-founded with Jack Quinn, a former White Hosue counsel to President Bill Clinton.
- Bil Kelly
NOT LONG AFTER GRADUATING from Pemberton Township High School, Ed Gillespie got his first job on Capitol Hil - parking cars in the Senate lot. This month, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, Gillespie hopes to drive George W. Bush back to the White House.
Gillespie, 43, whose father, Jack, until recently owned a tavern in Browns Mills, stands out from the suited spin doctors on America's political stge as a blue-colar guy. Well known in Washington as a skilled political strtegist, he's taken on the campaign role of Bush-adminstration pit bull.
After high school, Gillespie attended Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (also the alma mater of Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe). Gillespie took the reins of the GOP in July 2003, and in the ensuing sixteen months helped the party set a presidential campaign fund-rasing record.
Earlier this year, at a church assembly on the campaign trail, Gillespie tapped into his roots. "Growing up in the southern-New Jersey-Pennsylvania area," he said, "I acquired a strong sense of family, work, neighborhood, and community."
When he completes his tenure as chairman, Gillespie plans to return to his own bipartisan lobbying firm, Quinn-Gillespie & Associates, which he co-founded with Jack Quinn, a former White Hosue counsel to President Bill Clinton.
- Bil Kelly
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Deer Season 2008
Mike Maze, and his son Hunter, are the White Deer hunters of Browns Mills. Mike bagged his first white deer of the season, using a bow & arrow, and got a second deer, a white tail, with a week.
His son Hunter had the white deer buck he bagged last year mounted as a rug.
More to come as the season progresses.
BK
His son Hunter had the white deer buck he bagged last year mounted as a rug.
More to come as the season progresses.
BK
Monday, September 22, 2008
Browns Mills Restaurant Guide
BROWNS MILLS RESTAURANT GUIDE
Belly Busters (Formerly J.C.'s) 98 Lakehurst Road. 609-893-7779.
Bo Bos Chinese at Country Lakes - Lakehurst Road. 893-1797
Brother's Diner I - 127 Trenton Road. (609) 893-5500 Fax: 893-6257
Burger King - Lakehurst Road. 893-9883
Domino's - 893-1600
Family Pizza - Lakehurst Road. 735-0500
Great Wall Chinese - Pemberton-Browns Mills Road. 893-1783
Hungry Piney - QuickStop Deli - 13 Pemberton-Browns Mills Rd. 609-893-0005 Fax: 893-0559.
Ju Ju's - Seafood & Soulfood Take-Out. 609-893-2020.
Ko Ko's -
McDonalds - Trenton Road. 893-6992
Number One Chinese - Lakehurst Road. 893-8868
Papi's Pizza - 558 Lakehurst Rd., Country Lakes Plaza. 609-893-5447 Fax: 893-3984
The Pub at Country Lakes
Riccardo's - Lakehurst Road. 735-0162
Roma Pizza - Browns Mills Shopping Center. 609-893-7760. All Mj.Cc.
Skip's (Formerly Franks/O'Brian's)
Sonja's - Trenton Road. 893-3629
Soprano's Pizza - Lakehurst Road. 735-9900
PEMBERTON
Anapa's Country House - Rt. #38.
WRIGHTSTOWN
NEW EGYPT
EASTHAMPTON
Charlie's Other Brother -
Clarke's Tavern - 1291 Woodlane Road, Easthampton, N.J. 08060 (609) 702-1701
MOUNT HOLLY
Bread From Heaven - Southern Resturant, 4 Mill St., Mount Holly, N.J. 609-261-4844. Sunday buffet 12 - 6pm.
Milano - By Lamberti
Wa Wa at Country Lakes
Wa Wa on Lakehurst Road
COLUMBUS
Old Columbus Inn - 24491 West Main Street, Columbus, N.J. 08022. (609) 298-4449. Fax:298-1703. Columbusinne@aol.com All CC.
CHATSWORTH
Janet's Main Street Cafe (aka "Buzby's"). 1st & Rt. 563 Chatsworth, N.J. (609) 894-0300
NEW GRETNA
Allen's Clam Bar. Route 9, New Gretna, (609) 296-4106
SOUTHHAMPTON
Red Lion Inn
Belly Busters (Formerly J.C.'s) 98 Lakehurst Road. 609-893-7779.
Bo Bos Chinese at Country Lakes - Lakehurst Road. 893-1797
Brother's Diner I - 127 Trenton Road. (609) 893-5500 Fax: 893-6257
Burger King - Lakehurst Road. 893-9883
Domino's - 893-1600
Family Pizza - Lakehurst Road. 735-0500
Great Wall Chinese - Pemberton-Browns Mills Road. 893-1783
Hungry Piney - QuickStop Deli - 13 Pemberton-Browns Mills Rd. 609-893-0005 Fax: 893-0559.
Ju Ju's - Seafood & Soulfood Take-Out. 609-893-2020.
Ko Ko's -
McDonalds - Trenton Road. 893-6992
Number One Chinese - Lakehurst Road. 893-8868
Papi's Pizza - 558 Lakehurst Rd., Country Lakes Plaza. 609-893-5447 Fax: 893-3984
The Pub at Country Lakes
Riccardo's - Lakehurst Road. 735-0162
Roma Pizza - Browns Mills Shopping Center. 609-893-7760. All Mj.Cc.
Skip's (Formerly Franks/O'Brian's)
Sonja's - Trenton Road. 893-3629
Soprano's Pizza - Lakehurst Road. 735-9900
PEMBERTON
Anapa's Country House - Rt. #38.
WRIGHTSTOWN
NEW EGYPT
EASTHAMPTON
Charlie's Other Brother -
Clarke's Tavern - 1291 Woodlane Road, Easthampton, N.J. 08060 (609) 702-1701
MOUNT HOLLY
Bread From Heaven - Southern Resturant, 4 Mill St., Mount Holly, N.J. 609-261-4844. Sunday buffet 12 - 6pm.
Milano - By Lamberti
Wa Wa at Country Lakes
Wa Wa on Lakehurst Road
COLUMBUS
Old Columbus Inn - 24491 West Main Street, Columbus, N.J. 08022. (609) 298-4449. Fax:298-1703. Columbusinne@aol.com All CC.
CHATSWORTH
Janet's Main Street Cafe (aka "Buzby's"). 1st & Rt. 563 Chatsworth, N.J. (609) 894-0300
NEW GRETNA
Allen's Clam Bar. Route 9, New Gretna, (609) 296-4106
SOUTHHAMPTON
Red Lion Inn
Monday, September 8, 2008
Cranberry Inn Rt.70 Nowhere, N.J.
From Super Mario's to the Cranberry Inn, Nowhere, New Jersey
The cook's last job was at Super Mario's, the Italian joint next to Fort Dix, which closed after the owner's son was accused of being part of a terrorist cell that planned on attacking soldiers at the base.
A sailor himself, Leon Hinkle is a Navy cook who prides himself on knowing how to cook, for two or two thousand. So after being derailed by the terrorist pizza cell in Wrightstown, he's shifted over to the other side of the base, and is now operating out of this yet to be named roadhouse in the middle of nowhere.
Actually it is closer to Lakehurst and the Navy base that is now linking up, both figuratively as well as geographically, with Fort Dix and MacGuire Air Force base, making the first Megabase.
Opening a bar-restaurant-take out joint near a big military base might sound like a good idea, but not so much so when you are fifteen miles from the closest gate. There are a few Pinies who live nearby, and the suburbs of the Jersey Shore towns aren't that far away, but to be successful, this place will have to become a destination for some, a popular half-way pit stop for others, and a pleasant surprise for those who stumble on it.
They want to call it the Cranberry Inn, but they haven't registered it with the state of New Jersey so there's no name on the sign out front that used to say Harrison's, a unique little roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, a Piney stage stop between Fort Dix/McGuire, Browns Mills and the Jersey Shore.
From Ft. Dix/McGuire/Browns Mills/Pemberton Gate, you go five miles east down Lakehurst Road, then five miles further east on Rt. 70, past Whitesbog Road, this joint is the only commercial establishment on the road that I could identify within ten or fifteen miles. It is in a place called Manchester Township, and that short five mile strip is known as a gauntlet for local police patroling for traffic ticket and DUI surcharges for the Township budget, so be carefull.
Like the Hedger House near Chatsworth, the old Doaks on the back Mays Landing Road, Brownies in Bargaintown, and a half dozen other ragged roadhouses that have survived, you have to make this place your destination, stop there going or coming from somewhere else, or stumble on it when your lost.
It doesn't look like much from the outside, but inside, after you get pass the rows of take-out beer, wine and liquor store, there's a real juke joint, complete with pool table and high wall, hardwood, ski lodge motif. The walls are so high in fact, there's a tables in a balcony that overlooks the bar.
There's some room out back too, for a barbeque, and plenty of room to park, so you know they've had some good bike runs here, regardless of who owned the place. Besides Harrisons, I heard that an old Marine owned it for awhile, and it seems to have a history that I've yet to dig up.
They opened three days previous, even though they weren't ready, and some of the people came back, including this retired guy and his friend next to me. They enjoyed their steak the other night but this time they get a seafood house scampi (shrimp, scallops, clams, lobster tail) in white wine sauce over linguine, and said they really enjoyed it. And it looked good to, especailly with the red wine to go with it. ($18.95)
I got a rib eye and it too was really good, medium rare, with a baked potato and salad that came in a $15.95.
They got some other fine dining stuff too - broiled flounder ($14.95), old fashioned meat loaf ($12.95), home made lasagne ($11.95), fettuccini Alfredo ($11), Gumbo ($13) and a Cranberry's Delight, of lightly dusted shrimp mixed in garlic oil, fresh basil and sun dried tomatoes over linguini ($15.95).
Don't let that scare you though, as they also have club sandwiches, burgers, hoagies, wings ($7), wraps and cheese steaks ($8), fried apps, really fine salids ($5-8) and kids menu.
It's a mix of Americana, steak, seafood, Italian and neoclassical Navy cafateria, and if not truely great, like my rib eye, I'm sure it's all really good.
Sitting with me at the bar, besides the two retired guys from the city, were two of the Bogs Boys and their gals, sizing up the joint for a possible gig, a place they've played before.
I thought I knew them from Albert Hall, and sure enough, they play bluegrass, and have a special night they jam at a joint not far away that they gave me directions to, and I promise to check them out.
Among the new owners, Dean was still running around getting things together, and Bob was running the bar, and there's also Gene and Joe, but the big thing they have going here, as far as I can tell, is Leon in the kitchen.
When I told Leon that I had run into him at JC's in Browns Mills, and he excitedly told me about opening this place, he remembered, "Oh, yea," and took me back to show me the kitchen, how small and compact it is, but everything you need for one person to cook really good, really fast.
It was just right, and everything was really clean, and back in storage and refrigeration, he showed me how organized it all was, and it really was, Navy template, clean and organized, just like aboard ship.
Well, Leon may not have been ready last Friday when they opened this place for the first time, but he's now got it together, so if you all want to come out and check out this joint, or if you are on the way down the shore or Lakehurst, the other end of the base, or if you're lost and just happen to stuble on it, THIS IS THE PLACE.
I can see it now, once it gets a handle, a great motorcycle run, some mean bluegrass by the Bogs Boys, a slew of really good meals and good times with new friends.
But you got to remember you got to run the Manchester Gauntlet to get back to the other end of the base, so be carefull.
The cook's last job was at Super Mario's, the Italian joint next to Fort Dix, which closed after the owner's son was accused of being part of a terrorist cell that planned on attacking soldiers at the base.
A sailor himself, Leon Hinkle is a Navy cook who prides himself on knowing how to cook, for two or two thousand. So after being derailed by the terrorist pizza cell in Wrightstown, he's shifted over to the other side of the base, and is now operating out of this yet to be named roadhouse in the middle of nowhere.
Actually it is closer to Lakehurst and the Navy base that is now linking up, both figuratively as well as geographically, with Fort Dix and MacGuire Air Force base, making the first Megabase.
Opening a bar-restaurant-take out joint near a big military base might sound like a good idea, but not so much so when you are fifteen miles from the closest gate. There are a few Pinies who live nearby, and the suburbs of the Jersey Shore towns aren't that far away, but to be successful, this place will have to become a destination for some, a popular half-way pit stop for others, and a pleasant surprise for those who stumble on it.
They want to call it the Cranberry Inn, but they haven't registered it with the state of New Jersey so there's no name on the sign out front that used to say Harrison's, a unique little roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, a Piney stage stop between Fort Dix/McGuire, Browns Mills and the Jersey Shore.
From Ft. Dix/McGuire/Browns Mills/Pemberton Gate, you go five miles east down Lakehurst Road, then five miles further east on Rt. 70, past Whitesbog Road, this joint is the only commercial establishment on the road that I could identify within ten or fifteen miles. It is in a place called Manchester Township, and that short five mile strip is known as a gauntlet for local police patroling for traffic ticket and DUI surcharges for the Township budget, so be carefull.
Like the Hedger House near Chatsworth, the old Doaks on the back Mays Landing Road, Brownies in Bargaintown, and a half dozen other ragged roadhouses that have survived, you have to make this place your destination, stop there going or coming from somewhere else, or stumble on it when your lost.
It doesn't look like much from the outside, but inside, after you get pass the rows of take-out beer, wine and liquor store, there's a real juke joint, complete with pool table and high wall, hardwood, ski lodge motif. The walls are so high in fact, there's a tables in a balcony that overlooks the bar.
There's some room out back too, for a barbeque, and plenty of room to park, so you know they've had some good bike runs here, regardless of who owned the place. Besides Harrisons, I heard that an old Marine owned it for awhile, and it seems to have a history that I've yet to dig up.
They opened three days previous, even though they weren't ready, and some of the people came back, including this retired guy and his friend next to me. They enjoyed their steak the other night but this time they get a seafood house scampi (shrimp, scallops, clams, lobster tail) in white wine sauce over linguine, and said they really enjoyed it. And it looked good to, especailly with the red wine to go with it. ($18.95)
I got a rib eye and it too was really good, medium rare, with a baked potato and salad that came in a $15.95.
They got some other fine dining stuff too - broiled flounder ($14.95), old fashioned meat loaf ($12.95), home made lasagne ($11.95), fettuccini Alfredo ($11), Gumbo ($13) and a Cranberry's Delight, of lightly dusted shrimp mixed in garlic oil, fresh basil and sun dried tomatoes over linguini ($15.95).
Don't let that scare you though, as they also have club sandwiches, burgers, hoagies, wings ($7), wraps and cheese steaks ($8), fried apps, really fine salids ($5-8) and kids menu.
It's a mix of Americana, steak, seafood, Italian and neoclassical Navy cafateria, and if not truely great, like my rib eye, I'm sure it's all really good.
Sitting with me at the bar, besides the two retired guys from the city, were two of the Bogs Boys and their gals, sizing up the joint for a possible gig, a place they've played before.
I thought I knew them from Albert Hall, and sure enough, they play bluegrass, and have a special night they jam at a joint not far away that they gave me directions to, and I promise to check them out.
Among the new owners, Dean was still running around getting things together, and Bob was running the bar, and there's also Gene and Joe, but the big thing they have going here, as far as I can tell, is Leon in the kitchen.
When I told Leon that I had run into him at JC's in Browns Mills, and he excitedly told me about opening this place, he remembered, "Oh, yea," and took me back to show me the kitchen, how small and compact it is, but everything you need for one person to cook really good, really fast.
It was just right, and everything was really clean, and back in storage and refrigeration, he showed me how organized it all was, and it really was, Navy template, clean and organized, just like aboard ship.
Well, Leon may not have been ready last Friday when they opened this place for the first time, but he's now got it together, so if you all want to come out and check out this joint, or if you are on the way down the shore or Lakehurst, the other end of the base, or if you're lost and just happen to stuble on it, THIS IS THE PLACE.
I can see it now, once it gets a handle, a great motorcycle run, some mean bluegrass by the Bogs Boys, a slew of really good meals and good times with new friends.
But you got to remember you got to run the Manchester Gauntlet to get back to the other end of the base, so be carefull.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Matt "Represents True Olympic Spirit"
Matt "Represents True Olympic Spirit"
US Shooter Gives Games Most Touching Moment - Olympic Chief Jacques Rogge
Olympics chief Jacques Rogge on Sunday singled out the stoic attitude in defeat of U.S. shooter Matt Emmons as the most touching moment of the Beijing Games.
Emmons threw away a gold medal on his final shot when he nervously pulled the trigger a split second too soon.
It was a stunning blunder that echoed his defeat in 2004 when he lost a gold on the last shot when hitting the wrong target.
Rogge also said the sight of Georgian and Russian athletes embracing on the podium while their countries were locked in conflict was an embodiment of the Olympic spirit.
"I think this kind of sportsmanship and brotherhood is really remarkable," he said.
But what deeply moved Rogge was Emmons -- even if he confessed to reporters he could not remember the shooter's name.
"What touched me most was the attitude of this American shooter," Rogge told a press conference wrapping up the Games.
He recalled how Emmons picked the wrong target in Athens and threw away his gold medal chance at the last moment. "This is something already very painful," Rogge said.
Emmons may have missed the target but he found love in Greece. Czech shooter Katerina Kurkova came up to commiserate with him afterwards and their romance blossomed from there.
His wife won the first gold of the Beijing Games and Rogge said "I saw them hugging together and that was a nice moment."
But the fates then struck Emmons once more.
"Again leading and being very close to gold, he took his rifle, put his hand on the trigger and, for some reason, the trigger went off," Rogge said.
Hailing Emmons' resilience, the International Olympic Committee chief said he admired the U.S. shooter for saying: "This is a big failure. I take responsibility but I will come back and I will win gold."
Rogge said: "This is the true spirit of the Olympic Games. The Games is not only about winning, not only about being triumphant. It is about the struggle of every athlete every day to achieve his or her own limits and having this resilience.
"Let's hope he does come back."
THEN YOU GET AN IDIOT LIKE MIKE DOWNEY WRITE THIS:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-24-downey-olympicsaug24,0,477376.story
No medal. Matt Emmons is the most helpless man with a gun since Barney Fife. I joke that the Chinese name for him is Wrong Way. He is the U.S. rifleman who is not good to the last shot. He blew sure-fire (literally) medals in 2004 and 2008 both on his last aim-and-fire. This guy ought to come with a two-minute warning. He eyes a target in Beijing, pulls a trigger and a window breaks in Tibet.
APPARENTLY DOWNEY DOESN'T KNOW THAT MATT ALREADY HAD WON A GOLD IN ATHENS AND A SILVER IN BEJING, BUT ITS EASY RIDICULE.
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