Hidden New Jersey

What do all of these places have in common? Paris, France Times Square, New York Las Vegas, Nevada Roselle, New Jersey Roselle?  The ...

Keep your eyes open in the remarkable colonial community of Bordentown , and you'll find the intersection of art and patriotism. Standin...

With multiple stories already written on Thomas Edison and features on his lab and home in West Orange, it's remarkable that we haven...

While Thomas Edison most often is associated with the towns of Menlo Park and West Orange, the prolific inventor experimented in many places...

What gift do you get someone for their 350th birthday? If the someone is the state of New Jersey, it's a yearlong party, which is exactl...

With increasing frequency, a drive around New Jersey countryside will have you riding past a vineyard or two, particularly in the southern p...

Few realize it, but New Jersey's southern counties could take a legitimate place among the pantheon of influential sites in preserved fo...

If there was intelligent life on the moon, the first call it would have gotten was from New Jersey. Wall Township, specifically. More accu...

If you're a follower of New Jersey politics, you've no doubt heard of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Loc...

It's hard to fathom now, but 90 years ago, commercial radio was little more than a novelty. Barely past making a sizable investment in a...

New Jersey's 19th century industrial history seems loaded with stories of quirky people who built communities around their factories. Su...

There seems to be something about Union County and historic golf courses. First, there was the Oak Ridge Golf Course in Clark, whose groun...

If you've driven through Deptford, you've probably noticed the balloons. Not that the place looks like a birthday party, but the wel...

What does Thomas Edison have in common with L.A. Ink's Kat Von D, a gazillion bikers and legions of hipster Brooklynites? If you guess...

As you drive down Marconi Road in Wall, it's almost startling to see a military-grade satellite dish on the side of the road, across fro...

Keep your eyes open when you drive around Fort Lee, and you'll see something curious. Instead of the usual nondescript signs, some stree...

Sometimes in our travels we drive through places that just feel as if they have a history but don't give it up with historic markers or ...

Before the days of digital music players, compact discs, cassette tapes and even the phonograph, people were entertained by mechanical music...

Blueberries and cranberries may be the perfect foods for New Jersey explorers. Known for their deep colors and vibrant flavors, both berries...