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Showing posts with label National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Park. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

None shall pass! Sandy Hook's hidden fort

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Our birding excursions at Sandy Hook usually lead us close to the tip of the hook, where Fort Hancock's Nine Gun Battery and Battery Pec...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Hitchcock on Sandy Hook: My adventure with The Birds

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Spring this year has been hit and miss, with very few warm days. Any nature lover with a flexible schedule would have headed to a favorite b...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Birding with a beret: the Bohemian Waxwing at Sandy Hook

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Ah, the Bohemian Waxwing. The name sounds like something out of one of those caricatures about nutty bird watchers: "yes, we saw the ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Back to school in Montague: the Nelden-Roberts Stonehouse

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Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area is loaded with them: old houses and buildings that largely stand empty, the silent tribute to ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The hidden Ellis Island Hospital: admitting again, starting October 1

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Long-time readers know we have a special relationship with Ellis Island... the New Jersey side . As a volunteer with the National Park Servi...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Sabotage on Sandy Hook: our oldest lighthouse's Redcoat past

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Standing as it does within a decommissioned U.S. Army fort, it's difficult to imagine that the Sandy Hook Lighthouse was once the target...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The WACs of Fort Hancock: Sandy Hook's women soldiers

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You may not notice at first glance, but Sandy Hook's Fort Hancock is, in many places, a study in uniformity and symmetry. With golden-hu...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Visiting our favorite Easter Peeps*: the Piping plovers

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Easter seemed like the perfect day for a trip to Sandy Hook for the annual nesting season of the Piping plover. It was a beautiful day, bree...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Shift change on the Hook

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If the first really, really nice day of March is a gift, this year it's the winning lottery ticket. After the winter we've endured -...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Deck the Hook with boughs of holly...

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Even after countless trips to Sandy Hook, I'm still finding new reasons to love the place. After visiting the snowy owl a few weeks ago...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013

On the (Sandy) Hook again

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It seems a little weird to compare the reopening of Sandy Hook to Christmas, but in my case, it works. It's long been the place where I ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Jockey Hollow cemetery: Morristown's hidden tribute to remarkable patriot troops

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We haven't had a lot of snow this January, but the recent cold snap brought just a small sense of the kind of misery the Continental tro...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Ellis Island: an update on Sandy's impact

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Not long after Hurricane Sandy, I wrote about damage at Ellis Island  and the uncertain future of the unrestored Public Health Service immig...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Ellis Island's hospital after Sandy: an uncertain future

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I've mentioned before that I'm a volunteer interpretive guide at Ellis Island , informing visitors about the Public Health Service h...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dracula birds and abandoned batteries on Sandy Hook

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Even the crummy days this winter don't seem half bad. Though it was cloudy and felt as if showers were highly possible, I made the trip ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Edison's West Orange house: a real steal!

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Thomas Edison's 29 room Queen Anne style mansion stands as a true Victorian-era gem in the exclusive, gated West Orange community of Lle...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

So where did you say those warheads were?

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Sandy Hook's Cold War-era Nike radar base is one of the many fascinating parts of Fort Hancock, and I've taken a few of the biweekl...