Hidden New Jersey

What do Johnson & Johnson, a good brisket sandwich and art have in common? Interestingly enough, Rutgers University and New Brunswick, s...

Wait a minute, Bunol, Spain. You may have La Tomatina , but you don't have the Great Tomato Tasting. Both happen on the last Wednesday ...

We didn't see any pandas on our last trip to New Brunswick, but I honestly wouldn't have been shocked if we had, based on what we fo...

For a while, we've been meaning to get to Rutgers Gardens, the 180-acre bit of bliss located not far off Route One on Ryders Lane in New...

In a history-making event that garnered virtually no media attention, flying saucers hovered just feet above the ground on Rutgers Universit...

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

To many people, the name Joyce Kilmer means one of three things: the poet who wrote  Trees , a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike, or an a...

Over the past couple of years, we've found a host of planned communities and colonies that were built around New Jersey. They're usu...

Last week's visit to New Brunswick's Willow Grove Cemetery brought to mind a legend I had heard about seven Japanese citizens who w...

History-minded Rutgers University students (at least the New Brunswick-based ones) quickly learn the facts behind the school's origins. ...

My research on the house dorms of Douglass College brought to mind a sad and rather macabre legend I heard while I was a student at Rutgers...

Pick any four-year college in New Jersey, and it's likely you'll find a bunch of old houses on campus, renovated for educational pur...

The 1997 Douglass College Alumnae Directory lists Marjorie Gray, class of 1933, as a retired technical editor for Grumman Aerospace Corporat...

That headline isn't a typo. Yes, we found ourselves journeying to the EARTH Center. Who'd think it would be in North Brunswick? Ok...

If you make it to Cook College Ag Field Day tomorrow (and I hope you do!), take a few minutes to stroll down College Farm Road to Helyar Ho...

Today marks the 142nd anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game between Rutgers and Princeton, played in New Brunswick. As any ...

Till now, every Hidden New Jersey entry has highlighted a visit that I've made to a notable location in the state, either with Ivan or o...

Run a couple of history nuts past an old church and see what happens. If those nuts are Ivan and me, chances are that you’ll be spending som...