Hidden New Jersey

State Route 57 in Warren County seems like some sort of supernatural entity. No matter how well I think I get to know it, no matter how many...

A recent visit to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris and Somerset Counties led me to think again about how close we came to ...

Substantially industrialized rivers can hold a lot of secrets. Sometimes they're regrettable, in the form of pollution and blight that t...

Studied closely, the gritty borders of U.S. Route 1 have a litany of stories to tell, their inspirations lost to progress or the wrecking ba...

A secret corps of paratroopers from New Jersey were instrumental in the Allied victory on D-Day, during World War II. Their story was brief...

Hidden New Jersey has taken real or virtual visits to a lot of New Jersey airfields and historical aviation sites like Hadley Field in Sou...

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

If you're doing any last minute holiday shopping in South Plainfield this weekend, stop and listen for the very faint sounds of old airp...

First it was the railroad hub for the Pinelands. Then it became a popular resort. Then it was the site of the nation's first interna...

Given the choice of where to wander in New Jersey, I'll always go for the Delaware Bayshore region. Miles and miles of mostly flat surfa...

A while back I posted a piece on Newark Airport 's early days and its beautiful Depression-era art deco terminal and administration buil...

This past weekend's freak snowstorm and follow-up tree damage kept us from making any lengthy road trips, but we found our way to anothe...

Stir crazy after Hurricane Irene and curious which roads were open, we took a drive last week to find a reasonable place to hike. Pyramid Mo...

I'm always amused by the international road signs that point the direction to airports in remote areas. Usually, they depict a silhouett...

For some cockeyed reason, I still enjoy flying. Even when I'm crammed in like a sardine on one of those huge buses with wings, the littl...