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Today, I start my 60th trip around the sun, and I’m planning on using the coming year for a ‘mini bucket-list check-down,’ and to escape much of the growing absurdity and insanity that is Internet and American politics. Birthdays offer a time to reflect on the past year, and look ahead to the coming […] Historic Waterloo Village, Byram, NJ – April 16, 2015 There was a very insightful OpEd in the Bergen Record on Tuesday, October 6. “Parks are for people, not development” was written by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, and addresses the ongoing controversy over the privatization of Liberty State Park in Jersey City. You […] In response to the New Jersey Senate Environment and Energy Committee’s December 8, 2014 hearing on implementation of Public Question 2 (you can read press reports of that meeting here and here), the Byram Township Mayor and Council passed the resolution below supporting restoration of funding to state parks and historic sites at their meeting […] Senate Environment and Energy Committee to hold first hearing on implementation of Public Ballot Question 2 If you read my November 2nd post, Protect our parks, open space, and clean water: Vote ‘NO’ on New Jersey Ballot Question 2, you know that with passage of Question 2 came serious financial impact on our State Parks […] No, not for yourself (although the weather for Sunday looks seasonably cool) but for someone less fortunate. My friend Andrea Proctor, the Resource Interpretive Specialist at Historic Waterloo Village posted this on their Facebook page shortly after I posted the announcement for the Feast on History program to this blog: Waterloo Village We had […]
Gobble up the food, facts and fun at Feast On History at Waterloo Village Sunday November 23rd, 1 pm – 4 pm Featuring period food by: JAM at Waterloo Village Native American cooking demos by: Heart to Hearth Cookery 17th Century Lenape Indian Village Log Cabin & Farm Site 19th Century Victorian […] Scott Olson photo By Scott Olson November 2, 2014 On Tuesday, I’m voting to protect our parks, historic sites and open space. I’m voting to maintain protections of our drinking water and precious natural resources. I’m voting ‘NO’ on New Jersey’s Open Space Preservation Funding Amendment, Public Question Number 2, and I’m urging […] |