Your are certainly correct. The western 2/3 of New Jersey is very
pretty and not much different than Pennsylvania to the west or New York
to the north. But, as General Washington discovered, all can be brutal
in the winter. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/4/2013 2:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> The thing about NJ is that most people have only ever seen the part
> of the state along the NJ Turnpike, with its ugly tank farms, Newark,
> Edison, etc. We lived in Lawrenceville, between Trenton and Princeton
> in the western part of the state, a beautiful area with history,
> nature, culture etc. Our daughter was born in Princeton, as it was
> the nearest hospital for us.
>
> In the local cemetery in Lawrenceville there were graves of people
> killed during the war of independence in the 1770s. We would go and
> picnic or just relax in a state park called Washington Crossing,
> where Washington (duh) crossed the Delaware river in the winter of
> 1776-77 fleeing the Brits in NYC and regrouping on the PA side to
> come back in the spring. I like places with a history.
>
> Here is my wife and son in Washington Crossing, a long time ago, in a
> galaxy far far away:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Stuff-from-the-20th-century/5775622_gTB2p9#!i=357377633&k=6tZDj5b&lb=1&s=O
>
>
>
>
> Cheers, Nathan
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