The Wailers’ “One Love” Tour came to town, and we were lucky to be able to enjoy it. First of all, we scored some free tickets thanks to Route1Views. Secondly, the remnants of Hurricane Ian were fast approaching at concert time, and we were worried that we’d have to endure some foul weather in order […]
The Calais hospital was incorporated as a for-profit organization in January 1917. Located on Church Street in Calais, it was a general hospital for the next 21 years. In 1938, a group of citizens purchased the institution, and it became a non-profit general hospital. Over the years, the building became unsafe for patients, and a […]
The Calais Street Railroad began operating in July of 1894. It was one of four international streetcars to ever operate in the US. Calais shares the border with the Canadian town of St. Stephen, and the streetcars originally were too heavy to cross the wooden bridge connecting the two because the bridge was built for […]
I came across this abandoned building on Route 1 in South Monmouth Junction and found out that it has been abandoned for years now, with graffiti now painted on it. This building was built around the 1960s by the EAI company, makers of an excellent line of analog computers. This was a wonderful, progressive company […]
Just east of the Everglades National Park is an exotic Fruit Stand called Robert Is Here. In 1959 Robert’s dad a farmer set up a card table across the road with cucumbers and erected a sign pointing in the direction of a 7-year-old boy “Robert Is Here”. At 14 Robert had saved enough to buy […]
Feed your adrenaline take a plunge through the Tree Tops fresh air, swinging, climbing and zipping from tree to tree. The design and layout of the course are integrated within Tuscawilla Park between the trees and the flow with 10 long zip lines. Their obstacle course features 40 aerial games swinging bridges, hanging logs, tight […]
The American Dream mall in Rutherford, NJ, also known as American Dream Meadowlands, had a long and bizarre journey through planning and construction that produced a long and bizarre shopping complex. It’s hard not to be a bit bewildered and overwhelmed by the excess inside, or to draw obvious parallels between the concept of the […]
Like a missing chapter from “War of the Worlds”, an alien ovoid in the shape of a popular candy has been in our midst since the 1970’s at the University of Bridgeport! Could it be a NASA project gone awry, or a CIA plot to reincarnate P.T. Barnam? Beware, for this is a dangerous matter […]
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