Colonial Christmas Concert at New Bridge Landing in River Edge (formerly the Cherry Hill section of Hackensack).
A combination of quite a few of my favorite things….history, music, humor, a beautiful old building on the Hackensack River. The performers did a great job bringing to life what colonial entertainment would have been like. Put on by the Bergen County Historical Society.
November 2010 canoe trip down the Muscunetong River in Western Jersey with the Hackensack River Canoe and Kayak Club….for once, actually just the canoe club….a little swiftwater, a turkey, the usual. For once it didn’t rain, though it could have been warmer.
For those of you that might want to do the mighty Musky, it’s a little river in a narrow valley. Lake Muscunetong and Lake Hopatcong were built at it’s source to feed the Morris canal in the 1800’s and bring PA coal to New York and New Jersey literally fueling the City’s growth….but these lakes hold back most of the water except during the drawdowns in November, where the lower the lake level to protect docks from ice during the winter. Continue reading
Interfaith Music Festival at St. Paul and St. Andrews, New York City with Saoman Ahmad, Basya Schechter and Amanda Monaco. Real a rocking good time. Pot luck dinner first (my bean salad was a hit), some community building….we were asked to set at mixed tables of Methodists, Muslims and Jews at the least…and then a really enjoyable mix of music.
Like many things at St. Paul’s and St. Andrew’s, this was a wonderful combination of traditional religion (be good and do good) with liberal theology (help everyone!).
Various shots on the Hackensack mostly from late summer and early fall 2010 with a few older ones thrown in.
The Hackensack gets short shift for being polluted, muddy crowded…well, you get the idea. However, of it’s many redeeming values, the most important is that is close to me and a lot of other people. It’s also a rich tidal estuary…a little too rich, with too much fertilizer from too many lawns and the like…but full of wildlife, especially herons, ospreys and eagles during the winter (as well as the usual gulls, blackbirds and the geese). So instead of driving get out on the Hack. Continue reading
Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru’s
Leon's children helping Keiko with her phone.
former president Alberto Fujimori and Keiko Fujimori’s Husband Mark Villanella at a dinner hosted by Leon Temiz, owner of Electronics Expo, and his family, Laurie, son Shant and daugher Ursula. In Woodcliff Lake NJ on July 23, 2010. My chance to see how the other half lives, be treated reasonably graciously. Interestingly, most of these folks weren’t Peruvian but were more interested in business opportunities. Continue reading
Jul 10, 2010
Rockaway Creek and the Lamington River, New Jersey with the Hackensack River Canoe and Kayak Club….started out in the rain, but it wasn’t cold and turned into a nice day.
This little river is fed by reservoirs and in times of drought the authorities often turn on the drain to keep the folks downstream from running out of water…so those in the know can find some local swiftwater small stream paddling when everything else around is dried up…and probably would be dried up, even if the reservoirs weren’t holding back all that water. Continue reading
DJB Fashion Show, Jun 4, 2010 at the
Fort Lee community Center
Fashion show benefit for Make a Wish Foundation down by the local High School in conjunction with the local fashion designers.
Not quite fashion week, but not bad.
Would have enjoyed a little quieter music and, like a lot of fashion, well, some of it I could have done without…what was with those tube socks anyway?
