The Lake Life

The Lake Life

As you can probably see from the simple change in scenery, I have left the Jersey shore and headed north to my home away from home, New England.  Currently I am recovering from my cafe and shore lifestyle in a not-so-little house on Squam Lake in New Hampshire.  The road to recovery has not been [...]

The Garden State

Why is New Jersey called "The Garden State"?  "Because 'Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State' wouldn't fit on a license plate?"  (Miss Congeniality) Historians claim that the name was coined in the late 19th century, when Abraham Browning of Camden compared the state to an "immense barrel, filled with good things to eat and open at both ends, [...]