Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Double Trouble...

...how's that for the name of a town,
it's part of a state park now, no need to frown,
it was, at one time, a true company town,
so, maybe there was enough trouble to go around.

The company had a sawmill and cranberry bog,
so you could harvest, or go saw a log,
in the Pine Barrens near the New Jersey coast,
the company folded, and the whole town was toast.


Top: A workers 'cottage', some buildings have been preserved.
Middle: A painting of one of the bogs.
Bottom: Harvest time for cranberries, the bog is flooded, the berries float and are sucked up with a vacuum.

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