Saturday, August 12, 2006
daytrip 2
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey…” Jack Kerouac
Today’s timcast comes to you from 39°24′8″N, 74°22′45″W. Here in the City of Brigantine, New Jersey, it is an enjoyable day. Some Brigantine acclimation: The Lenni Lenape camped here, referring to the island as “watamoonica” or Summer Playground. Henry Hudson was the first white guy to record his observations of the island , stating “This is a very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see...". Located just outside of what is now Atlantic City, there is a bay on one side and the ocean on the other, creating what is thought to be the windiest city in the world (sorry, Chicago). Historically, it was used by whalers looking for whale migration to wreak havoc upon and by Privateers (America’s first paid for terrorist group- or rather “patriot” paid pirates that attacked and stole from British ships much like the current day CIA in South America). It is even rumored that Capatin Kidd left treasure on the island. In the gay nineties, there was much development on the island, a railroad connecting to Philadelphia, trolleys running up and down it, and many hotels. With the great depression, that crashed and fell by the wayside. There was a turn around with the legalization of gambling in 1978. Today, it’s very much a residential community (in the 1980’s mostly hotel/casino workers) but now the working class is being outplaced by astronomical taxes (boo, city government- fight the power prolitariat Brigantine- vote them off) and sprawling industry of mansions for the rich. Many stars have their shore houses here, so they can play the casinos in Atlantic City. On the island are the Brigantine Wildlife Refuge and the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. No mammals present today. Hurray, safe mammals.
Wildlife sightings: innumerable seagulls (more innumerabe than the poor in a Dickens novel), a vole, several domesticated dogs, racoon tracks, a merganser and an egret.
Note: In fact, we at timcast, stood at the spot the former famous “Brigantine Castle” stood before it sucame to arson in the eighties.
Accomplishments… Read parts of Big Sur while on the beach. Walked to Wildlife Refuge, reworked Anansi scenes, wrote some Joe Hill scenes, bought a bottle of wine for a party tomorrow at Jerry Puma’s.
Today’s timcast comes to you from 39°24′8″N, 74°22′45″W. Here in the City of Brigantine, New Jersey, it is an enjoyable day. Some Brigantine acclimation: The Lenni Lenape camped here, referring to the island as “watamoonica” or Summer Playground. Henry Hudson was the first white guy to record his observations of the island , stating “This is a very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see...". Located just outside of what is now Atlantic City, there is a bay on one side and the ocean on the other, creating what is thought to be the windiest city in the world (sorry, Chicago). Historically, it was used by whalers looking for whale migration to wreak havoc upon and by Privateers (America’s first paid for terrorist group- or rather “patriot” paid pirates that attacked and stole from British ships much like the current day CIA in South America). It is even rumored that Capatin Kidd left treasure on the island. In the gay nineties, there was much development on the island, a railroad connecting to Philadelphia, trolleys running up and down it, and many hotels. With the great depression, that crashed and fell by the wayside. There was a turn around with the legalization of gambling in 1978. Today, it’s very much a residential community (in the 1980’s mostly hotel/casino workers) but now the working class is being outplaced by astronomical taxes (boo, city government- fight the power prolitariat Brigantine- vote them off) and sprawling industry of mansions for the rich. Many stars have their shore houses here, so they can play the casinos in Atlantic City. On the island are the Brigantine Wildlife Refuge and the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. No mammals present today. Hurray, safe mammals.
Wildlife sightings: innumerable seagulls (more innumerabe than the poor in a Dickens novel), a vole, several domesticated dogs, racoon tracks, a merganser and an egret.
Note: In fact, we at timcast, stood at the spot the former famous “Brigantine Castle” stood before it sucame to arson in the eighties.
Accomplishments… Read parts of Big Sur while on the beach. Walked to Wildlife Refuge, reworked Anansi scenes, wrote some Joe Hill scenes, bought a bottle of wine for a party tomorrow at Jerry Puma’s.
# posted by T Martin @ 10:54 PM 
