I live in CA now but I miss the pine barrens so much it hurts sometimes. I hope one day to return. If I ever have kids they need to see and appreciate the majesty.
30 years since I've been. I MUST go back. Cranberry festival in Chatsworth....... Cold beer at the 4 mile tavern. Yep, gonna visit once more before I die.
Ironically many who live in the Pine Barrens would hate a documentary about their heritage. I can easily drive to this part of New Jersey. What I've personally found are many folks who could live off the land easily and wish for far less government intervention. Basically they simply wish to be left alone. It's pretty refreshing to go there for a hardy breakfast, and nobody has a cell phone out. You see, they don't mind having little to no Wifi. Rarely will you find a place in America where the people are exactly who they proclaim to be. What you see is what you get! So liberating Zero bullshit people ❗
I grow up there in the sixties and seventies. I go back when I can to Browns Mills and Whits bogs. Picked many blueberries and cranberries there, back in the day. I tell my kids that the blueberries we would were the size of half dollars. Compared to the little things we buy today at the store that come from out the country.
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I just subscribed to your channel and to your update letters. I’m looking forward to watch the documentary, I’m a filmmaker as well and I love this topic. Thank you Scott.
@@davidskessler Definitely. We were based out of Pemberton (i'm sure you know it) for 23 years on Saturday nights. The program which is mainly international now, still calls the Pine Barrens/Leeds Point area it's home. It's a progressive rock program called gagliarchives. Can I email you listening information? Kudos to the work. I would love to plug it and possibly have you as a guest. I am a self taught expert on SJ History. :)
The one that I was following closely during the filming of this was approved by the Pinelands Commission despite massive protest and a letter by 4 former NJ governors claiming that it did not follow the Pinelands laws and would be harmful. That pipeline never actually happened though. BL England pulled the plug on it for financial reasons. A second pipeline was also approved and construction is nearly complete. The current governor made nominations that would change the makeup of the Pinelands Commission towards protections but those seats have remained unfilled because corrupt officials refuse to take a vote on them.
Did you find the body of that Russian who killed 16 Czechoslovakians?
I only wish they actually shot that episode in the Pine Barrens
I think he was an Interior Designer
DanaWhites Neckfat his place was a shithole
Guy was an interior decorator
@@collinjamesguitar his house looked like shit
I live in CA now but I miss the pine barrens so much it hurts sometimes. I hope one day to return. If I ever have kids they need to see and appreciate the majesty.
Can't you just smell the hot sand, pine sap, cedar water and the exhaust of 2 stroke engines on the Mullica?
30 years since I've been. I MUST go back. Cranberry festival in Chatsworth....... Cold beer at the 4 mile tavern. Yep, gonna visit once more before I die.
Do it! I absolutely encourage you! It's NEVER too late.
@@neesiexneedsxblunts It *WILL* happen one day. I'd like to get a rental on LBI with "AFTER" Labor day rates.
Thank you for this! I miss the Pine Barrens.
Ironically many who live in the Pine Barrens would hate a documentary about their heritage. I can easily drive to this part of New Jersey.
What I've personally found are many folks who could live off the land easily and wish for far less government intervention. Basically they simply wish to be left alone. It's pretty refreshing to go there for a hardy breakfast, and nobody has a cell phone out. You see, they don't mind having little to no Wifi.
Rarely will you find a place in America where the people are exactly who they proclaim to be. What you see is what you get!
So liberating
Zero bullshit people ❗
Let's hope they stop the pipeline.
I grow up there in the sixties and seventies. I go back when I can to Browns Mills and Whits bogs.
Picked many blueberries and cranberries there, back in the day. I tell my kids that the blueberries we would were the size of half dollars.
Compared to the little things we buy today at the store that come from out the country.
Looking forward ro see it, great job!
Love to see the full length
This sounds amazing!
What other state has the pines in the fashion of NJ? Just got back from 4 wheeling out double trouble, but I want to ride in Wharton;-)
Way cool. I live in far northern Wi., and it looks similar. Love it.
Ironic, way back when, John McPhee wrote that the Pines looked like the north woods of Wisconsin.
So a sound engineer that has part ownership of Phillip Glass' studio, in NYC, lives in Chatsworth.
Idk if you figured all that out already. But he lives on an old blueberry farm by oceanspray.
Where can I watch the documentary?
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@@davidskessler thank you I’ll do that.
I just subscribed to your channel and to your update letters. I’m looking forward to watch the documentary, I’m a filmmaker as well and I love this topic. Thank you Scott.
How can we view the film?
Very nice
Great video David. Have you seen the sopranos episode when they are in the pine barrens?
Lindstenfoto haha it's hilarious
Only problem is it was filmed at Harriman State Park in NY. I love Harriman but it looks nothing like our wonderful Pine Barrens.
As i piney i knew right away that episode was nowhere in the pine barrens. Which is a shame because my home is so beautiful and creepy
Not enough long takes of landscape from a distance
If you need narration, I'd love to help. Our radio program has been doing SJ History/Pines History for years.
Thanks Thomas. The film is finished now and we are submitting to festivals. I'd love to hear some of your radio program though!
@@davidskessler Definitely. We were based out of Pemberton (i'm sure you know it) for 23 years on Saturday nights. The program which is mainly international now, still calls the Pine Barrens/Leeds Point area it's home. It's a progressive rock program called gagliarchives. Can I email you listening information? Kudos to the work. I would love to plug it and possibly have you as a guest. I am a self taught expert on SJ History. :)
How can we watch the film?
Did they ever build that pipeline?
The one that I was following closely during the filming of this was approved by the Pinelands Commission despite massive protest and a letter by 4 former NJ governors claiming that it did not follow the Pinelands laws and would be harmful. That pipeline never actually happened though. BL England pulled the plug on it for financial reasons. A second pipeline was also approved and construction is nearly complete. The current governor made nominations that would change the makeup of the Pinelands Commission towards protections but those seats have remained unfilled because corrupt officials refuse to take a vote on them.
@@davidskessler dam that's a shame
I live in Penny pot the pine barrens are the best
What a shame the Pine Barrens being flooded with litter by ingrates
I wish you had real pineys in your movie. I only seen 3 real pineys in movie.
Gary Giberson the now deceased Mayor of Port Republic was in it RIP Mayor ……..
Beer can pyramids in the pale moonlight.
I was going to go there once, but we saw a sign that said "bear left" so we went home