Frenchtowner.com and The Hunterdon Bucks Blog aren’t just about Frenchtown, Hunterdon or Bucks County anymore. We do have to go on vacation sometimes, and for the past two years, we have spent the first week of January in a much warmer place than NJ. That place is Savannah Georgia. It is a place that we…
February 22, 2005: Philadelphia Museum of Art: While Val and I were waiting to see the Dali exhibition, we stumbled across an artist that neither one of us had ever heard of before, Belgian Symbolist, Leon Frederic. The images featured here are from Frederic’s “Four Seasons”. The series portrays the four seasons symbolically with four…
February 22, 2005: One of my favorite things about visiting Philadelphia is visiting Zeus. I come back over and over again to stare up at him and admire his beauty. Zeus is the central figure on the pediment of the Northern frieze of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The sculptures were done by C. Paul…
This Story was originally posted on February 6, 2005. Day One: Wendy’s – Atlanta Airport and Marigny Brasserie – New Orleans Louisiana When we arrived in New Orleans, we had not gotten any sleep the night before, and had only eaten an incredibly tasteless and cardboard like breakfast sandwich at the airport in Atlanta from…
This is a photo-documentary of our journey from Frenchtown to Newark, New Jersey to New Orleans, Louisiana to Dothan Alabama, to Panama City, Florida, to St. Augustine Florida and back to Frenchtown. There is something true about the old saying: “You can never go home again”. Anytime that I consider a trip back to LA, “Lower Alabama”, where I was born,…
Let’s see…where shall we go? Just for a night. Maybe two. Let’s just get in the car and go! Excerpt from the original article by Linda Pernice Kavanagh: New York? Been there. Boston? Done that. How ’bout Nantucket? It’s too crowded during the summer and too quiet throughout the off months. We want…
Review: NYC’s Best Restaurant: Gotham Bar and Grill, Greenwich Village, New York City Our whirlwind tour of New York City ends on a very high note. For that we have THE GOTHAM BAR AND GRILL to thank. Our experience with Gotham goes back 20 years. For my partner and chef friend, Gotham was the creator…
On Thursday, October 6th, a friend and I stopped by Trauger’s Farm Market in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. What confronted us was a sea of orange pumpkins and hubbard squash, and other assorted strange fall plant creatures. Fall Colors of Bucks County Pennsylvania One Great Assortment, Gourds at a Bucks County Pennsylvania Farm Happy Pumpkin For Halloween…
There’s an abundance of local farms where you can go out in the field and pick your own pumpkin or simply choose from ones already harvested like the ones shown above at Traugers Farm in Riegelsville in northern Bucks County. The pumpkins, gourds and corn stalks grown on these local farms are perfect for Halloween and fall decorating. Some of these farms also…
There are lots of local farms that offer Pick Your Own Pumpkins for Halloween and fall decorating. Here is a list of them in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Some of these farms also are featuring hayrides, corn mazes and haunted houses or barns. Call for hours and more details. Photo: The Great Pumpkin Smiley Face….
