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Author Message   TomD Citizen Username: Tomd Post Number: 457 Registered: 5-2005 Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 4:53 pm:        I friend of mine turned me on to this site. To quote him: A site I stumbled upon recently is Kathleen Connally's photoblog A Walk Through Durham, Township Pennsylvania. Kathleen takes photos within a 10 mile radius of Durham, Pennsylvania. The photography is, in a word, stunning.   tulip Citizen Username: Braveheart Post Number: 3542 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 5:45 pm:        Near Durham Township, just up the road on route 412 is Nockamixon State Park. We were there Monday. The pool was open, crowded, but nice and cool. In the lake, sailboats large and small floated about, kayaks and canoes were everywhere out on the lake. It's quite a big lake, with lots of pine trees all around. You wouldn't know you were 17 miles from Easton, PA, or 20 miles from Phillipsburg, NJ. Interestly, (I think) the iron for the cannons and musketballs used in the Revolutionary War was mined in Durham, and the boats Washington used to cross the Delaware were made in Durham as well, and were called Durham boats. But anyway, the iron mined in Durham Mines was loaded onto boats and floated down river to the Delaware, and over to what is now Pohatcong Township's Chelsea Forge (now Finesville) to be made into ammunition. Most of the mills around western NJ, and even southern NJ, were iron forges originally. I learned that from a Revolutionary War "reenactor" at Tempe Wick House in Jockey Hollow, Morristown. They were reenacting the lives of the colonial soldiers and families. This one fellow had been a high school chemistry teacher his whole life, and is now a NJ history buff. He said the bacteria that forms iron, or comes from naturally formed iron in the earth, actually bubbles up to the surface from bogs in south Jersey. The geomorphology of the Delaware River Basin, and its opportunities for magificant photography, boating, camping, hiking and biking, are exceptional.