Tag: outdoors

  • An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail

    An Idea Takes Shape in New Jersey: Founding the Appalachian Trail

    By: Richard Federman, RNJCC Strategic Advisor On the morning of April 18, 1921 a woman named Betty Hardy Stubbs, one of the nation’s leading women’s suffrage activists, ran from New York’s Grand Central Station to a bridge spanning the East River, and jumped. Her husband, a kindly and idealistic former Professor of Forestry named Benton…

  • Exploring New Jersey’s Wild Side!

    Exploring New Jersey’s Wild Side!

    By: Richard Federman, RNJCC Strategic Advisor Did you know that there’s a location in South Jersey where you can spot the Philadelphia skyline and the casinos of Atlantic City without doing more than swiveling your head? Are you aware that one of the state’s longest boardwalks – and certainly the most scenic – has nothing…