#are things like 'camden: america's most dangerous city' and 'newark street wars' and 'the real sopranos'
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The Pine Barrens
#pine barrens#new jersey pine barrens#coastal forest#it's a shame that when you search 'new jersey documentaries' all that comes up#are things like 'camden: america's most dangerous city' and 'newark street wars' and 'the real sopranos'#the pine barrens are an ecological treasure with orchids and carnivorous plants found no where else in the world#and still has people living very traditional lifestyles as cranberry farmers blueberry farmers clamers and fishermen#lots of interesting folklore came out of there like the jersey devil#captain kid#the black doctor#peggy clevenger: witch of the pine barrens#jerry munyhun#wizard of the pines#lots of interesting people too#like elizabeth c white#first person to successfully cultivate blueberries#and elizabeth kite#who inadvertently started the eugenics movement#with her study of the kallikack family#historically the pine barrens was a place for outlaws#and religious rejects#with many pirates bandits quakers and jews fleeing there from ny and northern nj#other places in america like the Ozarks and the great smokey mountains have tons of documentaries about the people and traditions that lived#there#but not nj#which is shame because there are still wilderness and historic areas worth being preserved#the pine barrens are errie but beautiful#eerie because the vegetation is so dense and everything starts to look the same#and the bog iron makes the bottom of coves and streams dark red#like the bottom of hell is there
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