Bob Dylan’s Christmas album was released 15 years ago. Only now do I learn there’s a music video for the best song on the album.
Must Be Dylan
The New Scout on the Old Scout Trail Guide
Volkswagen obtained the trademark to the International Scout name a few years ago and, on October 24, the new Scout Motors will officially reveal an all-electric Scout vehicle. In the meantime, they have been leaning into International Harvester Scout history on their website.
Witness their recent post on the 1979 International Scout Four-Wheel-Drive Trail Guide, a thick (224 pages!) combination atlas and collection of essays on 4×4 trails across America, including, based on the photo below, at least one in New Jersey that may no longer be off-road.
DC Comics’ 1980s Style Guide
Looking for Bog Turtles in Massachusetts
From the Nature Conservancy: The Search for America’s Tiniest Turtles.
Buck Rogers’ Ray Gun – In Ceramic
Ceramic art by Maynard Tischler on display in the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art (Denver, Colorado).
The Mercer Museum of Doylestown
This museum in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is housed in a concrete castle designed by Henry Mercer, an early archaeologist, collector, and ceramicist. Mercer collected historic tools and other artifacts that demonstrated American industry and crafts, including blacksmithing, butchery, hat-making, and many more.
The Wonder That Is Indiglo
The wonder of Timex’s Indiglo Backlight: The Indiglo Button Let There Be Light.
Ruins of the Estellville Glassworks
Not far from Atlantic City, New Jersey, are the remains of the nineteenth-century Estellville Glassworks, which was in operation from about 1826 to 1877. These buildings are unusual among New Jersey glassworks in using local sandstone with brick arches. Visited on a balmy Autumn day.
Megafauna at the Cincinnati Airport
Megafauna skeletons on display at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), just south of the Ohio River in Boone County, Kentucky). The famous paleontological site, Big Bone Lick, is only about 20 miles south of the airport.
High Bridge to Califon: E-Bike
The Columbia Trail runs along the former alignment of the High Bridge Branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The South Branch Raritan River, a popular trout fishing spot, flows alongside it; the trail crosses the river at the bridge in the featured image above. The river valley here is known as Ken Lockwood Gorge and is a New Jersey Wildlife management Area.
