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Night Light at Marjorie's aka Cabin in Rhinelander
, 2025, Oil on linen panel, 11" x
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by Chuck Bauer
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| From the collection Carol and Gary Moseson |
Night light at Marjorie's, February 25, 2025
This one-story, brick-clad frame home was built by Dick Scarlett in 1967 for Marjorie and Ray Cummins on a rise above the upper mill-pond on the North Branch of the Rancocas Creek, in New Lisbon, Pemberton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Cummins were friends of Tom Darlington, whose family had owned about 1,000 acres along the North Branch from the 1800’s on. The land on which the house was built lies at the boundary between the New Jersey Pine Barrens and the Delaware Valley botanical flora zone east of Philadelphia. The resulting mixture of plants attracts birds of the two regions, some of which are not found anywhere else.
Marjorie’s Place, my appellation for it, represents 23 acres of land that was turned into cranberry cultivation in the 1860’s, shortly after the Civil War, and known as “Black’s Bogs.” Prior to that, its native form was white cedar bogs, known as “Dismals.” The cedar was likely culled and used by English and colonists prior to the United State’s creation.
During a downturn in cranberry production, this land was changed to blueberry production in the 1930’s. After this period, the land was sold to the Cummins. I, Mark Shepherd Thomas, purchased it in 2017. --Mark Shepherd Thomas
Figure 1North Branch Rancocas Creek Marjorie's Place
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lisbon,_New_Jersey
This one-story, brick-clad frame home was built by Dick Scarlett in 1967 for Marjorie and Ray Cummins on a rise above the upper mill-pond on the North Branch of the Rancocas Creek, in New Lisbon, Pemberton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Cummins were friends of Tom Darlington, whose family had owned about 1,000 acres along the North Branch from the 1800’s on. The land on which the house was built lies at the boundary between the New Jersey Pine Barrens and the Delaware Valley botanical flora zone east of Philadelphia. The resulting mixture of plants attracts birds of the two regions, some of which are not found anywhere else.
Marjorie’s Place, my appellation for it, represents 23 acres of land that was turned into cranberry cultivation in the 1860’s, shortly after the Civil War, and known as “Black’s Bogs.” Prior to that, its native form was white cedar bogs, known as “Dismals.” The cedar was likely culled and used by English and colonists prior to the United State’s creation.
During a downturn in cranberry production, this land was changed to blueberry production in the 1930’s. After this period, the land was sold to the Cummins. I, Mark Shepherd Thomas, purchased it in 2017. --Mark Shepherd Thomas
Figure 1North Branch Rancocas Creek Marjorie's Place
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lisbon,_New_Jersey
