"Roadside Geology of New Jersey" book-signing, presentation, David Harper @ D&R Greenway

Charles McVicker's painting, The Sandy Road, the Sourlands, evokes one of New Jersey's many unique geological regions, all covered in "Roadside Geology of NJ", a new book by David P. Harper.  In word and image, Harper takes the reader on scientific journeys, richly described, from the rigors of the Highlands to sandy reaches of land's end at Cape May.  This program, preceded by a light reception, begins at 6:30 on February 6, ending at 8 p.m.  Free, but rsvp@drgreenway.org or call 609 924 4646 to register.  

This is a lively book on the disparate geologic realities of New Jersey, from the ruggedness of the Highlands, through the rocky, bird-rich Sourlands to the gentle diffusion at land's end, Cape May.  Learn the difference between diabase and basalt; meet the Hadrosaurus of Haddonfield and the Mammoth of Mannington Meadows; discover what causes Cape May Diamonds, and why those sands are sparklier than those of Sandy Hook.

D&R Greenway has been saving land since 1989.  In this, the non-profit's 25 year, we have managed to preserve an area the size of Manhattan.   Our current emphasis is on scarce NJ farmland, disappearing at such a rate that New Jersey could be the first state to be completely built out, in two decades or so.  Saved land and trees and crops sequester carbon -- so urgent in these times of cataclysmic climate change.

Harper is a thoroughly informed geologic guide, with a passion for his subject right up there with Abbey and Thoreau, Sibley and Stone.