there was a time years ago that if you would ve called somebody like that a piney, you d have got shot. anthony: really? paul: but now people embrace it. people like to be thought of as living off the land. they have bumper stickers now, you know, piney power. anthony: how do you make your living? paul: it s good to farm blueberries and cranberries. it s a lot of fishing, a lot of clamming, hopefully the oystering is coming back in the delaware bay. the bay supported a lot of jobs. anthony: the pine barrens have been settled for a long time. paul: a long time. some of the first people who came here were the glassmakers. saw this incredible sand that we have out here called sugar sand. pure white and it s perfect for making glass to the point that it didn t have to be washed or processed in any other way. there was hundreds of glassworks, they re just ruins now. thank you. anthony: thank you. so it s not like the rest of jersey here? paul: oh no. and i hope it stays li
anthony: summertime. do you know that sound? just out of the water, ears pressed up against the beach blanket, the squeak of bare feet on sand nearby. classics illustrated comics waiting for me back at the house. i d play with my little plastic army men in the dunes. and there s a smell of beach grass in the dunes. you know? can you remember it? chris: i still crave it. i love it. anthony: and on special occasions, clams in drawn butter. no matter where i find them now, they always bring me back here. anthony: i remember this place with nothing but fondness. i mean, i can t remember a single bad memory here. chris: it was great. people you knew from last year were here. you d roll out onto the street your parents didn t need to be with you. have a campfire on the beach at night. you can set off firecrackers. all the stuff they wouldn t let you do at home.
all the kids were hitching here, that s how you got places here. anthony: summer time. do you know that sound? just out of the water, ears pressed up against the beach blanket, the squeak of bare feet on sand nearby. classics illustrated comics waiting for me back at the house. i d play with my little plastic army men in the dunes. and there s a smell of beach grass in the dunes. you know? can you remember it? chris: i still crave it. i love it. anthony: and on special occasions, clams in drawn butter. no matter where i find them now, they always bring me back here. anthony: i remember this place with nothing but fondness. i mean, i can t remember a single bad memory here. chris: it was great. people you knew from last year were here. you d roll out onto the street your parents didn t need to be with you. have a campfire on the beach at night. you can set off firecrackers. all the stuff they wouldn t let you do at home.
paul: nah. pineys are people that live in the pine barrens. there was a time years ago that if you would ve called somebody like that a piney, you d have got shot. anthony: really? paul: but now people embrace it. people like to be thought of as living off the land. they have bumper stickers now, you know, piney power. anthony: how do you make your living? paul: it s good to farm blueberries and cranberries. it s a lot of fishing, a lot of clamming, hopefully the oystering is coming back in the delaware bay. the bay supported a lot of jobs. anthony: the pine barrens have been settled for a long time. paul: a long time. some of the first people who came here were the glassmakers. saw this incredible sand that we have out here called sugar sand. pure white and it s perfect for making glass to the point that it didn t have to be washed or processed in any other way. there was hundreds of glassworks, they re just ruins now. thank you. anthony: thank you. so it s not like
how are you getting there? well, i ll hitchhike down. okay, have fun. chris: that was cool. all the kids were hitching here, that s how you got places here. anthony: summer time. do you know that sound? just out of the water, ears pressed up against the beach blanket, the squeak of bare feet on sand nearby. classics illustrated comics waiting for me back at the house. i d play with my little plastic army men in the dunes. and there s a smell of beach grass in the dunes. you know? can you remember it? chris: i still crave it. i love it. anthony: and on special occasions, clams in drawn butter. no matter where i find them now, they always bring me back here. anthony: i remember this place with nothing but fondness. i mean, i can t remember a single bad memory here. chris: it was great. people you knew from last year were here. you d roll out onto the street your parents didn t need to be with you. have a campfire on the beach at night. you can set off firecrackers.