I am manumuskin,this is a tributary of the Maurice River in cumberland county in southern new jersey.It happens to be the most pure stream in all new jersey,a prime example of a pine barrens cedar crik(to use the local pronunciation)I live about 2 mi from this crik as the crow flies.I live right next to Buckshutem crik which has a prime example of cedar swamp along it.

 I am a flatwoods hillbilly.My family has been in the US since at least 1662 and settled in md.they moved to nc in the mid 1700"s and then into kentucky in the 1790"s with Daniel Boone.They even intermarried with the Boone family.I have had great grandfathers on both side of the civil war killed by the enemy and have thought men I"m lucky to be here.My family resided along the big sandy river till the 1920"s when they moved to waterloo ohio for a short spell then into fayette county wv where they stayed till the late 40"s and some till the early 70"s when they moved to jersey to get work in the glass factories.I guess this was even a step up from lookin at the back end of a mule or diggin coal for a livin.I was born in 64 so I am a first generation born flatwoods hillbilly but still have pinto beans and cornbread in my veins.I like roaming the pinewoods,swamps and coastal marshes of south jersey either on foot,in a canoe or kayak or crawling thru a briar swamp on my belly.I also am into prophecy as you can tell and am what you would call a pre trib,pre mil,literalist,evangelical type christian.I am of a baptistic type bent though i used to be semi pantacostal.was converted from one branch to the other by a died in the wool baptist living in a foxhole with me in Iraq back in 91 during desert storm 1.

 I am also into primitive skills survival type stuff and travel to wilderness areas ever chance I get.My big dream is a trip to Bob Marshall Country Montana and the most awesome wilderness I"ve been in so far was Okefenokee Swamp Ga.

 I"m married to a sexy woman I call Sweetpea whose real name is Coleen and shes 8 months older then me.It"s true older women do make better lovers!I have 3 step younguns all girls 20,18 and 15 .and one grandyoungun (a girl)2(I"m too young to be a pop pop ain"t I?)and one daughter of my own thats 13.

  On Rosh hashanna every year I reguarly jump up and down in the yard as a form of rapture practice since i think this may be the day it happens or possibly ascension day,so far I"ve always come back down but one day I"m gonna stay up for 7 years.Hope your up there with me.

Al