FYI anyone .... I did visit Sandy Hook, Horseshoe Cove and Atlantic Highlands / Navesink 3 or 4 years ago for a few hours. As Dave says, some specific locations are pretty well referenced. Anchoring in the cove and rowing across to highlands (now a marina) to shop. The "grotto" is not obvious.
Ian On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:27 PM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition David, thx for showing interest. > I think it would be interesting to show you a closer look on the painting > i'm using to make the referential frame, so i'll take the liberty to send it > to your mailbox, it is sharp enough to read "Sandy hills" > > Thx for the locations you provided, if i have time tomorrow i'll look into > them. > (Still working very extensively on my aunt's file,found some superb goodie's > to share with you if you like to see them) > > Just inform me if you like, will drop some in your mail, omitted. > > 2011/1/8 david buchanan <[email protected]> > >> >> Dan said to Adrie: >> >> >> ...I never made the trip so I don't know what has happened to the area. >> But, I would suggest doing a search for Sandy Hook, not Hills, and see what >> you come up with. And yes, I would love to see the picture. Please send it >> to me privately, if you don't mind. >> >> dmb says: >> >> That's right. I'm looking at Google maps right now. Sandy Hook and Sandy >> Hook Bay are both in New Jersey, almost directly south of the southern tip >> of Manhattan. It's a peninsula with the salty Bay on one side and the salty >> Atlantic Ocean on the other. This is beyond the Hudson river. If you zoom in >> real close, you can see Horseshoe Cove, where they dropped anchor. From >> there he rowed ashore to fetch groceries from a tiny town called Highlands, >> if memory serves. The grotto must have been somewhere along the shore of >> Horseshoe Cove. If you zoom in all the way and follow the shoreline there >> are a few features that could be the grotto, but it's hard to see anything >> that small from space. I think the area was totally trashed at the time Lila >> was written and would be in very stark contrast with the images of Currier >> and Ives. >> >> >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> > > > > -- > parser > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
