When young was told of a place called "lightning bug hollow" the place being the Rosenkrans estate just north of Wallpack Bend where the Delaware River forms a peninsula on the NJ side. The river flowing North before turning South again. The plains along the river here was where my brother rented a summer cabin, it was not until the 1980's on one August humid moonless night that me and my friend Stan would experience the hollow of lightning bugs.
As night fell looking out the cabin door, were flickering lights tiny globular floating fireflys filling the fields, like stars dancing in a shallow sky. We decided to walk out into this vast darkness filling with floating light creatures. It was dark enough not to be able to see, even your hands in front of you, the fireflys like cold strobe lights somehow were allowing us to see and aiding our eyes visual purple in a coordinated act of feeling our way with our feet and eyes along the dirt road and unto the Old Mine Road along Pompey Ridge. The steep ridge and heavy tree line concentrating the light of thousands of fly's into almost milky substance of thick timeless, eternal space, walking one felt as if standing still.; a natural disco tech of silent night. After about perhaps a good mile of this living spellbound, we started back toward the cabin. Being mesmerized by this conspicuous crepuscular use of bioluminescence. We had discovered the lost place of Lightning Bug Hollow on the NJ Frontier.
Rosenkrans is a protected Man in North America Indian occupation site where the "wolfman of Walpack" was found in an Adena Burial Mound.
The Adena culture was a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 1000 to 200 BC, in a time known as the Early Woodland period. The Adena culture refers to what were probably a number of related Native American societies sharing a burial complex and ceremonial system. ...
The Wolfman Shaman Priest is interned at Seton Hall University in Doctor Herb Krafts collections.
Me and Stan would also experience other wonders of nature on the NJ Frontier; a double-sun phenomena, with multiple-rainbow prisms a beam of orange light all happening in sequence. On other occasions exploding fireballs of blue, yellow and orange as meteors fell hissing to Earth.
The Great Road that nourishes the dead on their path in eternity ; the milky way can still be seen quite prominent on a dark night thanks to the National Park Service keepers of remaining natural wonders of NJ. We can only imagine skys' and nights long ago.
