Daily News | South Jersey man trying to reclaim the term “Piney”
CHATSWORTH, N.J. – A mason jar stuffed with a bouquet of tawny cottongrass sat on a table in a historic general store in the heart of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.
Lewis, a lifelong resident of New Egypt, Burlington County, is a self-professed “piney,” a word that’s been used as both a putdown by outsiders and a badge of pride by locals over the last couple centuries. He spent childhood summers in Browns Mills and Chatsworth, deeper in the Pinelands.He’s spent the last couple of years trying to reclaim the word “piney,” to expound on it in ways he feels John McPhee, author of the seminal “The Pine Barrens” didn’t in the 1960s.
Lewis, a former Marine, feels McPhee oversimplified Wasiowich’s vast, outdoor skill set. Wasiowich also isn’t the “last piney,” as the Daily News announced.So that’s what Lewis, a married, father of two who works for the federal government, did. His bookwas published in 2021. Signed copies sit on the shelf at Buzby’s, which opened in 1865. Lewis also runs the Piney Tribe Facebook page, which has 9,000 followers. He recently began streaming his documentary, “The Reluctant Piney,” on YouTube.
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