#Delaware Water Gap

[aisling-saoirse]

Flooded Vernal Pools, Delaware Watergap, NJ - June 1st 2025

[thebohemianloner]

Factory Falls • Delaware Water Gap

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[vlkphoto]

Falls akimbo

Dingman's Falls, Delaware Water Gap, PA.

Long exposure handheld, using the Spectre app.

[jahtheexplorer]

Dingmans Falls in Poconos Mountains PA

Short and easy hike to one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the Delaware water gap.

[jepergola]

New story today: "Who Knew Hiking Up a Mountain Would Be So Difficult?"

[boriabroad]

Delaware Water Gap

July 1, 2023

[mattdeeryradio-blog]

Interview with Young Pennsylvanian Jazz Artist MAWSB 13

This past Friday, I was fortunate enough to talk to jazz drummer Tyler Dempsey, one of my old colleagues from the Nepa jazz scene. Tyler and I went to high school together and on our road to music, which Tyler kept at, I went in a different direction, Tyler learned and worked with the jazz greats in our area. Drummers Marko Mancinko, his brother Pat Mancinko, bassist Tony Marino, and clarinetist Nick Driscoll all played and rubbed shoulders with Tyler. Tyler and I helped get a thriving jazz club in Scranton called Madame Jenny’s. The club still exists, though admittedly I haven’t seen if it resembles what was from my time there. “The Joint” was one of our competitors at the time and seems to be doing well. You would not think it, but because of Pocono’s jazz club circuit in the 1960s, Nepa has the remnants of that scene, as well as the crossover from Philadelphia and New York. The main events that showcase big-name talent, as well as equally exceptional local talent, are the Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival as well as the Scranton Jazz Festival, both operating on an annual basis. A world-renowned jazz club, possibly one of the oldest still in existence/business, The Deer Head Inn, still operates and functions as it did back in the day, with weekly shows showcasing its history, as well as being a haunt for longtime jazz musicians. For a young jazz musician, playing at the Deer Head Inn is sort of a rite of passage within the jazz world. Through a Zoom meeting this past Friday, I was able to record forty-two minutes’ worth of interview footage of Tyler’s responses to his experience with jazz music, and the various jazz scenes he experienced/played in. Some of the questions I asked could have possibly yielded esoteric answers, perhaps on what captivates people to music/jazz itself, while other answers are more a matter of fact, poignant to what we see as the jazz landscape today in Pennsylvania, and perhaps even more broadly, the genre itself. Tyler explains that while it may not be as consistent of work, as it was during the heyday of the Pocono’s in the 1960s. that he, along with other musicians, as well as help from the local government, are turning the town of Honesdale into a weekend jazz getaway spot. The local government has been putting money into Honesdale to make it the next getaway/vacation spot for New Yorkers and Philadelphians who wish to have a reprieve from the hustle and bustle of their work-life surroundings. And, while not in Pennsylvania, just across the Pennsylvanian border to Upstate New York, is the town of Callicoon which hosts many jazz musicians, as well as jazz shows away from the island of Manhattan.

This recording will shape my proof of concept in that I will mold this interview into a podcast episode for a series called “All That Jazz”. I will take Tyler’s answers and form a narration inter-spliced, with royalty-free bebop and hard bop music being the bed for the narration. I think a good length for the proof of concept will be a four to five-minute “snippet” of the show. This would be in the vein of NPR/WRTI-produced works, which I have come to know and love, both for their calming effects, but as well as their informative/insightful effects as well. My committee, which consists of Jack Klotz and Larissa Miller have not heard of this proof of concept yet. I will not be going home to Thanksgiving break, and as such will try to deliver it to them for their feedback. However, based on their responses, I am trying to shape this podcast based on their suggestions/questions. So this proof of concept is directly made in part by their questions, concerns, and suggestions in previous emails about my project.

What I hope for the future life of this project is to follow in the footsteps of George Graham, Garrison Keillor, Rusty Fender, Marian McPartland, in that I could do a radio show or podcast about jazz for public radio in the future. I am not sure if this would be more of a side job, rather than a full-time career. However, while it seems that my career has been headed to more television news, and or A.V. for Universities, I would like to develop, possibly with a local public radio station, Philly-Cam, or even a podcast from home programs centered on jazz’s history, it’s present, and hopefully its future. Maybe not as a full-fledged career, but more of a paid hobby. I will share it on Soundcloud, but also will find a station, whether it be a college radio station, public media radio station, or a local access station, to run once weekly. Perhaps it would coincide with what is going on in the jazz world for that week, as well as events coming up both in the area, as well as big gigs in Europe, for those who are dedicated enough, as well as have the means. However, not everyone does have the means, and perhaps I could record these jazz acts, as well as interviews with them, with anybody with a small radio, or streaming device could hear such music/musings.

[aisling-saoirse]

White Baneberry Above Bear Creek, NJ - June 1st 2025

[newjerseyisthebest]

Woods near Hemlock Pond at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

[vlkphoto]

Nature's brush strokes .. [2 / 2]

Dingman's creek rolls around a pebble bank, downstream from the eponymous Falls at Delaware Water Gap, PA.

I sometimes combine multiple photos into one, but hardly ever represent the same one in different ways. This is an exception. It is the exact same photo as the previous one, except that the livephoto has been converted to a long exposure one to catch and smoothen the stream around the pebble island.

[jahtheexplorer]

Visiting the Delaware Water gap

[metropolol]

Places in Pennsylvania

[labradoritedreams]

[uchihaitachi]

Delaware Water Gap

[mikeluciraphgabe]

America is so fucking stupid

Two Dakotas

Two Virginias

Idaho

Two Carolinas

A state you could ride a bike around its border in a single day (Rhode Island - it’s not even an island btw)

Fucking Idaho

Has like 14 territories and people only really know about one (Puerto Rico)

Could drive in one single state for over 11 hours and still be in it (Texas) and 34 for another (Alaska)

Every single state has different laws outside of the Constitution and bill of rights (in Pennsylvania you can’t sleep on a refrigerator door - yes as in the thing that keep food good)

Idaho

Kansas City being in fucking MISSOURI

Delaware state, Delaware River, Delaware River (in Kansas this time), Delaware Lake, Delaware Basin, Delaware Water Gap (PA), Delaware Falls (one of 24 waterfalls in a state park in PA - again) Delaware county, Delaware city, Delaware Indiana, Delaware Iowa, Delaware Michigan, Delaware MISSOURI, Delaware New York, Delaware Ohio, Delaware Oklahoma

Honorable mentions I fucking guess; West Point, Virginia that used to be known as Delaware and Delaware Ontario (CANADA??!)

SHUT THE FUCK UP DELAWARE

Idaho

Two Washingtons but one is a state on the west coast and one is a district on the east coast - they have 0 affiliation with each other minus having the same name

The amount of Lafayette shit is named (streets, playgrounds, towns/cities/villages??, counties)

We have like 9 times zones

We have a literal desert, forest, beach/ocean, flat lands, mountains, tropical, canyons, etc (we have one of each type of landscape basically)

The entire US can fit inside of Europe plus a little extra if you include Alaska/Hawaii

God damn Idaho

Have a spot where four states line up perfectly in a tiny square (geologically not really, but on a map they do)

A river that cuts through like 10(?) states (Mississippi River) (2,340 miles/1,151,000 square miles or 3,770 km for my nonamerican friends)

The Great Lakes (they are like mini oceans)

The fact there is a natural disaster in any region you go to - out west in California? Earth quakes and tsunamis. Mid-west? tornadoes. South? Tornadoes and hurricanes. Hawaii? Hurricanes and tsunamis. Alaska? Cold af/not enough sunlight (yes this is an actual issue - not being funny about this). Northeast? Snow storms and flash floods/flash flood of muds from the left over hurricanes of the south. The Canadian border out west? Again snow and tornadoes. THE DESERT in the southwest (I could go on)

Motherfucking Idaho