I just got home from a gorgeous day spent at the Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey. It's a 35-acre garden with breathtaking landscaping, an amazing variety of trees, and of course a huge collection of sculptures. Most of the pieces are enormous, and you can interact with may of them. Many are "hidden," so that you're more alert for them. We walked for more than three hours, with huge smiles on our faces the entire time. We also enjoyed a very nice and inexpensive lunch in their cafe.

The park is near Trenton, NJ. You can reach it by car, or by NJ Transit rail direct from New York Penn Station.

Kennedy, I'm sure you must have heard of this place or been there?

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New Jersey's best kept secret! I love Grounds for Sculpture. So cool, Oracle. Amazing what a band aid empire can build. I use to work in our family cemetery digging graves right around the corner from the GFS which incidentally was the old NJ fair grounds.
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I remember reading that previous thread, sounds like a veery interesting place. One thing that jumped out at me though Kennedy was that you have a family cemetery? Wow.

I remember a great story on this garden on Sunday Morning. Kazza, I think it needs to go on our list of things to do in June

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Greenwood Cemetery was in the family for 30 plus years. It was in Hamilton township. I was lucky always had a summer job in high school. Great memories cutting acres of grass, weeding countless gardens and learning how to master the backhoe digging graves.I worked with a very colorful group of men.

I grew up in Hamilton near Greenwood. Old Victorians border the one end of the park, along with some less than pleasant modern buildings, including a run down bar called First and Ten.

Shame, Hamilton is a real dump these days. If it weren't for the Grounds for Sculpture, it'd be pointless to revisit.