Discovering New Jersey

While the Down Jersey Folklife Program can't present every ethnic community at once, it does attempt to bridge the gap between visual and performing arts, which had once been more interconnected than they now are.

Founded in 1963, the nonprofit Wildwood Historical Society makes a point of taking visitors back to their childhoods at this iconic Jersey Shore destination.

Many people who tour this museum on the Maurice River tell its curator that they're most interested in what's going on around the working waterfront that particular day.

On the western side of a Sussex County township, in the section known as Beemerville, the already mountainous terrain suddenly rises 200 feet up a private, residential road.

The Jersey Devil is not a strange, elusive being whose footprints have been spotted for centuries across South Jersey, says one New Jersey college professor who's done extensive research into the legend.