Energy Plus Health Center

Energy Plus Health Center

32 East Commerce, Bridgeton, NJ  856 453 1111  energypluscenter@gmail.com

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Featuring health products, children's music and yoga, Zumba, and 3 yoga teachers of 5 different styles and levels of classes.  Here are some pics of downtown Bridgeton.  So nice to be next to the river.  Check it out!

Behind the super blue mirror update is a fantastic Victorian loft where the yoga and  Zumba take place.

Interior of Energy Plus Center

Dry Cleaner's orchid display

The Church of Vintage

Cleaners with an ever-changing blooming orchid display.

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Headquarters and retail store "Turtle Trading Post."

Beginning of the block of buildings called the 7 Sisters on the other side of the Cohansey.

Energy Plus Health Center is located on the first east-going block of Commerce Street, between Laurel and Atlantic/Mayor Aitken Drive.  (So many streets around here have 2 names. Sweet.)
Above are images of only a few of the eclectic shops, galleries, eateries that are contained on this 1 block alone which is right next to the Cohansey Riverwalk, fountain, park, zoo, skateboard park, walking trails, lakes....

Church of Vintage wear above.

When cloudy was the weather...

 Look up "One misty, moisty morning."  The poem has stayed with me since we lived on Saw Mill Road in Newtown Square.  Lili and Marilyn had a print with this poem and a drawing (not as sinister as the one below, i don't think).  I always stopped to stare and read it at it for some reason transfixed by it.  Fascinating to me the way a group of connections arise when searching.  Did I realize it was a song, but have forgotten. Seeming obscure passage...untraceable.  But how could I be so wrong....From Karen's Poetry Spot--someone else who was captivated by it.  At the bottom of post she explains why we like it for us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heCWKiII29A&feature=related

One misty, moisty, morning, When cloudy was the weather, I chanced to meet an old man Clad all in leather Clad all in leather, With a cap beneath his chin. How do you do? And how do you do? And how do you do again?

I often think about this nursery rhyme on misty moisty mornings. Of course, we haven't had many of those this year in California -- it's one of the driest on record -- but a couple of years ago when we were having the wettest on record, there were plenty of them. I like the simplicity of this poem, and, of course, the alliteration and rhythm.

"Its was a misty, moisty morning when rainy was the weather."

Church bells from the corner send out vibrations of contentment and peace.  Moondoggie's wee snout rumbles along with the old hymns.

Mary Dan, our great grandmother, remains elusive in my genealogical searches.  Our mother remembered that Mary Dan was a lady-in-waiting.  What a quaint idea.  However, she also had been told that Mary Dan was an Ashkenazy Jew.  Dan means judge.  The Chandler family story is that this branch of the tree can be traced back to the 12 Tribes.  Dan being one of the sons.  The Dan tribe didn't have the best reputation amongst the fellow brothers.  Their land was a sliver along the coast.  Seafarers, they went off to Italy or Spain and then on to a safer life to England/Scotland.  

Rinn Fruu - Old Welsh for Renfrew

Renfrew in Old Welsh/Scottish Gaelic means Calm River. (There are other possible definitions.  I like this one.)  Ancestors of the Chandlers come from Renfrewshire, Scotland.  The story as told by Anita Rosalie Chandler Trousdell is that when Captain Chandler of the Royal British Navy died in combat along the Northern Irish coast one of his sons was sent in service as a squire to the Earl of Renfrew.  His mother, Mary Dan, was a lady in waiting in the court.  The young squire and Rose Stuart, the Earl's daughter became attached.  The Earl was not pleased with the match.  Chandler, Rose and Mary left Scotland for Massachusetts.  Many other Chandler brothers immigrated as well.  They began the Chandler Shoe Company in Lynn, MA.