tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49514832921865122062024-03-18T05:05:01.678-04:00BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. HISTORY . . . etc.<center><b>• HISTORY WITHOUT THE BORING BITS! • <br><br>Old and new happenings around New Gretna and vicinity<br>BLOG POSTINGS WILL BE MADE ABOUT ONCE A WEEK</b></center>Pete Stemmer, moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922972073356224964noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951483292186512206.post-70866475984999579402014-04-06T20:04:00.001-04:002014-04-06T20:09:42.636-04:00Shooting Thoroughfare Murder- Part 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The March 25th Blog entry dealt with the murder of Jacob Knobe, a New York ganster whose body was found near Tuckerton at the end of Rt. S4A near Shooting Thoroughfare. A September 15, 1932 <i>Tuckerton Beacon </i>article described the finding of the body and the beginning of a subsequent investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The jury met on September 13th at the Coroner's funeral home in Barnegat where they concluded that ex convict Jacob Konova was found murdered near Shooting Thoroughfare having expired as a result of six bullet wounds to the head. The last name of the victim was reported as "Konova" at the inquest while the initial report in the <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i> reported the surname as "Konobe" while providing a number of known aliases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most recent is <u>Boardwalk</u> <u>Empire</u> which centers </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">around illicit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">prohibition related activities in Atlantic City, right here in our own backyard. It is loosely based on Nelson Johnson's best selling book about Enoch "Nucky" Johnson's iron clad rule including various nefarious endeavors in Atlantic City, the surrounding communities, and Southern New Jersey. The series takes many liberties with the truth, including changing the main protagonist's name to "Nucky" Thompson, while attempting to maintain the spirit of the roaring twenties era in New Jersey. The settings and costumes are particularly true to the time period. The history, not so much, but many find it entertaining.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These two prohibition series came to my mind the other day as I was browsing through back issues of the <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i> from the 1920's and early 1930s. Images of Eliot Ness and "Nucky" Thompson flashed through my mind, as I read the following headline from the September 15, 1932 edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I couldn't help wondering why the killer or killers choose to dispose of the body on the meadows in Tuckerton. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After all, thousands of acres of Pine Barrens wilderness beckoned</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> nearby which, over the years, proved to be the mob's dumping ground of choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This story was to play out in the <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i> over a few months with a variety of twists and turns. Stay tuned for further developments as it unfolds in the next few Blog entries!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS- Lest some Blog readers disbelieve my contention that it was not uncommon for noted gangsters to pass through Tuckerton on their way to and from New York to Atlantic City, click in the photo of Al Capone to read about his sighting at a gas station in New Gretna. Fortunately, he did not leave a package!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wow! That's a 20 year difference between the two estimates. How soon we forget!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Andy Warhol once said, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I submit that the same applies to towns as well as people, and present the following <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i> articles as evidence for West Tuckerton's 15 minutes of fame. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The world spotlight in Billiards briefly shined in late January, 1933 on a hitherto unknown small billiard parlor on Route 9 in West Tuckerton owned by Arthur Speck. Somehow, Speck enticed undefeated world billiard champ, Thomas A. Hueston to appear in West Tuckerton for an exhibit of trick and fancy billiard shots. Undoubtedly, anticipation of this unprecedented sporting event swept the little village of West Tuckerton, as local residents lined up to pay their 25 cent admission charge to view this historic event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you travel along present day Route 9 looking for Speck's West Tuckerton Billiard Parlor, you will find the small building directly across the street from Doyle's Pour House. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Oppie" Speck, Arthur's son, confirmed the location for me.</span></div>
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Pete Stemmer, moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922972073356224964noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951483292186512206.post-29195037607728588942014-03-03T19:32:00.000-05:002014-03-08T10:56:22.468-05:00The Joseph Hickman Family of New Gretna<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The January 30, 2014 Blog entry featured Gerald "Skeets " Hickman and his Jumbo Egg. For those of you who missed this story, you may read it by clicking on the giant egg below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was delighted that Skeets grand niece via Eliza Hickman and daughter, Louise Hickman Dillon, responded in the comments section and seemed eager to learn more about the family.</span><br />
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<cite class="user" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Anonymous</cite><span class="icon user" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text" style="margin-left: 6px;"><a href="http://bassriverhistory.blogspot.com/2014/01/gerald-hickmans-freak-egg.html?showComment=1391223893675#c8630728935074285286" rel="nofollow" style="color: #223344;">January 31, 2014 at 10:04 PM</a></span></div>
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Thank you for the Gerald Hickman post. He was my great uncle and I never knew the story of hi lost arm. I am his sister, Eliza Hickman Maxwell Mathis' grand daughter.</div>
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<cite class="user" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Louise Hickman Dillon</cite><span class="icon user" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text" style="margin-left: 6px;"><a href="http://bassriverhistory.blogspot.com/2014/01/gerald-hickmans-freak-egg.html?showComment=1393247667386#c5323731237707813992" rel="nofollow" style="color: #223344;">February 24, 2014 at 8:14 AM</a></span></div>
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Hello to Eliza's granddaughter. I just read the blog of my father, Gerald Hickman. Thank you for posting. I enjoyed reading the blog and I never heard the story of the jumbo egg. Do you have any pictures of my father?</div>
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<cite class="user" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Louise Hickman Dillon</cite><span class="icon user" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text" style="margin-left: 6px;"><a href="http://bassriverhistory.blogspot.com/2014/01/gerald-hickmans-freak-egg.html?showComment=1393247996252#c5830924487111149773" rel="nofollow" style="color: #223344;">February 24, 2014 at 8:19 AM</a></span></div>
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Really enjoyed reading the blog of my father, Gerald Hickman. I knew the story of how he lost his left hand just below the elbow, but never heard the one about the jumbo egg. Thank you for posting and especially the picture of my dad with Richie (his nephew). Richie has a daughter (Sharon) who is the same age as I. Where did you get the picture of my dad and Richie. I certainly would like to attain any pictures that anyone out in the blog area might have, as I do not have many pictures of my dad. Thank you again for posting and for writing the blog. It is always interesting to read.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The relationships in the Hickman clan can get confusing, so I thought I would present a brief genealogy of the Joseph Hickman family to put things in perspective. Hopefully, descendants of the Joseph-Lida Hickman clan and others out in the Blog-O-Sphere will find it interesting and, perhaps, add information. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All photos came from Joseph and Lida Hickman family photo albums, courtesy of Betty Schutte Kalm, Joe and Lida's grandaughter, unless otherwise specified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joseph M. Hickman, born 1868, married Lida Cramer, the daughter of Joseph Bareford and Eliza Johnson Cramer, born 1867. The marriage took place on March 1, 1891 in the Methodist Church parsonage adjacent to the church on Route 9 in New Gretna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joseph and Lida Hickman raised their children in Saint Paul's Methodist Church as evidenced by the following listing of names and birth dates on page 116 of the Baptism Section of the New Gretna Methodist Record Book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joseph and Lida eventually built a house on Allentown Road, now North Maple Avenue, and raised a large family. The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">small rise on Allentown Road where the Hickman house sits was called Hickman's Hill by the old timers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Hickman house today</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Captain Joe's daughter, Elizabeth Hickman Schutte (See Hickman Child #7 below), and her husband, George, held a gala 70th birthday party as reported in the in March 3, 1938 edition of the <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i>. Many family members and New Gretna friends of Captain Joe attended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. <u>Stella Richardson Hickman</u> was born November 4, 1891. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She married, sometime between 1910 and 1916, Charles H. Pendleton who lived with his parents, Charles and Eva Pendleton, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in 1910, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on Allentown Road in New Gretna, just up the road from the Joseph Hickman homestead. Charles, Sr. and Eva are listed as being born in Connecticut. Charles H. is listed as being born in Iowa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the 1940 Federal Census, Stella, noted as divorced </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and listed as the Head of the Household</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, was living in Lakewood with her two children, Eleanor, age 23, and Fred, age 26, and listed as Charles F. in the 1920 census.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stella stayed in contact with her father, Joe Hickman, and the rest of her Hickman family by making many visits to the New Gretna family homestead throughout the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orville married, in West Creek, Theora Lillian McAnney, daughter of John V. and Sophie Ford McAnney. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. <u>Walter Hickman</u>, born March 24,1898. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 1920 Federal Census confirms that Martha and George Schutte were siblings. We see their widowed mother, Sophie, raising her two children at their residence on Armstrong Avenue in Jersey City. Little did they know, at that time, that they would marry into the same New Gretna Hickman family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. <u>Gerald Willetts "Skeets" Hickman</u> - born September 23, 1900 and married Leola Stackhouse, daughter of Edmund B. and Cora J. Stackhouse. Leola was a school teacher in New Gretna for many years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lora Jean Hickman celebrated her 5th birthday on November, 1939, with a party given in her honor by her parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">About a month prior to the start of the 1946 school year new mom, Leola, placed an ad in the August 1, 1946 edition of the <i>Tuckerton Beacon </i>for help in caring for the new baby. When it came to being a career woman, Leola was ahead of her times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. <u>Pauline Hickman</u> - born 1907.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't understand why many of today's comedians use so much "blue" material in their acts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the icons of American aviation history was Charles Lindbergh who, in May 1927, made the first non stop flight across the Atlantic when he took off from Roosevelt field in Garden City, Long Island and landed in Paris. He became an overnight hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, it seems that little old West Creek had it's own "Charles Lindbergh", Everett Cameson, who flew into West Creek a little over a year from Lindbergh's epic flight. A gathering of locals gave a rousing welcome to their local "Lindy".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wonder if there are some photos of some of the locals with Everett floating around in a West Creek attic. It sure would be interesting to see one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few years ago, my buddy, Howard Ware, now 92 years young, gave me a quick tour of an outhouse situated on the property next to his garden where he grows his famous pole "limers". It was a reminder of a much slower paced and simpler era in old New Gretna </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The twin toilet concept in the Olympic Village was causing quite a stir among the athletes and commentators. It's hard to image, that in an Olympic environment that took 51 billion dollars to create, the Russians couldn't spring for a separate booth for each toilet. I guess that, with today's inflation, 51 billion dollars doesn't go as far as it use to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Maybe the twin toilets are a sign of things to come, that in addition to synchronized swimming, the Russians are lobbying for a new Olympic sport - synchronized pooping. Don't laugh! They say that truth is often stranger than fiction.</span></div>
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Pete Stemmer, moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922972073356224964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951483292186512206.post-89605037050014699462014-02-05T20:06:00.001-05:002014-02-05T21:12:49.435-05:00Local Man Is First New Jersey Civil War Draftee<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Should anyone out in the Blog-O-Sphere ever appear on Jeopardy with a "New Jersey Civil War" category, I thought I would offer the following obituary which would provide the question for the following answer - "William L. Shinn from West Creek, New Jersey".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been posting on the Blog infrequently as I find myself running out of material. Recently, I have obtained access to digital copies of the <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i> from 1917 through 1989. My current plans are to post one article a week from the <i>Beacon</i>, hoping that it may mention relatives of Blog readers or jog someone's memory regarding a forgotten event from the past that you would like to share here at the Blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Should anyone wish me to look up an event that you would like to see posted on the Blog (a birth or marriage announcement, an obituary, a news event, etc) leave a comment or drop me an email. I will be happy to try to accommodate your wishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, I thought I'd post an oddity news item regarding a rather large elliptical orb laid by a New Gretna Leghorn owned by Gerald Hickman. It must have been a slow news week as it was posted at the top of the front page. My first reaction was to say "OUCH!". Unfortunately, the giant egg was the last laid by the unfortunate leghorn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back in the day, Route 9 was known as New York Road, as it was the route connecting New York City with Atlantic City. Famous people traveling from the "Big Apple" to the "Playground of the East Coast" would frequently travel through Tuckerton. Occasionally, they would stop. Sometimes by design and sometimes unexpectedly. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Al Jolson, the famous singer, actor, and comedian</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, known by his generation as "The World's Greatest Entertainer", was one of these people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While traveling through Tuckerton on Saturday, June 16, 1923, Al was stopped for exceeding the speed limit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Evidently, Mr. Jolson had a heavy foot. Trooper Lipgen clocked him at 55 miles an hour. Not one to be outdone, Jolson claimed that he was actually traveling 69 miles per hour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS- Other celebrities were known to have traveled through Tuckerton and New Gretna on their way to Atlantic City. Click on the photo below to read about Al Capone's visit to New Gretna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week we talked about garvey racing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sponsored by the Tuckerton Fire Company </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">September 4, 1960 "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2nd Annual Power Boat Regetta" Souvenir Program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Throughout the booklet, local businesses placed ads to support the garvey races and to solicit business. One of these ads from a New Gretna </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">start up </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">business caught my attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It appears that the Bass River Marina was under construction in the fall of 1960 with plans to develop a "Boatmen's Paradise" that would be "The Finest Marina on the East Coast". They sure were lofty goals! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll leave it up to those out in the Blog-O-Sphere who were witnesses to the marina's birth to judge whether those goals were met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's hard to believe that the early 1960's were fifty years ago. Somehow, it seems like only yesterday. The following photo was taken in the mid 1960's along Rt. 9 in New Gretna. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Bass River Marina building is on the left, looking very much as it is today. Some wooden boats were displayed for sale along </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rt. 9 which was concrete.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Garden State Parkway bridge, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">crossing over Rt. 9,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> is in the rear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last three photos of the marina were taken in the mid 1960's. Other than the older style of and the preponderance of wooden boats, the marina's moorings, like the Rt. 9 building, look pretty much as they do today. The Great John Mathis house, a bit of history that no longer exists, can be seen in the background if you look closely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's a popular show in the New Gretna area as it deals with nearby Atlantic City around prohibition times. Many New Gretna families moved to Atlantic City to take advantage of the variety of economic opportunities that were not available in little old New Gretna, so it is not surprising that there are ties between <i>Boardwalk Empire</i> characters and New Gretna families.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I came across an interesting obituary for E. Kirk Loveland the other day and couldn't help thinking about <i>Boardwalk Empire</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kirk was born in New Gretna and moved to Atlantic City where he became a successful entrepreneur. The obituary points out a <i>Boardwalk Empire</i> connection, if the reader is savvy enough to notice. Normally, I would point out the connection, but I thought it would be fun to see if anyone out in the Blog-O-Sphere can find it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E. Kirk Loveland</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E. Kirk Loveland's summer home </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the corner of Amasa Landing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Road and Rt 9 in New Gretna </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wake was held.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years there have been many an unsung hero with New Gretna roots. Stanley Cramer is one such hero as the following January 5, 1940 <i>Tuckerton Beacon</i> article documents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Numerology is the study of the special relationship between a number and some coinciding observed event. Frequently, people associate a number with either good luck or bad luck in their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For instance, the number 13 is considered to be unlucky by many. This belief goes way back in history. Some believe it goes back to the Last Supper where twelve apostles joined Jesus and the thirteen had the Passover meal. Others believe that it is related to the practice of witchcraft as witches often formed groups of 13 called covens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">President Franklin D. Roosevelt was especially fearful of the number 13 and took great pains to avoid hosting a meal for a group of that size. If he had a cancellation and it looked like 13 people may show up for a White House luncheon or dinner, he would invite his secretary to join them so there won't be thirteen people sitting at the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Jersey Devil, born in Leeds Point not far from Tuckerton, was the thirteenth child of mother Leeds. Wikipedia says the following about Mother Leeds and her thirteenth child. </span></div>
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Pete Stemmer, moderatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922972073356224964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951483292186512206.post-43164368609562314192013-08-03T16:39:00.002-04:002013-08-05T23:08:10.275-04:00Descendants of Yoos Sooy Gathering<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I posted a Sooy genealogy on the October 16, 2009 Blog which traced my friend Steve Potter, who lives in New Gretna, 8 generations back to Yoos Sooy</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. You can read this Blog entry by clicking on the photo below</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those of you interested in the Sooy family, I got the following email from Troy Murphy about a September 28th Sooy gathering at the Atlantic County Library in Galloway Township. You may email Troy with any questions or further information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last Appleby Estates Blog, posted March 17, 2013, ended with Steve Eichinger and I running into the following barrier and sign while driving in the Appleby Estates area of the Pine Barrens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years planes from the bombing range have proven to be both an annoyance and a danger to local residents. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Low flying jets circling outside the bombing range have produced noise pollution in our peaceful Pine Barrens and some nervous moments. I can recall incidents when jets streaking low over the Bass River have passed close by my house making the glassware in our china cabinet vibrate</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and rattle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, I guess Steve and I were lucky. We merely got excited by a couple of threatening signs. It could have been worse, for as far as I know, Steve's truck is not bullet proof. Needless to say, I don't think we'll be back to Appleby Estates anytime soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS- Sorry about the long delay since the last Blog post. Computer and health problems combined with a severe case of writer's block took their toll. I'll try to get back to a once a week schedule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, I thought I'd see if anyone out in the Blog-O-Sphere can identify the two waitresses in the John's Diner photo (see below) that I just came across. I'll give you a hint. The brother of one of the girls occasionally writes in to the Blog with some old New Gretna stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You probably noticed that we have been experiencing a spam problem in the comments section here at the Blog. It has been both annoying and offensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In an effort to stop this spamming, I've added an extra step necessary to post a comment. After you type your comment and click on the "Publish" button, an extra screen will pop up asking you to type a string of characters. Do so, then click the "Publish" button and your comment will be published on the Blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The March 9, 2013 Blog entry dealt with a <i>Philadelphia Bulletin</i> reporter's 1901 trip from Tuckerton twelve miles into the Pine Barrens to visit the site of Appleby Estates to investigate the veracity of the following advertisement placed in the <i>Bulletin </i>by J.R. Appleby from New York City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought it would be interesting to trace that reporter's journey and take a look at Appleby Estates for myself. My first step was to trace the 1901 trip from Tuckerton to Appleby Estates. I was able to do so on a 1872 map where you can see the route marked in yellow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It quickly became obvious to me that the road names and patterns are different today from those at the turn of the century. The road north out of Tuckerton labeled "Straight Road" on the 1872 map is North Green Street, or Rt. 539, today. At the first fork it veers off to the left going toward an area known as Munion Field. Today the road from that fork on to Munion Field is no longer passable. It was abandoned with the construction of Rt. 539 which traveled northward through Warren Grove.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />I realized that I would need some help if I were to find Appleby Estates due to the road changes and the difficult and confusing Pine Barrens terrain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I called my history buddy, Steve Eichinger, and asked him if he were up to a journey from Tuckerton through Munion Field and on to Appleby Estates. Steve worked for the State of New Jersey at Bass River and Wharton State forests for many years surveying and maintaining many of the woods roads in this area and knows the Pine Barrens roads like the back of his hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Steve and I set off from Tuckerton last Friday, armed with the <i>Bulletin</i> story of the reporter's journey and a few maps of the area. Our goal was to retrace the reporter's steps as closely as we could, given the fact that some of the roads traveled by the reporter are no longer passable today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reporter's article stated that he spoke to the proprietor of the Carlton House Hotel in Tuckerton who loaned him an old buckboard and introduced him to a guide to take him to Appleby Esates. They left from the hotel the next morning at 8 AM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following circa 1910 postcard shows the Carlton house in the center of Tuckerton at the south-east corner of present day Rt. 9 and South Green Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obviously, Steve and I couldn't follow the old sand road traveled by the <i>Bulletin</i> reporter. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Steve told me not to worry, that there was more than one way to skin a cat. W</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">e hopped back in the truck and took a little detour, continuing north on Rt. 539. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Suddenly, Steve stopped the truck and announced that we were in Applyby Estates. You could have fooled me! As I looked out the truck window at the endless scrub pine, I tried to imagine how a 1901 Appleby Estate's land purchaser must have felt upon seeing that their dream home with a bay view was actually a scrub pine disaster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, it is not unusual to see companies making special offers to lure customers into spending their hard earned money on a particular product. They produce ads touting package deals that give you more bang for your bucks. Last night I saw a TV commercial heralding a two for one deal from Applebee's offering two meals plus an appetizer for only $20.00. Actually, that's three for one. What a bargain! How could I pass that up? <span style="font-size: large;">It m</span>ade me want to jump right in my car and hurry on down to Applebee's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same. The other day I was thumbing through an old scrapbook of newspaper clippings and came upon a 1902 ad offering a 10 for $25.00 deal from Appleby's. Granted, Appleby's was spelled differently and the deal was for land instead of steak or burgers, but the advertising gimmick was still the same. A deal was offered that appeared too good to pass up - ten plots of land at a summer resort for only $25.00 and great terms to boot! How could anyone pass it up?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Advertising of Appl<span style="font-size: large;">eby Estates property was not li<span style="font-size: large;">mited to the Philadelphia Bulletin. <span style="font-size: large;">A history buddy, Paul Schopp, sent me Appleby <span style="font-size: large;">ads from two other Pennsylvania newspapers, the <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i> and the <i>Harrisburg Patriot</i>. The July, 1901 <i>Inquirer</i> ad references a Wall Street address while the December, 1901 Harrisburg ad refers to a Philadelphia address. This confirms that the firm did expand from New York to Pennsylvania as Dr. Hunter's friend stated in his letter.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of you out in the Blog-O-Sphere may think that the Appleby Estates saga is too outlandish to be true. To you I'd like to say that I've got some inside information on some cheap land up in the Jersey Pines where a very good friend of mine has found some golden nuggets in a small out of the way stream. Word of this has not leaked out yet but, when it does, that land will be worth a fortune. If you are interested in making an investment drop me a line here at the Blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week's Blog dealt with Civil War veteran Richard Walton's obituary that, after scrutiny, proved largely untrue. It showed that we can not always trust the printed word. This seems to run contrary to our sensibilities, as many people subscribe to the proposition that anything printed in a newspaper must be true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have often encountered this belief. Years ago, I taught 7th and 8th grade Social Studies, mostly American History. Part of the curriculum was the teaching of current events which entailed the students cutting out news articles and discussing them in class. Occasionally, a student would bring in an article cut out from the <i>National Inquirer</i> newspaper which was a super market tabloid that printed articles designed to appeal to the more gullible elements of society. Many of the stories dealt with "true" UFO landings, two headed dogs, the Loch Ness Monster, and a wide variety of outlandish happenings. The ridiculously untrue articles were obviously printed merely to sell newspapers, and the truth be damned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <i>National Inquirer</i> has gone out of business since my teaching days, so I don't have a sample of that newspaper to illustrate my point; however, you'll get the idea from an equivalent tabloid from the late 1990's as shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As ridiculous as it may seem, one of my students might have brought in the Hillary article for current events and insisted that it was true. After all, it's printed in a newspaper, the photo is clearly labeled as an OFFICIAL PHOTO, and why would the Secret Service be building a nursery in the White House if it weren't true?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, it seems that people's appetites for and willingness to believe unusual stories is not a new phenomena. A few weeks ago Rich Watson, a history colleague and member of the West Jersey History Round Table, brought a 1896 article printed in a Chicago newspaper to my attention. It was about Calico, a long forgotten town tucked away in the New Jersey Pinelands. It was located in Bass River Township, just down the road a piece from the old iron furnace town of Martha and not far from the old paper town of Harrisville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reader of that day probably found the article interesting and amusing and would have no reason to question its authenticity. That could also be the reaction of most of you out in the Blog-O-Sphere. However, much of the information in the article is suspect. About the only statements that I am able to verify are that Calico was a hamlet north of Pomona where the story originated and the area was involved with cranberry growing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A review of Henry Bisbee's transcription of the <i>Martha Furnace Diary, 1808-1815</i> reveals a single reference to neighboring Calico, in an interesting June 6, 1809 entry involving a whipping, probably of a Martha worker living in Calico. It suggests that Calico was settled, not by berry pickers as stated in the news article, but by laborers employed at the iron furnace in Martha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rained. John Luker Carting sand for the Furnace. Iron very high occasioned by stamped stuff. Peter Cox went out to Calico & whipped Jack Johnson. Bil. Williams settled and quit.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very little is actually known about Calico. Henry Charlton Beck in his book, <i>Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey</i>, published in 1936, expressed frustration in his efforts to locate it. After three years of inquiry, he finally found two gentlemen who remembered Calico, Hugh O'Neill and Kirk Cramer. Hugh was born in a log cabin at Harrisville. Kirk worked at the Harrisville paper mill and was a grandson of Ellis Adams who had a farm in Calico.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The route from Harrisville to Calico</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There Cramer pointed out the Jersey sandstone chimney of his grandfather's house, the sole sentinel overlooking the site of old Calico. That chimney does not exist, today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">John Milton Adams standing at the Ellis Adams chimney at Calico, 1939.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Locations of a few</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> other homes could be deduced by the observance of shallow cellar holes and occasional small piles of brick. Cramer pointed to a spot across the road where he said George Mick lived with the Ryan family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Calico cellar hole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Calling Calico a hamlet or town is a stretch. There is no evidence that a store, school, or post office ever existed there. They did exist in neighboring Harrisville. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Calico was a scattered group of homes that likely started as a bedroom community for the workers of neighboring Martha Furnace which was built in 1793. After the furnace shut down in 1845, Calico's residents turned to wood cutting and cranberry picking. Some of its residents may have worked in the paper mill at Harrisville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The article's reference to rats is puzzling to me. Rats would not be attracted to cranberry bogs as claimed in the article, and it is doubtful that the refuse from the small group of homes at Calico could sustain the numbers of rodents mentioned. Another explanation would be that the term "rats" was used to refer to muskrats. This terminology was common in the area. That would explain the rats attraction to the cranberry bogs. However, muskrats would not inhabit buildings as mentioned in the article, blizzard or no blizzard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul Schopp, the most knowledgeable and respected South Jersey historian that I know, weighed in on the Calico rats as a story loosely based on facts and written to poke fun at the Pineys:</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do, however, strongly believe that much of this story is apocryphal in nature as a way of poking fun at people who lived in the Pine Barrens. I have read other examples of articles that embrace an attempt of entertainment value for readers. I think the correspondent included just enough factual information about Calico and its surrounds to provide an air of authenticity.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did I find the Calico Rats story entertaining? I sure did! Do I believe it? Yeh, about as much as I believe that Hillary Clinton adopted an alien child. How about you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PS- When we hear the word calico we generally think of cats or cloth, but it is also another name for Mountain Laurel, a plant which is common in some areas of the Pine Barrens. I wonder if that could have some connection to the name given to that small hamlet just down the road from Martha Furnace.</span></div>
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