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2022 Updates
Moved To WordPress With Some Updates! I have finally moved this blog to WordPress! How does it look? 🙂 I meant to do this a long time ago. After all,…
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Happy To Be Back To Where I Once Belonged!
I’m Back Where I Belong! I was going to combine my two blogs, but I really missed this space. I missed posting photos. Besides, I decided that my other…
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10 Years Of Happy Blogging!
10 Years! Ten years ago today I started this blog. Happy Anniversary to me! So much has happened in those ten years. I got married. My mother died. I have…
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Evergreens (Charles Schultz House | Montclair, New Jersey
Evergreens During the holiday season, several historic homes in Montclair are open to the public for holiday tours. One of them is Charles Shultz House, also known as Evergreens. According…
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It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature TV Commercial
It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature! Dena Dietrich played this character in Chiffon Margarine commercials in the early 1970s. The first one was so successful that she did quite…
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Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Is About To Be Torn Down 2015 | Morris Plains, New Jersey
Greystone Park Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was originally built in 1876 as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown. Obviously, there was no “political correctness” at the time. If…
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The Legendary Bendix Diner | Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey (2014, 2022, 2025)
Bendix Diner Is Legendary This historic diner in Hasbrouck Heights has been around for decades. It was named the diner after the Bendix Corporation which had a factory nearby. The…
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Yurts at Allaire State Park 2014 | Wall Township/Farmingdale, New Jersey
Yurts At Allaire State Park Traditional yurts used by nomads in Asia are usually made with felt or wool. Yurts have been adapted for camping in the United States.…
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Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush (1985)
Running Up That Hill The first time I remember seeing and hearing the English singer-songwriter Kate Bush was on Saturday Night Live in 1978. She was a bit older than…
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The Brainy Borough | Metuchen, New Jersey
The Brainy Borough As I wrote in my post about the Lake Hiawatha Firehouse, many New Jersey town names are derived from Native American words. For example, the very…
