Postings seem to be stuck here lately, so I'll add another photo. This is a shot taken on Center Street, looking at what I know as the Rutt/DeWire house which is next to the old Citizens National Bank (at the right of the house). This same storm blew half of the roof off the part of the graphite mill (Warren side) that is closest to the bridge.
I remember in the fall, my grandfather (and others around town) would rake the leaves into the edge of the street and burn them there. Does anyone remember this?Try doing THAT today!! I still miss the smell of the burning leaves on a crisp fall day.
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YES! It still comes as a surprise to me when places do not allow burning of leaves. Craig, your wonderful old pictures make me feel guilty that I did not 'fully' appreciate back then what a wonderful town we had in comparison with the rest of the world. It's classic homes were perfectly situated alongside the river and we were very privileged to live in such a storybook environment. I was in Ireland a few years ago and visited the town where the BBC series Ballykissangel was filmed. It, too, sat cozily along a river and reminded me of Bloomsbury. I am wondering if that's why my sister and I have always felt the desire to live near water? Does anyone else feel that way?
ReplyDeleteOk Donna, my folks bought a piece of land at Mt. Lake, Warren County, New Jersey that we summered at when I was 5 and beyond high school. Then we bought 3 houses in Bloomsbury, all in the same block. I laugh and say I spent the better part of my life on 5 sides of one block. First West Street, then Church, then North, then Willow and then Lance Road. From there we moved to Holland Township to a lot with two ponds. Now for the first time in my life, I live at the shore. YES I NEED WATER AROUND ME. ;)
ReplyDeleteCraig I have a question on the DeWire comment you made there. I had never heard of any DeWire living there. It was the Creveling home. Mother and father of Nancy Pickel. Ok Jackie can you ask Ginny DeWire about this? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteDonna made this post earlier today. I am reposting it for her.
ReplyDeleteLinda, my recollection is also that DeWire's did not live but that it had something to do with Nancy Pickel. Didn't Mr. Angle live around there -- and Mrs. McLean and her son Clark? I also have a recollection of Nancy and her husband living across the street from that house when she was married (to someone who was a bank official?), with a BIG German Shepard whose name might have been "Rex." He used to terrorize me when I walked past his house on my way to the post office to get the mail! Poor thing, though, I think he became a victim of the Musconetcong.
I have written to Martha Pickel Tersigni to ask her to please help resolve this issue. I explained to her that we are trying to keep the page accurate as much as possible. But even with our best efforts many memories grow dim and we may confuse some things. But we will try to make every effort to correct issues as soon as the problems come to the fore. Gratefully we still have some "old timers families" to help us with this.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for your contributions. Don't stop for fear of error or possible corrections. The memories are what we are looking for. :)
I don't remember who lived in that house. That wiould be the house directly across from the post office. I remember DeWire's living on a house on the corner of Main and Church. Mr. Angle lived on Main Street next to the Presbyterian parsonage. Jay Pickel's house was on that block as well as John Porter's who was next to the bank.
ReplyDeleteI remeber raking those leaves and burning them in the street. It was a fall ritual! Also remember all the poison ivy I got from the smoke!
Hello all! Yes indeed the DeWire's did live there for a few years and it was a duplex they had the side entrance. I was best friends with Dave when we were little and he was the only boy invited to my birthday parties:-)His family moved from there to Church and Main across from the school.Dont know exactly who moved in and out from then on.But Martha Pickel did a beautiful renovation on the home the last time I was up there. Not sure if she still lives there.Hope this helps.
ReplyDeletePeggy Sullivan.
I just got this response from Martha Pickel Tersigni:
ReplyDeleteHe is right. Art, Maietta and the 3 boys lived on the driveway side until they bought on the corner, across from the school. My mom and dad bought the house in about 1968 from the Rutts. My grandmother Creveling eventually came back to town from Miami and lived in the driveway side, while the other side continued to also be rented out until John and I bought it and took it back to a single family. The Creveling house is on the corner of Main and Center - the Post Office is in my mother's childhood backyard garden.
OK Craig, I'll say it. You were right!! I was wrong. Congrats. You've been vindicated ;) Now I've learned something. ;) But that's nothing new.
ReplyDeletePeggy can you change your setup so we can see what and who is posting?
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't read your answer till after I had posted Martha's response.
Connie I don't see you as being a member of the site. Please sign in to follow the group so I can then send you a request to do original posts. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHot damn, thanks, Linda! I KNEW someone named DeWire lived there. And yes, Tom & Caroline Rutt lived there until they moved to P'burg. Jay and Nancy Pickel lived in the house next to John Porter - the 2nd house towards the school from Fuller's Drug Store, and on the opposite side of the street from Pickel's Store. My parents were friends of theirs, so I knew where they lived. I had forgotten all about John Porter living there also, so thanks for reminding me of that, Connie.
ReplyDeleteAs for Virginia (Ginny?) DeWire... didn't she live on the corner of Main and East Street - 1 block up from the firehouse? Or was that M. Bellis? (That's another name that just fell out of the lint trap of my mind, 49 years after leaving town!)
Linda - what you referred to as the Creveling house at Center & Main... I remember that as the John Polt Real Estate office, to the left of the Post Office. My aunt Mamie Rutt (Tom's mother) lived on the right side of the PO, and my grandparents next to her - at the corner of Center & North Streets.
ReplyDeleteBoy, it looks like I generated some interest with that wind storm pic, doesn't it?
Craig, Ginny Dewire lived one house in on Main Street from East. I also remeber that house as the John Polt Real Estate Office. The Creveling house was next to it on Main Street.
ReplyDeleteConnie, now that I've thought about it, Ginny Dewire lived in the 1st house from the corner, on Main Street, going towards the Catholic Church on the opposite side, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd what you refer to as the Creveling house was right behind our house on North Street. There was what seemed like a vacant lot between Polt's and it, right? I remember that house as being occupiled by two older spinsters named Apgar(?), and Bitner (or Bittner) lived next to them to their left, and then going farther down the street was Mrs. Miller, next to Bitner. Your Creveling house was directly across from the Picard's house, which was right next to Dr. Lane on the corner. These all were pretty much adjacent to our back yard.
Linda, Nancy Pickel was married to Jay Pickel, who was a Director of the Bank. He appears to have gone on the Board in 1960, and was preceeded by a R.L. Pickel (his father?).
ReplyDeleteAs for their German Shepard - the really scary ones were up at Larry Collins' house, across from Richard Lincoln - up the hill from the RR tracks. When we went up there they wanted to come right through the wire cage at you. They were ex-police dogs and scared the c*** out of me!
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