When I purchased my copy of Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts it had within it some newspaper clippings, one of which is a newspaper article from December 2, 1979, Staten Island Sunday Advance, titled as above subject and written by Ted Lovington Jr. There is a picture titled: 'The Franzreb home on Clove Road survives amid change.' A portion of the newspaper text reads as follows, starting with: When it was still a forest path, Leni Lenape Indians used Clove Valley as a natural crossing when traveling north to east across the deeply wooded Island. It was the only break in the hills that extended from Fort Hill in St. George to Lighthouse Hill in Richmond. Indian hunters could easily bring back fox, bobcat, bear, deer, rabbit, ducks, geese, turkeys and quickly gathered clams and oysters. Bounties of fish were caught with weighted nets in the crystalline waters off the Island's shores. Early settlers called the valley "the Clove"after the Dutch Het Kloven (a cleft or ravine betwen two hills). One of the three buildings on Clove Road when the British occupied Staten Island in July 1776 was that of Daniel Corson. He was the grandson of Captain Cornelius Corson, who is reputed to have built the first house in the Clove around 1690. The patriotic Daniel Corson, after hearing the Declaration of Independence read at the Rose and Crown (where British commander Sir William Howe was headquartered), said loudly that he would rather have one commission from George Washington than a dozen from King George. Corson's friends were stunned at his foolhardiness and quickly forced him to leave. Ironically, several days later Sir Williame Howe and staff happened to be passing through the Clove when they realized it was dinnertime. The house they unwittingly stopped at was Corson's. An aide got permission from Mrs. Corson to share their meal. Afterwards Howe learned the name of his host and said, "You are the fellow who made that treasonable remark about your king." But Howe relented under the glow of a homecooked meal and, noticing that Mrs. Corson was pregnant, said, "I see you're about to have an addition to your family. If it's a boy, name him for me and we'll forget what you said." In February 1777 Daniel, true to his word, had his son christened William Howe Corson although he never ceased to work for the cause of the Continental armies of General Washington. ........... the changes throughout the years ............ Both the expressway and the widening of Clove Road have increased the traffic flow that surges past Clove Lakes Park and the hills and valleys that hold so much vision and history. If the 200 acres of the park were not taken over for the city Parks Department in 1923, it too would be forever gone. But a climber on Emerson or Grymes Hill or in the woodlands beyond the College of Staten Island's 40-acre campus or in the hills near Clove Lakes on a still autumn day will hear the pulse of another time, the rhythm of an age whose imprints will remain as long as there is a Clove Valley. Mansion, house, church, cottage, the call of a sudden bird in the evening sky and there is a hush upon the land when the listener can almost hear the axe blows and the fading clatter of a horse's hoofs. [end] There is also a newspaper article and picture of Loring McMillen, when he was finally officially named borough Historian, March, 1986; he had been doing it since 1932. I note one comment he is quoted as saying: "Many of the Island's historical publications are inaccurate, McMillen said. The Chronicles -- which look at the Island history town by town -- will try to fill some of those gaps, he said." Loring was referring to a quarterly publication he had been writing called the "Chronicles of Staten Island." Jan