Lee, What an unselfish act and what wonderful folks they are (adoptive parents)! So glad that everything went well. I have never met you, but I believe I would like you as much as I love your emails. Have fun Lee, and Godspeed. Grace

Its nice when great stories have Happy Endings. Glad you are sharing with all of us. We are happy for you. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <greenflash60@pocketmail.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:29 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] trip > HI ALL, > WELL GEUSS SOME OF YOU KNOWI,M IN TEXAS I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE SAT. > I CAME HERE TO MEET MY FIRST BORN SON. I LOOKED FOR HIM FOR OVER A YEAR,,FINALLY FOUND HIM AND GOT TO TALK TO HIM LATE IN JUNE...AFTER THE VERMONT TRIP. I HAVN'T EVER MENTIONED IT, BUT I WILL NOW.KEN IS 28 AND A COMPUTER WHIZ..WE HAVE HAD A GREAT TIME SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE. HIS PARENTS AND I ET ALONG GREAT. THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT TRIP. YESTERDAY WE WENT TO THE TEXAS STATE FAIR. ON SUN. WE WENT TO SEE WHERE J.F.K.GOT SHOT. > ANYHW KEY LOOKS LIKE ME..HAS A GREAT JOB..DRIVES A NICE 2001 FORD ESCORT LX. > IT;SBEEN A GREAT REUNION FOR MOTHER AND SON AND GREAT ADPOTIVE PARENTS. > WE ARE ALL FRIENDS. IT TURNED UT TO BE A WONDERFUL EVENT. THEY WILL SHARE HIM WITH ME..EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE DONE THE HARD PART. > > LEE IN TEXAS > > ------------------------------ > Sent from my PocketMail Handheld > http://www.pocketmail.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I remember following Springfield Ave in Newark going to Springfield, NJ. There is a turnoff somewhere at the end of the Ave and we bought our apple cider there. I remember the place smelled wonderful, cider, apple pies baking. There was a huge wooden vat in the front and u just went up and helped yourself to free samples. Here in PA the orchard is right up the road from me YUMMMMMM Brace's Apple Cider.......to die for...I won't drink anything else ellen

> Hi Lee, > Glad you're seeing Texas and having a great time. Steak is my favorite meal > too, and they should have really good ones there. Glad Ken is showing you a > good time. Tell us all about the Texas State Fair. You know the Columbia > one is on now and Florence. I know you have little time now, but we all > want to hear. What time are you coming home tomorrow? > Norma > > > >

Pat, That was so much fun for us. The only trick we ever got was a dog bone from Chat Hoffman a jokester. We just laughed and bombarded his house. Most times nothing bad happened, I did break a finger running away, fell down the hill after ringing a doorbell. Oh yes, be darned I fell in those days too. Wish we could go back, but we know we can't. Will have to have house parties that are supervised. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Donuts and apple cider > Norma, > > When I was young we would go all over town on Halloween nite. People invited > us in and tried to guess who we were or to admire our costumes. They used to > give us cider and donuts and others gave us candy, cookies, etc. You > wouldn't be able to do that today. Today children are told not to go into > people's houses and not to eat anything not in a sealed wrapper. I wish we > could go back to the old days in NJ, before the people became so crazy and > untrustworthy. > > Pat > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Norma, When I was young we would go all over town on Halloween nite. People invited us in and tried to guess who we were or to admire our costumes. They used to give us cider and donuts and others gave us candy, cookies, etc. You wouldn't be able to do that today. Today children are told not to go into people's houses and not to eat anything not in a sealed wrapper. I wish we could go back to the old days in NJ, before the people became so crazy and untrustworthy. Pat

HI ALL, WELL GEUSS SOME OF YOU KNOWI,M IN TEXAS I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE SAT. I CAME HERE TO MEET MY FIRST BORN SON. I LOOKED FOR HIM FOR OVER A YEAR,,FINALLY FOUND HIM AND GOT TO TALK TO HIM LATE IN JUNE...AFTER THE VERMONT TRIP. I HAVN'T EVER MENTIONED IT, BUT I WILL NOW.KEN IS 28 AND A COMPUTER WHIZ..WE HAVE HAD A GREAT TIME SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE. HIS PARENTS AND I ET ALONG GREAT. THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT TRIP. YESTERDAY WE WENT TO THE TEXAS STATE FAIR. ON SUN. WE WENT TO SEE WHERE J.F.K.GOT SHOT. ANYHW KEY LOOKS LIKE ME..HAS A GREAT JOB..DRIVES A NICE 2001 FORD ESCORT LX. IT;SBEEN A GREAT REUNION FOR MOTHER AND SON AND GREAT ADPOTIVE PARENTS. WE ARE ALL FRIENDS. IT TURNED UT TO BE A WONDERFUL EVENT. THEY WILL SHARE HIM WITH ME..EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE DONE THE HARD PART. LEE IN TEXAS ------------------------------ Sent from my PocketMail Handheld http://www.pocketmail.com

Its a lovely poem, and now thinking donuts and cider. Dot's post on the Tree colors was a pleasant reminder of how beautiful the colors were up North this time of year. We have a few hardwoods, but mostly pine and southern greens. I do appreciate them as we never look like its the dead of winter, but oh the fall colors. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin M Stinson <robinpaulstinson@mybluelight.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:14 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Autumn Tapestry > Hi, > I am not sure if I have typed this before or not. Hope you enjoy however > Love, > Robin > > > > > > > AUTUMN TAPESTRY > > Framed within the casement > Of my windows I can see > The rich and varied colors > Of the autumn tapestry > Worked in glowing shades of red > And russet, mauve, and blue, > The garden in the rolling view--- > > Sunflowers blazing round the path > And dahlias bold and bright; > Beds of gay chrysanthemums, > Bronze, amber, rose, and white, > Massed against the mellow background > Of the distant scene, > Stretching to the far horizon, > Brown and gold and green; > > Furrowed acres newly plowed, > The corn shocks, and the hay; > Orchards, stubbles, cottage roofs, > And churches old and gray; > Meadow pastures, willow-fringed, > Where flow the winding streams--- > Lovely as a picture > In the tapestry of dreams

Its been so long ago, but we got our Cider at Cole Alpaugh's Orchard in Cokesbury N.J. and Henry's top of Ringoes Hill on 31, still there Diesel? Now we buy Ziegler's in the super market, its pasteurized. Hmmm how many Gallons of Cider used to be in our cooler where we kept our Milk cans, waiting till New Years when it was hard and I do mean hard. lol. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <AnnWicki@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Apple Cider > In a message dated 10/7/2002 9:05:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > dotbnj@earthlink.net writes: > > > > We used to go to Delicious Orchards in Colt's Neck for fresh cider. > > Know the place, Ann? Also there is a farm on route 202/31 south just > > before > > you hit the split to go down 31. Can't recall the name but their cider is > > very good also. Frank, you know the place I mean? > > > Dot: > > I certainly do know Delicious Orchards. I spend a lot of money there, it is > worth it. I have yet to buy something that is not excellent. > > Ann > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

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HI ALL, GREETINGS FROM DOUBLE OAK TEXAS. KIPPY IS A GAME WE PLAYED AT ESTER.KNOCKING OUR EASTER EGGS TOGETHER, THE CRACKED EGG LOST. YES, I AM GERMAN ON MY DAD'S SIDE. later; back from Texas state fair in Dallas.more later. Lee In Dallas ------------------------------ Sent from my PocketMail Handheld http://www.pocketmail.com

Hi, I remember Easter Egg hunts in Hackettstown. Don't recall finding any or not many if I did. My grandmother used to dye eggs with food coloring and hide them when I was very young. Funny thing, the Easter Bunny always hid one in the flower pot sunken in her flower garden. LOL Easy find for the young. We always had very fancy dyed eggs. Lots of mixed colors and that is when they had the little tatoo things like crosses, chicks, etc. Couldn't duplicate them today if we tried. Coloring maybe, but these stickons just don't look as nice and weird things. One time we hid eggs for my daughter when she was young(about 2). The next day she was playing with the neighborhood gang and asked if they could hide the eggs. I said no and I was busy at the time. Went into the other room and came back and they were all out in the backyard. She had gotten the eggs to hide when I left the room and you never saw so many smashed up eggs. Weren't even good for egg salad and rather dirty. YUK! Pat

Hi Everyone, Now since it is fall I am starting to get a craving for apple cider. Is anyone else? I remember going with my grandparents to a place between I believe Salem, NJ and Bridgeton, NJ called Sunny Slope Farms. Has anyone else heard of them? It was fresh squeezed. Boy does this bring back memories of fall. Does anyone else remember places around New Jersey that had fresh squeezed apple cider? Getting the kinks ironed out of my new computer. Printer is not here yet. When I get that I will be starting my business back again--Lord willing. Love, Robin Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

Hi, I am not sure if I have typed this before or not. Hope you enjoy however Love, Robin AUTUMN TAPESTRY Framed within the casement Of my windows I can see The rich and varied colors Of the autumn tapestry Worked in glowing shades of red And russet, mauve, and blue, The garden in the rolling view--- Sunflowers blazing round the path And dahlias bold and bright; Beds of gay chrysanthemums, Bronze, amber, rose, and white, Massed against the mellow background Of the distant scene, Stretching to the far horizon, Brown and gold and green; Furrowed acres newly plowed, The corn shocks, and the hay; Orchards, stubbles, cottage roofs, And churches old and gray; Meadow pastures, willow-fringed, Where flow the winding streams--- Lovely as a picture In the tapestry of dreams BY: Patience Strong Ideals Magazine MCMXCIV Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

In a message dated 10/7/2002 9:05:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dotbnj@earthlink.net writes: > We used to go to Delicious Orchards in Colt's Neck for fresh cider. > Know the place, Ann? Also there is a farm on route 202/31 south just > before > you hit the split to go down 31. Can't recall the name but their cider is > very good also. Frank, you know the place I mean? > Dot: I certainly do know Delicious Orchards. I spend a lot of money there, it is worth it. I have yet to buy something that is not excellent. Ann

In a message dated 10/7/2002 11:02:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > There have been newspaper articles > about doing that. He used to tell us the story about taking their eggs and > > knocking them together. The person without the cracked egg would win the > other person's egg. I found that unusual and then after reading about it > in > the newspaper figured it was just a local custom. Surprized to hear that > the > Pa Germans did that, also. > This is the first time that I've ever heard of that custom. Sounds like a winner to me, especially if all the eggs end up going into egg salad, which I love. What I remember is the annual Easter-egg hunts in Memorial Park in Nutley. I went once or twice, and I think I found one egg once and none at all another time. But I also remember the raunchy smell of a hidden egg at home that didn't get found. It was behind the sofa, and the delightful hydrogen-sulfide fragrance eventually led us to the forgotten egg. One year I tried hiding eggs in our yard in California for our kids to find. They missed only one, and that one was in plain sight . . . sitting in a knothole in the fence! Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Robin, We used to go to Delicious Orchards in Colt's Neck for fresh cider. Know the place, Ann? Also there is a farm on route 202/31 south just before you hit the split to go down 31. Can't recall the name but their cider is very good also. Frank, you know the place I mean? Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin M. Stinson" <robinpaulstinson@mybluelight.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:25 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Apple Cider > Hi Everyone, > Now since it is fall I am starting to get a craving for > apple cider. Is anyone else? I remember going with my grandparents to a place between I believe Salem, NJ and Bridgeton, NJ called Sunny Slope Farms. Has anyone else > heard of them? It was fresh squeezed. Boy does this bring back memories of fall. Does anyone else remember places around New Jersey that had fresh squeezed apple cider? > > Getting the kinks ironed out of my new computer. Printer is not here yet. When I get that I will be starting my business back again--Lord willing. > > Love, > Robin > > Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Ellen, How true! It brings back a lot of good memories. Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: <ELLEN542@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 11:25 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Looking Back > Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have. > > As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. > Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special > treat. > > Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. > We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. > > We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and > when we rode our bikes we had no helmets. > > We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. > > We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps, then rode > down > the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. > After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the > problem. > > We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were > back when the streetlights came on. > No one was able to reach us all day. > > We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. > > We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, > but we were never overweight; we were always outside playing. > > Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. > Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. > > Some students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard > so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. > > That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem > solvers. > > We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, > and we learned how to deal with it all. > > > ellen > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi list, Our leaves seem to be at their peak and are beautiful here in PA. I thought you might like to know what colors belong to what tree. Dot FALL COLOR KEY The Pocono spectrum of fall color includes shades that are predominant in certain tree varieties: Bronze: beech Dull Orange: chestnut oak Russet: basswood Scarlet: sassafras, dogwood, scarlet oak, black gum Yellow: hickory, gray birch, yellow birch, tulip tree, sycamore, sugar maple Red: sumac, black oak, red maple, red oak, black cherry Gold: aspen, persimmon Purple: white ash Violet-purple: white oak ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo

Jerilyn, I have never played the game where you hit the ends of eggs together. My father-in-law was French and from La. There have been newspaper articles about doing that. He used to tell us the story about taking their eggs and knocking them together. The person without the cracked egg would win the other person's egg. I found that unusual and then after reading about it in the newspaper figured it was just a local custom. Surprized to hear that the Pa Germans did that, also. As I have gotten older, it has become apparent that alot of the things that we ate, things we said, etc., passed down from the Pa German heritage. Before I started doing genealogy I thought it was just our proximity to Pa. Pat Pat