Download or read book Stories of a Small Town written by Lloyd Charlton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about what life was like growing up in Boonton NJ during the Depression and WWII. STORIES OF A SMALL TOWN BOONTON USA is a 200-page book full of stories and photos about people who lived in challenging times and who welcomed the challenge. These 40 senior citizens interviewed for the book epitomize what is best about America. They are ordinary people brought up with conscience, character, courage and commitment. You will learn how family upbringing and life events shaped their lives. Despite tough times and their share of heartache, they are people of gratitude, humor and hope who are sure to make you smile as you read about their memories of growing up in a small town.
Download or read book More Stories of a Small Town Boonton USA written by Terry Charlton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE STORIES OF A SMALL TOWN BOONTON USA is our second book of "Oral History" stories about people growing up in Boonton NJ during the 1930s and 1940s. These 40+ senior citizens (and a few people not yet seniors) describe their experience in the melting pot called "Boonton." They are people brought up with conscience, character, courage and commitment. No matter where they travel, l Boonton is truly home. The song title, "Everybody knows my name" is applicable here. Come back to Boonton even 50 years later, and find old friends and classmates ready to take you out to lunch! These people use words like happy, grateful and optimistic - and mean them. Even though they faced huge difficulties in the Depression and facing WWII, they laugh when telling their stories. Sandi was fired after getting married because JCP&L had a policy not to employ married women. Dick's plane was shot down over Japan in WWII and he commented that he enjoyed parachuting. Vivian was offered a job teaching high school but in the 1930s, she could not live independently as it was taboo, so she found a room as a "boarder." These are ordinary people and yet they are extraordinary!
Download or read book Boonton USA Wwii Stories written by Lloyd Charlton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boonton USA WWII STORIES is a compilation of articles and short stories written by and about the servicemen and women from Boonton NJ and surrounding areas. Most of these articles were printed in a local newspaper, Boonton's Times-Bulletin, during the years 1944 and 1945. Read an account of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Brig. General Frederick Castle who attended Boonton High School. Read a soldier's description of how it sounded on D-Day. Read several eye-witness accounts of soldiers liberating concentration camps. On how excited Matthew Bednar felt when he was on the USS Nevada and they were told Japan had surrendered. Or how Trevor Lewis-Jones felt when his ship, the USS LaGrange, was hit by kamikaze aircraft on August 13, 1945, after the War had ended and negotiations with Japan were underway. These are our neighbors' children who valiantly fought in WWII and of whom we should be incredibly proud. And so – to honor the sacrifice, courage and heroism of these young men and women - we have compiled this book.
Download or read book Boonton written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1830," Isaac S. Lyon wrote, "Boonton was one of the wildest, rockiest, briariest and most romantic places that the mind of man could imagine." More than a century later, a visitor told his wife, "May, you should see that town of Boonton. The whole Main Street is on a hill. I never saw a town with a Main Street on a hill." These were the first impressions of a town built upon the foundation of its ironworks and "iron town," populated by hardy, self-reliant men and women. Among the earliest immigrants were the English, recruited by the New Jersey Iron Company in 1830 and numbering about thirty families. Within the next two decades, Irish laborers came to work in the mills, followed by Slovaks in the 1890s ,and Italians, Poles, and Germans around the beginning of the 1900s. Two smaller groups were African Americans, some of whose ancestors had come to Boonton 150 years earlier, and Jews, who arrived c. 1900 and later. In Boonton, the descendants of these early families and newcomers reveal the Boonton of yesterday and today, and anticipate the Boonton of tomorrow. Among them is a retired kindergarten teacher who was greeted by the local "fellas" when she got off the bus in Boonton for the first time at age twenty-one. A ninety-four-yearold recalls his experiences eighty years ago as a truck driver, running molasses for the local gin mills. An eighty-one-year-old tells of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and a woman remembers the horror of the 1918 flu epidemic.
Download or read book Boonton written by Boonton Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boonton's origins date back to 1747 with the forgotten village of Old Boonton, the remains of which now lie under the Jersey City Reservoir. Distinguished for its iron forges and mills, Old Boonton owed its existence primarily to the waterpower provided by the Rockaway River. The building of the Morris Canal in 1825, which bypassed Old Boonton and caused its decline, was the driving force in the development of the current town of Boonton 1.5 miles upriver. In 1830, the New Jersey Iron Company selected this site for a new ironworks and imported machinery and workers from England, who brought with them their families and religions. Soon, homes, churches, and schools were built, and a town developed. As the years passed, Boonton evolved from a single-industry town into what it is today, an established community with an abundance of park lands, historic homes, and a thriving main street business district.
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Download or read book Historical Discourse on Boonton Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall on the Evenings of September 21 and 28 and October 5 1867 written by Isaac S. Lyon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Long Journey to Boonton USA written by Marian Carey Palazzo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows four generations of the Brennan, Foy, Blue, Downey, and Carey families from Ireland and the Netherlands to the United States.
Download or read book Boonton written by Business Men's Association (Boonton, N.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Denville 13 The Murder Redemption and Forgiveness in Small Town New Jersey written by Peter Zablocki and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder in the nation at the time. The harrowing trial and its aftermath revealed a town forced to grapple with how to protect its youth and come to terms with the gruesome incident. Local historian Peter Zablocki covers the crime and a small town's path to redemption.
Download or read book From a Small Town to the Big World written by Norman Boehm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ. He worked in the oil industry for 16 years in Saudi Arabia, 4 years in London, England, and 3 years in Stavanger, Norway. 23 years of exposure to the world’s diverse cultures and peoples gave him an unwavering respect and admiration for all citizens of the world. This book is a recollection of the events, thoughts, and experiences of Boehm’s transformative travels abroad. It contains stories of classical piano lessons, learning to fly a small single engine aircraft, and meeting with his distant relative, the world famous movie actress Ingrid Bergman. This memoir honors the remarkable life of a man full of adventure and travel all over the world.
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