Just keeping a journal of my life since my retirement. So far I would call it life in South Jersey. These posts go back to March 2011.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Helicopters, Horses and Houses and etc.
I am trying to pull some odds and ends photos into a cohesive group. How about my alliterative title? The horse photos were taken on Winslow Road. It is the back road that I took from Hammonton to get to Williamstown and then on to Glassboro College back in the day. It is now known as Rowan University. The horses may be from a farm in that area called Lions Pride Farms. Also, I stopped at the Hammonton Airport awhile back and found the New Jersey State Police Helicopter revving up.
Ok, I have taken photos of houses and roadsides in several communities. Some of these shots feature Ventnor, Salem county or Hammonton and some right here in Egg Harbor City. On a sad note, there is a memorial to the side of the road near my house where two young men lost their lives about a week ago. You can see so many candles, flowers and other mementos.
Here is my old homestead on Walmer Street in Hammonton:
Here are the apartments that made our neighborhood interesting to say the least. Hardly anyone stayed there more than 4 to 5 years. But Mrs. Ricci lived there a long time. My friend Debbie and I would go there and we would get cookies and smell her lilac perfume. The lady with the "evil eye" lived there, too. She liked to wear dresses with anklet socks.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Grave Yards in the Pines
Today is Cinco de Mayo 2012. Just know it is getting ever so popular year after year in the U.S.A. It also is the day for the "Super Moon" what ever that is. I am getting tired and I don't like going outside in the dark with my camera and tripod equipment. Also, I was assured later that the cloud cover was just too heavy to allow visibility of the Moon. However, yesterday it was warm and the moon was out early in the evening so I got a shot of the nearly full moon:
So probably around last August my friend and I took a tour of some South Jersey Pineland cemeteries. I already discussed my family's Pinelands heritage but it was such a testament to see the proof that years ago there weren't so many people of Italian heritage around. Going back a little over a hundred years ago it was when you had a large influx of Italians into this area so you weren't going to find graves for them just yet. So these old grave yards have names (just a random sampling of the common names) like: Sooy, Leeds, Weeks, Ford, Wells, Maxwell, Crowley, Birdsall, Scull, Cramer, VanSant, Wescoat, Micks, Jervis, Bowman, Cavileer, Cobb, Camp, Craig, Nichols, Gaskill, and Pool. So when you see any Italian names in these old cemeteries, it is quite noticeable. You soon start to see names like Maratella, Martelli, LoSasso, and Silipena. My grandfather's Tassone's stone won't be found in the Pineland Cemeteries because he was buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Hammonton.
This stone below shows a Martelli must have taken a Ford for a wife. Funny I have a sister Betty Ford. Her husband is only half Italian in his heritage.
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