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David Cochran

Apr 1, 20215 min read

61 Growing Up in Blawenburg

By Anne Hartshorne Allen Print Post In this Tale of Blawenburg, Anne Allen remembers what it was like growing up in Blawenburg in the...

David Cochran

Mar 15, 20216 min read

60 The Donner Party was no Party

Print Post Sometimes a shortcut isn’t what it seems. For rugged pioneers in the 1840s, the prospect of traveling to California seemed...

David Cochran

Mar 1, 20212 min read

59 Blawenburg Potpourri

Print Post In this issue of Tales of Blawenburg, we share a potpourri of pictures, comments, and news related to Blawenburg. Some Things...

David Cochran

Feb 15, 20215 min read

58 Blawenburg Couples Club

Print Post In the days after World War II, entertainment and socializing with friends and neighbors was quite different from today. TV...

David Cochran

Feb 1, 20218 min read

57 Blawenburg Spotters in World War II

Print Post The year was 1941, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tensions were running high as the country engaged in World War II....

David Cochran

Jan 18, 20216 min read

56 The Three Schools of Blawenburg

Print Post Education was very important to the settlers who journeyed in the early 1600s from the Netherlands to settle in the area...

David Cochran

Jan 4, 20218 min read

55 The Polling Family of Blawenburg

Print Post Logo of the Gallup Organization What started as curiosity, turned to interest, then to research, and finally to a business...

David Cochran

Dec 15, 20206 min read

Christmas in the Country Remembered

Forty years ago, a very special Christmas Eve service known as Christmas in the Country began a 12 year run in a local barn once owned by...

David Cochran

Nov 30, 20203 min read

53 Launching a Dream in Blawenburg

Post Print Not all of Blawenburg’s history is old, as this Tale of Blawenburg will show. Ben Weiss is a man who dreams big and has a...

David Cochran

Nov 16, 20205 min read

52 Blawenburg’s Sears Houses

Print Post Sears, Roebuck, and Company was the Amazon.com of its day. When it was founded in 1888, Sears was not the department store...

David Cochran

Nov 2, 20207 min read

51 The Preacher and the Trail of Tears

Print Post Usually, the Tales of Blawenburg blog focuses on the history of Blawenburg. The focus of this tale is the Rev. John...

David Cochran

Oct 15, 20206 min read

50 The Hoaglands

Print Post In our last blog (Blog 49), we highlighted Edward Page Terhune, who delivered oil throughout the Montgomery Township area with...

David Cochran

Sep 30, 20205 min read

49 Delivering Oil in the Good Old Days

Print Post This picture answers the age-old question, “How many horses does it take to pull an oil tank wagon?” We take so many things...

David Cochran

Sep 15, 20208 min read

48 Blaws Come to the New World

Print Post In Blog 3, we discussed the migration of the Blaw family and many other Dutch families from New York to Monmouth County, NJ...

David Cochran

Aug 31, 20206 min read

47 John Allan Wyeth Redux

Print Post This blog continues the story of John Allan Wyeth from Blog 46, The Little-Known Poet Buried in Blawenburg. If you have not...

David Cochran

Aug 17, 20204 min read

46 The Little-Known Poet Buried in Blawenburg

Print Post John Allan Wyeth was a little-known poet in his time, a “war poet” from World War I. His fame rests on one book of “50-odd”...

David Cochran

Aug 3, 20205 min read

45 Lost Windmill Found

Print Post The Broad View Farm windmill Some months ago, we reported that that windmill that was on Broad View Farm in Blawenburg was...

David Cochran

Jul 15, 20207 min read

44 Finding John Blaw

Print Post INTRODUCTION by David Cochran In Blog 31, Cemeteries, I told the story of the early burial grounds that the Dutch settlers...

43 Beady-eyed Villain with a Blawenburg Connection

David Cochran

Jun 30, 20203 min read

43 Beady-eyed Villain with a Blawenburg Connection

Print Post Actor Lee Van Cleef In the classic spaghetti western movie, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Lee Van Cleef was the ugly guy,...

David Cochran

Jun 15, 20206 min read

42 A Tragedy and a Celebration

Print Post On Wednesday, March 2, 1932, two unrelated headlines on the front page of The Hopewell Herald, a weekly newspaper that is...

David Cochran

Jun 1, 20203 min read

41 Harvesting Hay the Old Fashioned Way

Print Post The harvest operation using a hay loader nearly 100 years ago. When it’s time to harvest the hay today, we see large hay...

David Cochran

May 18, 20206 min read

40 The Wedding Picture

Print Post This picture of John and Fannie Updike Hopper is likely their wedding picture. It’s been said that there is a story behind...

David Cochran

May 4, 20204 min read

39 The Chalice

Print Blog The Blaw Family Chalice Many families have heirlooms that are passed from generation to generation along with stories to...

David Cochran

Apr 17, 20208 min read

38 Remembering Otto Kaufman

Print Blog If you ride by or visit the Otto Kaufman Community Center on Skillman Road in Skillman, you may wonder just who Otto Kaufman...

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