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Tales of Blawenburg; Blog Index
This is an index of all the publications of the Tales of Blawenburg blog. We initially differentiated between longer blogs (numbered) and picture posts (PP). Effective with Blog 21, all entries are numbered.
1 Where on Earth is Blawenburg NJ?
2 Before the Dutch Arrived
3 The Settlers of Blawenburg
PP Still Farming
PP Blawenburg’s Old Ash Tree
4 Getting to and from Blawenburg
5 What’s in a Name?
PP Beneath the Bridge
6 Original Houses of Blawenburg: The First Farmstead in the Village, Part 1
PP Van Zandt Farmstead 1939
PP Uphill into Blawenburg
7 Original Houses of Blawenburg: The Nevius/Van Zandt Homestead, Part 2
PP Blawenburg Cooling System
8 Sinterklaas: A Dutch Tradition in Blawenburg
PP Farewell Blawenburg Cafe
9 The Iconic Windmill of Blawenburg
10 Original Houses of Blawenburg: The Nevius/Van Zandt Homestead, Part 3
11 The Day 8,000 Visitors Came to Blawenburg
PP The First Model T Cars in Blawenburg
PP Preservation Award for the Smiths
PP From Sylvan Lake Back to Rock Brook
12 Swimming at Blawenburg Beach
13 The Covenhoven/Stout Plantation
PP The Smooth Stones of Blawenburg
14 Whatever Happened at the Green Flash Boarding House?
PP Can You Identify these People?
15 Blawenburg Tavern
16 When the KKK Came to Blawenburg
PP Blawenburg 1938
17 The Corner Store – A Chronology
PP Getting Hitched
PP Blawenburg Sunoco
18 Blawenburg’s Long Serving Postmaster, John Nevius Van Zandt
PP A Long Way to High School
19 Hillpot’s Hilltop Store
20 The Summer of ‘64
PP Three Patriots in WWII
21 Sweet Memories at the DQ
22 The Mountain View Boys Go Fishing – Dudley Gaman
23 A Church Comes to Blawenburg
24 World War I Casualty
25 From Blawenburg Kid to Movie Star
26 Halloween Horror in Blawenburg Cemetery
27 Annie’s House
28 A Good Blacksmith is Hard to Find
29 A Tale of Three Firehouses
30 What Goes Up, Must Come Down
31 The Burying Grounds of Blawenburg
32 Stagecoaches, Trains, and Buses
33 Blawenburg Band – Since 1890
34 Hauling Wood
35 Missing
36 Where John Blaw Lived
37 Bud’s Spring Beauties
38 The Chalice
39 Remembering Otto Kaufman
40 The Wedding Picture
41 Harvesting Hay the Old Fashioned Way
42 A Tragedy and a Celebration
43 Beady-eyed Villain with a Blawenburg Connection
44 Finding John Blaw
45 Lost Windmill Found
46 The Little-Known Poet Buried in Blawenburg
47 John Allen Wyeth Redux
48 Blaws Come to the New World
49 Delivering Oil in the Good Old Days
50 The Hoaglands
51 The Preacher and the Trail of Tears
52 Blawenburg's Sears Houses
53 Launching a Dream in Blawenburg
54 Christmas in the Country Remembered
55 The Polling Family of Blawenburg
56 The Three Schools of Blawenburg
57 Blawenburg Spotters in World War II
58 Blawenburg Couples' Club
59 Blawenburg Potpourri
60 The Donner Party Was No Party
61 Growing Up in Blawenburg
62 The State Village — Part 1
63 The State Village — Part 2
64 The State Village — Part 3
65 The State Village — Part 4
66 Katherine Van Zandt, Blawenburg Poet and Teacher
67 How Not to Put Out a Fire
68 In Memory of Brood X
69 Blaw's Mill
70 Eagle Project Brings New Life to Cemetery
71 The Ghosts in the Old Parsonage
72 The Old Parsonage
73 The Other Blawenburg Village
74 When Adam Ansel Came to the Village
75 The Wandering Blaws
76 The Famous Preachers of Blawenburg
77 The Bats of Blawenburg
78 The Frog War and the M&S Demise
79 A Glimpse of the State Village
80 The Voorhees House
81 Mystery at the Old Tavern
82 A Day to Remember
83 Farewell to an Old Friend
84 First Responders
85 A New Home for the Lost Windmill
86 The Blawenburg Bypass
87 The Slaves of Blawenburg, Part 1
88 The Slaves of Blawenburg, Part 2
89 The Slaves of Blawenburg, Part 3
90 The Slaves of Blawenburg, Part 4
91 Troop 46, Serving Youth for 90 Years
92 Memories of Troop 46
93 Memories of Blawenburg
94 Hobler Park, A Blawenburg Treasure
95 The Dark Side of Blawenburg
96 GAR Camp Skillman