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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
Jun 1, 20203 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 18, 20206 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
May 4, 20204 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...
David Cochran
Apr 17, 20208 min read
37 Bud’s Spring Beauties
A Tales of Blawenburg Extra Print Post Enjoy this extra edition of Tales of Blawenburg about Bud Conover and his beloved Spring Beauties...
David Cochran
Apr 10, 20202 min read
36 Where John Blaw Lived
Print Post After my Tales of Blawenburg presentation on March 7, Ted Blew came up to me and introduced himself. Of course, the name Blew...
David Cochran
Mar 30, 20202 min read
Blog 35 Missing
Print Blog Not all Tales of Blawenburg are about the old days. This blog is a true story that I wrote and published in the Montgomery...
David Cochran
Mar 16, 20204 min read
34 Hauling Wood
The driver atop this load of wood is believed to be a Van Zandt. With only two workhorses, he is hauling 3,100 pounds wood down from...
David Cochran
Mar 2, 20201 min read
33 Blawenburg Band ~ Since 1890
Print Blog 33 Note: This is a double-feature blog. In 1982, I wrote an article in Princeton Magazine about the Blawenburg Band. My source...
David Cochran
Feb 17, 20207 min read
32 Stagecoaches, Trains, and Busses
Print Version 📷 Despite being a rural community, Blawenburg had both train and bus service to get to nearby cities in the early 1900s....
David Cochran
Jan 30, 20201 min read
31 The Burying Grounds of Blawenburg
Print Death was an accepted part of life among the Dutch settlers of Blawenburg, and early farmers with large families knew all too well...
David Cochran
Jan 15, 20208 min read
30 What Goes Up, Must Come Down
According to Blood, Sweat, and Tears, in their oldie hit Spinning Wheel, "What goes up, must come down." Newton suggested the same thing...
David Cochran
Dec 30, 20191 min read
29 A Tale of Three Firehouses
Print Post In the good old days, fires were plentiful, but ways to extinguish them were few. If you had a fire, you called in your...
David Cochran
Dec 16, 20199 min read
28 A Good Blacksmith is Hard to Find
It's been a long time since this old Blawenburg blacksmith/wheelwright shop has seen activity of the horseshoeing kind. Note the date on...
David Cochran
Dec 2, 20191 min read
27 Annie's House
Print Post Annie's house in 1931 (left) and 2006 (right) Serendipity in Blawenburg Sometimes we learn things intentionally, and at other...
David Cochran
Nov 18, 20197 min read
26 Halloween Horror in Blawenburg Cemetery
Print Post Blawenburg Cemetery It was a fall evening in 1999, just 20 years ago, and the Blawenburg Cemetery was a buzz with activity....
David Cochran
Oct 28, 20192 min read
25 From Blawenburg Kid to Movie Star
Print Post Blawenburg child actor, Tom Gaman in 1961 By most accounts, growing up in Blawenburg in the late 1950s and 60s was pretty...
David Cochran
Oct 14, 20196 min read
24 World War I Casualty
Samuel E. Duffield is the only person associated with Blawenburg to die in World War I. The memorial plaque in the back of Blawenburg...
David Cochran
Sep 30, 20192 min read
A Church Comes to Blawenburg
Print Post In the Beginning Religion was central to the lives of the Dutch farmers who settled Central New Jersey. They brought the...
David Cochran
Sep 16, 20196 min read
The Mountain View Boys Go Fishing
By Dudley Gaman, Guest Blogger L-R Tom Gaman, Ken Clarkson, Bill (now Dudley) Gaman show their catch after a day of fishing at Van...
David Cochran
Aug 30, 20192 min read
21 Sweet Memories at the DQ
Print Post The summer of 1964 was a busy time in Blawenburg. The Wally Byam Caravan arrived with 5,000 visitors (see blog 20), and the...
David Cochran
Aug 19, 20196 min read
Three Patriots in WWII
Print Post Three patriots from Blawenburg stand in front of Blawenburg Church in October, 1943 during World War II. L-R Bill Terhune...
David Cochran
Jul 29, 20191 min read
20 The Summer of '64
Print Post In this blog, we will cover one of the two “big” events in Blawenburg in the summer of 1964, the encampment of the Wally Byam...
David Cochran
Jul 11, 20196 min read
A Long Way to High School
Print Post A century ago, students went to Blawenburg School through eighth grade. If they wanted to go to high school, they had to go...
David Cochran
Jun 24, 20191 min read
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