See more stories like this Join our Alabama Pioneers Patron Community! Become an Alabama Pioneers Patron And GET ALABAMA PIONEERS PATRONS APP today! Hightstown, New Jersey – The Opening of the Garment Plant (Continued from Hightstown, New Jersey – Moving day and a surprise statue) “The central idea back of Jersey Homesteads was co-operation. M. […]
(Before we had television and video games to fill our time, domino games were a popular past time among men and boys of all ages, nationalities, and economic situations throughout America as can be seen by the following photographs from the late 1930’s and early 1940’s.) Unlock all Alabama Pioneers stories Alabama Pioneers members see […]
Hightstown, New Jersey – Moving day and a surprise statue (Continued from Troubles continue for Hightstown, New Jersey) “As finally completed, the town section of Jersey Homesteads contained 200 white, concrete-block homes of from five to seven rooms, located on small homestead plots of approximately one acre.” (The two photos below are of the Model […]
In 1987, the small town of Roosevelt received national publicity when a man who never sought the position and did not want to be was elected mayor. Roosevelt, New Jersey has a rich history. The town was actually started as a Resettlement community for Jewish immigrants in the New York garment district of New York. […]
Trouble Looms Ahead for Jersey Home-steaders “As soon as Benjamin Brown and Max Blitzer began to try to turn their plans for Jersey Homesteads into a reality, troubles multiplied. First of all, Brown failed to maintain the support of all the original sponsors, particularly those representing labor and charity groups. Brown was also foiled in […]
I left my young wife and year old daughter in the states after a harried move from Germany and a quick wedding ceremony of a pair of college friends and processed through Ft Lewis Washington. I arrived in RVN in time for our personnel replacement center to react to rockets’ red glare. There we were all five […]
The idiom: Chip on your shoulder means being angry about something that happened in the past. A ‘chip’ can be defined as a piece of timber, or wood. Depending on the amount and size, timber can be quite heavy, and oftentimes people carry heavy things on their shoulders. The phrase appears to have originated with a 19th […]
From the 1850’s to the 1930’s, more than 250,000 orphans from New York City and Boston were sent westward. The train made many stops along the way as married couples picked out the boy or girl they wanted. Michigan was one of many middle western states to take in 12,500 children from 3 to 16 […]
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart disappeared in 1937 on an attempted round-the-world flight. People have been searching for her remains and her plane ever since A recent news report announced that a piece of riveted aluminum found in 1991 may likely be from her plane. Sophisticated imagery, not available […]
Since hand labor is still necessary for the production of the blemish-free fruits and vegetables that consumers demand, migrant workers shift from place to place picking fruits and vegetables to feed a hungry nation. Although invisible to most people, the presence of migrant farm workers in many rural communities throughout the nation is undeniable. Today, between […]
