Gateway First Four Years and More - 1969 and onward

Hi Shannon,

I saw you listed on the Woodbury Heights Elem School site.

Your name jumped out at me because in winters past I have cross country skied along the unused railroad tracks in the photo below from Beaver River to Brandeth and back.

It is the only place named Brandreth that I know of --- and having your name you should know of it too.

All the best,

Bob Thomas

"A dugout, Marie", I said. "A dugout, not a canoe. A canoe is a whole 'nother level of culture."

A dugout is a log with part of the log removed.

Here's a link to a photo of a few dugouts

http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/5171/wm/pd1270363.jpg

These were about the size of the one that I was ferried across the Niger River on when visiting a friend in the Peace Corps in Niger in 1977.

On Saturday May 3rd, 2009, my grandson, Mason, asked to have his training wheels taken off his bike. His father, Aaron, being a really good father, broke away from the job he had started of getting the boat out of the barn and readying it for the new season.

Jack Wiler has a blog - not really news now - but he listed the hit tunes of 1965 and I thought that it would be fun to list them with links to youtube vids of them - with the sound of course... His blog is

http://jackwiler.blogspot.com

I don't think we had all these 45s at my house and my sister loved to listen to records.

I don't have this many now. There may only be one 45 rpm record in the house and it is not a hit.

But I can listen to them when I please long as no one takes my internet awaaaay --- sort of like don't take my kodachrome away.

Recently I have taken an interest in Genealogy - fortunately some of my relatives have also. One of them used her/our family history in writing her master's thesis. Her name is Karen Lynn (Gant) Heiser. She is a graduate of and an employee of Rowan University. She grew up in Glassboro, NJ.

You can click on the link to download the Word Doc that she created. I recommend downloading the link and then opening the file. Enjoy!

Gant Genealogy

OK

You guys have to learn how to learn
or you will never learn anything - almost anyway - you know?

Conclusion

Do you have a favorite place that you have visited a number of times over the years?

Why not add a story to the site about a place that you would like us to know about.

A visitor to the site wrote:

My wife wants to know the meaning of the site name. Do you mean the first four gradating classes? School opened in '64 so she's confused and will make my life a living hell unless I get an answer.

My answer is:

Sometimes people have more luck watching a video after it has been converted to youtube's format.

Woodbury Heights on the stairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Iwd-PSVv0

Wenonah on the stairs - video from the stairs - I am trying to say "at a Press Conference"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDttRIqT98