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BACK IN TIME: A $1 Thanksgiving Dinner at Koenig’s
This week we go back to Thanksgiving of 1935—when the holiday fell on Nov. 28, as it does this year, and you could get a full dinner in Hillsdale for […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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BACK IN TIME: Closter Site Has Been a Restaurant—With Many Owners— Since 1920s
CLOSTER, N.J.—For those who wanted to eschew the traditional Thanksgiving dinner at home back in 1959, there were many Northern Valley restaurants offering to do the cooking. In Closter, you […]
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BACK IN TIME: A Bountiful Harvest in Tenafly
In the year 2019, this might look like someone’s haul from the farmer’s market. Well over a century ago, when this photo was taken at a house on Valley Place […]
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RETREAT TO VICTORY: Educational Events will recollect ‘Times That Tried Men’s Souls’
FORT LEE, N.J.—During the weekend of Nov. 23-24, historical re-enactors and the public at large will gather at Fort Lee Historic Park to commemorate the 243rd anniversary of what has […]
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BACK IN TIME: Closter Celebrates the Armistice
CLOSTER, N.J.—Seen above, a parade through downtown Closter celebrates the end of World War I. The armistice signed at Compiegne, France, between the Allied forces and Germany took effect at […]
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BACK IN TIME: Dwight Morrow Pays Tribute to the Boys in Service
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—The year was 1943. America was embroiled in the Second World War, and on the homefront patriotism was running high. Everyone wanted to do their part. While the majority […]
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This Week in History: Westwood Honors WWI Servicemen
WESTWOOD, N.J.—We go back nearly a century to Nov. 11, 1922, when Westwood celebrated Armistice Day—as it was known then—with the dedication of a monument to honor the borough’s servicemen […]
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BACK IN TIME: An Exceedingly Strange Election Wager
We go back 135 years to the presidential election of Nov. 4, 1884. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic governor of New York, was running against James G. Blaine, a Republican and […]
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The Small Town with a Big Mayor: Tenafly Elected Former Postmaster General
TENAFLY, N.J.—“The city of Tenafly, N.J., has elected a reform mayor,” reported The New York Times in 1895. “It is not a large city. The total poll was 276, which […]
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BACK IN TIME: Armed with Shotguns, The Men Went Ghost Hunting
Who doesn’t love a good ghost story at Halloween? For this one, we go all the way back to November 1901, when people swore they were seeing an apparition on […]