Columnist Kristin Beuscher looks back in time at the bygone days of the Pascack Valley and Northern Valley’s people and places.
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—Long before anybody wanted the latest iPhone for Christmas, the Victrola phonograph was a hot ticket during the holiday season of 1919. You could pick one up at the […]
Welcome winter! The season officially began Saturday, Dec. 21. Here’s a look back at a winter past, when some local folks made the best of the frigid weather by ice […]
For anyone who watched the PBS period drama “Downton Abbey,” the following century-old scenario might conjure up memories of the tragic love story of Lady Sybil and Crawley family chauffeur […]
In 1909, the New Jersey Bureau of Labor and Statistics produced a book called “The Industrial Directory of New Jersey.” Intended for businessmen, it had a profile on each town […]
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—On Nov. 7, the Englewood Fire Department received a donation of one of its original fire engines—a 1911 American LaFrance Type 5. It was the 46th of this type […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—On Dec. 7, Closter’s Lindgren School and Summer Camp is inviting alumni and their families to celebrate its 75 years of serving the community, often now with third generation […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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