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Posted by: Lee (lee@lakeshoreconn.com) on 6/05/1997@01:31hrs:
In Reply to: "IN MEMORY" of Staten Island, from Days Afield on Staten Island by Wm. T. Davis, 1892, 3rd printing 1937, reprinted 1994 by the Staten Island Institue of Arts & Sciences posted by: Caryl on 5/12/1997@11:38hrs:
Gee, that's nice. It wasn't so different when I was growing up close
to Jack's Pond in Great Kills in the 1940s and 50s. Used to ride our
bikes to Richmond town and going around the Episcopal church, turn
left and up the dirt track at the end of the church's wall, ride up
the hill to an overlook of the Kill Van Kull. It was quiet up there
and peaceful. Used to be able to walk down the hill to the water and
catch Killies in a hand net for bait. Would lay against a tussek of
grass and watch the clouds float from Jersey over S.I. toward the
Atlantic. Not a sound except the wind in the grass and the song of
birds. I'm 57 yrs old now, and you've no idea how much I sometimes
miss that quiet, peaceful beauty.