Not July already? What happened to June and all those other months? My life is slipping away before my very eyes and I’m doing nothing about it! I’ll never reach the fame of Julius Caesar who not only had this month named after him but also the caesarian birth procedure.
So I’m goin’ to sit right down and write about New Jersey a much under estimated State. And I’ll start with the fact that my grandfather Harrison Taylor was from that State. Well actually he wasn’t but my grandmother a school teacher from England, was in the late 1800’s, visiting her four brothers who, after emigrating, had set up a silk weaving business in Paterson N J. Taylor who was a friend of theirs was on a visit from Richmond VA. And you may have guessed what happened. Yes he sailed back to ‘Jolly Old’ with her, they married here and raised a family. I know little about Harrison apart from the fact that his father was an officer in the Confederate States Navy.
So what is it about New Jersey that doesn’t attract romantic poets and song writers? You never hear No.1 on the charts as being ‘ My kind of town Trenton is’ or ‘Carry me back to Old New Jersey’. But that would be a little confusing as you wouldn’t know if it was old or new.
By the way Jersey is one of Channel Islands, where my wife, her of the red feathers, is from, just off the coast of France.
So get cracking you men of many talents and start singing the praises of this downtrodden, maligned, forgotten and swept under the carpet State of New Jersey.
Bob Taylor
Re: July in New Jersey
Posted by Len Brophy on July 2, 2014, 6:37 am, in reply to "July in New Jersey"
Finally have my pc up @running,in time to muster for July.Thank god for my I pad and I phone.Started my golf three weeks ago and found out that golf balls still won,t go as far as they did when I was younger.89 this Dec.