Memories
Dearie..Do You Remember When? Summertime and the Livin’ Is Easy
By Dave Bailey, Sr. Dearie, do you remember when it was summertime in Penns Grove? What was a kid to do growing up in the 40’s? We couldn’t wait to get out of...
Dearie..Do You Remember When? School Days
By Dave Bailey, Sr. Dearie do you remember going to school? Do you remember school names? Harmony Street School – the old wood school named after the street....
Dearie…Do You Remember When? (Annual Dinner, May 2001)
By Rev. Dave Bailey Editor’s note: This is the program that Rev. Dave Bailey presented at the Annual Dinner Meeting of The Penns Grove Historical Society, May...
Dearie… Do You Remember When? (October 2000)
By Dave Bailey Do you remember when dancing was close – real close? Do you remember the great songs people danced to? Do you remember how romantic it was to...
Dearie… Do You Remember Summer Thrills and Chills
First in a Series By Dave Bailey There were four public schools and one parochial within the city limits of Penns Grove. In fact, Harmony Street School still...
Boys of Summer
County Baseball League gave us real hometown heroes By Eleanor Peak Zane In the early years of the century when automobiles were an oddity, and television was...
A Gift From the Past for Our Future
By Neil Clement “He who seeks to be rich will not be benevolent. He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.” Yang Hoo. Quoted by Mencius iii, I, 3...
Coming to America
A Peasant Boy’s View of the New World By Achille Silvestri My mother, my older brother and I came to America in April of 1939, just six months before Hitler...
Consolidation Isn’t New in Penns Neck
Consolidation, sometimes talked about for the Penns Grove, Carney’s Point, and even Oldmans area, would be nothing new. All of western Salem County from the...