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CoNTeNTS
8. It Wasn9t Beauty that
Killed the Beast
Best of The BRJ Volume I
A local Marine Corps aviator’s unsung role
in the making of the original King Kong
and cinema history. C.G. Wolfe
DEPARTMENTS
4. Journal Entry
We9ve become a collectible
6. Staggering on the Brink... Or, Drinking
Habits of Our Ancestors
18. True Crime: The BRJ Police Beat
Wife poisoner hanged ; innocent man reprieved; iron
miners rampage in the streets; and the one-man war on
nudists continues C.G. Wolfe
32. Flashback 1958 Seals Pond and the
Chester Long Valley Railroad The BRJ
39. From the Kayak Raritan Headwaters
Cindy Ehrenclou
10. The Lost Caverns
of Peapack
The brief unearthing of Peapack’s
natural wonder brought a throng of
tourists armed with sledgehammers
and crow bars. C.G. Wolfe
14. The Hand of Satan Has
Been Laid Upon Us
The poisoning of David Welsh and almost
200 others victims at the Pottersville
Strawberry Festival of 1886, has never
been solved. C.G. Wolfe
20. Nancy Drew and the Ghost
Writer of Bird Haven Farm
Down a Tewksbury country road with my
grandmother and the mysterious author
behind Nancy Drew. Lee C. Wolfe
26. Settin9 the Woods on Fire
Remembering the legendary Burd Boys
country band on the eve of Len Rambo’s
90th birthday. C.G. Wolfe
34. Millicent Fenwick: