The Great Mendham Bank Robbery of 1961
by Charlie Carter
Back in 1960, when two would-be bank robbers pegged Mendham Borough as a podunk town with lax security and bragged that it would be easy to rob the local bank, they couldn't have been more wrong.
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The Underground Railroad in Mendham?
by Nancy Spies
Mendham folklore tells of secret passages and tunnels that were used to harbor fleeing slaves in their escape to freedom.
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Front Paths Don't Lie
by Betty Kiser
What is your home's curb appeal?
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Only in a Small Town ("No license, no wedding!")
by Rickie Kelly
While doing some late fall cleanup on my East Main Street front lawn, my old (as in long time) friend, Marie Pfeiffer, stopped to chat. We reminisced about our years in the Mendham Junior Women's Club and how after 35 you were no longer junior but were eligible for senior status.
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Former Mendham Basketball Captain's Journey: Helping AIDS Orphans in Africa
by Mark Kitchin, Daily Record
Athletes at a basketball camp expect to learn about passing lanes and ways to improve their shooting skills. They don't expect to get lessons about apartheid, Nelson Mandela and the poverty of South Africa.
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Pursuing the American Dream Home
(A culturally diverse perspective)
By Leslie Freidman
Probably the most high-profile real estate deal ever consummated by immigrants, at least in the Tri-State metropolitan area, was the purchase of Manhattan. In 1626, Dutch representative (read: early real estate dealer) Peter Minuit boughl the island for his people from local Native Americans. The story varies, but according to most accounts the sellers were the Canarsee Indians. (Other sources claim the sellers to be the Shinnecock or the Algonquin.) The price paid for the real estate also varies, according to the storyteller or historian. However, it is known to have been somewhere in the neighborhood of $24 worth of beads, 30 beaver skins, 60 gilders, or a few bales of cloth. Depending.
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