There are still a lot of Rifenburghs in the area,ancestors of the Palatine probably but could be Dutch original Europeans in the area. I hope they do not mind me reading this letter. Upper Redhook still exists running parallel with Route 9 but the post office is long gone. There were one room post offices every 3 or 4 miles serving perhaps 50 or 75 families...they could not have cost too much to operate or make much profit.
"There are still a lot of Rifenburghs in I hope they do not mind me reading this letter. "
Funny story.. my aunt and uncle in their late 70s came to my house. I decided to show them the volume of my NJ postmark collection that had their town in it. I collect these on full cover, two covers to a page.
My aunt starts squawking “that’s people’s mail! You can’t have that! It’s illegal!”
And then f course my wife calls stamp collecting “collecting dead people’s mail”!
It may be a bit of a stretch..but i like to think of it as preserving history..at least for a while. The writer in 1919 mentions that the soldiers got..shafted on compensation. It was some years later that laws were passed..giving something to the soldiers or their widows.
Doughboys were promised bonuses; and in the tough times in post war US, those soldiers agitated for the promised bonuses. They marched on Washington; and the federal government, not inclined to follow through on its promises, sent troops against the demobilized vets. The soldier commanding those troops? Think corn cob pipe
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