Blogs from North America - page 9708

March 06, 1991 *City official name :Verona *Founded date : *Location :New Jersey State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Verona and several neighboring towns were all originally one town known as "Horseneck". In the early 1700s, a group of settlers left Newark and purchased a large tract of land northwest of their home city for the equivalent of a few hundred dollars from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This piece of land extended west and north to the Passaic River, south to the town center of what would become Livingston, and east to the First Watchung Mountain, and was called Horseneck by the natives because it resembled the neck and head of a horse. What was then known as Horseneck contained mos... read more

October 15, 1990 *City official name :Elizabeth *Founded date : *Location :New Jersey State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Elizabeth was founded in 1664 by English settlers and was named for the wife of Sir George Carteret, not Queen Elizabeth I as many people assume. Originally called "Elizabethtown," and part of the Elizabethtown Tract, it was the first English speaking community formed in the new colony. It was the first capital of New Jersey. During the American Revolutionary War, Elizabeth was constantly attacked by British forces based in Manhattan and Staten Island. In 1855, Elizabeth received a charter by the New Jersey Legislature to become a city. The first major industry, the Singer Sewin... read more

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Two and a half weeks after I returned from Canada, the family left for the States on home leave. This was the first time that all the relatives would see Will who was now almost a year old. But first we would visit the Pacific Northwest to include British Columbia, fly to California, and drive from California to Colorado. I believe in breaking in our kids at an early age for road trips. Tamara was almost five and Rosanna was almost three, and they all did great. 20 July 1990 Friday. We flew from Brussels to Chicago where we spent the night at an airport hotel, having learned previously that it is better to avoid connections late in the afternoon when there is a possibility that thunderstorms could disrupt the follow on flights. 21 July 1990 ... read more

Just two weeks after our quick trip to northern Norway, we had our annual official visit to another host nation; this time to Canada. Although spouses were invited, I didn't take Linda along as we had been to Canada many times before, although not to Quebec; and we would be taking home leave to the States and western Canada just a little over two weeks after returning from the Canadian trip. 22 June 1990 Friday. The trip began with a flight in a military cargo aircraft to the Canadian Air Force Base a Lahr, Germany in the Rhine Valley. There we had a brief tour of the base and its facilites, and then boarded the weekly passenger jet flight that took Canadian forces personnel back and forth to Canada. Our first stop was at Gander Air ... read more