Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Centenarian reflects on what has changed in Lakewood
Lakewood, N.J., is now a cultural gathering place and home for Hasidic Jews and their families from all over the world, with schools, a university and many large homes.
Bessie McLain remembers her birthplace and hometown differently. She remembers a farm where her father raised melons and raspberries and her mother, unlike many other women of that time, started her own successful business, raising and selling flowers. The McLains lived off a gravel lane in the country and traveled by horse and buggy and sleighs in the winter. Today, that road is paved, a main highway called County Lane Road, which goes from Trenton to the New Jersey shore.
http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20051221/2234482.html
Lakewood, N.J., is now a cultural gathering place and home for Hasidic Jews and their families from all over the world, with schools, a university and many large homes.
Bessie McLain remembers her birthplace and hometown differently. She remembers a farm where her father raised melons and raspberries and her mother, unlike many other women of that time, started her own successful business, raising and selling flowers. The McLains lived off a gravel lane in the country and traveled by horse and buggy and sleighs in the winter. Today, that road is paved, a main highway called County Lane Road, which goes from Trenton to the New Jersey shore.
http://www.delmarvanow.com/deweybeach/stories/20051221/2234482.html
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