13,661. RICHARDSON, THE TANKARDS ARE FULL

RICHARDSON, THE 

TANKARDS ARE FULL

So now what do we do? There's water enough

for the rest of the world, but people like other

things too : Alcama's Sweets and Candies; The

Royal Grenadier Wines & Liquors. I'd never

know, but things like that suffice.

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Here, it's another world somehow. And I

really do listen to what people say:  "The

settlers came in the early early nineteenth

century on foot or by horse and wagon. Later

on they took stagecoaches. When the O&W

Railroad - The New York Ontario & Western -

came through in the 1870's and built a series

of creameries and transported milk to New

York City, the center part of Sullivan County

opened up."

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Almost as simple as all get-out. The men, who 

were farmers, would leave their wives and 

kids there on the farm for the winter. They'd go

to the city, and take a job  -  any job that was

available  -  and come back whenever they 

could. Sometimes they were away for the whole

winter. In the summer they would return. The

lucky ones made contacts in the city and brought

people up to Summer in the country  -  a simple

room and board, meals (but you 'paid' for the

meat you ate), and work, or help work, the

farm. That's how all these resorts and rooming

houses first began. Mothers would move the 

children to outer housing, and the rest would

bunk wherever they could, with the main house,

most often, given over to boarders. That's

how they made a living, and got started  -

all these Grossingers and Neveles. What

later were grand resorts.

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Nevele? That's eleven spelled backwards  -  

and that's how many initial investors there

were when the place finally went big-time.

Everything needs a name.