STENGER'S SAND DUNES

1967

JOHN R. STENGER

AND THE LEWES SAND DUNES

The Cape Henlopen sand dunes are fast becoming a garbage dump according to John Stenger, a Lewes High School science teacher who has a lot to say and knows people call him a crackpot yelling about a pile of sand.

The town had opened a tract out here in the 'dunes' for a garbage dump several years ago and

also allow contractors to remove sand for construction. A derelict crane, rusting away, sitting atop a dune and fresh tracks ftom excavating equipment bears mute testimony to activities.

Stenger fears he is fighting a loosing battle but when he found rotten chicken cages thrown on the dunes , he got mad and felt guilty for not publicizing the situation sooner. He is also far from

optimistic of any results and notes his 'crusade' is not making him very popular in such a small town as Lewes, but he is determined to bring attention to the matter. He has written Interior Secretary Udall, Mrs Lyndon Johnson and Governor Terry. Town officials are not much help.

Source: Wednesday, 27 September, 1967, Wilmington New Journal, Sussex Bureau.

Abstract: August 29, 2017, Lewes, Harrison Howeth.

OLDER

Getting Older

As I get older I realize I talk to myself because I need expert advice, “trendy' are the clothes

that still fit, I nned people to stop pissing me off, not 'anger management' , I find my people skills

are just fine, that its my tolerance for 'idiots' that needs working on, then I dont need to write it down,

I can remember that, I have days when I am a tent away from a cicus , and yes, 'on time' is when I

get there. It would be great if we could het into the dryer and come out without ' wrinkles' and

a size smaller. I notice that people my age are much older than me, 'getting lucky' is going into

a room and knowing what I am there for, nap time is like a vacation and not punishment and there

are days I wounder why I am even out of bed. I thought growing older would take some time longer,

age has for sure slowed me down but has not shut me up, and I have not learned to act my age.

Source: Jeff Mitchel of Sherrie.

1923 School Sales

1923 Sussex County Schools

The now unused school buildings of Sussex county were sold by the school board, are;

Lincoln City, Ellendale and Slaghter Neck; Nassau and Drawabridge ; Rehoboth, Rabbit

Ferry, and Friendship.

Frankford, Omar, Selbyville, and Lynch. Warwick , Whartons Branch, Hollyville, Lowes Cross Roads,

At Laurel, Owens Corner, Portsville, Ross Point and Concord. At Brideville, Blocksons,

Middleford, Trinity.

At Millville, Blackwater, Roxana, Millville.

Persons were required to pay the entire purchase price, some of the school buildings are to be moved off the land.

PEAS & LIMA BEANS

EARLY JUNE SWEET PEAS & HENDERSON BABY BUSH LIMA BEANS

Peas and baby limas are a main crop grown in eastern Sussex county, around Milton,

Lewes, Milford and Ellendale. The product is contracted to local canneries.

Many farmers double crop peas and limas, planting the beans after harvesting the early peas

which is finished before the 4^th of July. It has been found that later planted Henderson Bush Baby

Lima's produce a better yield that those planted early.

Milton is in the heart of the Delaware lima bean production, one cannery cans 3600 cases

a day from the thirty to fourty tons brought to them from the fields. Lima bean season begins the

middle of August. The vines of the crops are either 'threshed' or shelled when brought to the 'viners' at

the canning factory, or at the farm which have viners of their own. The beans or peas after being

shelled are cleaned by fans forcing air over them, sorted by hand as they pass on belts, graded for

color amd size, washed, then canned and seaaled and cooked in steam retorts.

Most canneries start the season just about Decoration Day, through early June with peas, in

July they are caning string beans and August is tomatos with limas in September up until a good heavy

frost or early freeze.

Source: Wilmington New Journal , Saturday, October 10, 1925

Milford Big black Bear Chase

MILFORD BIG BLACK BEAR CHASE

One hundred and fifty people were watching yesterday afternoon as Thaddeus Windsor,

recaptured his escaped bear, one of two which he had captured in Canada recently, fled his

enclosure to the surounding woods.

Windsor and several friends had gone to the woods searching and came upon the bear.

As they approached the bear stood up on its hind legs and made a start toward them. The fled.

Later Windsor loosed his dogs , and the party of hunters armed with their guns, set out

on the hunt. The bear, running from the dogs, took to a tree, where Windson soon had ropes around

the bears neck, cut the tree and lowered the bear to the ground where he was held firm by the rope

halters.

The big black bear, doubly secured, was paraded through town, and placed again in

captivity.

Source: Wilmington Morning News, November 21, 1923.

WATER

FROM THE SUNDAY 19 AUGUST 1900 WASHINGTON, D.C. HATCHET; WATER, IF SUBJECTED TO GREAT COMPRESSION AND THEN DECOMPOSED BY MEANS OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT INTO ITS ELEMENTS, HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN , EXPLODES WITH TREMENDOUS FORCE IN THE PROCESS.

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Labor Day

LABOR DAY

Labor Day was born 1884 during a period of working mens “upheaval” led by a

organization known as the “Knights of Labor” formed 1869 in Philadelphia, organized

by a garment worker, Uriah H. Stephens, wanting to establish “industrial democracy” between

employers, professional men, tradesmen, office workers and unskilled laborers.

Knights of Labor was a slow grower, it had in 1878 had only 10,000 members, but by 1882

the membership grew to 52.000 and was a nation wide organization.

“Knight's of Labor” soon became the “American Federation of Labor” , the AFL, under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, which took on the many reforms and demands. Government bureaus came in effect to provide safety of workers, prohibit child labor, began the eight hour day and urged arbitration in place of strikes.

Labor Day on the first Monday in September is a legal holiday in every state in the union except New Mexico where it is observed by special proclamation each year.

GULF STREAM

GULF STREAM

The Gulf Stream is said to be about fifty miles in breadth, the depth 1000 feet and its mean

velocity is measured at two statute miles per hour. The temperature of the water when it leaves the

Gulf is registered at 65 degree Fahrenheit . Meteorologist have calculated the quantity of heat

sent into the North Atlantic by the stream is equal to one fourth of all the heat received from the sun

from the Tropic of Cancer to the Arctic circle.

But for the Gulf Stream London England would have a mean annual temperature 40 degree lower

than at at present.

Beginning in the Caribbean , it ends in the northern North Atlantic, and leaves the southern

coast about Cape Hatteras , North Carolina.

U.S. Navy Yard Charlestown, Massachusetts 1900

Charlestown, Massachusetts     19 august 1900: 


 The United States Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts was founded i 1800 and covered an eighty seven acre tract of land, had near a hundred storehouses, machine shops, arsenals, shiphouses, etc.

 Among the war vessels built there were the Independence, Frolic, Vermont, Warren, Farragut's flagship Hartford, the Cumberland and Merrimac, the Wachuset, ad Huron.  also the iron clads monanock, Nahant, Nantucket and Canonicus.

Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, originally an Indian name Mishawum.  It is north of the Charles River overlooking downtown Boston, adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor.

Engineer Thomas Graves in 1629 laid it out  for Charles I of England as the first capitol of the Massachusetts Bay colony.