The prompt is railroad.
Train ride to Flemington when the kids were little we didn’t have much money I remember one summer outing I drove the oldest three kids to Ringoes and we took the train to Flemington I think it was their very first train ride now, Flemington had once been a recreation of a colonial town with costumed weavers and glassblowers and the Stangl pottery factory but by then it was only a quaint village with shops I remember we rode in an open air car we chugged along fields of goldenrod and Queen Anne’s lace and our allergies kicked in we didn’t have much money but I gave each kid a dollar I don’t remember what the girls bought but Matt, age 6, got 10 monster finger puppets with wiggly arms he called them the Boogie Brothers they were hilarious when we got home Greg admired Matt’s puppets and gave them all silly names Matt calmly told him he was wrong Greg held up each puppet one by one and said, “What’s this one’s name?” and for each one Matt answered in all seriousness “Matt” while I laughed until tears rolled down my cheeks
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Funny memory. Is this Flemington, New Jersey you’re remembering?
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Yes, it is.
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I live in Verona, NJ. I have good memories of visiting Flemington with my mom, visiting the shops and going to a tea house there. Now, a good friend has moved to Flemington, but I have yet to visit her new home. Perhaps, I will soon.
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Greg and I grew up in Rumson, near the shore. After we married we lived in Edison, Perth Amboy, East Windsor, and Hamilton Square. In 1988 we moved to Arizona, and we’ve lived in the same house for 32 years.
I don’t know if you are nearly as old as I am, but do you remember when Flemington was a colonial reenactment town? I took my mom to see it in 1977.
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Sometimes those necessarily cheap outings are the best ones to remember!!!
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