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Below is a VERY small piece of our collection of historic photographs. Please visit our display of framed photos at the Ramsey Train Station on Main Street.

We also have extensive newspaper articles, historic objects and a fabulous quilt collection on the second floor of the Old Stone House.

This 1926 newspaper article is entitled
"Nils and Rose Take Broadway to Farm."

The article goes on to read: ...Just sixty minutes from the main stem - out in Ramsey, N.J. -to be exact- Grandlund owns and runs one of the finest farms in New Jersey...And out on this farm, many a Broadwayite gets his first contact with the simple life, and sees sun-up for the first time...Every weekend sees an exodus from Broadway out to the Grandlund place. Dancers and show girls vie for the job of doing chores about the farm.

My father, Edward Lubieniecki lived in Ramsey for 55 years until his recent death, and my brother and I both grew up in Ramsey and attended Ramsey Schools. My father painted, and the photo (above) is of a painting dated May, 1958--the year of Ramsey's 50th Anniversary Celebration--which he and we would have attended, and I am pretty sure participated in. It represents the traditional Memorial Day parade ending at the park--and seems particularly appropriate since Ramsey is approaching its 100th Anniversary.