Peapack Papers
From the introductory. PEAPACK. It was once a favorite amusement of journalistic humorists to provide moderate merriment for the masses by disporting with the names of places, but the time has almost gone by when the mention of Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti, and Red Dog is regarded as passably funny. The Australian settlements, the English rural villages, and the lakes of Maine, about which Orpheus C. Kerr wrote a long and fairly tedious poem, are no longer provocative of even limited mirth. There still remains, however, a lingering element of the comic in "Peapack," a name at once concise, alliterative and pastoral. I have known grave physicians, solemn brokers, and even learned lawyers - one of the most eminent living members of that profession was born there - to indulge in bursts of glee over it, while others, with less sense of the ridiculous, have expressed serious doubts whether it ever existed, whether it was not a kind of geographical Mrs. Harris; and others still have sought to merge its simple personality in the more sonorous but essentially commonplace appellation of "Gladstone." Peapack is not and never can be Gladstone any more than Tarrytown can be Scarborough, or Whippany, Morristown. It preserves its individuality although it lies but a short railway journey from Hoboken; triumphantly American, notwithstanding that it is comprehended within the county of Somerset and that township of Bedminster which took its name from a hamlet in Somersetshire, and it is not at all envious of Pluckemin, Roxiticus, Piscataway, or Parsippany.
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Peapack Papers
From the introductory. PEAPACK. It was once a favorite amusement of journalistic humorists to provide moderate merriment for the masses by disporting with the names of places, but the time has almost gone by when the mention of Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti, and Red Dog is regarded as passably funny. The Australian settlements, the English rural villages, and the lakes of Maine, about which Orpheus C. Kerr wrote a long and fairly tedious poem, are no longer provocative of even limited mirth. There still remains, however, a lingering element of the comic in "Peapack," a name at once concise, alliterative and pastoral. I have known grave physicians, solemn brokers, and even learned lawyers - one of the most eminent living members of that profession was born there - to indulge in bursts of glee over it, while others, with less sense of the ridiculous, have expressed serious doubts whether it ever existed, whether it was not a kind of geographical Mrs. Harris; and others still have sought to merge its simple personality in the more sonorous but essentially commonplace appellation of "Gladstone." Peapack is not and never can be Gladstone any more than Tarrytown can be Scarborough, or Whippany, Morristown. It preserves its individuality although it lies but a short railway journey from Hoboken; triumphantly American, notwithstanding that it is comprehended within the county of Somerset and that township of Bedminster which took its name from a hamlet in Somersetshire, and it is not at all envious of Pluckemin, Roxiticus, Piscataway, or Parsippany.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781663527899 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 07/06/2020 |
| Pages: | 186 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d) |
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