Anyone on my flist from NJ?

I ask because this one of the jobs I'm doing this week is to transcribe a series of letters written by an Abergavenny man who went to Elizabeth in New Jersey in the 1850s to work in the gun stock making trade. Apparently he worked at Kane's Saw Mill and I wondered if it was still there. He lived in Elizabeth making gun stocks and died there some time before February 1869. ( Read more... )

Also can anyone enlighten me how 2 five pound cats can make more noise running up and down stairs than an 80 pound dog? It just doesn't seem right that those tiny paws should make a sound like a wardrobe has fallen downstairs