October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
Twenty-two armed Loyalists arrested the patriot John Fell at his house in what was then Paramus on this day in 1777, during the thick of the American Revolution.
Allendale and the Franklin Turnpike came later.
Here’s a video I did 15 years ago, before the house was saved.
The would-be developer insisted that the house was not historic. Hilarious.
Below is a reenactment of the arrest. Huzzah!