"On the Road Again", Day 31, Tuesday, June 29,1976, to Folwell School Mount Holly,NJ.....10mi

Alan Butler with Hanna and Gilbert Carey,Wagon Train Chaplin at Folwell School, Mt Holly

   "On the Road Again"

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Journal Entry:  Tuesday  June 29,1976,to Mt Holley, NJ....10mi

Left Adams Horse Farm at 7:10 am with all wagons & most riders.  Pat LeClerc and Ranny Tuchon are both "outriding" for us today !

 Cathy & Tom will shuttle the truck.  We are using Thunder & Breezy because it is a short day.  We are behind Lyle and so the pace should be steady.  Stan is behind us, and Paul is taking up the rear in front of the chuck wagon.  All others are in front:  Penn., NJ, NY, Mass, Vt.  Also the “Johnsonville Gang” are back from Moodus, Conn.with their carriages and they stay with us now and go all the way to Valley Forge.  

View of New Hampshire

As we are going through the Town of Medford, Lyle took off & passed the NY wagon which had fallen back so now we are in back of NY.  It is a new driver & a new set of Belgians fresh out of pasture.  They seem to be very steady.  We are going down Rte 541.  There are many yards along the way with trees that have palm like leaves and pink flowers.  We like them very much & asked a little boy what they were and people called them Mimosa Trees.

I would like to plant one or two where G is buried,if we ever are able to come back here.t

Roger just rode by to ask how the horses are.  He is riding Sandy Monroe’s horse.  8:10-8:25 we stopped for a 10 minute break, then got going again.  We are going by many wheat fields that are ready for harvest and corn fields which are coming good.  Seems we have left blueberry country which is down by Batsto.  Thousands & thousands of blueberry bushes – and the peaches are ripe already.  We are on a back road now but the traffic is still bad.  At 8:45 they decide to stop for water.  

9:15 we start again after losing some time because Barbra’s (NJ outrider) horse cut it’s leg & it took a long time to stop the bleeding.  Now the sun is getting hot – it will probably be close to 100 today.  The heat wave has still not broken.

About 10:30 we stop in Mt Holly for a water break (10:30-10:45) and we are told that we are only a mile or two from camp.  As we are going through town, the Mayor was upset because we are early.  (We were not scheduled until 1:30 so I guess they will come to the camp for a ceremony at 1:30.  Mt Holly is a very old historic appearing town.  

We are getting into camp at 11am,at the Folwell School in Mount Holly. 
Dinner will be from the "CookBus" tonight !

Some really great meals came out of this little bus , Stan Bashura on left

Sometimes the seating wasn't so great

 Lee & Cathy went to Pennsylvania to pick up the harnesses. She has never been to Penn Dutch country. We thought it would do her good to get away from the "Train" for a little while.  Tom & I staid and took care of the store.  They got back about 8pm. The harnesses were not totally finished  and Lee had to do most of the work on the harnesses himself.  Then Lee, Cathy, Pat & I went on a wild goose chase trying to find some Pizza.

We had to settle for grinders.

      Stan Bashura's Connecticut Journal : 
 

     We were told we have a 19 mile trip tomorrow to Coopers River Park in CollingswoodHere is the CT Wagon Journal entry for Tuesday, June 29th, 1976. 

We broke camp at 7:00 am.  Another hot and humid day on tap.  We are leaving Adam's Horse Farm in Medford, NJ and headed for Folwell School in MT. Holly, NJ.  This is looking like a great day!  All of the Bicentennial Wagons are being horse drawn and riders are all on the road for the first time in 3 days!!  We are supposed to have a ten mile day.  A nice easy run after a rough few days.  We fell in with the CT Wagon behind the Rhode Island Wagon, mostly because that's were I wanted to be, but also because the Rhode Island Wagon is a good one to be behind.  They move well.  We had no problems today ad the horses went very well.  Looks like they are feeling a lot better.  Around 10 or 11 am we stopped for a water break in Mt. Holly, NJ, only about a mile or 2 from camp.  There are many farms in the area and quite residential as well.  We pulled into camp about 2 1/2 hours earlier than expected.  A very enjoyable trip today.  Being so early, after we got the horses settled and had a quick lunch, we got to work on the harnesses.  Bev, Geri, Duke and I pulled out our "harness kit" and got to it!  It was a good thing we decided to clean because I found a tear in the leather on the nigh horses' tug.  Fixed up the tear and checked the rest of the leather, all good to go!  We had a good reception and a nice crowd in the afternoon.  The good thing was that the Camp Spirit overall seems to be improving a lot, NJ.  It was a great day after all!