Welcome Ridgewood Expats

Welcome to those of you who are visiting this corner of the Internet after finding it via the Ridgewood Expats group on FaceBook. This blog is part web portal, diary, and bulletin board. It has no advertisements or ax to grind. The hope here is to record memories and post photos of how it was in Ridgewood and its environs in the 1960s and 1970s. My family lived there between 1961 and 1978 so that is what I know best and have endeavored to write about lest I forget too soon.

If you have a thought or memory which you'd like to elaborate upon feel free to let me know as co-bloggers from all classes are welcome. You can also send your photos and let them become part of the public record. Lastly, if you have a link to a class site or one of a one-time Ridgewood student then send them, too.

I expect people to use this site and the many others on the Internet, like those on FaceBook, as an opportunity to reflect and hopefully reconnect with people who they knew when they were younger. Its not a perfect medium and never will be. Luckily for us all it will likely be superseded by some new form of Social Networking which has yet to be created. This is all fine with me.

I just hope this Social Networking phenomenon gives you all some grins and helps you remember your favorite stories of growing up so you can tell them at your next reunion. I guess what I'm saying is that if we write these things down then they will be easier to recall. William Butler Yeats states this best:

When You Are Old and Grey

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.