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...WILDWOOD-Josephine W. Johnson-Harper...
Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...
Edict. In Wildwood, N. J., city councilmen considered a 3,800-word ordinance prohibiting dogs from barking between...
Scarcely able to move, so weakened was she by pneumonia, 69-year-old Mary Kincaid lay in bed in her Wildwood, N. J. home while her husband Henry, 84, took care of her. Last week Henry, ill himself, lay down beside her, died. Desperately, Mary Kincaid tried to raise her husky voice in a cry for help, lay there helpless for two days, finally summoned strength enough to rise, totter to the window, beckon in a passerby...
...Patterson story is told in Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline by Fred E. Pont (Will Wildwood...