Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
36 Old Wagon Road asked $2.495 million, closed Friday at $2.750.
The sellers themselves engaged in a bidding war for this property back in 2013, when the lot with a tear-down was listed for $849,000. They paid $917,500, and had this house built for them in 2014. It seems that their optimism paid off.
July 9, 2021: The Hunter Biden Notebook is Real
For reasons known only to the Internet gods, I can access the full article on my iPhone, but here on my own laptop I’m blocked by the Journal’s cash wall. Your results may differ, but the gist of it is that of course the laptop, its emails, and its photographs are true, and the press has shamefully abandoned its role as a watchdog against the powerful by suppressing the story. That the column neglects to mention the Journal’s own participation in this coverup is understandable, if not excusble.
Next up: confessions to lying about COVID, election fraud, and CRT Marxism? Uh huh.
Major Biden Accused Of Ethics Violation After Selling Artwork Made Of Own Feces For $500,000
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Many pundits are calling for an investigation into First Dog Major Biden after the pet was seen selling artwork made of his own feces for $500,000 on the White House lawn.
The dog crapped all over the White House carpet, got out a canvas, and smeared the feces across it, making a piece of art many are calling "magnificent" and "definitely worth a lot of money."
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Major Biden is selling the pieces for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a meeting with his owner Joe is included as part of the deal. He is also accepting Kibbles 'N Bitscoin. (Sorry).
At publishing time, Donald Trump Jr. was seen making artwork of his dad out of Cheetos. The piece is expected to sell for over $0.16.
John Blankley issued a press release yesterday announcing that he’d garnered enough petition signatures to appear on the ballot in next month’s special election as an independent.
I’m assuming this will hurt the Democrat’s candidate’s chances by dividing the vote, but I don’t know enough about the current temper of town politics to say much on the topic — just throwing it out there for discussion, if anyone’s interested.
Maybe “Tiger Moth”?
Gypsy Moths are being renamed “to remove ethnic slur”
Morons. Wait’ll they find out that West Nile fever is named for that river’s east branch in Uganda, and is a member of the Japanese encephalitis family.
well, at least we know he didn’t sleep here
Yesterday, in response to a news item concerning the sale of a replica of a Mark Twain residence, I offered to sell any Havemeyer Park home and put a replica pup tent on the lawn so that a new owner could bask in that warm feeling of “George Washington Slept Here” faux-authenticity that we all so enjoy and that makes our houses worth so much.
But! Local historian Missy Wolfe, author of two books, so far, on our town, “Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich” (2018) and “Indomitable Spirit” (2012) has corrected me. The gentleman camper who spent time atop Palmer Hill was a Col. Enos., a loutish officer in the Continental Army ( it’s a little unclear; he might have been a Brit, but I’m going with him being a rogue on our side) who preyed on the locals while he infested the neighborhood. Bummer, from a resale perspective.
Still, it’s possible that, if Enos was emplaced on the hill when Washington and the troops passed by on their march to New York, and they must have come that way, because the highway was the only route, George might have spent the evening by Eno’s campfire, perhaps enjoying a marshmallow roast and some s’mores. Who’s to complain if you put that in your listing? Worse things have been done in those creative writing exercises.
Anyway, here’s Missy:
Hi Christopher,
Regarding Washington on Palmer’s Hill, There is an 1857 Daniel Mead Report that the campsite on Palmer’s Hill was that of Colonel Enos … He was reviled by the locals.
See:
Cheers!
Missy Wolfe,
author Hidden History of Colonial Greenwich and Insubordinate Spirit. Both non- fiction references histories of the town in its first century. Soon to be published will be the actual, transcribed records of the town 1640-1742 for use by any researcher.
(Minutes from 1777):
Gotta love, “Being both, in the fashionable meaning of the word, gentlemen, they were personally the possessors of no courage … and “of the least benefit to the inhabitants”.
Missy also writes:
I found the Fountain mentions in the 1640-1742 archives I thought you might like, and it is what my transcriptions will look like. With the Town Clerk’s blessing I created a locator path and numbering system for pages that had long lost their original number or had three old numbers. I also photo’d all the documents in high res – the 1970’s microfiches were unsearchable. I also created a new grantor/grantee volume for this time period. The 1920’s one did not even come close to being comprehensive and since the 1970’s binding which changed the page ordering, it was inaccurate to say the least. This new Grantor/Grantee will be Volume Two (each volume about 800 pages) of The Great Ledger: Records of the Town of Greenwich 1640-1742.
Enlightening, no? One of my jobs as a young lawyer in Maine back in 1981-82 was searching land titles, and they often were as informative as this. One I liked from 1810 or so started, “Beginning on the northwest bank of the Penobscot at the willow tree marked with a red circle …” Sheesh.
guns, bibles, and coon dog, but dang, no scanner!
According to Harris, "in some people's mind, that means you're going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don't - there's no Kinkos, there's no OfficeMax near them."
“And shoes,” she told FWIW in a follow-up interview. “Suppose Papa Jones wants to hitch up the mule and go find hisself someone to copy his Food Stamp I.D., and Ma’s gone off with the family’s only pair of shoes? What’s he gonna do then?”
In fairness, our Modesto millionaire did get one thing right: rural Americans won’t find a Kinkos, though they search in hill and holler, but that’s because FedEx bought Kinkos in 2004, and changed its name to FedEx Office in 2008.
Kamala Harris absurdly says it’s “almost impossible” for rural Americans to photocopy their ID pic.twitter.com/J94IuGBFLv
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 10, 2021
And no post on this topic would be complete withouit Ami Horowitz’s video, “How White Liberals Really View Black Voters”
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