Digital image of newsclipping with photo regarding the re-opening of Sybil's Cave, December 14,1937.
Entry/Object ID
2005.078.0232
Description
Digital image of newsclipping with photo regarding the re-opening of Sybil's Cave, December 14,1937. Newspaper was Hudson Dispatch, Union City. Text in full is in notes.
Discusses visitors responding to a previous article (see 2005.078.0231) about the re-opening of the cave and a photograph showing some boys exploring inside the cave (the boys are not identified.) Includes some brief background on the cave which at the time of the article was undergoing demolition of buildings at the site as mentioned in the referred to previously published article .
Both articles used the same distinctive punctuation for "River rd." They make the same error concerning Hudson's landing in Hoboken: it states it was 307 years ago which would put it in 1630, but it was 1609. The writer may have confused the 1930 Hoboken Tercentenary (deeding of Hoboken by the Indians) as a celebration of Hudson's discovery.
Detail of right item found on verso of leaf 33 (clipping 2 of 2) of Julius & Marie Durstewitz album, see primary record 2005.078.0100 for a description of the album and provenance. Note the recto of leaf thirty-three had photographs. See related.
Acquisition
Accession
2005.078
Source or Donor
Durstewitz, Anthony & Kathy
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Gift of Anthony & Kathy Durstewitz
Made/Created
Artist
n/a
Date made
1937 - 1937
Place
Location
Hoboken
Notes
Date: 1937-1937
General Notes
Note
Display Value: Fair
Notes: Photos 2005.078.0232
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Young Explorers 'Rediscover' Sybil's Cave.
They're flocking to see Sybil's Cave in Hoboken, at foot of Castle Point along River rd., again, just as crowds came to inspect it in the old days. Historically famous as the place where Hendrik Hudson landed when he sailed up the river he discovered 307 years ago, and as the locale of Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Marie Roget"--based on the finding of the body of Mary Rogers, slain sweetheart of a sailor, in the vicinity-it is again to public view.
This photo shows boys "exploring" the cave's dark recesses. Many flocked there yesterday after reading of the "reopening" in Hudson Dispatch.
For more than 50 years it was a "private" cave, hut the building over its entrance has been demolished. Once it was a popular restaurant and resort, but changing times caused its abandonment.
Original or Copy: Digital Copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2005-11-12
