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Mildred Parker Seese
Sept 3, 1969
Bull-Brown sisters share same birthdays
One day as he was leaving for the market place Caesar’s wife warned him, “Beware the ides of March.” He didn’t, and you know what happened.
I’d say beware of months that have almost five full weeks instead of broken pieces of a fifth at beginning and end of the month. There’s 2-way confusion between the fourth and the last week when a month ends on Friday or Saturday, as this year’s August. I almost went to a speaking engagement on the wrong Monday last March.
That’s what happened to the Bull family picnic this year. It has long been scheduled for the fourth Saturday of August, which usually means the last Saturday. But this year August had five Saturdays. That probably accounted for about a hundred fewer family members than usual at the annual affair that is now in its second century. And Chris Farlekas of the THR staff grieved that it was the first Bull assemblage he had missed in five years. He thought it was the last Saturday of the month.
Had Chris been there Juliana Bull-Brown undoubtedly would have been asked to sit for her first portrait, not only because she was the youngest of the clan on the grounds of the nearly 250-year old stone homestead but also because of a unique fact relating to her birth date. She is the third generation girl born in the birthday of a sister, two years older. The coincidence runs in the family of her mother, who was Beatrice Langone from Long Island.
Juliana was born July 16, and so was barely more than a month old when she lent her presence at the outing along with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bull-Brown of Bull’s Mills neighborhood, and her sister Corinne Rose, who was born July 16, 1967. Their mother has a sister Loretta born, like herself on November 21, with two years between them. Juliana’s grandmother, the former Rose Lotocke, and her sister Julia Foss of Campbell Hall were born September 23 two years apart.
In all the dozen generations between the girls’ father, William Bull-Brown, and William Bull, the 18th Century forebear of Orange County Bulls, there isn’t a circumstance quite so remarkable as that. We’ll have to wait a few years to see whether the Bull-Brown girls continue the tradition.
Now on a different subject: When the Stern store site has been converted to whatever use is decided for it, wouldn’t it be a nice idea for the city fathers or a civic organization to invite officials and civic leaders of neighbor communities and their wives (don’t forget them) to a Fall party on the mall, with maybe hot coffee and doughnuts offered in the parklet on the Demarest site?
Seems as though that might be more productive of concrete results than the early Summer visit of urban renewal and other Hudson Valley community leaders, although that did give Middletowners a needed boost of spirits besides the inspiration it was to the visitors.
One of those guests, Frank Yanowski, urban renewal director for Hudson, where Warren Street, counterpart of our North Street, has been a ghost of its former self for 25 years, was highly complimentary in a radio talk over Hudson’s Station WHUC. He lauded the method and results, the private and public sharing of expense, the tree and flower plantings and other touches of green and natural colors. On the other hand, somebody in Poughkeepsie missed the point. I heard that a new picture lacked explanation of the pedestrian mall and evoked remarks of, “Not a car on the street!” Nope. Not one. Come on over and see how much easier it is to shop in Middletown than in Poughkeepsie.Relationships
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