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Re: Coytesville Days - the 1950s
Posted By: Tom In Response To: Re: Coytesville Days - the 1950s (Bill Mitchell)
Date: Friday, 14 October 2005, at 10:42 a.m.
Yep that's the hours and yep Bunty had his shilaleagh with the bottle opener attached - we have that in the Museum and have displayed it along with photo's of Bunty - my dad was great friends with him and when he bought the fixer upper in Coytesville in 1960 Bunty helped him fix it and wouldn't take money but instead every Sunday until he died he would spend it at our house for dinner and holidays as well - those are some of my greatest memories - he would even let me and my sis pick horses for him out of the paper . He was solid gold and one of the true great personalities I ever encountered. In the end, when he died, my dad and some of his friends tooks his ashes down to his dock under the Bridge and placed them in a bag with a bottle of Ballantine Ale and laid him to rest in the Hudson. He wanted that because he felt if any kid from Fort Lee ever snuk down the river to swim and was in trouble he might be able to help in some way. That was Bunty.
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