Another great day!
Went up to the Port Imperial Marina office and paid for last night. The dockmaster was so pleased with our honesty that he charged us for only thirty feet. Since the rate here is an outrageous $2 a foot, that helped considerably.
We wanted to take the bus to Rochelle Park, where Roy had lived as a boy, from 1927 to 1932. We asked half a dozen people and got half a dozen different directions, but finally we got on the right bus. It took us from Weehawken to Union City, where we transferred to a Hackensack bus. In Hackensack, we took a bus to Rochelle Park.
Roy was delighted to find his grandmother's old house, which was in very good condition, and the hill at the end of the street, where he had curled up inside an old tire and rolled down. There was a nearby shopping center that had been built when he was living in Rochelle Park. The school he had attended was still in excellent condition and still being used as a school. We walked past the store that had been his grandfather's butcher shop, and is now a video store. We also walked to the First Reformed Church, where his grand-
father had been an elder, and Roy had attended Sunday School. The church has been rebuilt, but it's still in the same place. The current minister happened to come along as we were looking at the outside of the church and invited us in to see the inside. Roy remembered the stained-glass windows that had been in the old church when he was a boy and are now in the new church. Roy was thrilled to find so many things in Rochelle Park that haven't changed appreciably since his childhood.
We returned to the marina by way of Edgewater. Rode the bus to the end of the line and walked the remaining two or three miles.
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