Monday, March 12, 2012
Dan Crabbe recalls the family business
The thousands of acres of cranberry bogs, pines, oaks and cedars off Pinewald-Keswick Road have belonged to the state of New Jersey since 1964, when Double Trouble State Park was born. But for the Crabbe family of Toms River, Double Trouble was a second home for much of the 20th century. And when Dan Crabbe visits the park, he goes back in time. He can still hear longtime picking boss Alfia (Fred) Masumeci bellowing at workers to make sure their wooden boxes of cranberries were free of vines and leaves. "Pick clean! Pick clean!" Crabbe said at a recent presentation at the Berkeley Township Historical Society. "I can hear him now saying that." It all began with Dan Crabbe's grandfather Commodore Edward Crabbe, who came to Double Trouble …
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Museum expanding number of boats on display and exhibits
The new year will be an active one for the Toms River Seaport Society & Maritime Museum, with more boats on display at the Hooper Avenue building's gallery. “Expect to see some more boats here in the gallery, and we’ll possibly suspend them from the rafters,” said Daniel Crabbe, president and treasurer of the Museum. “As far as the boats being displayed, we’d like to keep it to those indigenous from the local area and which were built here.” The society's new building - open for almost three months - houses a trio of boats, including the Barnegat Bay A-Cat "Spy." “It was originally built in the 1920’s, and has been rebuilt four times – the most recent occasion of which was to put it on display,” Crabbe said. The “Spy” was designed by …
Friday, October 7, 2011
A Pinelands tradition comes to an end, at least for now
By now, the cranberry bogs at Double Trouble State Park should be filled with the tea-colored waters of Cedar Creek. Harvesters should be trudging through the flooded bogs in waders to catch as many of the crimson globes as possible. But that won't be happening at Double Trouble State Park this year. The latest leaseholders of the bogs have retired. The bogs, still damp from the heavy rains this summer, lie fallow. The leaves on the tiny plants are turning scarlet and butter-yellow in the cool October air. The berries will be left for the birds and animals that call the state park off Double Trouble Road home. It's a situation that state Department of Environmental Protection officials are hoping is temporary. "We plan to work on finding …
marcy
12:22 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
yes . that he was from the Crabbe family. The youngest grandson Dan and the son Dan lived in Beachwood on the water near Beachwood yacht club. more ›