Children’s book tells tale of ‘Mr. Lester’s Farm’
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Behind The Stable on North Maple Avenue, beside the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, there was once an aging headstone.
It wasn’t for a mother, father, daughter or son.
It was for a dog whose name – Friskie – was spelled out in pebbles pushed into the stone’s drying cement.
While the headstone may not be visible today, likely buried in the dirt after years of disturbance from construction and flooding, it was once a piece of Ridgewood history. According to a former Ridgewood resident who wrote a new book on The Stable’s history, Friskie used to belong to the man who owned the last working farm in Ridgewood – as well as the stable that eventually became the town’s community center.
This and other facts about The Stable’s more than 100-year-old history are explained and revealed in “Mr. Lester’s Farm,” a 32-page children’s book written by Joe Grasso.
