Home Sweet Home

Although I've lived a number of places in the US, I've always considered Wyckoff, NJ home.  We moved there when I was 5 years old and my parents still live there . . .  well for a few more weeks anyway.  After 45 years, my parents will be leaving NJ and moving to MD into my sister's house.  While it's the right thing to do for many reasons, selfishly I wish they weren't.  Not because I don't want them to come to MD, but rather because Wyckoff will no longer be my home.  


Wyckoff is a small town in the NE corner of NJ about 20 miles outside of Manhattan.  Like most towns where I'm from, it has it's own government, schools, town services, etc.  It has a quaint downtown area where many of the old homes have been turned into businesses.  It also has a railroad that runs through it.  While it no longer has passenger service it still has freight trains come slowly through a few times a week.  


So what does any of this have to do with this blog? As I won't be going to Wyckoff anymore, on my trip there last week I took many pictures of town for my scrapbook.  The old train depot pictured below is a town landmark.  

The Victorian stick-style station was first built in 1870.  In 1966 when passenger service stopped, the Parent Teacher Organization in town has leased it and it became "The Economy Shop", a small consignment shop whose sales go to support the local PTO and to maintain the depot.  It remains one of a handful of these stations that have retained their architectural integrity.


The Wyckoff train depot represents my childhood and although I won't have my home in Wyckoff anymore, perhaps one day I'll live there again.  If not, I'll always have my pictures and great memories.