A truck hand brake? Only in Jersey. Perhaps it marks Jimmy Hoffa's final
resting place.
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> From: aletheia kallos [mailto:aletheiak@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] several truly great sussex red herrings
>
>
> before reluctantly concluding that at least several if
> not all 8 vertices of the sussex octagon were probably
> & are now certainly unmonumented in any demonstrative
> or leading way
> if indeed not entirely unmarked in any way ever
> i was sufficiently gulled & excited by the appearance
> of at least 2 candidate objects to proceed to
> photograph each of them in turn
>
>
> the first attachment shows an object i initially
> thought was a large wine cork puller that might have
> been adapted to the task of demarcation by a
> resourceful surveyor
> but which now seems to resemble more a truck hand
> brake
>
> but in any case it is stuck quite firmly in the ground
> for some reason
> in what i took to be approximately the right place
> without any obvious rival candidate in sight
>
> & i actually carried this hope off with me to a second
> vertex
> which however was found not to be similarly marked
> oops
>
>
> & the second pic shows a decorative planter sculpted
> from an old tire
> positioned directly beneath a welcome sign
> at what i took to be another approximately right place
>
> & for which i also initially entertained a similar
> hope that was however simultaneously dashed when no
> trace of a matchmate could be found for it either
> at any of the other vertices
>
>
>
> & later
> in downtown sussex
> just before jc discovered the most probable center
> point
> or what might be called the center apparent for the
> time being
> namely that of the octagonal gazebo
> i was also sufficiently gulled & excited by the
> appearance of a whole cluster of other candidate
> objects just across the street from the gazebo to
> photograph them first
> thus creating the third attachment
> which includes the following several probably losing
> candidates for center point
>
> 1
> the ball mounted on top of the polished marble column
> coincidentally erected & inscribed 1902
> the correct year of the incorporation & border
> creation
>
> 2
> the point of issue of the now defunct gift fountain it
> commemorates
>
> 3
> the kettle or birdbath in front of the column & fount
>
> 4
> the flagpole rising in the foreground
>
> & 5
> the center of a rosette of octagonal paving stones on
> the curb
> not very distinctly visible in the foreground
> & which i only just noticed in this photo appears to
> be a matchmate for the 10 other rosettes that are
> ranged about the gazebo across the street
> & which i have previously described
>
>
> of course
> unlike the cork puller & the tire planter
> these latter 5 candidate objects cant yet be entirely
> ruled out
> any more than the gazebo apex can be proclaimed the
> certain center
> without further research
>
> indeed
> since we know there is about a 6 percent fudge factor
> in the several thousand feet of geometric projections
> in all directions
> it is quite possible that no clear mathematical winner
> might stand out from among the gazebo apex & all 5 of
> its near rivals
> on the basis of measurements alone
> & that only further historical evidence will suffice
> to nail the center point with certainty
>
>
>
>
>
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