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A MOST DEAR AND SACRED MOMENT IN TIME By Richard Mabey Jr.

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One of the dearest and most precious memories of my childhood, is that Grandma and Grandpa Mabey lived with us in the old Mabey Homestead in Lincoln Park. As you looked at the old farmhouse, my bedroom was on the right-hand side, looking out to West Drive on the side. Grandma and Grandpa’s bedroom was right behind my bedroom. I was eight years old, during the Summer of 1962, and had just complet ed the third grade at dear old Chapel Hill School. I remember how much Grandpa loved to take a morning walk down Mabey Lane and then follow the forest path to the banks of the old Morris Canal. For it was there that that Grandpa worked with his father, when he was a boy, at the old Mabey Icehouse. As a boy, I often walked that wooded path with my grandfather, Watson Mabey. Grandpa would hold my hand. As we walked among the maple and the elm and the oak, Grandpa would tell me about the “Majestic Buck” who walked the forest acres, along the length and breadth of the old Morris Ca nal. Grandpa would tell me that any man who looked the Majestic Buck, square in the eye, was a marked man, destined to be given a gift from the Divine Spirit of God. It was during one of the walks, along the wooded trail, that Grandpa and I saw the Majestic Buck, standing tall and proud, just a few yards from us. I was eight years old at the time. What was about to transpire would leave an indelible mark upon my heart, mind and inner being. The Majestic Buck began to walk toward Grandpa and I. Grandpa stood still and told me to do the same.

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