[Roccus]

Clement Moore has a tie to Elmhurst as well. The playground across Broadway from the phone co. building was the site of his uncle’s farm house where he supposedly wrote “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” I remember an old house, not sure if it was the same one, on the site of todays park. The park and the old P.S. 13 at 94 St. and 55 Ave. were named for him.

[xkaydet65]

How right you are. Moore is also buried in a church cemetery in Queens. Some of my junior high kids went to K-6 at PS 13. Until Friday, when I did a Christmas in American History lesson, they had no idea who Clement Moore was. An astoundingly awful commenttary on my elementary school colleagues who teach in PS 13.

Anyway, in the words of Clement Moore "MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!"