comming back Strong

    The first Strong to come toAmerica was Elder John , who came to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1604 And lived in Northampton. One of his descendants, Elizabeth Strong, was the mother of Nathan Hale. I was named after him, as was my father: Nathan Hale Strong. I also married a girl who went by the name of Mary, but that was her middle name. Her first name is Elizabeth....then becomming Elizabeth Strong. We had two daughters, and after we separated, they moved to Massachusetts,now living with my grandchildren in and around Northampton.

    I lived the first year & half in a quaint little house just off  Lake Waramaug, which is named after the great Chief Waramaug. My family, having help settle that area , and lived at what was know as 'The Sachem'. An Indian name for gathering of the 'Tribe'. The first ancestor to live in Warren was Phillip Strong who married the first white child born in Warren.  Now knowing how 'active' the Strong men were with women, that's how I got my Indian blood from ancestors of the 'Chief' himself.
   My grandfather, David, who lived on Above All Mt. in Warren, which the family owned, moved to Woodville and became the first caretaker [Ranger] of the State Parks. Lake Waramaug being only one of them. As it turns out my father after returning from WW2, married a young widower Gertrude Wilson from Warren ,with two youg daughters of her own, then proceeded to have four children of their own.[rememember I mentioned the way the Strong men were 'active'] I being the last one born at 11:30 a.m. in time for lunch on Mothers' day & the only boy.....! He also became a Ranger & ended up careing for most of the Parks in the area. That's when we moved to Cornwall Bridge to the Housatonic Meadows State Park of over 5000 acres, and we all grew up there.
   
     I moved back to the house on Lake Waramaug 23 years later, to start another chapter in my life.