This story is more than a simple tale about two pet pigs who lived among the 125 men at Camp Thomas Paine in New York City. It is a story about a fascinating commune of war veterans who thought out of the box to survive in 52 makeshift shacks along the Hudson River from 1932 to 1934. And it is, in part, a commentary on a sad and shameful period in our country’s history,
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1933: Herbert Hoover and Andy Mellon, The Pet Pigs of Camp Thomas Paine
Posted: 4th January 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Pigs and HogsTags: Camp Thomas Paine, Commander John B. Clark, Great Depression, Hooverville, New York City History, World War I veterans
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1911: The Hog That Put Up a Fight at Sandy Ground in Staten Island
Posted: 30th January 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Pigs and HogsTags: Dorothy Day, Herman C. Oechsli, New York History, Peter Maurin Farm, Sandy Ground, Staten Island, Staten Island Chuck
Here’s a silly story about a hog from Staten Island’s Sandy Ground community, which has an interesting historical connection to Dorothy Day, the renowned journalist and Catholic social activist.
1909: The Hogs That Were Hunted by the Health Squad on Brooklyn’s Barren Island
Posted: 10th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Pigs and HogsTags: Barren Island, Floyd Bennett Field, Jamaica Bay, New York History, Walter Bensel
No one knows where the hogs came from or when they first took up residence on Barren Island in Jamaica Bay. But according to an estimate by Dr. Walter Bensel, City Sanitary Superintendent, there were close to 1,000 hogs on Barren Island in 1909. That was about 999 too many.
