WHAT, WHERE, AND WHEN IN OLD KENILWORTH – Fireworks at Borough Hall On January 2, 1922 fireworks erupted at the old borough hall – then the Woodmen of the World building. Incumbent Mayor Oswald Nitschke, a Democrat, initially lost the…

WHAT, WHERE, AND WHEN IN OLD KENILWORTH – Christmases past Rose Muravsky (nee Lugara) will be 93 years old on “Little Christmas” day, January 6, 2020.  Probably the oldest woman currently living in Kenilworth who was born here, she remembers…

Thanksgivings past in Old Kenilworth Over the years Thanksgiving has been observed many ways in Kenilworth. This article highlights a few with one going back more than 100 years. Beginning in 1911, and for years after, Isaac Apgar, proprietor of…

Old Kenilworth – Neville’s Riding Academy Submitted by Walter Boright In 1913 Norman “Pop” Neville (1892-1948) and his wife Lillian (1887-1965) bought a home at 31 N. 8th St., demolished in recent years. Over the years they kept acquiring additional…