Post by Sue on Oct 1, 2020 12:29:39 GMT -5
Dr. Theodore Kazimiroff was a dentist, amateur archaeologist, and founder of the Bronx Historical Society.
Kazimiroff was familiar with every inch of the Bronx.
In particular, Pelham Bay Park...
Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, even bigger than Central Park!
His son, Theodore L. Kazimiroff, wrote two books:
The Last Algonquin (1982)
and
If These Walls Could Only Talk:
An Anecdotal History of
New York City's
Pelham Bay Park (2014)
In a photo of what looks like a stone campsite (Orchard Beach or Hunter's Island?), Dr. Kazimiroff's son is pictured at the site with this caption:
"Where I stand in the photo, many others once stood, some famous some not, including the enigmatic figure Bruno Hauptmann."
The photo in question appears at the beginning of the book and at the end of the book -- Kazimiroff's son must have really wanted the reader to remember this picture!
Also, many years ago, I found an article in a University of Mississippi magazine.
I don't have the author's name readily available, but I believe the article was published about 1999.
One of the things I remember best about the article is that the author described the Bronx as "pullulating"!
Here is an excerpt that I posted on this board back in 2012:
"There were a lot of nature sights along these trails, and some unusual things, too. I remember once, while we were hiking along the shore up by Pelham Bay, I came to a small beach cove that had been shored up with the local rocks. Some one had taken the time to construct a semi-permanent rock shelter where he or she could sunbathe and meditate in privacy. No one was there, so I went in and looked around. There was a stone table and some stone chairs and stone shelves and a stone fire place. There was more than one room. In one of the rooms was a large flat shiny stone with writing painted on it, it looked like it had been glazes over. I forget exactly what was written, it was like a manifesto or poem of some sort. It was signed, Bruno Hauptman (the man who was electrocuted for kidnapping Lindbergh's baby)
I wasn't too surprized. There were a lot of Germans in that area at that time. They loved the outdoors and could never seem to get enough sun. Sunbathing was big with them."
I have been trying to examine and compare the famous beach pictures of Hauptmann & Friends to see if anything resembles this hidden alcove campsite found on page 200 of Kazimiroff, Jr's book If These Walls Could Only Talk.
Forget about going to the Hauptmann house, the Lindbergh house in Hopewell, or any of the typical places to reconsider the same old same old.
Go, if you dare, to Pelham Bay Park, and see if you can locate the old stomping grounds of Hauptmann!
In my opinion, Dr. Kazimiroff must have been a virtually untapped resource about the Bronx connection to the Lindbergh case!
Kazimiroff was familiar with every inch of the Bronx.
In particular, Pelham Bay Park...
Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, even bigger than Central Park!
His son, Theodore L. Kazimiroff, wrote two books:
The Last Algonquin (1982)
and
If These Walls Could Only Talk:
An Anecdotal History of
New York City's
Pelham Bay Park (2014)
In a photo of what looks like a stone campsite (Orchard Beach or Hunter's Island?), Dr. Kazimiroff's son is pictured at the site with this caption:
"Where I stand in the photo, many others once stood, some famous some not, including the enigmatic figure Bruno Hauptmann."
The photo in question appears at the beginning of the book and at the end of the book -- Kazimiroff's son must have really wanted the reader to remember this picture!
Also, many years ago, I found an article in a University of Mississippi magazine.
I don't have the author's name readily available, but I believe the article was published about 1999.
One of the things I remember best about the article is that the author described the Bronx as "pullulating"!
Here is an excerpt that I posted on this board back in 2012:
"There were a lot of nature sights along these trails, and some unusual things, too. I remember once, while we were hiking along the shore up by Pelham Bay, I came to a small beach cove that had been shored up with the local rocks. Some one had taken the time to construct a semi-permanent rock shelter where he or she could sunbathe and meditate in privacy. No one was there, so I went in and looked around. There was a stone table and some stone chairs and stone shelves and a stone fire place. There was more than one room. In one of the rooms was a large flat shiny stone with writing painted on it, it looked like it had been glazes over. I forget exactly what was written, it was like a manifesto or poem of some sort. It was signed, Bruno Hauptman (the man who was electrocuted for kidnapping Lindbergh's baby)
I wasn't too surprized. There were a lot of Germans in that area at that time. They loved the outdoors and could never seem to get enough sun. Sunbathing was big with them."
I have been trying to examine and compare the famous beach pictures of Hauptmann & Friends to see if anything resembles this hidden alcove campsite found on page 200 of Kazimiroff, Jr's book If These Walls Could Only Talk.
Forget about going to the Hauptmann house, the Lindbergh house in Hopewell, or any of the typical places to reconsider the same old same old.
Go, if you dare, to Pelham Bay Park, and see if you can locate the old stomping grounds of Hauptmann!
In my opinion, Dr. Kazimiroff must have been a virtually untapped resource about the Bronx connection to the Lindbergh case!