Peapack Papers

From the introductory. PEAPACK. It was once a favorite amusement of journalistic humorists to provide moderate merriment for the masses by disporting with the names of places, but the time has almost gone by when the mention of Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti, and Red Dog is regarded as passably funny. The Australian settlements, the English rural villages, and the lakes of Maine, about which Orpheus C. Kerr wrote a long and fairly tedious poem, are no longer provocative of even limited mirth...