Essays on Sussex County and New Jersey Postal History

LEN PECK – CENTENARIAN!Caption and photo credits to The Star Ledger and Jerry McCrea.Fig. 1: Leonard Peck of Newton stands outside the 1854 U.S. Post office in historicWalpack Center where he worked for decades as a volunteer restoring the historicbuildings there in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.Talking to Peck is like taking a trip back in time. He vividly remembers climbing atower as a young man in New York City to watch Charles Lindbergh fly over the city inhis "Spirit of St. Louis" after the aviator’s first non-stop transcontinental flight in 1927.He remembers "living off the jungle" while serving as a reconnaissance scout inNew Guinea and the Philippines during World War II, donning binoculars in themountains to observe Japanese troops.Jerry McCrea/The Star LedgerFig. 2: Len passed some interesting times in WWII in New Guinea.Vol. 38/No. 2111NJPHWhole No. 178 May 2010 v