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<\/a>Every so often something prompts me to finally create the page on one of the many unwritten topics still on my list of Morgan topics.\u00a0 Typically it is because someone posts something on Facebook either in \u201cYou know you grew up in Morgan if:\u201d, \u201cThe Historical Society of South Amboy\u201d, \u201cYou Know You\u2019re from Sayreville\u201d, \u201cSayreville Memories\u201d, or the \u201cSayreville Historical Society\u201d groups.\u00a0 In this case, it was something written by Steven Bloodgood, who I believe used to live across the street from me, on the \u201cYou know you grew up in Morgan if:\u201d group.<\/p>\n<\/a>In January 2014, Steven posted that he was looking for a copy of Stanley L. Wojcik\u2019s \u201cYe Old Spye Inn\u201d book (a copy of which is every once in a while available on eBay) or the play bill from the August 15, 1976 reenactment of \u201cThe Hanging at Ye Old Spye Inn<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 I do happen to have both. Fortunately for both of us, Dee Dee, who also used to live in Morgan (down the street from Steven and me), volunteered to loan Steven her book.\u00a0 My contribution is this page which has the content from the program.\u00a0 Thanks for the prompting, Steven!<\/p>\n<\/a>One of my big regrets from childhood was having a very nice 35 mm Single Lens Reflex camera but never having personally taken a photo of the Old Spye Inn!\u00a0 Of course as a kid in those pre-digital days, every image taken cost money for both the film as well as for the developing.\u00a0 Remember when taking 36 photos was a lot?<\/p>\n<\/a>As for the reenactment, I don\u2019t remember actually going to it yet someone in my family obviously did, most likely my brother, Doug.\u00a0 While the reenactment occurred during the bicentennial year when many things relating to the founding of the country were highlighted, it appears to me that this reenactment was actually Stanley Wojcik coming up with a way to peddle his book.\u00a0 As I look at the names of those people listed in the program, I see some names which look familiar to me \u2013 primarily those people making up the \u201cJury\u201d who were many of the Sayreville politicians of the day.<\/p>\n<\/a>No doubt the song \u201cHang Down Your Head Abe Mussey\u201d mentioned in the program would have been based on the old North Carolina folk song \u201cHang Down Your Head Tom Dooley\u201d made popular by the 1958 recording by the Kingston Trio.<\/p>\n<\/a>Marie Chiasson used to have a music store on Route 35 North off of 10th<\/sup> Street and right across the street from the last surviving building from the T. A. Gillespie Loading Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n