File:Oniontown, New York in The Buffalo News of Buffalo, New York on February 19, 1947.jpg

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BUFFALO EVENING NEWS We Oniontown, in Downstate N. Y., Is 'Tobacco Road' Community By JAMES L. KILLGALLEN International News Staff Correspondent. DOVER PLAINS, N. Y., Feb. 19. -Up in "them thar hills" here- abouts, less than 100 miles from New York City, there's a strange region called Oniontown which is as primitive and picturesque as any place in America today. There live such backwoods char- acters as 65-year-old Joe ("Doc") Vincent, who chaws tobacco, reads "Diamond Dicks," and worries not about where the next meal is com- ing from. from. And his brother, Bill ("Ham”) Vincent, unofficial "mayor" of the town, and George ("Jack") Vincent's wife, the for- mer Capitola Murphy, aged 39 and mother of 13 children, who hollers, "Heck no, you ain't going to pho- tograph my map," but finally breaks down and has her "picture took." Picture a community without an electric light, without a radio, with- out a movie house, without a bath- tub; where the kiddies rarely get to the eighth grade in school; where illiteracy abounds, where in- termarriage is the rule-and you have Oniontown. Rough, hard-bitten Oniontown is primitive. Yet in the nearby vicin- ity are lovely estates and country homes of successful people. Luxury Not Far Away Gov. Thomas E. Dewey lives only 10 miles way at Pawling and Lowell Thomas, the radio commentator, and other celebrities have their country places nearby. The late Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate is but a 20-minute drive. You can motor 5 miles from Oniontown, as I did, and get put up for the night in the ultra-modern, swanky surroundings of the old Drovers Inn (founded in 1750) for $10 a bed, and get a good pheasant dinner for $12 and up. Accompanied by a photographer, we went to Herbert's Tavern in Dover Plains to find out about Oniontown. There, behind the bar, was genial, 66-year-old Patrick J. Herbert, one of the "old-timers." The juke box was giving out with "The Old Lamplighter"; couples in booths were quaffing beers and the men of Oniontown were lined against the bar indulging in "three fingers" of the hard stuff. Sitting in a booth munching sandwiches, which they had brought in to be washed down by 10-cent beers, were the two grizzled brothers "Doc” and “Ham. Money Talks "Nix!" shouted "Doc." You guys ain't going to take no pictures of us. Scram!" In due time, however, the flash of a $5 bill changed "Doc's" ideas about pictures faster than you could say jack rabbit. Brother "Ham" was not only picture-shy-he wouldn't talk. "Mister Reporter," he said, pro- foundly, "I'm K.N." “What's ‘K.N.,'” we bit. With a guffaw of laughter, "Ham" replied: "Know nothing." Suddenly, a rugged-looking old fellow with a broken nose, wearing a cap at an angle, leaped in front of me. He struck a fighting stance, his left hand out, the right cocked. "I'm 58," he announced, "and can still step a bit." He gave us a lot of hill-billy double-talk. I couldn't understand him, and started jabbering back in "pig latin." He liked that but he liked the drink I bought better. Happy-Go-Lucky People "They're characters, these Onion- towners, remarked Proprietor Herbert. "How did the place get to be named Oniontown?" we asked. "Well," he declared, "years back a man named Walter Murphy had a big patch of onions up there on the mountain side and he christened the place Oniontown. The name stuck." He pointed to the two grizzled brothers in the booth and said: "They're happy-go-lucky people just like the other Oniontowners. They're good characters but they lead rugged lives." They come down from the hills to get work but they don't like "furriners" in their home com- munity. The families of Oniontown inter- marry so much nearly everybody is related. They don't exactly have any of those Hatfield and McCoy feuds such as they used to have down in Kentucky and West Virginia. Some have fist fights once in a while but they get over 'em the next day. "Great characters, these Onion- town folks," proprietor Herbert told me," "You ought to look the place over, And you ought to come back here on a Saturday. Then the place will be really jumpin'." Next A visit to Oniontown it- self.

• "How did the place get to be named Oniontown?" we asked. "Well," he declared, "years back a man named Walter Murphy had a big patch of onions up there on the mountain side and he christened the place Oniontown. The name stuck."

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