Comments on: The House on Old Bath Road https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Lori https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-15681 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:26:31 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-15681 Hello Brian,
This story brings me back. I lived in a house on this street that sounds just like the one in your story. (Which, oddly, the address doesn’t seem to exist anymore?) As a child, I would go on hiking/walking adventures from my back yard fairly often. One day, I walked about 1-2 miles back and right in to a bear still very much alive in his cage on wheels and being taken care off. Scary, incredible, and seems like something my imagination dreamed up. I wonder if we hadn’t lived in the same home? Or were neightbors!

]]> By: BKS https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-6420 Fri, 29 May 2020 03:07:46 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-6420 Tia,

Thanks for the read and the comments. We lived maybe two miles down Old Bath Road, after you turned left off Bath Road. The house was on the left if you’re headed toward Bath, literally right next door to the parking lot of Simpson’s Animal Park. I have a few old pictures from when the park was open if you’re interested. If so, just shoot me an email to bswain2000@yahoo.com and I’ll send them back to you.

Brian

]]> By: Tia Wilson https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-6340 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:31:33 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-6340 Hello!

I love this story. I am the Chair of the Durham Historical Society and extremely interested as to where exactly this animal farm/zoo was on Old Bath Road in Brunswick? We had our own zoo in Durham as well.

Thank you!

]]> By: BKS https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-5770 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:54:51 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-5770 How did you happen to come across my web site?

]]> By: Michelle Souliere https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-5769 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:48:51 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-5769 It took me quite a while to figure out exactly where Simpson’s was, and it was something of a relief to hear a reason for that — it was always listed as simply being on “Old Bath Road” and your explanation of the lack of street/postal addresses was illuminating, and gave it a context. Now on to Merrill’s Animal Farm’s location next… oh dear.

]]> By: Michelle Souliere https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-5768 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:26:28 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-5768 Hi Brian! I’m down in Portland, but have been doing a heap of research on the Durham/Brunswick area, especially around the 1970s era. :)

]]> By: BKS https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-5767 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:03:32 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-5767 Michelle,

Thanks for the comments! Are you from the area?

]]> By: Michelle Souliere https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=1730&cpage=1#comment-5766 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:10:45 +0000 https://www.briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=1730#comment-5766 Hello Brian! Thank you so much for sharing this. I look forward (hopefully!) to the possibility that you will continue in this vein and paint us a picture of what living next door to Simpson’s Wild Animal Park was like. I very much enjoyed reading about your experiences in Brunswick of this era! Please do continue when you can. :)

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