When I was a boy those many years ago, the "Clay Pits" on the north west corner of Kuser Road and White Horse-Hamilton Square Road was off limits. One of my Kuser School upper classmates died there when his head struck an underground Cedar stump. The area was always fraught with mystery back then. It was a deep wooded area and filled with water that had a reddish tinge. As seen in Earl Williams' excellent story of growing up in "Dogtown," the Clay Pits were an integral part of the area. Dogtown supposedly got its name from the proliferation of wild dogs that roamed the wooded area. 
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
1987: EARL WILLIAMS' "DOGTOWN
When I was a boy those many years ago, the "Clay Pits" on the north west corner of Kuser Road and White Horse-Hamilton Square Road was off limits. One of my Kuser School upper classmates died there when his head struck an underground Cedar stump. The area was always fraught with mystery back then. It was a deep wooded area and filled with water that had a reddish tinge. As seen in Earl Williams' excellent story of growing up in "Dogtown," the Clay Pits were an integral part of the area. Dogtown supposedly got its name from the proliferation of wild dogs that roamed the wooded area.
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