Epigraphy Postscript

I went back to the vandalized bench at Mills Reservation with a flashlight and some tin foil, and was able to produce the shadow required to let me read the rest of the honoree’s name: it is in fact Charles Alexander Capron, who lived right around the corner on Bradford. Capron appears to have been the chairman of the Montclair Planning Board at the time the Davella Mills Foundation donated the larger part of the land that is now the reservation.

Who cares? Somebody obviously did, and somebody still should. What a shameful way to treat the memory of someone who did so much for Essex County.