Frederick Cobb News Today

Neither the theft of four casks of whale oil nor the bombardment by a patriot raiding party during the Revolutionary War were able to permanently darken the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, a stout, eight-sided structure that continues to warn vessels off the shoals of Raritan Bay.

Wartime France at night, 1916, by Frederick Cobb - Credit: Frederick Cobb A picture of winter trees, stark against a river and tower, sketched one wartime night more than a century ago, was the inspiration for a fascinating family memoir.  When Frederick Cobb rediscovered the picture he had drawn in France in 1916 he began to look back on his life – and write his memoirs. That was in the 1970s and Fred told the story of his childhood in Thorpe Hamlet, near Norwich, in the early 1900s, servin...

Wartime France at night, 1916, by Frederick Cobb - Credit: Frederick Cobb A picture of winter trees, stark against a river and tower, sketched one wartime night more than a century ago, was the inspiration for a fascinating family memoir.  When Frederick Cobb rediscovered the picture he had drawn in France in 1916 he began to look back on his life – and write his memoirs. That was in the 1970s and Fred told the story of his childhood in Thorpe Hamlet, near Norwich, in the early 1900s, servin...