THE MARY ELLIS GRAVE New Brunswick, New Jersey (Axis Video)
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THE MARY ELLIS GRAVE
New Brunswick, New Jersey (Axis Video)
The Mary Ellis grave is located in the middle of an AMC movie theater parking lot.
It is in New Brunswick, New Jersey within the parking lot of the Loew's Movie Theatre. Her family home eventually became the site for the Route 1 Flea Market, and later the Loews Movie Theatre.
Mary's grave now sits in what became the parking lot, and now rests about seven feet above the level of the parking lot after the site was regraded for development.
Mary Ellis (1750–1828) was a spinster in New Brunswick, New Jersey. According to oral tradition, she was seduced by a sea captain who vowed to return to marry her.
He never returned and she would come to the spot where her grave now stands, each day, to look for his ship in the Raritan River in New Brunswick.
Her story has been suggested as the inspiration for the 1972 pop song Brandy (You're a Fine Girl). The lyrics tell of Brandy, a barmaid in a port town.
She wins the admiration of many of the sailors, but cannot return their feelings — the love of her life was unwilling to abandon his true love, the sea.
"Private Eye" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" Looking Glass
Label: Epic Records 1972
Songwriter(s): Elliot Lurie
Producer(s): Mike Gershman, Bob Liftin and the Looking Glass
©2018 Axis Video
New Brunswick, New Jersey (Axis Video)
The Mary Ellis grave is located in the middle of an AMC movie theater parking lot.
It is in New Brunswick, New Jersey within the parking lot of the Loew's Movie Theatre. Her family home eventually became the site for the Route 1 Flea Market, and later the Loews Movie Theatre.
Mary's grave now sits in what became the parking lot, and now rests about seven feet above the level of the parking lot after the site was regraded for development.
Mary Ellis (1750–1828) was a spinster in New Brunswick, New Jersey. According to oral tradition, she was seduced by a sea captain who vowed to return to marry her.
He never returned and she would come to the spot where her grave now stands, each day, to look for his ship in the Raritan River in New Brunswick.
Her story has been suggested as the inspiration for the 1972 pop song Brandy (You're a Fine Girl). The lyrics tell of Brandy, a barmaid in a port town.
She wins the admiration of many of the sailors, but cannot return their feelings — the love of her life was unwilling to abandon his true love, the sea.
"Private Eye" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" Looking Glass
Label: Epic Records 1972
Songwriter(s): Elliot Lurie
Producer(s): Mike Gershman, Bob Liftin and the Looking Glass
©2018 Axis Video