Crazy - last night the whanau watched a film together, 'Don't say good luck', my wife's pick. About a girl in a US highschool with performing ambitions & a dying mum, played by Melanie Lynsky. At one point, they mention visiting a place called 'Crane House'... & I told my family we had a place by that name in my home town in New Jersey, an early settler's house that we used to visit on school field trips, thinking it'd be funny if that's what they meant. 1/2
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My boy then looked up the movie online (It's on Netflix)... & informed me it was filmed in Montclair, NJ, (my home town) and the highschool I went to was actually used as the set! I hadn't recognised it, but then again most US public highschools from a certain era look similar... but how wild is that?! Oh, and as an extra bonus, Steve Buscemi was in it! 2/2
@lightweight i didn't realise you went to the same school as Steve Buscemi. Nice.
Would this be a Crane House of the toilet Cranes? There's one of those up on the North Shore of MA.
@doctormo not sure, to be honest... this is the one in Montclair, though... https://www.montclairhistory.org/nathaniel-crane-house/ - funny to think a house built in 1818 wold be one of the oldest around, eh.
This one is a boongoggle of a thing up near Gloucester, MA. Built ten years after your Crane House. https://historicipswich.net/crane-estate/
