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[[File:Quonset Huts 1959.jpg|thumb|Butler, left, during his Quonset hut days.]] | [[File:Quonset Huts 1959.jpg|thumb|Butler, left, during his Quonset hut days.]] | ||
[[File:Yale University Shield 1.svg|thumb|Yale's coat of arms, which was emblazoned on Butler's undershirts. The Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים in English is ''[[w:Urim_and_Thummim|Urim V'Tamim]]''. ''Lux et veritas'' is Latin for "light and truth."]] | [[File:Yale University Shield 1.svg|thumb|Yale's coat of arms, which was emblazoned on Butler's undershirts. The Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים in English is ''[[w:Urim_and_Thummim|Urim V'Tamim]]''. ''Lux et veritas'' is Latin for "light and truth."]] | ||
Butler was born to an itinerant family who | Butler was born to an itinerant family who roamed the environs of [[w:Bloomfield,_New_Jersey|Bloomfield, New Jersey]]. For several years, they lived on the tennis courts of [[w:Brookdale_Park|Brookdale Park]], which had been designed by the [[w:Olmsted_Brothers|Olmsted Brothers]]. Once evicted from there,<ref>Ironically, Butler's great-great-uncle was briefly engage to Emily Olmsted, the Brothers' great-aunt.</ref> they squatted in a New Haven Quonset hut that had been abandoned by [[w:Yale_University|Yale University]] (now on view in the [[The Quonset Hut Museum|Quonset Hut Museum]]). Butler's affection for his time "at" Yale explains why he had its coat of arms sewn into every pair of undershirts he ever wore. | ||
Butler's parents were Wrestling "With the Devil" Butler and Polly Butler (née Starin). | |||
Polly descended from an elite American family, the Starins, who could track their lineage back to Nicholas Starin (aka, Staring; 1663-1759) and who once owned their own island amusement park ([[w:Starin's_Glen_Island|Starin's Glen Island]]) which was serviced by their steamship line.<ref>William Leete Stone, ''The Starin family in America : Descendants of Nicholas Ster (Starin), on of the early settlers of Fort Orange (Albany, N. Y. )'' (Albany, NY: J. Mursell's Sons, 1892. https://archive.org/details/starinfamilyinam00ston</ref> Alas, Polly's branch of the Starins suffered a severe economic reversal during the Bloomfield Tulip Panic of 1792.<ref>Less well-known than the [[w:Tulip_mania|Dutch Tulip mania]] of the 1630s, the Bloomfield Tulip Panic was nonethless disastrous for at least five families in central New Jersey.</ref> They never recovered their social standing. | |||
Wrestling "With the Devil" Butler was raised in a cult of wrestling Christians who communed with their savior through strenuous Sunday morning wrestling matches. They wore masks, in [[w:Lucha_libre|the ''Lucha Libre'' tradition]], so that their true faces would not offend God. | |||
[[File:Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Tulip Folly - Walters 372612.jpg|thumb|Artist's representation of the Bloomfield Tulip Panic—when fields of blooms (hence the origin of Bloomfield's name) were trampled by soldiers.]] | |||
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Revision as of 16:57, 10 July 2021
Jeremy Butler was known for the mean slice he perfected on Throw Park's tennis courts, which he then adapted for his pickleball game.
Early life
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Butler was born to an itinerant family who roamed the environs of Bloomfield, New Jersey. For several years, they lived on the tennis courts of Brookdale Park, which had been designed by the Olmsted Brothers. Once evicted from there,[1] they squatted in a New Haven Quonset hut that had been abandoned by Yale University (now on view in the Quonset Hut Museum). Butler's affection for his time "at" Yale explains why he had its coat of arms sewn into every pair of undershirts he ever wore.
Butler's parents were Wrestling "With the Devil" Butler and Polly Butler (née Starin).
Polly descended from an elite American family, the Starins, who could track their lineage back to Nicholas Starin (aka, Staring; 1663-1759) and who once owned their own island amusement park (Starin's Glen Island) which was serviced by their steamship line.[2] Alas, Polly's branch of the Starins suffered a severe economic reversal during the Bloomfield Tulip Panic of 1792.[3] They never recovered their social standing.
Wrestling "With the Devil" Butler was raised in a cult of wrestling Christians who communed with their savior through strenuous Sunday morning wrestling matches. They wore masks, in the Lucha Libre tradition, so that their true faces would not offend God.
References
- ↑ Ironically, Butler's great-great-uncle was briefly engage to Emily Olmsted, the Brothers' great-aunt.
- ↑ William Leete Stone, The Starin family in America : Descendants of Nicholas Ster (Starin), on of the early settlers of Fort Orange (Albany, N. Y. ) (Albany, NY: J. Mursell's Sons, 1892. https://archive.org/details/starinfamilyinam00ston
- ↑ Less well-known than the Dutch Tulip mania of the 1630s, the Bloomfield Tulip Panic was nonethless disastrous for at least five families in central New Jersey.
