Please join us on Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 4 p.m. at the Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson Street, to celebrate the release of another Hoboken Oral History chapbook, I Get Homesick If I Leave for Three Days, Recollections of William “Billy” Geib. The event is free and all who attend will receive a copy of the chapbook. Event will also be livestreamed on the Museum’s YouTube channel and can be viewed there Sunday at 4:00 (and anytime afterwards) by clicking here. 

Billy Geib—everyone knows him as Billy—has deep roots in Hoboken. At just about every corner of the city he can conjure stories about what happened there, from “Murder Hill” near Stevens Institute, where he and his friends risked their lives sledding, to the clothesline poles he climbed to re-attach laundry lines for moms at Eighth and Park, to his stint shoe-shining at the American Hotel alongside members of a big family that lived in his building—seven wild kids, he recalls, who also had a pet monkey.

In I Get Homesick If I Leave for Three Days Billy remembers the places he worked, the people he knew, and, with his lifelong love of animals, the cats, dogs, and birds he rescued in the city.

The Hoboken Oral History Project is an ongoing project of the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Hoboken Public Library. This is our 37^th publication of the life stories of longtime Hoboken residents. Please join us to celebrate.