Albert Payson Terhune was a popular children's book author and collie breeder who lived here on the shore of Pompton Lake.
His most famous books featured stories of his beloved collies and have entertained several generations of children. Lad was his favorite and Lad's adventures were featured in books like "Lad, a Dog", "Lad of Sunnybank" and "The Further Adventures of Lad"
Terhune's Sunnybank Estate is now a park and the house is long gone. A marker was placed at what was Lad's favorite spot in the shade next to the rear porch. Lad is supposedly buried under the marker.
"Comedian dogs, spectacular dogs, gloriously human dogs, Sunnybank collies of every phase of heart and brain and soul, one common and pathetically early tragedy has waited or waits for you all! Among you, you have taught me more of true loyalty and patience and courtesy and divine forgiveness and solid sanity and fun and a hundred other worth-while lessons, than all the masters I have studied under." - Albert Payson Terhune