tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049975360054199462024-03-24T12:03:15.875-04:00Cultured Carbon CountyCapturing the essence of Carbon County Pennsylvania's history. Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-73872141938689077482021-11-03T21:58:00.025-04:002021-11-13T21:45:54.158-05:00Rabenold, Going Forward<p>There's a metaphor here. Somewhere. </p><p>Randy Rabenold. The original, ever complex, he was enigmatic until the end. </p><p>One once said of him, "May your light forever shine."</p><p>Another said, "You can argue which was the greatest athlete and the greatest teacher, but you can never argue which athlete and which teacher was the greatest man."</p><p>I don't know. </p><p>He was just my Dad.</p><p><i><a href="goog_484671302"></a></i></p><blockquote><i><a href="https://www.tnonline.com/20200620/friends-and-family-pay-tribute-to-double-r/" target="_blank">~20 June 2020 Times News Biography</a></i></blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqUAxltMiANcvYZ219MNroy7c2v1qp2gI6ahpEJvWUr-yBOYkPBZXr7ZAqSExXvOSjMdZQBgHPVRaoEbC9yjVw0nbpC5TSxNSlFhTDUBS9_pEgrfUwt1jaQEX6Ucl81sbyIkfXBcHnwOA/s723/Dad+Randy+1956+Yearbook+Senior+portrait+pg+120va.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="585" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqUAxltMiANcvYZ219MNroy7c2v1qp2gI6ahpEJvWUr-yBOYkPBZXr7ZAqSExXvOSjMdZQBgHPVRaoEbC9yjVw0nbpC5TSxNSlFhTDUBS9_pEgrfUwt1jaQEX6Ucl81sbyIkfXBcHnwOA/w324-h400/Dad+Randy+1956+Yearbook+Senior+portrait+pg+120va.jpg" width="324" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kutztown State College - 1956</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq5sUG5mzCq9bR9njdWU70BOy0MMeCEP_ysgzBG0TD_tAq_HyaMX8n0dLzBEDXtFKI8FqM_V1aqGJpoorLpVA56RP5X0tvOUnhkKlafSHGnKlvnCGt_g-daCSDYxMvbMSkxmM6HCtrzztj/s1467/Misc+458+pics+Dad+art+eye+111+%25286%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1467" data-original-width="1012" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq5sUG5mzCq9bR9njdWU70BOy0MMeCEP_ysgzBG0TD_tAq_HyaMX8n0dLzBEDXtFKI8FqM_V1aqGJpoorLpVA56RP5X0tvOUnhkKlafSHGnKlvnCGt_g-daCSDYxMvbMSkxmM6HCtrzztj/w276-h400/Misc+458+pics+Dad+art+eye+111+%25286%2529.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1274" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6V2Q4rC3wJbjG6DEbnZrruvgSL1pAkqZLKotaHETHbWUrFec_twjBmKeMWp9X0xcsZU8RPg7xcSLTfo4MQicwXxjdlrRfY5U0xOVQYsXBbe5MCtkk6khifDriZ10coArjzwz4G5NIkoC/w249-h400/Early+Zach+Dad+pipe+squat.jpg" width="249" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad with his dad Zach, a<br />welder at the Packerton<br />Yard - 1934.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFdcMkalnAx8qwRhQZe6lcgrncsDlfOzvSY75tlZhVQK4HpkbAdj1GZoJeL56UXBiv0a2uOfJcpQFIK9Jco7vy0y3CLfXFk2BzICJztQL_lpBlOMMhFhS-Zxy0rf6d98UclfTFbsFUJeg/s1296/13+MAY+1951+pg1+Cho-Chun+Korea+Mothers+Day+Sgt+Fernly+Palmer+cl+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="1296" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFdcMkalnAx8qwRhQZe6lcgrncsDlfOzvSY75tlZhVQK4HpkbAdj1GZoJeL56UXBiv0a2uOfJcpQFIK9Jco7vy0y3CLfXFk2BzICJztQL_lpBlOMMhFhS-Zxy0rf6d98UclfTFbsFUJeg/w400-h226/13+MAY+1951+pg1+Cho-Chun+Korea+Mothers+Day+Sgt+Fernly+Palmer+cl+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Always impeccable handwriting. Always faithful to his mother.<br />He visited her every evening without fail to watch the evening <br />news together, often taking a snooze on her chair. <br /> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m5yLndA6gfvEMJ5Ujz_FgEEnJuhpNBeZ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Listen here to one of their conversations, <br />which often sounded like arguments</a> <br />(1981). <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkprP_KE7zc43YrqA9zgnKahggb7v6I_epYnpbAX6uWwP9RmkD-D9OomzEI5cpf4_QMjFbmyMCB8ypptQxrvesT-9GzfUgoblhPLmQkXHNTboNtqgctZQBJdJtVknJ4n27m_wYE9A8sBeX/s550/27+APRIL+1951+FOXHOLE+sketch+KOREA+Dad+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="550" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkprP_KE7zc43YrqA9zgnKahggb7v6I_epYnpbAX6uWwP9RmkD-D9OomzEI5cpf4_QMjFbmyMCB8ypptQxrvesT-9GzfUgoblhPLmQkXHNTboNtqgctZQBJdJtVknJ4n27m_wYE9A8sBeX/w400-h274/27+APRIL+1951+FOXHOLE+sketch+KOREA+Dad+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Korean War trench art - Spring 1951<br /><a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-trench-art-of-randy-rabenold.html" target="_blank">For a complete look at his trench art, click here.</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bEM6VAJoDb6V-XWY-p7TWrmWZdZ5njKOYRZ0Om0RflzgogMKnfgA3qNzKGWNXtHzP8IAWBJxpMxeDc11NBB7MprlMCxdHNzng_WN0aAUffjYOnoC4B56K5LMLoV6VerHrywJEHJFc2lk/s2048/Joel+Heintzelman+002.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="2048" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bEM6VAJoDb6V-XWY-p7TWrmWZdZ5njKOYRZ0Om0RflzgogMKnfgA3qNzKGWNXtHzP8IAWBJxpMxeDc11NBB7MprlMCxdHNzng_WN0aAUffjYOnoC4B56K5LMLoV6VerHrywJEHJFc2lk/w640-h476/Joel+Heintzelman+002.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0JGl9Guyy_z41cWL4aiieqtfjTnPk-xG0mYgCia2HjdLXSxTkOc701595hJzOR0MTGfE8wAhaVMdaTTC4F40GK2OPbAJtD-tF11ilVmQWFWlqTUoWxUZBZK66RewweV9lqj0I14SCGWV/s2048/Joel+Heintzelman+008.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1643" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0JGl9Guyy_z41cWL4aiieqtfjTnPk-xG0mYgCia2HjdLXSxTkOc701595hJzOR0MTGfE8wAhaVMdaTTC4F40GK2OPbAJtD-tF11ilVmQWFWlqTUoWxUZBZK66RewweV9lqj0I14SCGWV/s320/Joel+Heintzelman+008.JPG" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, getting into his glider at the original Lehighton airport at the southern end of the fairgrounds between Ninth St and Gypsy Hill, and here below in his Korea War enlistment photo, is Joel Heintzelman, cousin to David, their fathers were the founders of <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2011/08/david-heintzelmans-long-tradtion-with.html" target="_blank">Lehighton's Heintzelman's Meat Market from over 100 years ago (story here). </a><br /><br />Though Joel was the same age as my Dad, he always seemed like he belonged to some previous generation. He'd come to my grandmother's house once a week with her meat order, almost always on a Thursday night. Mamie, the daughter of a butcher, would take a slice of their home cured and smoked bacon and eat it raw, sucking it into her mouth like an old-fashioned piece shoe-string licorice. <br /><br />You can listen to Joel and his home-spun way here after delivering some meats and Hershey's Ice Cream to my Mamie and Dad back in 1981, when Sandra Day O'Connor had just been appointed by President Reagan at the same time that Joel's niece Holly was passing the bar. And at the same time Cristy Lane's "One Day at a Time" was popular, a tune Dad kept whistling and singing despite Mamie's dismay.<br /><br />This conversation, at times sounding a little like a real Archie Bunker, speaks of the prevalent attitudes toward women, while my Mamie, born in 1889 and who was 31 until she finally got the right to vote, sounded surprisingly forward thinking as compared to the two men. <br /><br /><br />It's not fair judge them with the lens of the current thinking of this day as it is now 40 years old. <br /><br />I remember Joel always wearing work denim, as if he just stepped away from the set of a Western, but his smell was more authentic, a pungent earth from the slaughter house, the sweet of the maple wood from the smoke of the smokehouse, as if those smells were forever encased within the accumulated fat stuck to him and could be seen as a smooth dull finish stuck between those cotton fibers of his work wear, from the years of rubbing against cattle fallow in the weekly grinding of beef trimmings into bologna and in the curing of the hogback slabs into bacon. <br /><br />He once told me of tales of his work as a freelance cattle drover, working cattle from the cars of the LVRR spur that ran along the Mahoning Creek, walking them from small butcher to small butcher from here to Nesquehoning. How he'd have to get the switch after a steer who decided to check into the open doorway along Race Street in Mauch Chunk of a housewife's kitchen who was cooking the evening supper.<br /><br />I was visiting Joel, the life-long bachelor, in his final years, struggling with his with diabetes, always the sage. He too was a gloomy optimist like my Dad. But he for me was a part of some bygone era that somehow arrived from a back edge of time. <br /><br />This picture caption has become the blog post I always intended to write for him. Of course there's much more that he deserves to have written here. For now, I'll leave you with this, my other favorite unresolved memory of Joel. <br /><br />Spanning back to my childhood, there was this continuous invite to me to go up with him in his glider. Of course I'd say yes, when could we go? But there was no way they were going to let me go. He'd leave and Mamie and Dad would talk of the many crash landings he survived, at least three. Even once he was beyond his gliding days, with that grin that wrinkled his entire forehead, he'd joke about how I never went with him and that the offer still stood. And then I'd feel the weight of that regret. <br />Looking at these pictures of him, the heft of it is no less. <br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m5yLndA6gfvEMJ5Ujz_FgEEnJuhpNBeZ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">(Here again is the link to the 1981 conversation between Joel, Mamie, and Dad.)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5T4mkUJW0nuTEyVzC5ppTw_wAY03p8uQ7Wol10Y0q4woJr8X8shBQBEleo-Fb_iNYu0d_WYLYvDeuqHmWRxlmgxzVzJ4ZEQehyAyFJekBcvjVCXppRhxelyywZO6LDZEOFJ41CQ8RaD42/s2048/0019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1319" data-original-width="2048" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5T4mkUJW0nuTEyVzC5ppTw_wAY03p8uQ7Wol10Y0q4woJr8X8shBQBEleo-Fb_iNYu0d_WYLYvDeuqHmWRxlmgxzVzJ4ZEQehyAyFJekBcvjVCXppRhxelyywZO6LDZEOFJ41CQ8RaD42/w640-h412/0019.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Victory Valley Church Camp ran from Sunday to Saturday. I was too young for basketball camp. 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When he'd visit, he'd always <br />ask to see it. He often wished he'd been a cartoonist. Sometimes he'd also admit he'd wished he'd <br />been a novelist.</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNDNec1f5FQL-c2xDM_UTUbe9qUuA_K3HODyGSAVLoyFu6RS0GqT_4RYRCOCGnEEDVqTOIZQ-WZWEyzkuC-nSlFd1Cs7d4akn2Upg_wMixeWn1FtMNjQdK6GcoZxNOBMdZ-g2vsP4SOKc8/s598/Zach+and+Mary+about+1920+resized+cropp.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="408" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNDNec1f5FQL-c2xDM_UTUbe9qUuA_K3HODyGSAVLoyFu6RS0GqT_4RYRCOCGnEEDVqTOIZQ-WZWEyzkuC-nSlFd1Cs7d4akn2Upg_wMixeWn1FtMNjQdK6GcoZxNOBMdZ-g2vsP4SOKc8/w436-h640/Zach+and+Mary+about+1920+resized+cropp.jpg" width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mamie was tall, about 5' 10". All the Strauchs were too.<br />Zach was often embarrassed by the height difference. <br />He was seldom seen walking next to her.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCupFVRbpESquoMYXLR8GE1fs7Si8I7QdyedUxsxzGMJMNR9t0L5sixcZkJbf2_2NBzP4xWNwKWeOqL4512I0BnuGLxHKOhEm9Psl2GMS5_-K8SUYSpAOr_MQXdDdElK1BrBBFvv2n_drA/s640/Dad+Star+Ball+resz.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCupFVRbpESquoMYXLR8GE1fs7Si8I7QdyedUxsxzGMJMNR9t0L5sixcZkJbf2_2NBzP4xWNwKWeOqL4512I0BnuGLxHKOhEm9Psl2GMS5_-K8SUYSpAOr_MQXdDdElK1BrBBFvv2n_drA/w400-h300/Dad+Star+Ball+resz.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Star Ball" was used in every warm-up for Jim Thorpe <br />Boys Basketball from the 1960s into the 1980s.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbV6Z_6DoavSklwpLvN0sh-dZ4uid4oM1TlvMSpUrcXB8xQlHNB8H9OWUlxxOtkEpPZD8Z_YEj8Zm7U0wURImRu6dpzasTVxg_HoZAgJTamOvTVhp7hGHcPnhtHY5C9r5zBBdE2fH8qUN/s1502/1970+Rabenolds+%25284%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="1502" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbV6Z_6DoavSklwpLvN0sh-dZ4uid4oM1TlvMSpUrcXB8xQlHNB8H9OWUlxxOtkEpPZD8Z_YEj8Zm7U0wURImRu6dpzasTVxg_HoZAgJTamOvTVhp7hGHcPnhtHY5C9r5zBBdE2fH8qUN/w400-h325/1970+Rabenolds+%25284%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Mamie - 1889-1983<br />Her parents were both born in Germany. 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Doug paid homage with his own<br />stencil lettered initials. <br />Doug a well-respected commercial artist <br />and former student</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisrIbdAZeBjdpOE8YGvSD_MXF8cFWyPymTxHxN6s6dFzRIwrMHTPv4UmmngNSeVk18yfJTUFyAIKv_rMdErv-YTJCixqmear9V4cnxP3lVSoqZO5BZBAgvRCerGTYmKNeukOmU3ofG9mjB/s1024/100_4971+OGurek+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisrIbdAZeBjdpOE8YGvSD_MXF8cFWyPymTxHxN6s6dFzRIwrMHTPv4UmmngNSeVk18yfJTUFyAIKv_rMdErv-YTJCixqmear9V4cnxP3lVSoqZO5BZBAgvRCerGTYmKNeukOmU3ofG9mjB/w640-h480/100_4971+OGurek+resz.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">County Officials of the time - Bob Crampsie, Bill O'Gurek, Randy, and Emmit McCall - Art Show 2014</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2qc07BcOamP3hCxOFfWWmNLS-Jt0aY817IjdvM7XIY3MyRjFhgExZLFTuaHQZ26x3t0BlEIxR8JuGnRcDFPN8hGZ9_3uy4IG0OWkxtsGn1J_sWjs205nmcuQzJwU_xZZGXrs2KYQyJXp/s1024/10362761_719354928100208_6423324374600725332_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM2qc07BcOamP3hCxOFfWWmNLS-Jt0aY817IjdvM7XIY3MyRjFhgExZLFTuaHQZ26x3t0BlEIxR8JuGnRcDFPN8hGZ9_3uy4IG0OWkxtsGn1J_sWjs205nmcuQzJwU_xZZGXrs2KYQyJXp/w640-h480/10362761_719354928100208_6423324374600725332_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjii1UylhNTG-NdCuWbbMNMbiEDHZVgYk5YdVJoJy_SSKk325b4yjazmYhDn8wJppCeGORjtRTHnmKWuNFWJHsc13KmR4NhXW8jA9xXUHB7XouLDXAXAiE3FZJJ9M97BZK_NtrV4dg1Iy1o/s1075/Dan+Finsel+Art+Show+2014.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="1075" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjii1UylhNTG-NdCuWbbMNMbiEDHZVgYk5YdVJoJy_SSKk325b4yjazmYhDn8wJppCeGORjtRTHnmKWuNFWJHsc13KmR4NhXW8jA9xXUHB7XouLDXAXAiE3FZJJ9M97BZK_NtrV4dg1Iy1o/w400-h313/Dan+Finsel+Art+Show+2014.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randy's grandson, sculptor Daniel Finsel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dVXMDy-G_QKkoitqP85UmjJ9PjbUmeNX3YR56zbc5Vw1ie4EkI0PnVeTssZHhkDm6C_hi6SvtGqVu4FML0PoA44XYQtplUDg6chEEq6okJPM45AA99uVco5RcV0ooZhVl2PmUQgH7NqT/s1073/Lisa+Dad+portrait+Art+Show+2014.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1073" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dVXMDy-G_QKkoitqP85UmjJ9PjbUmeNX3YR56zbc5Vw1ie4EkI0PnVeTssZHhkDm6C_hi6SvtGqVu4FML0PoA44XYQtplUDg6chEEq6okJPM45AA99uVco5RcV0ooZhVl2PmUQgH7NqT/w400-h301/Lisa+Dad+portrait+Art+Show+2014.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randy's daughter-in-law Lisa with his self-portrait</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAcRRYUUd_89GVYQSjKQc2zLWG5pSSkwUeqtW2PCvYD3gIjGCLeTwyssC3mQ0F4vPxvFlLZO5RnaYlYiglEIcex9C_lfloo3IHlAK2jFUAgKu1BrGaLRS60PdX9Sz5HgQSj5MJM3ygkcf/s1491/Dad+Aaron+S+Mike+Berger+c+95.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1491" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAcRRYUUd_89GVYQSjKQc2zLWG5pSSkwUeqtW2PCvYD3gIjGCLeTwyssC3mQ0F4vPxvFlLZO5RnaYlYiglEIcex9C_lfloo3IHlAK2jFUAgKu1BrGaLRS60PdX9Sz5HgQSj5MJM3ygkcf/w640-h454/Dad+Aaron+S+Mike+Berger+c+95.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad and Ken Kline started the JT Summer League back in the 1960s. Dad ran it for over 50 years.<br />Here in 1990s with Aaron Sebelin and Mike Berger (Steelers hat)<br />.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppgsRPXZgpb7bA66dW0BWGl6PAvw9fg5oj7rPFnFYVRxWIOR0wWiq4x5nq6brszMygd2yuTzUCfXVrahpiwYuRgmuU5UhOu923BfjD-KD-93RPP0v7FRDubhnhF_Ct6AB6yaDLIhamQgN/s2048/Dad+from+Joel+R.R.+at+his+desk+circa+1996.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1609" data-original-width="2048" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppgsRPXZgpb7bA66dW0BWGl6PAvw9fg5oj7rPFnFYVRxWIOR0wWiq4x5nq6brszMygd2yuTzUCfXVrahpiwYuRgmuU5UhOu923BfjD-KD-93RPP0v7FRDubhnhF_Ct6AB6yaDLIhamQgN/w640-h502/Dad+from+Joel+R.R.+at+his+desk+circa+1996.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Let the mind create what it will..."</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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For the last several years of his life, I'd look at his index cards with him, trying to get him to explain his coding system. Note the same symbols go down the right edge of the front of the card match the desk doodles. <br />My favorite quote of his, one he certainly didn't need to write because he lived it, goes up and down in the middle of the back, "Whatever you do, do it well."<br />He was always so good at dodging my questions. And in the last four days of his life, even in his most lucid moments, he wouldn't budge. <br />The look on his face was of a child who knows the answer but won't tell, his eyes got big with just the smallest of knowing grins. That was a mystery he took with him. These same markings were doodled onto his desk top and on cardboard signs hung up in the cellar. I believe they had a motivational meaning to him, something that kept him going, going forward. <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nI_1tlCexpJVQ9F_49cVPV74AKt5BPn_AySvMqZuXBObfvSJOd1onpXuA9zxP7ionojaJ8my10VGLCblwAh-FjVjXEdQhJh339QNTW7daEtJKwLi1yd-iNJRLZPQxtAC6uzN_eWktM1a/s720/Kevin+Binder+Dad+toast+Art+show.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nI_1tlCexpJVQ9F_49cVPV74AKt5BPn_AySvMqZuXBObfvSJOd1onpXuA9zxP7ionojaJ8my10VGLCblwAh-FjVjXEdQhJh339QNTW7daEtJKwLi1yd-iNJRLZPQxtAC6uzN_eWktM1a/w400-h400/Kevin+Binder+Dad+toast+Art+show.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kevin Binder, one of Dad's best friends.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC4f4E-78-Owo5gRSUloOYqwyRgcuUa4WnxyJY2e3w0Ye1hYrYCUBjW7XH5FCSeDy4h9jnkeGgGigrtVzNLx9hYORYBFwUikWP5ENokz5hEL6OlYEw4XrsLErrj0zLTtFrgx-lbMh7vJKU/s960/Lisa+Ockenhouse+and+Dad+Aug+2017.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="960" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC4f4E-78-Owo5gRSUloOYqwyRgcuUa4WnxyJY2e3w0Ye1hYrYCUBjW7XH5FCSeDy4h9jnkeGgGigrtVzNLx9hYORYBFwUikWP5ENokz5hEL6OlYEw4XrsLErrj0zLTtFrgx-lbMh7vJKU/w400-h351/Lisa+Ockenhouse+and+Dad+Aug+2017.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad with the Ockenhouses. Dad and Mr. Ockenhouse were lifelong friends. Dad talks of how he was "evangelized" while in the service, and how he adopted so many chldren, giving them all names from the books of the Bible. Leading Mamie to showcase her knowledge of some of the books. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3_bq4bz-1T-8rEY_IDaj_lmNSFYxW_nZYstVOiQ7-IOg5jwgW_N6ziZIoENrMSoSLXJD7-g8Z_JMpFOTp4HCG-dxLcD6snVelrUJHDfc_kftth97CKNsm2FtgXbLsKuf5EuFI2qu4TkQ/s2048/Fall+Starts+it+All+Trevor+Bob+Thomas+Tkach+Ed+Glassic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1574" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3_bq4bz-1T-8rEY_IDaj_lmNSFYxW_nZYstVOiQ7-IOg5jwgW_N6ziZIoENrMSoSLXJD7-g8Z_JMpFOTp4HCG-dxLcD6snVelrUJHDfc_kftth97CKNsm2FtgXbLsKuf5EuFI2qu4TkQ/w493-h640/Fall+Starts+it+All+Trevor+Bob+Thomas+Tkach+Ed+Glassic.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="329" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVJHe5KMjVTgUqwrjCOIpRAytuvwp4coLkBKcoRhZNWa9sS8yTxvqJvj_GWoEdE3a3Y-1SlDjAxxdMKEDgseujIj4Edq71fQeyQabOa73dZ3thuFqUJrzk-vij7dkjcVE_rwS-LobDru-h/w470-h640/The+Thrill+of+Victory+Jim+Smith+Centennial+League+Champs+21+and+1+RR+1976+or+1977+resz.jpg" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's hard to say what Dad was feeling when he made this cartoon at the end of his son's senior year final game. As noted by Dad, the Indians went 21 & 1. Their only loss? The season opener against Jim Thorpe. Coaching at Thorpe? Yup, Dad was Assistant Varsity. Lehighton led at halftime. And as legend has it, with Thorpe trailing, Dad got out the paddle and said there'd be hell to pay if they lost to "those boobas." The coaches were said to walk out to let the players sort it out. Thorpe won 57-51. So was this poster some sort of apology to Coach Smith and his son? Or was it just one more poke in the eye to illustrate a visual reminder to all that Thorpe had edged them?</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdQ24wnpGfHg3Eu6GNl5oYS4DATOatbfNNKJA9WbXcTR2saXmgRAnVXAq5FcIQF5e2VxQQaJ8SDS0_SSWl1nSCcoIEQftQqXrTIbEZLEh6qUHdceOWxf6yxHE6yimUZzWnpkUIntuh4Enq/s1741/Randy+holding+up+Jim+Smith+1976+crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="1741" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdQ24wnpGfHg3Eu6GNl5oYS4DATOatbfNNKJA9WbXcTR2saXmgRAnVXAq5FcIQF5e2VxQQaJ8SDS0_SSWl1nSCcoIEQftQqXrTIbEZLEh6qUHdceOWxf6yxHE6yimUZzWnpkUIntuh4Enq/w640-h564/Randy+holding+up+Jim+Smith+1976+crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEituxGdpNykMROpZOh079fPUnKwmabmuuV8I3syNY_X8N7LNVhCZPh0h06YzJjyOSJR2DLrXKSJJr4cjMD1AWj0hBI-K3l5OJhChzp4ToIL_JuY65LVMp4bfOYUKSGoEL9xgE3oF9JBts9o/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="926" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEituxGdpNykMROpZOh079fPUnKwmabmuuV8I3syNY_X8N7LNVhCZPh0h06YzJjyOSJR2DLrXKSJJr4cjMD1AWj0hBI-K3l5OJhChzp4ToIL_JuY65LVMp4bfOYUKSGoEL9xgE3oF9JBts9o/w640-h528/Randy+Coach+Smith+Ryan++Art+Show+2014.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Big Presence - We all have our own special fondness for our former coaches. Coach Jim Smith was always a bigger than life presence and his showing up to Dad's Art Show was certainly a highlight for me. Thanks Coach! Here he regales brother Randy's son Ryan with former tales.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzPgWnCodVwrwytrkS5yV5yZcgYfYlNlEdMEd3rFrIVz4P9GElbUU18VdJ7wwR_4AeLed_KORY-obNOhvwDCjih5LK1bU7RHPbuTp9kHQJNgDd124PECD8L2UD8vJyEAotPYmzc2HWC3c/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipzPgWnCodVwrwytrkS5yV5yZcgYfYlNlEdMEd3rFrIVz4P9GElbUU18VdJ7wwR_4AeLed_KORY-obNOhvwDCjih5LK1bU7RHPbuTp9kHQJNgDd124PECD8L2UD8vJyEAotPYmzc2HWC3c/w293-h640/Randy+opener+Loss+Thorpe+Lehighton+BB++1975+basketball.png" width="293" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_OYgiurLwkPkZHxzt-g4r8Q5PHdgFUMTjwW1-1KiCfxq68iOPeKJNueYripupo59PMLrmeEK1DYAbAQaSKOpcfXKy-EufYo5nIFYqLJ_HZixrZLgXFelcrlX_QmnreY1V2L2nvaiiSL7/s1192/Polaroid+Dad+105+Ninth+St+1990s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="1184" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix_OYgiurLwkPkZHxzt-g4r8Q5PHdgFUMTjwW1-1KiCfxq68iOPeKJNueYripupo59PMLrmeEK1DYAbAQaSKOpcfXKy-EufYo5nIFYqLJ_HZixrZLgXFelcrlX_QmnreY1V2L2nvaiiSL7/w636-h640/Polaroid+Dad+105+Ninth+St+1990s.jpg" width="636" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTXKjFQ9j76bCaAuC6f4gakaHPw-79wadnZ1hPfJ7-Ck4H-A3MOCX8qoRr8wv4OOOJtNyN3dQjqnwplmkR5ba4_7eKhUssiIGfuNfwRqK1ia1zC0H4w9g5UpTu6on7iXspvrtSbvPLx3v/s1047/Dad+RR+court+53+Years+of+Summer+League+011+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="1047" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTXKjFQ9j76bCaAuC6f4gakaHPw-79wadnZ1hPfJ7-Ck4H-A3MOCX8qoRr8wv4OOOJtNyN3dQjqnwplmkR5ba4_7eKhUssiIGfuNfwRqK1ia1zC0H4w9g5UpTu6on7iXspvrtSbvPLx3v/w400-h213/Dad+RR+court+53+Years+of+Summer+League+011+%25282%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdje5jz34UW8YZ1-tDxRqkoc60Xn5B2PtTD2GMblZUPeXrDRM4XQzAfVrj9kRsnDL7dr3dcu3Pd09M-qZvOafhnc4WXVVAz8p-8RHUB0D049QI33nxpGLxuWUN8_dNndlPz5RkoPx3hz84/s2016/103830003_2995556327146712_1376972426133443600_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdje5jz34UW8YZ1-tDxRqkoc60Xn5B2PtTD2GMblZUPeXrDRM4XQzAfVrj9kRsnDL7dr3dcu3Pd09M-qZvOafhnc4WXVVAz8p-8RHUB0D049QI33nxpGLxuWUN8_dNndlPz5RkoPx3hz84/w300-h400/103830003_2995556327146712_1376972426133443600_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl3bEpCY61T0om7Dnm64URqearP_hU460cNvTnZP84rTMJP5FjhH7wVKCFGWfTswtHalKW4rd-qaI-QKLkRfyuyckn_AJeKH_1hy06xxTAG06lR9jPaAeTRJU44y1uMptZ6sd8WinsahDA/s960/104235609_10217395869353386_4599773984986754378_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl3bEpCY61T0om7Dnm64URqearP_hU460cNvTnZP84rTMJP5FjhH7wVKCFGWfTswtHalKW4rd-qaI-QKLkRfyuyckn_AJeKH_1hy06xxTAG06lR9jPaAeTRJU44y1uMptZ6sd8WinsahDA/w640-h480/104235609_10217395869353386_4599773984986754378_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This is my preaching to the choir sermon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I do not need to tell you how great our
father, grandfather Double R was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">He was the Greatest of Humble Men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
we were children, we had our mother Ruth, and our father Double R to allay our
worries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is
gone. And we are alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
lived a long and happy life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
blessing of a long life is also a curse to have to bury all your friends and
your wife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
lived twelve years without Mom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
many dichotomies of Dad.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
could be gruff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
was known for his kind words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
cared.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
was aloof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He created
order out of the tangles of his mind with index cards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
let his mind create what it will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Outside
of care for his family, he had two main modes – Working and procrastinating
about work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
thrived on action, He thrived on doing for others – Summer League, Sports Hall
of Fame, AmVets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
cherished his alone time, sequestering himself from the voices of the outside
world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
gave us gentle pats on the head and talking mouse holes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No
one here needs to be reminded of his greatness because all of us carry his
greatness within us, that we cherish and cultivate as a little seed of kindness
in our own hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
was a child of the Great Depression. He
was a difficult child at times for his mother.
Yet Dad knew the austere joys of a good onion sandwich. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a
child, Dad and his friends built a refuge from the outside world in a little
club house in the woods at the edge of the Grove.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
landed in Pusan under artillery fire. He survived, but later, clubhouse buddy Bobby Kipp was killed in action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
they made another landing, this time at Inchon, again under enemy fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
the war became a test of wills, on which side could control the hilltops. Many times, dad was stationed on lonely outcrops. There was safety during the
day. But at night, they feared the blood
curdling war screams and drums of the Chinese.
It terrorized the men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
one day his C.O. called him in to tell him his father died. They shipped Dad home to be with his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
the time they sent him back in December, the First Marine Division was
completely trapped by the Chinese at the Chosin Reservoir. It was a blood bath. His buddies were in there, his cousin Nuny
Rabenold too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
was crossing the Sea of Japan for another landing. It was mixed company of Cooks and Bakers as
Dad like to say. They were told to fight
their way in, to save the Division. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But a
miracle happened. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Division fought
its way out. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dad’s buddy Gene Holland
was killed there. Nuny came
out with saucers for eyes and the thousand-yard stare, forever changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dad
always said his father’s death, saved his life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More dichotomies – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
was the Greatest of Humble Men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
was forever the gloomy optimist, forever finding the good in bad situations and
people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
never gave up on us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
had many friends. Men like <span class="s2">Doug Rontz, Randy Smith, Aaron Sebelin, Jailhouse Artist Tracey
Everett, Dennis Tredinnick, Kevin Binder, Chuck Hanna, Roger Aroyo, idolized our dad so much that they looked to him as a second father, sometimes the father they never had.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was hard to grow up in the shadow of him.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It hurt to know that we shared had to share him with so many.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">But that was among his gifts to the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Bahnschrift SemiBold, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Looking back, at all those that loved him like a father is a </span></span><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">joy and blessing, a tremendous comfort now,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
know that he was so loved, by so </span></span><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">many, so deeply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dad
wrote these three quotes on the back on an index card EVERYDAY from 2014 and
2016 –<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“One
in a Billion”– I’d like to think it was for me, but I think it was about our
mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Whatever
you do, do it well.” He lived that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
lastly, he wrote – “What more do you want?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
ask all of you gathered here, what MORE do YOU want?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
will never get another Double R pat on the head.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
will never ever draw you another mouse hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
will never snarl at you like a gruff and cagy dog ever again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
you do carry his seed of kindness, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
one you have been cultivating in your soul since the day he made you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
seed has nourished us all <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like
the seed that nourishes the cardinal in the dead of winter,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Dad sung a special kindness from his soul,</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Honor him, </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
the energy of that seed seep into your soul,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">And like that song of the cardinal, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold", sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Let it continue to flow into the world, out of you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="s2"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
moon comes up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
moon goes down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is to inform you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That
I didn’t die young.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Age
swept past me <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I
caught up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spring
has begun here and each day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brings
new thoughts to the tangles of my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
Monday, I got a call from the outside world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I
said no in thunder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was
a dog on a short chain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
now there is no chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sub><span face=""Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Slightly revised from Jim Harrison’s
“Barking”)<o:p></o:p></span></sub></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-39665957662187676362021-05-30T13:22:00.025-04:002021-06-08T21:32:52.075-04:00The Lessons in Remembering - Memorial Day 2021<p style="text-align: right;"> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://youtu.be/IBnw5GLAz9o" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_eGJ0FqwFCXoNTRkoNXbFha-ZB8TbUmHOkP71cYPfN9J7xshT5bEulwhoRwVDs1m_azXMYjKdPtLXy_vLlLYgC6Xzy5-3_YR_Ktf8Z1J76KYTI4YFJpZuKT_meP9z_bI5ynhLpqetPyD/s320/IMG_1334.jpg" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/IBnw5GLAz9o" target="_blank">The grave of Peter Nothstein at Normal Square. The UVO has a long tradition of saluting his grave each year. He was part of Sullivan's 200 at the Battle of Long Island who were trapped by the Hessians who were under order not to take prisoners. Nothstein served the entire Revolutionary War. Click the photo to watch and listen to the 21-gun salute and taps over his grave.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">INTRO & THANKS
– <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgShE7BuU0PLlv9dLVb4PEYk1A9kVExk2uoIjMDWc2DdmM_LK4T19n9ibcn1-52IxqNcs3OH48pBrwWPS_U7E3C-CCy9ajjt7Au_3Bva2tdt9NpjpILgHhz2pacfjy_ntB2aC_KflUqVwgX/s640/IMG_1300.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgShE7BuU0PLlv9dLVb4PEYk1A9kVExk2uoIjMDWc2DdmM_LK4T19n9ibcn1-52IxqNcs3OH48pBrwWPS_U7E3C-CCy9ajjt7Au_3Bva2tdt9NpjpILgHhz2pacfjy_ntB2aC_KflUqVwgX/s320/IMG_1300.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry and Kevin Long - What would<br />our town be like without them?</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you
for being here today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you
for keeping this tradition of keeping the memory of our Veterans alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I’d like to
specifically thank all the veterans here among us now, including those in the
color guard for their time and efforts in attending to these programs, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">and from
their countless tasks of serving our community, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">from serving
at the funerals of our departed, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">for bearing
the cold of December for Wreaths Across America, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">for ensuring
every veteran’s grave is decorated with a flag, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">and all the
countless other tasks you do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuALYlLe1OvGdMAOjeuk8MG2nIrhHTruf6Fk5rD8mZbdTEOtrJVT04fJ5iFWKwWBv1TIkeTf1BTGCtg2zKMwtjfgBEeYFV4vuTjhtEpNqzYWjPbaE8rhbfFEt52I8mGXxAR2ZVVKVhNo6/s640/IMG_1299.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuALYlLe1OvGdMAOjeuk8MG2nIrhHTruf6Fk5rD8mZbdTEOtrJVT04fJ5iFWKwWBv1TIkeTf1BTGCtg2zKMwtjfgBEeYFV4vuTjhtEpNqzYWjPbaE8rhbfFEt52I8mGXxAR2ZVVKVhNo6/w300-h400/IMG_1299.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cold day in December 2020- Our<br />UVO taking part in <br />Wreaths Across America.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">You are ever
faithful in answering our community’s every need.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> Henry Long - We miss you this year. Godspeed in your recovery. We look forward to hearing your trumpet again very soon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHoYlkD7B_2-gVRJf6PpJ3rW23XkUr8hRPxi4L9paK5fJSbu0r17mc-sHbynIKkQp1gTFTWEsvkhKQcsMzyakFWLN1WV6LzLm0ZBvUOmtdxzEg0Q9hSZw0FUy1sctTHaWuTjw-2clnoIVx/s640/Troutman+Semanoff+Long+Dad+picture+047.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHoYlkD7B_2-gVRJf6PpJ3rW23XkUr8hRPxi4L9paK5fJSbu0r17mc-sHbynIKkQp1gTFTWEsvkhKQcsMzyakFWLN1WV6LzLm0ZBvUOmtdxzEg0Q9hSZw0FUy1sctTHaWuTjw-2clnoIVx/w640-h400/Troutman+Semanoff+Long+Dad+picture+047.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members of the Lehighton UVO Color Guard at Lehighton Area Middle School - May 2013:<br />Glenn "Smokey" Troutman, my Dad, the original Double R, Randy Rabenold, forever with a trumpet under his arm, Henry Long, and members of the military storied Semanoff family, Major Pete Semanoff and father Gene. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">INTRO – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Who are you thinking about this Memorial Day Weekend? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Whose story lives within you?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I have
several stories to share with you today.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I encourage
you to do some further reading of these veterans by finding their stories on my
blog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We can all
agree, our AMVETS Hometown Hero Banners enhance our town.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyNmXNzJ7B9Y0GLzPchfl581faCIF9SNN58dMtbcpkPhvr4-gRULs2_zWitbslGr_QP9nXrBukyVeNxBYr0110hoLhXrhAOqzcHapmQT170CFrMDn7nr0E4kFdYGzz_XM8x58hdrrVECH/s500/Smoyer+Banner+Sept+19.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyNmXNzJ7B9Y0GLzPchfl581faCIF9SNN58dMtbcpkPhvr4-gRULs2_zWitbslGr_QP9nXrBukyVeNxBYr0110hoLhXrhAOqzcHapmQT170CFrMDn7nr0E4kFdYGzz_XM8x58hdrrVECH/s320/Smoyer+Banner+Sept+19.jpg" /></a><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgufn55t-BdB4bGtbwOMdg8M8eCqbDtbldAAH2i8KQT0vLS18GBm7Px4jXhpeK5gnf1aXuEACM865sOAR6IHS0WuFnz_xKbeSV2dhxMbsW7ja1P3Gyx0xP72HD5I6G97N-zHbvyZYOsQ6xU/s195/IMG_1339+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgufn55t-BdB4bGtbwOMdg8M8eCqbDtbldAAH2i8KQT0vLS18GBm7Px4jXhpeK5gnf1aXuEACM865sOAR6IHS0WuFnz_xKbeSV2dhxMbsW7ja1P3Gyx0xP72HD5I6G97N-zHbvyZYOsQ6xU/w205-h320/IMG_1339+%25282%2529.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHWv8iDL_cQYoQlqPQCcHcSnDSOWjVWbNyXvesKo2l0RgPlyUOe5DGM77FsKp-dwmHCycAeTHfXP149uAkqW-BVm0-T07pqwJ5h4K8fnqAGjyCln5SkGOdkbjFpvEPWzhVzhvBxeVkc17/s2048/IMG_1331+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1551" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHWv8iDL_cQYoQlqPQCcHcSnDSOWjVWbNyXvesKo2l0RgPlyUOe5DGM77FsKp-dwmHCycAeTHfXP149uAkqW-BVm0-T07pqwJ5h4K8fnqAGjyCln5SkGOdkbjFpvEPWzhVzhvBxeVkc17/w242-h320/IMG_1331+%25282%2529.jpg" width="242" /></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzV6t8Y6uC7tA5P5YHcqIHK04s13HZomMjQFxL0Y_SCm9qpHtIgCAoogMrsqYWENUvBbCbTmg08rR4hq88GOUAYVMkT-d_C-m7IkNPVncCNHK_i_-lFCdpqovmVQs55n6XR7L0v3OyMKOI/s199/IMG_1376+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="136" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzV6t8Y6uC7tA5P5YHcqIHK04s13HZomMjQFxL0Y_SCm9qpHtIgCAoogMrsqYWENUvBbCbTmg08rR4hq88GOUAYVMkT-d_C-m7IkNPVncCNHK_i_-lFCdpqovmVQs55n6XR7L0v3OyMKOI/w218-h320/IMG_1376+%25282%2529.jpg" width="218" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Please scroll to the end of this post to find many more examples of Hometown Hero Banners. If you would like to have one place, please contact the American Legion Home Post #314. You may also email me and I can assist you in making the application.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><br />Each banner
contains its own compelling story.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">These
stories are filled with conflict and joy, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">with sorrow
and sacrifice, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">with friendship
and grief, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">loyalty and
survival.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">We can learn
so much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a
tough year for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">It is the
first Memorial Day since my father’s passing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m grateful
for this opportunity to speak to you about some personal memories that play in
a perpetual loop in my memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">When we were
young, my cousins and I grew up in the shadow of our <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/ezra-kreiss-kia-english-channel-28.html" target="_blank">Uncle Ezra Kreiss who was killed in the English Channel in the build up to D-Day</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">His absence
created such a void in everyone’s life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-fA7l9jyLawZnqx_cQv0mLFjNZt4Yy31sjNuM6iCpL_0GoaNVPmgg1sLYIrundtMezFBChDnTcHFmrzzsXUQuuOF60IjGkbRUdaeAJ5Ii0h2tMb4yg4_euPctcbtuaXgdzISjdhyuX64/s2048/Kathy+Haas+at+Cambridge+Ezra+Kreiss+grave+5+May+2015.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-fA7l9jyLawZnqx_cQv0mLFjNZt4Yy31sjNuM6iCpL_0GoaNVPmgg1sLYIrundtMezFBChDnTcHFmrzzsXUQuuOF60IjGkbRUdaeAJ5Ii0h2tMb4yg4_euPctcbtuaXgdzISjdhyuX64/w640-h480/Kathy+Haas+at+Cambridge+Ezra+Kreiss+grave+5+May+2015.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Though it was the week of Memorial Day and though all these are Americans who gave their all<br />in WWII buried here in Cambridge England, only Kreiss's grave was marked by flowers that <br />day in 2015. His decorated grave was easy for his niece Lt. Col Kathy Haas to spot.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZg9cE1V3XnTO1WfhttcMEnW7zWrfbPnE4oPt60IUFHJY_F-EZfKJ8YHLcf_IBVzaiDk7LCyGT810xNjkRtJ37Ub698VZyjCEhctgnEnoMtcJaxHTuKfW25Q_QmaNpdQD4bFBLrJFleLPe/s699/FLOWERS+Ezra+Kreiss+28+April+2015.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="446" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZg9cE1V3XnTO1WfhttcMEnW7zWrfbPnE4oPt60IUFHJY_F-EZfKJ8YHLcf_IBVzaiDk7LCyGT810xNjkRtJ37Ub698VZyjCEhctgnEnoMtcJaxHTuKfW25Q_QmaNpdQD4bFBLrJFleLPe/w255-h400/FLOWERS+Ezra+Kreiss+28+April+2015.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Area Middle School<br />Operation Never Forget Club placed <br />these flowers on Ezra Kreiss's <br />grave in Cambridge England, <br />Spring 2015.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Years ago,
the Operation Never Forget Club placed flowers on Uncle Ezzie’s grave at
Cambridge Cemetery in the U.K.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">By chance, my
cousin, Kathy Haas, a retired Lt Col in the Air Force, was doing Port Security
work in England that same week and had the chance to stop by Uncle Ezzie’s grave. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">She’d never
been there before. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">But when she
saw that just one grave in the whole cemetery had flowers on it, she knew it
was Uncle Ezzie’s grave.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNk8rQoPPTTQPLqEPEBxs0LWw3-Xt6VsvjZZX5Q8bcL-PsK6BKQUct7YgloMmOV47vQ8ycTN53X3Qpx1mKRd6kfr3uYbk3rPMAUiG-kqOSzvSVUO-pjEOS5MwbtRMMenoyfozytlf9QsbZ/s795/Robert+Haas.USN.+US+cemetary+in+UK%252C+at+grave+of+Ezra+Kreiss%252C+husband+of+sister+Madelain%252C+killed+in+WWII.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="753" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNk8rQoPPTTQPLqEPEBxs0LWw3-Xt6VsvjZZX5Q8bcL-PsK6BKQUct7YgloMmOV47vQ8ycTN53X3Qpx1mKRd6kfr3uYbk3rPMAUiG-kqOSzvSVUO-pjEOS5MwbtRMMenoyfozytlf9QsbZ/s320/Robert+Haas.USN.+US+cemetary+in+UK%252C+at+grave+of+Ezra+Kreiss%252C+husband+of+sister+Madelain%252C+killed+in+WWII.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lt. Col. Kathy Haas's father Robert <br />at Ezra Kreiss's grave while with<br />the Navy in the early 1950s.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">My tough Lt
Col cousin, Kathy Haas, fell to her knees, and wept.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Veterans
understand the sacrifices given by those who came before us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">If you were
lucky enough to know <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/04/chester-p-mertz.html" target="_blank">Chester Mertz you will understand this</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCLRxhzZoZ0P_Scpjtx78JP_nKWwd37P9ZkN-OZKFEyb5pgz9qkWba7_0MvDTQ88OS5cuWowtRTZrjX8gyTMv1PGF_Glnsj6tT9GZO1mdKXnPIolIKwoxQFNzb2evCVs87iLP4iGDDOmn/s2048/Chester+Mertz+at+his+and+his+parent%2527s+graves%253B.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCLRxhzZoZ0P_Scpjtx78JP_nKWwd37P9ZkN-OZKFEyb5pgz9qkWba7_0MvDTQ88OS5cuWowtRTZrjX8gyTMv1PGF_Glnsj6tT9GZO1mdKXnPIolIKwoxQFNzb2evCVs87iLP4iGDDOmn/w400-h300/Chester+Mertz+at+his+and+his+parent%2527s+graves%253B.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chester Mertz - Tending to his parent's grave - St John's,<br />Mahoning Valley - June 2011.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He was
helping me write his story.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Over several
weeks of visits and interviews it developed into a most compelling one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Upon reading
the final draft, he handed it back to me and said: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well
done. I’ve enjoyed it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">But now do
one more thing. Shred it up and share it
with no one.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>A lesson in </b></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><b>humility</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>.</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Veterans
can be the humblest people you will ever meet.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I didn’t
know Walter Haydt. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The Shoemaker-Haydt
Post #314 is named in honor of his <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/walter-haydt-kia-on-hinchinbrook-island.html" target="_blank">death in his B-24 Liberator known as the“Texas Terror.”</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIVikbULdsSGULbr-R-jSE7iu8Y_ajLZWdFxj_YcPmtcTD3B70FdI9HEeTl-Na2bFUOPuIsZpEJ4ucpnnrSwsANJcd3M4z_Nl0AjY9_aeshj_s-R_7_Skt-Tiudj9POhfIrER9tjE9Zt5/s320/Love+Daddy+Walter+Haydt+Star+Spangled+Banner+cropped+off.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIVikbULdsSGULbr-R-jSE7iu8Y_ajLZWdFxj_YcPmtcTD3B70FdI9HEeTl-Na2bFUOPuIsZpEJ4ucpnnrSwsANJcd3M4z_Nl0AjY9_aeshj_s-R_7_Skt-Tiudj9POhfIrER9tjE9Zt5/s0/Love+Daddy+Walter+Haydt+Star+Spangled+Banner+cropped+off.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The picture Walter sent home to his<br />daughter Janice.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9R9wZLvM2PK4j_brsWZyFFpaq-uuWqE18xWwWGbg6qaExi0AbO6L7JFSv7afmM53tGdrUFrhHaDLCbum3hiDd_hmM6jEa_m2_IC2VMZOJwkGr5EEs0g-0N5fVwcH9jG9vZk2fl-ePBQsp/s320/JAnice+Gover+with+her+fathers+Walter+Haydts+hat+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="239" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9R9wZLvM2PK4j_brsWZyFFpaq-uuWqE18xWwWGbg6qaExi0AbO6L7JFSv7afmM53tGdrUFrhHaDLCbum3hiDd_hmM6jEa_m2_IC2VMZOJwkGr5EEs0g-0N5fVwcH9jG9vZk2fl-ePBQsp/w238-h320/JAnice+Gover+with+her+fathers+Walter+Haydts+hat+resz.jpg" width="238" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janice Haydt Gover and her father's hat.</td></tr></tbody></table></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I did know Walter’s
brother Ray. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">They said those
two brothers had the same laugh. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I met Walter’s
daughter Janice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">She has her
father’s hat to remember him by. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">But when you
see Janice, it easy to see how she also carries her father’s exact same smile. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">This I
know for certain: Sharing a smile, sharing a kind word, or a laugh, always goes
a long way.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2010/03/ira-smith-not-your-typical-boy-loses.html" target="_blank">Ira Smith lost his family farm after his father died</a>, because his older half-brothers
wanted to cash out the farm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnWqgeIXY0Z173vGd87QT0nFYokgwn7TfDa_9CHHomO2TjadxyjCM94p4hN2PBocPbxSCgwZcSdgB131Nr7tuNPW_8MjNT0qkOiGXCOUuQOR18ce9nNJ9Vhtcj0NjJVcc6fnMNLKv1hPl/s320/Ira+Smith+army+portrait+color.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBnWqgeIXY0Z173vGd87QT0nFYokgwn7TfDa_9CHHomO2TjadxyjCM94p4hN2PBocPbxSCgwZcSdgB131Nr7tuNPW_8MjNT0qkOiGXCOUuQOR18ce9nNJ9Vhtcj0NjJVcc6fnMNLKv1hPl/s0/Ira+Smith+army+portrait+color.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ira F. Smith grew up on the farm of <br />his father Jonathan Smith in the<br />Kistler Valley. By the age of 17<br />he was living in a neighbor's hay loft <br />working for room and board.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Ira fought
at the Battle of the Bulge. He was shot in
the wrist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He was taken
prisoner and bombed by the Allies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He fell
three stories through a warehouse where they were keeping him, and broke his
back. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He suffered through
his injuries for a year at the notorious Stalag 12A, and spent an additional
year recovering from his injuries at Valley Forge after the war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJd_ym84_xd0uFCJg5z-BZ16ldTzO52_QEmRg2zeLbGsQhOoOyYJChZAiVzmC3GsU710ntKyTSQnAdaaTvbbA4H8v6L3w38qkcGsQy3XvTUD5uMHvFoFHUsge5VS0uevgYNIgfNOU2ETkk/s320/Ira+F.+Smith+018.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJd_ym84_xd0uFCJg5z-BZ16ldTzO52_QEmRg2zeLbGsQhOoOyYJChZAiVzmC3GsU710ntKyTSQnAdaaTvbbA4H8v6L3w38qkcGsQy3XvTUD5uMHvFoFHUsge5VS0uevgYNIgfNOU2ETkk/w640-h480/Ira+F.+Smith+018.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ira F. Smith as pictured in the May 1945 book <br />"Pictures of the War."</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM4EQe1_gl9YbWLO08ZffESjhXKhG99H53dyv6tyKe940MDy_dXiGCqY6CSkK05DFQ_Jd98aI609C6Ct1EWCIgtgE1PG7W1GaHAXl32PPD4eyI4modBFt1Iy6HWZv2uolAJkiaY4I0zfp/s320/Ira+F.+Smith+003.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHM4EQe1_gl9YbWLO08ZffESjhXKhG99H53dyv6tyKe940MDy_dXiGCqY6CSkK05DFQ_Jd98aI609C6Ct1EWCIgtgE1PG7W1GaHAXl32PPD4eyI4modBFt1Iy6HWZv2uolAJkiaY4I0zfp/s0/Ira+F.+Smith+003.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ira Smith (Dec 1919-May 2011)<br />& Rabenold at his home in 2010. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">But he did
not come home a bitter man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">When all those
older brothers, who sold the family farm, needed help in their old age, it was
Ira who went each day to bathe them, to give them a shave. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Now
there’s a lesson in humanity, in forgiveness and compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Yesterday,
<a href="https://youtu.be/IBnw5GLAz9o" target="_blank">the UVO saluted the grave of my grandmother’s great-great grandfather PeterNothstein</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He served
the entire Revolutionary War. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He was among
the 200 of Sullivan’s troops who were trapped by the Hessians on Long Island early
in the war. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The Hessians
were taking no prisoners alive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">So, he swam
the entire Long Island Sound with his musket strapped to his back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
some Veterans who were compelled to do superhuman things to survive.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">A few years
ago, we honored Clarence Smoyer at the Elem Center. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.tnonline.com/20190523/wwii-vet-clarence-smoyer-talks-in-lehighton-receives-his-high-school-diplo/" target="_blank">The UVO Color Guard surprised him and Vietnam Vet Wayne Wentz announced Smoyer would receive his HS diploma</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZ_gfYacPWc08PDTDhYjO-YRDbbBTchJxu1Dx1gAED9huPjBUXBRKGPA_b0785GW5Wwwx0UxTEcQ5XZwRYFlvEZiSlT4slBw3-tKAwtzdQzpYbronXYOfOYQ2pQTp1w9MrsftsDtqlUrI/s1200/Semanoff+Smoyer+Bronze+Star+18+Sept+19.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZ_gfYacPWc08PDTDhYjO-YRDbbBTchJxu1Dx1gAED9huPjBUXBRKGPA_b0785GW5Wwwx0UxTEcQ5XZwRYFlvEZiSlT4slBw3-tKAwtzdQzpYbronXYOfOYQ2pQTp1w9MrsftsDtqlUrI/w640-h426/Semanoff+Smoyer+Bronze+Star+18+Sept+19.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The long overdue awarding of the Bronze Star with Valor at a special dedication at the WWII Memorial in Washington DC. Cpl. Smoyer receives the medal from Major Pete Semanoff. Semanoff as a boy helped ferret out Smoyer's story that led to the book Spearhead. Semanoff, along with Sgt. Major Dan Dailey of Palmerton, along with aide to Secretary of the Army Kenneth Wong made sure Smoyer finally got this medal, 18 Sept 2019.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2019/05/knight-clarence-smoyer.html" target="_blank">(Read how Smoyer received France's highest honor, the Medaille de la Legion d'Honneur in May 2019.)</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">And this
week, Smoyer will once again be going back to the Reading WWII Weekend. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Once again,
he will hear the sounds of that time, when the Andrews Sisters once sang and
Tommy Dorsey once played.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4eKZ_c3xf39f5bnGVs2nVvfBiRTRVJNnq6akIJKBj1-C6GbOog9gfWaNfPjCSfPUCGnV_mIcj4b-zOjqJbF2qOFxDX2C1wBV8QgmfH9n7aiolPEmeq7jEI_U2MKP-5JschWIHAEuOs_W/s2048/Clarence+Smoyer-3.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4eKZ_c3xf39f5bnGVs2nVvfBiRTRVJNnq6akIJKBj1-C6GbOog9gfWaNfPjCSfPUCGnV_mIcj4b-zOjqJbF2qOFxDX2C1wBV8QgmfH9n7aiolPEmeq7jEI_U2MKP-5JschWIHAEuOs_W/s320/Clarence+Smoyer-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smoyer signing books at Reading WWII<br />Weekend June 2019, with lipstick marks to<br />prove he was reliving his days of youth.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">At night, in
the hanger, the reenactors will come, dressed to the nines, and they will start
to swing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicsG8-uGROK1MbZ7p9y_d6TF19Flf4gcY_xM9EA0b4mVKzqWqh5JLgoi18wHoGTcjdpno-OiECX0dut1hnXTzHjx0gnjWtpHpLV9yAU-sM743j4AWqvxqZEl1r5eOzg4pt2zC-1lRRdCOT/s1331/IMG_2988+resz.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicsG8-uGROK1MbZ7p9y_d6TF19Flf4gcY_xM9EA0b4mVKzqWqh5JLgoi18wHoGTcjdpno-OiECX0dut1hnXTzHjx0gnjWtpHpLV9yAU-sM743j4AWqvxqZEl1r5eOzg4pt2zC-1lRRdCOT/s320/IMG_2988+resz.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />A smile will
come to Smoyer’s face, his foot will tap and his knee will bounce.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">All of it,
like a dream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The war required
that Cpl. Smoyer to do cruel things to our enemy.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Smoyer
watched many young soldiers die.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZ4vbKnsQPKwHwta3lEnhptSYdttaAqwjV_TJ1yrqIQfj7S6ZEQuwqCCk143uPNrdM3vOhH5Wq8mYWKBTyWchOmqODhCvrdkTXa63aWn_y4s-ZH9gp_BimtR3iv49HCkO2dfc7P935GTb/s970/Esser+Smoyer+Marsh+Berghoff+Spearhead.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="970" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZ4vbKnsQPKwHwta3lEnhptSYdttaAqwjV_TJ1yrqIQfj7S6ZEQuwqCCk143uPNrdM3vOhH5Wq8mYWKBTyWchOmqODhCvrdkTXa63aWn_y4s-ZH9gp_BimtR3iv49HCkO2dfc7P935GTb/w640-h198/Esser+Smoyer+Marsh+Berghoff+Spearhead.jpg" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh45ZWS-oidjdTKHFZa-30k_iM7anI7LgMrapCosx5Ebn1wQlpJRZkmYFyecbaEAGrSVcN8BabXV4cr-imwPE9kW_FM-1zl4nz7sgMc-rXmP5pWIb5_Fpefg2qucw-lchrX-j7wtAcVjbQ/s1331/IMG_2997+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh45ZWS-oidjdTKHFZa-30k_iM7anI7LgMrapCosx5Ebn1wQlpJRZkmYFyecbaEAGrSVcN8BabXV4cr-imwPE9kW_FM-1zl4nz7sgMc-rXmP5pWIb5_Fpefg2qucw-lchrX-j7wtAcVjbQ/s320/IMG_2997+resz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before he ever met his wife Melba, as the war wound down, Smoyer fell in love with Ressi Phieffer (A picture of Pheiffer appears on page 64 of book). He parents used strong persuasion to convince Smoyer to marry their daughter but he was not ready at the time. While researching for the book, Makos tracked down Pheiffer and as it turned out, she indeed married an American GI and moved to America. But too late. They were only able to interview her widowed husband. Lehighton's Clarence Smoyer's story was told by NYT best-selling author Adam Makos. The movie is expected to be released by year's end. AnnMarie Bergoff (pg 175) was a love interest of Buck Marsh during the war. To read more about how Lehighton's <a href="https://northamericalehighton.blogspot.com/2019/03/extraordinary-pete-and-clarence.html" target="_blank">Major Pete Semanoff's efforts in his Eagle Scout Project resulted in this story being published, click here</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He saw the beautiful
Katharina Esser die in the crossfire at Cologne.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He bears the
grief of burying his Vietnam Veteran son, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">of having his
beloved wife Melba dying in his arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">One or the other had to be last.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Lesson:
We all must bear our own grief. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">But we
can never fully understand the grief our veterans have been called to
endure. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Sometimes
in life, we must deal with our past before we can learn to live on.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Oscar Kromer
and the entire crew of Destroyer Escort #413 were sunk in the Battle off Samar
in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1X2vt0yPB4woZx6S-UBTKd58zMdE1SoZAOvssyZ_OKovgTofEw2da7rlpDXwXY-k4e9Us1PId_-WWkA7VibJkhnGddDRGrrWADwykCtPa_CXgHv7l0wh-gkvTJhq9MOYoMN2PuQLMUiiy/s727/Oscar+Kromer+photo+crew.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="507" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1X2vt0yPB4woZx6S-UBTKd58zMdE1SoZAOvssyZ_OKovgTofEw2da7rlpDXwXY-k4e9Us1PId_-WWkA7VibJkhnGddDRGrrWADwykCtPa_CXgHv7l0wh-gkvTJhq9MOYoMN2PuQLMUiiy/w279-h400/Oscar+Kromer+photo+crew.jpg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joyce Kromer Heilman marked this<br />photo of her father with his mates<br />on DE413, "The Sammy B" known<br />at Annapolis as the "destroyer escort <br />that fought like a battleship" in<br />the Battle of Leyte Gulf.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">(</span><a href="https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/samuel-b-roberts-de-413-i.html" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Read the book “The Spirit of the
Sammy B” for a full account</span></a>. See footnotes here to read a 10-page excerpt from Kromer's memoir.<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">His daughter
Joyce remembered her mother’s scream when she read the paper that his ship was
lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">They waited more
than four days to know his fate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Kromer had
to climb over dead bodies to climb a ladder out the hatch of his flooded boiler room. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He floated around on debris for two
days, watching friend after friend get pulled under the murky waters by
sharks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then in
1983, after learning he had terminal cancer, Oscar began typing his memoir in
secret. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Rehashing
the story, 38-years later, still gave Kromer nightmares.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He presented
the 105-pages to his family on Christmas Day.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I have the
copy Joyce gave. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/02/randy-rabenold-and-bulldogs-who-went-to.html" target="_blank">My own father never talked much about his three landings under fire in Korea, at Inchon, Pusan, and Chosin</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Dad was on
bereavement leave when his buddies, his Cousin Nuny and the entire Marine
Brigade were trapped by the Chinese who crossed the Ya-lu River.</span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2bhAAQek-2Kt-j67EQ0bp0cOoi8FJYqYRSyAe-CG-zEDS1SCIwVQ7ktaBLISLIQLC4kEXHXKbowfQywG2vB4ZlJUdSA4fvKf2cPC8n_hudaLVws1LDYu-MQZ_Di4kI9YoF8tr1d0jP1q/s640/Dad+Camp+Pendleton+1950.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="640" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2bhAAQek-2Kt-j67EQ0bp0cOoi8FJYqYRSyAe-CG-zEDS1SCIwVQ7ktaBLISLIQLC4kEXHXKbowfQywG2vB4ZlJUdSA4fvKf2cPC8n_hudaLVws1LDYu-MQZ_Di4kI9YoF8tr1d0jP1q/w400-h269/Dad+Camp+Pendleton+1950.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Randy Rabenold, my Dad - June 1950 - <br />Camp Pendleton, California.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">That’s where
Frank Mertz earned the Silver Star for bravery, his action saved many lives at Chosin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">My Dad was
making his way across the Sea of Japan.
They handed his loose company of men two bandoleers of ammo and told them
they had to fight their way back in, to help break out the brigade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Without
question my research into my Dad’s story got me closer to my Dad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Just like
Oscar Kromer’s family and all the rest: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Many held onto their story until late
in life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Dad was one
of six buddies who enlisted together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He was the
last survivor of them all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He too, had
to bury the love of his life, my mother Ruthie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">On Monday, June
7th of last year, with his lungs failing him and with just hours to live, Dad
wrote this last note. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“On Monday June
7<sup>th</sup>, 5 Boys Leave for USMC.
Then, “Korea broke out.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKiQ6Lg2hC8YFWXoa7h8rcU0tSntGn4Xkn73tMj8_bhjLbZAiU9KNklbYsewAmhCfdj7G-fLkxgrkieNdx8ZkWmWLGoa-SS2FTu49DzihL3Ui8l5k1sNR70mw19FCo9yrDF8e67OrL_yQf/s970/June+7+5+Boys+Leave+for+USMC+2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="970" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKiQ6Lg2hC8YFWXoa7h8rcU0tSntGn4Xkn73tMj8_bhjLbZAiU9KNklbYsewAmhCfdj7G-fLkxgrkieNdx8ZkWmWLGoa-SS2FTu49DzihL3Ui8l5k1sNR70mw19FCo9yrDF8e67OrL_yQf/w640-h229/June+7+5+Boys+Leave+for+USMC+2.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anyone who knew my Dad knew how compulsive he was about making notes. He never went anywhere without his notebook or stack of index cards. He noted everything his whole life: how many loads of wash he did, what he watched on TV, a verse from the Bible, and even how many beers he had that day. Known for his remarkable penmanship and style, these last notes of Dad's from just hours before he passed show both his decline but also his determination to remember.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">(June 7<sup>th</sup>
was indeed a Monday in 1948 as was as in 2020.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> As he held my brother's hand in his left, and mine in his right, Dad died with his last thoughts on his buddies on his 72nd anniversary of his arrival at Parris Island.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Let me
leave you with the things I am absolutely certain of:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">When my 17-year-old Dad joined the Marine Corps, he did not know who he was going to become.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">He had no idea what he wanted.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">What I know of loyalty, I'm still learning from my Dad.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">In life there
are many things we never want to forget.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">For those
who served, there are many things they cannot forget.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">War is a
terrible thing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The least
we can do is remember.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The least
we can do is continue to share their stories.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Everyone
wants to be remembered for something.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">No one
wants to be the last. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Our
veterans, though they may not have been born as warriors, always understood
their duty.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">And that
may be the greatest lesson of all:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">To know your role in life, </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">And to be willing
to accept it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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He floated in shark-infested waters for two days will waiting to be rescued. He watched one by one as sharks pulled men under, never to be seen again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A concourse in Alumni Hall at Annapolis is dedicated to the shipments of the Sammy B for having the distinction as the "destroyer escort that fought like a battleship."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Pgs 52-61: Excerpts from the Memoir of Oscar Kromer of Lehighton, finalized January 1983:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(The entire memoir runs to 105 pages.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4msTMbvzRdvCgjUDis70Aq77j2Mjr49Rw5asr8QFFCaSPV1WuU3yrhAI4epC4dpWG7tzKl2OkopOyTp9QkVIxeLDbGAy4Kppqh1-7OMOYja_KpCYEQZQqTfmSypN_31sGFTFN2QFd8Jp/s1169/Kromer+memoir+pg+52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We are lucky to have preserved so many memories of him, from his story, to his cartoons and paintings and to the hours of recordings he made while sitting with his mother. He attended the Lehighton Boys Band as a child and the Navy School of Music while in the Marines. He played baritone horn, piano, trumpet, and harmonica. He kept his trumpet mouthpiece next to his bed at the Mahoning Valley Convalescent Home to keep his pucker strength up. And here is his last recorded performance while a resident there.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/BZt-CMIBojE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="888" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQYydpAI7v2o1u6SG7kEDOpdlLm0OPHXMF5zpWjad8H9t4m-FNhAQyZC_tUFlY6CYuMSLuXZxbp8ljGL9_E7p3BjyYuipA0Okt0KS9sPawYUhZlO12LWgN_mjT-uc_mT_myN-BgMtrvYm/s320/Dad+harmonica.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Frank Mertz was a good friend of my Dad's and fellow UVO Member. I know how humble Frank was about his service. He'd be mad at me for posting his notes here, that I found among my Dad's things. Dad used to speak on behalf of the UVO and wanted to showcase the service of his fellow servicemen of the UVO. 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Hometown Heroes: </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">(Sorry but this is just a smattering of all the people who have meant something to me in my life...I know of several I am missing.)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u><br /></u></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Great People I've known or heard about my whole life:</u></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4IJViasuXwIeR1mL_8i1wqMhZR4hG_P_7JvIsrNpRMvsQQBHS59furOwwqgioHwrkH0eejQJCZDRVhZzU0IG07-Cq85Uh4l11yKo5q4O0vGBWQpG-mABze2KD0-eimf0aCQiPDyaN-dr/s1608/Chain+Bridge+at+Lehigh+Gap+Amos+on+boat+on+Big+Creek+near+dam+A+crop+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1608" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4IJViasuXwIeR1mL_8i1wqMhZR4hG_P_7JvIsrNpRMvsQQBHS59furOwwqgioHwrkH0eejQJCZDRVhZzU0IG07-Cq85Uh4l11yKo5q4O0vGBWQpG-mABze2KD0-eimf0aCQiPDyaN-dr/w640-h394/Chain+Bridge+at+Lehigh+Gap+Amos+on+boat+on+Big+Creek+near+dam+A+crop+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chain Bridge as seen after the May 1926 fire. Some at the time suspected arson, or sparks from a steam engine, or faulty wiring. No cause was ever found. The cement roadway was being built at the time, and neither fire department from Slatington nor Palmerton could reach it. A bridge was proposed to replace it to connect to this new roadway at a cost of one-half a million dollars. The new roadway became useless without the bridge. It was rebuilt for about 4 years and then the concrete and steel bridge was built. H. T. Craig was the last president of the toll bridge company. At the time, the bridge was said to be only one of two of its kind in the entire world (the other in Switzerland). Craig lived in the toll house on the eastern bank until the 1950s and was bank president. The bridge was operated as a business and for the longest time it didn't even collect enough to pay the toll taker. Then with the advent of the car, the bridge saw increased revenue. The weight could support about 6 tons, but the "rating" of the bridge was determined by "head of cattle." That number I cannot find.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>Fire destroyed it in 1926. The iron used for it was said to be a marvel in its time. Each link weighed about 130 pounds, and showed no signs of rust. Where the links touched, the metal was highly polished from the wear.</p><p>There were a series of iron ore furnaces in the area, including one at Harrity (in the flat plane on the northern side of Big Creek, between <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2011/06/beautiful-forgotten-place-reber-home-of.html" target="_blank">where the old Reber House stood</a>, and present day "Platz's Restaurant." Some said the Reber home was built as a home for the original managers of the furnace and the subsequent hotel that is now Platz's was built to accommodate the trade brought about originally due to the industry. Another iron works was in the Lehigh Gap area. These of course were forerunners to the <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2011/08/parryville-and-bowmanstown-from-new.html" target="_blank">Carbon Iron Works,</a> which was a precursor to the Bethlehem Steel plant further down river.) Of course the iron industry followed the river from the coal mines down through the slate belt to the limestone and cement belts. These areas were also connected by the <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/01/blakslees-trolleys.html" target="_blank">"Inter-Urban Trolley"</a> that once flourished just before the advent of the car.</p><p>Folks quoted who remembered driving over the chain bridge said it was a test of faith. If you've ever walked across a suspension bridge you will recognize the sensation. (My wife and I were fortunate to walk a foot bridge over the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. I watched many people lose their nerve in walking over it, with how it dipped and swayed in the wind. The chain-bridge was said to do all these things, taking you within 20 feet of the Lehigh's waters, it was rather fluid in its movements under the rolling weight of carts, wagons, and cars.)</p><p>To see and touch this history today, venture along the river seen here and also the corner of the park in Palmerton at Delaware Avenue, at the southeastern corner, there's a monument constructed to its place in history that includes actual links from the bridge.</p><p>I do have more research to post about this story but time restraints and other projects prohibit me from writing more at this time. I hope to give this further study soon. But as for now, enjoy these pictures and etc. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9fEo7vo266NxzqEj198FqMrbGAHW3n5Iphy0_8lormdnmVCdgHnW5l_Aoe22BXd-F4KEOsOBVpICQBKy1EJlBK48cJjGlaYvayt1frrG94nACqGPvfOwNiIsqkPGurPfNxuVexmv2ozHr/s2016/Chain+bridge+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9fEo7vo266NxzqEj198FqMrbGAHW3n5Iphy0_8lormdnmVCdgHnW5l_Aoe22BXd-F4KEOsOBVpICQBKy1EJlBK48cJjGlaYvayt1frrG94nACqGPvfOwNiIsqkPGurPfNxuVexmv2ozHr/w640-h480/Chain+bridge+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Opposite view as above. Nearly 200 years later, we can still see the tollhouse from the boat launch from the western shore beneath the new bridge that replaced the chain bridge. Note the foundations to the two mid-river piers are still intact as "islands" on the river. (Current view, April 2021).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmg1UFvo6xpq4kcF6F1ErSHdMAKFO3Cn-P39QyiP84aGemZkakpF5Wcg1oG7eKFKs1ty8iUJ11kL7G_fF635kP3ENeGQifST3FrfY-P7FybJNKoMLyNrhxkj72gOKrPEZVFqyijebw-JAh/s699/Dec+1933+chain+bridge+article+1.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="699" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmg1UFvo6xpq4kcF6F1ErSHdMAKFO3Cn-P39QyiP84aGemZkakpF5Wcg1oG7eKFKs1ty8iUJ11kL7G_fF635kP3ENeGQifST3FrfY-P7FybJNKoMLyNrhxkj72gOKrPEZVFqyijebw-JAh/w640-h512/Dec+1933+chain+bridge+article+1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">December 1933 article.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioR23YPXpgtVDCdi1oTyaNS95dG5BC31VHaLiibRsGUIRlMUpnd3L68dKIykv5Jkf4dEouJNazp4rHC2SahgtGyKFjcC5qGJ8h1NdxbtKwmffL_yRBLqO24PnOSb0hVRk3uNJBE6w1U5xN/s729/Dec+1933+chain+bridge+article+2.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="729" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioR23YPXpgtVDCdi1oTyaNS95dG5BC31VHaLiibRsGUIRlMUpnd3L68dKIykv5Jkf4dEouJNazp4rHC2SahgtGyKFjcC5qGJ8h1NdxbtKwmffL_yRBLqO24PnOSb0hVRk3uNJBE6w1U5xN/w640-h412/Dec+1933+chain+bridge+article+2.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">December 1933 article.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8d2EHeo1I6nW34i9HqtABPW9F5geObIoEs5_bp6R7-VJ-XNkNVe6LESMK6UrLXASpgSIgzh7G4F19SjAbYr5kAXCk8mGen0q0x0-RRAXR3R5AH5TAeQp1hsajhjukcoBHniEmgNxRtxi5/s655/Dec+1933+chain+bridge+article+3.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="217" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8d2EHeo1I6nW34i9HqtABPW9F5geObIoEs5_bp6R7-VJ-XNkNVe6LESMK6UrLXASpgSIgzh7G4F19SjAbYr5kAXCk8mGen0q0x0-RRAXR3R5AH5TAeQp1hsajhjukcoBHniEmgNxRtxi5/w212-h640/Dec+1933+chain+bridge+article+3.png" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">December 1933 article.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8K3JAnzzrqXnzB1ZQ5r6fEX613-qhVxVFUIBU8_ZOBDece2lARIE3p-CGEZ7QgBLknvTAC41omKmB-0X6rPGbLulPh71_rkIEtFE3DzaxrdiN3WEao1jkouQ8dAsTASUqKisKTFYQS064/s1165/Feb+1853+chain+bridge+2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1165" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8K3JAnzzrqXnzB1ZQ5r6fEX613-qhVxVFUIBU8_ZOBDece2lARIE3p-CGEZ7QgBLknvTAC41omKmB-0X6rPGbLulPh71_rkIEtFE3DzaxrdiN3WEao1jkouQ8dAsTASUqKisKTFYQS064/w640-h350/Feb+1853+chain+bridge+2.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Ralph Kreamer Feb 1953 article.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyq9ZuF1lS6j4thWCY8_eBQgRMLtH4rbxmngJwtsk2Ayvgz-OHt8TqDJVGIxv1alFtdVbjZD5cFqKFb_1I9zix5BZNOqMSis062IuEXHg1j6VdWtXZQMPmPvgv90sjg8IX5kFqI0wMP6Qk/s914/Feb+1853+chain+bridge+article.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="914" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyq9ZuF1lS6j4thWCY8_eBQgRMLtH4rbxmngJwtsk2Ayvgz-OHt8TqDJVGIxv1alFtdVbjZD5cFqKFb_1I9zix5BZNOqMSis062IuEXHg1j6VdWtXZQMPmPvgv90sjg8IX5kFqI0wMP6Qk/w640-h506/Feb+1853+chain+bridge+article.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Ralph Kreamer Feb 1953 article.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRY1w829ZlSbaoot332e8T2uikDpd0t7VUGSN1skiPvpLCg37Q3Fe_0IqumdYN4lazcVf__Z8oYisI7B2rAmaE5J3XZOmuWdRFIGn8Mwko5gGpwXKRDFO2UThcV-UjxYMc5vCNn41x75fN/s708/Feb+1853+chain+bridge+H.+T.+Craig.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="708" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRY1w829ZlSbaoot332e8T2uikDpd0t7VUGSN1skiPvpLCg37Q3Fe_0IqumdYN4lazcVf__Z8oYisI7B2rAmaE5J3XZOmuWdRFIGn8Mwko5gGpwXKRDFO2UThcV-UjxYMc5vCNn41x75fN/w640-h588/Feb+1853+chain+bridge+H.+T.+Craig.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Ralph Kreamer Feb 1953 article - Hector Tyndale Craig (17 Oct 1873 - 9 November 1955) - <br />Craig had once sued (April 1898) the borough for injuries he received in October 1896 that caused him injuries that prevented him from "working as he once could." At the time, there was a steam-pipe from Henry Fulmer's slate quarry ran under the road outside Slatington near Lehigh Gap and was "fastened to a prop of an overhead bridge." It discharges steam at just four feet away at a narrow part of the road. It spooked his team of horses, both he and his lady friend Miss Shoening were setting out for the Nazareth Fair and were thrown from the carriage. She was not as injured at H.T. Twenty-one witnesses were called.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNxNeUIU43Rjjlnc26YAHC9HszZBoMUhCFq1Brb8atTzDh13P2BoNZ6eUISNooo8jA22JG0dA1Hy10FnoBK081o-w4UMs3j2qSz9SlXqgne3Lac_bLoCrpW8Njul1xu8_1cHpgd4QYyTB_/s1185/Feb+1853+chain+bridge.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1185" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNxNeUIU43Rjjlnc26YAHC9HszZBoMUhCFq1Brb8atTzDh13P2BoNZ6eUISNooo8jA22JG0dA1Hy10FnoBK081o-w4UMs3j2qSz9SlXqgne3Lac_bLoCrpW8Njul1xu8_1cHpgd4QYyTB_/w640-h270/Feb+1853+chain+bridge.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMWvK7C679guaNu3pHIEAD99Ofs777fzpNJj_rWAXVwQpKzzxO4pVcHn6xnXKM8yZ4oL6jEy9A4qDvIFJdBBZjQ9qwDaRV_rEiFtjfYseNayMENtEMpIFdp8YD9HaXk_KiEEGHDRlgVpNj/s705/from+Kreamer+chain+bridge+park.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="705" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMWvK7C679guaNu3pHIEAD99Ofs777fzpNJj_rWAXVwQpKzzxO4pVcHn6xnXKM8yZ4oL6jEy9A4qDvIFJdBBZjQ9qwDaRV_rEiFtjfYseNayMENtEMpIFdp8YD9HaXk_KiEEGHDRlgVpNj/w640-h590/from+Kreamer+chain+bridge+park.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This monument to the chain bridge is still intact in Palmerton, at the southeastern corner of the park on Delaware Avenue. You can still see the rough textures of the metal where it was hand-forged and shaped nearly 200 years ago. And this should stand as a testament to our area's contribution to the iron-steel industry world-wide. Kreamer Feb 1953.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-SjGmzNxe0wWZ-yd8pNBP1LYEPOVvNtcXxG-GiaSGc2Z59TGpAxUmCdz36SR-YXmgFZoP6b9lK_LT8bg4kMv5L2B3jWPGRDSSNoQomo87cZB9D-oPETVg09ZPhSZwkPM8U1CiWCD3Dtmf/s800/John+Ziegenfuss+boat+yard.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="800" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-SjGmzNxe0wWZ-yd8pNBP1LYEPOVvNtcXxG-GiaSGc2Z59TGpAxUmCdz36SR-YXmgFZoP6b9lK_LT8bg4kMv5L2B3jWPGRDSSNoQomo87cZB9D-oPETVg09ZPhSZwkPM8U1CiWCD3Dtmf/w640-h348/John+Ziegenfuss+boat+yard.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The John Ziegenfuss boat yard. (These articles have been sitting in a file to be posted here for a number of years. And due to me being away from this project as long as I have, I regret to know why I have this picture here but including it anyway.)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjG8WNDCtgXyWhhT9E4vrLRUpxvQyjEuhUq_WMfD1PotBnltg2TZghH8ljsvLioMRNZrf270LteBQFTwQPh7fZiKlXJj7u6OQ6hRlZOXvW8tod4ACfzy161pCgd5MFbJw6wYyNB-kzFi2u/s2048/Maria+Furnace+w+drawing+The_Morning_Call_Mon__Dec_21__1992_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1646" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjG8WNDCtgXyWhhT9E4vrLRUpxvQyjEuhUq_WMfD1PotBnltg2TZghH8ljsvLioMRNZrf270LteBQFTwQPh7fZiKlXJj7u6OQ6hRlZOXvW8tod4ACfzy161pCgd5MFbJw6wYyNB-kzFi2u/w514-h640/Maria+Furnace+w+drawing+The_Morning_Call_Mon__Dec_21__1992_.jpg" width="514" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amazing to me: The great work Ralph Kreamer did for local history started back into the 1950s and went all the way up to this one in 1992. I was not a good acquaintance of him in life, but however he did leave a number of files to a friend with instructions "to put them into the hands of someone who will carry it on." And I'm proud to say I was given several of those files. Thanks Ralph! Ralph had an active life and shared his numerous talents in a large variety of ways. <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mcall/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-kreamer&pid=196988267&fhid=10807" target="_blank">A good life. He passed at 92 back in October 2020.</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KR8-1XEUhOjQzB8I2cXbJKPz_D8HaMXM2gz0_YmHjjZ57T741uVxgIJk3iTXh53PBxUgVUun2g3QthH3U9gMHyDjG6esPcpEN66wRi_c-dNqHMRJD1JVUuJM-42-nv_hwWDbmRDFd92a/s808/May+1926+Chain+Bridge+fire.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="618" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-KR8-1XEUhOjQzB8I2cXbJKPz_D8HaMXM2gz0_YmHjjZ57T741uVxgIJk3iTXh53PBxUgVUun2g3QthH3U9gMHyDjG6esPcpEN66wRi_c-dNqHMRJD1JVUuJM-42-nv_hwWDbmRDFd92a/w490-h640/May+1926+Chain+Bridge+fire.png" width="490" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 1926 article.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9R5-XCfjyi2JsKh7P6QA1pZOYIfHadSpO7yil24C5NNlcCKJtYUzM8ZQty1BHOGLxJ9U_91ltH7Ib8VceKfJj2lfGyu6zJ7ReBNbfg2_y7RleD9ZaPuzLcfn6_deM5pbQhTYeq1QyNde/s3744/Mrs+Joe+Bennett+Maria+furnace+The_Morning_Call_Wed__Sep_22__1937_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3744" data-original-width="840" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9R5-XCfjyi2JsKh7P6QA1pZOYIfHadSpO7yil24C5NNlcCKJtYUzM8ZQty1BHOGLxJ9U_91ltH7Ib8VceKfJj2lfGyu6zJ7ReBNbfg2_y7RleD9ZaPuzLcfn6_deM5pbQhTYeq1QyNde/w144-h640/Mrs+Joe+Bennett+Maria+furnace+The_Morning_Call_Wed__Sep_22__1937_.jpg" width="144" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">September 1937: One of Lehighton's oldest residents at the time, she was enjoying good health at </td></tr></tbody></table>92 years of age. She was born 22 September 1845 in Franklin township to James and Sarah Conner who operated a farm near what is known as "Maria Furnace." Notice how in 1937, the mention of Maria Furnace was in quotations. This is a small indictor of the relative obscurity of what was known of this landmark industry. When Sheriff Reber lived at the home (now torn down), there were large fields behind the home (up to where the new St. Luke's hospital is being constructed) and down to the flat meadow where the Big Creek travels through. There was even a tunnel that ran under the road and into the basement of the home -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ5e9PGLlqU" target="_blank"> See YouTube video.)</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAJJIO8i-Q">Also the ancient Reber garden vines and forsythia that had taken over the entire yard).</a><br /><p>I do hope to expand on this story in the future, but until then, I hope this information is helpful to you.</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>As a quick comparison, and as a point of personal privilege, I present here some pictures from our Ireland trip in October 2019:</p><p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXU7cfb-kmnCDpUytuSvrOy0v6Jb66w47mMvIPH89dLlik2aGIVHqPOZurtLm7vAbHMsNnM4JWjcEHYCo2K5IYZIY_wBC5O4xpTdoi2zlC4BNat5irZh7DSMGDBYTz0ybtA-r4oiN7KA1/s4896/DSC02066.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXU7cfb-kmnCDpUytuSvrOy0v6Jb66w47mMvIPH89dLlik2aGIVHqPOZurtLm7vAbHMsNnM4JWjcEHYCo2K5IYZIY_wBC5O4xpTdoi2zlC4BNat5irZh7DSMGDBYTz0ybtA-r4oiN7KA1/w640-h480/DSC02066.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Originally built by fishermen back in the day, to get from the mainland out to the broken-off piece of land. It's about 65 feet long and about 100 feet above a really rough sea. The wind whips through nearly constantly. It is a test of faith to walk it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUiWHUM14ZsYbIRt6X7qgs_IYmWHaqvjfc_I0hsHdRRVje9ZdNr7UpeEuPRX9SARdgYTMV9-3Iq37twT7rg10mjlqTCiW5YTr6XrIwU0hGlDuJNayXR0n_4tsrFNieSPOMEQp4IFBTY8r/s4896/DSC02067.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUiWHUM14ZsYbIRt6X7qgs_IYmWHaqvjfc_I0hsHdRRVje9ZdNr7UpeEuPRX9SARdgYTMV9-3Iq37twT7rg10mjlqTCiW5YTr6XrIwU0hGlDuJNayXR0n_4tsrFNieSPOMEQp4IFBTY8r/w480-h640/DSC02067.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A toll-worker ensures the bridge does not excede the weight requirement and that no one fools around.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuuAUB-WIeHY7MBsTJrxml3SisOEqwMLvT6BmRwA7wGIFQ_U2tSOlddPt_22iH2PGK8Aao3oS4QLXvaMNg5cTOH5-cNkjl6srA5ygvMsXXqc_De69BzDyo2zU3rB8OAXYfhgbmNFFs2mjj/s4896/DSC02071.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuuAUB-WIeHY7MBsTJrxml3SisOEqwMLvT6BmRwA7wGIFQ_U2tSOlddPt_22iH2PGK8Aao3oS4QLXvaMNg5cTOH5-cNkjl6srA5ygvMsXXqc_De69BzDyo2zU3rB8OAXYfhgbmNFFs2mjj/w640-h480/DSC02071.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYrAJQ4vhZgD6igaZwFYCq47mZoyOGeq9rXDg0Jcz4JYoahBduDMAvcaom_RdBPUxxzUceSTdXmHN6bN-BrgG-HYePBh2_51zK-WtmCc3W5quCgWiGe2z1b5KCSfh4Yu79-29jVuY4m-x/s2048/IMG_3289.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYrAJQ4vhZgD6igaZwFYCq47mZoyOGeq9rXDg0Jcz4JYoahBduDMAvcaom_RdBPUxxzUceSTdXmHN6bN-BrgG-HYePBh2_51zK-WtmCc3W5quCgWiGe2z1b5KCSfh4Yu79-29jVuY4m-x/w640-h480/IMG_3289.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqjPMA1DKikAv2uu6DJnYCFYMFbbZ1HSDPV6ynG_rB6MG0NAfGOEC1WUtwIMWFOrqW43jqNsk1qvb6GnH3_nbYbB_VOVmmiM6QYc2EBMGB9uWpC5qol5MuUoeAtlzpxYKusmnWrHJqfGte/s2048/IMG_3285.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqjPMA1DKikAv2uu6DJnYCFYMFbbZ1HSDPV6ynG_rB6MG0NAfGOEC1WUtwIMWFOrqW43jqNsk1qvb6GnH3_nbYbB_VOVmmiM6QYc2EBMGB9uWpC5qol5MuUoeAtlzpxYKusmnWrHJqfGte/w640-h480/IMG_3285.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Led Zep album "House of the Holy" album cover was shot here. Giant's Causeway, Ireland.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzR6O8lWqBbMhrW4uPopXUFz8kigPpdagmEKZEmpJ-rsFp_1RVo2eSCQjdOzl6R7TPWyXlNTlF2vdrUfyyCtExQpzF_NIcj-wbXT-3NnESuNOBhsAwC_CC_svEpwDb1sLuqj-h5Yf3y_Q/s2048/IMG_5640.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzR6O8lWqBbMhrW4uPopXUFz8kigPpdagmEKZEmpJ-rsFp_1RVo2eSCQjdOzl6R7TPWyXlNTlF2vdrUfyyCtExQpzF_NIcj-wbXT-3NnESuNOBhsAwC_CC_svEpwDb1sLuqj-h5Yf3y_Q/w400-h300/IMG_5640.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXwNjXoK-B-GNWUGI-O6djKmthsshsUgk9v0KMeX_QtBkYmbxZujnroNIt3KKySN3vWnb7CNlo70wdHM-i3pgqaOQhPlmFd5vfmZaCzJgmMrekeoeFWxRAfY7AYjZjahAA2T9fXIlqxF5/s2048/IMG_3293.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXwNjXoK-B-GNWUGI-O6djKmthsshsUgk9v0KMeX_QtBkYmbxZujnroNIt3KKySN3vWnb7CNlo70wdHM-i3pgqaOQhPlmFd5vfmZaCzJgmMrekeoeFWxRAfY7AYjZjahAA2T9fXIlqxF5/w480-h640/IMG_3293.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-27293086476731592402020-08-10T16:49:00.003-04:002020-08-12T21:01:46.664-04:00Sensational Happiness - Top Down, Bottom Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope these pictures will make do for now until I can write up an article that explains them and the unique title for this post. This is a companion post for the Lehighton Magazine Podcast from 10 August 2020 - History Night with Ron Rabenold.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Please check back here for more story as well as additional pictures soon (The only hold up is working through a process of some other writing I'm doing right now. I hope the delay will be worth it. "Creation is soul-searching, nothing is ever finished" (C. Ruggles) - This is my philosophical mantra for many areas in my life and I hope you can appreciate that I feel it's ok to simply start things sometimes and allow yourself the patience to dream the end. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This post is some sort of creation. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It could be so more, couldn't it? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And so are the many other creative outlets of our lives. I am comfortable with works in progress. I know I have the tenacity to finish them. All good things in all good time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We must dedicate ourselves to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62AC3CXnaRzvGnSEnGjJ52_Omd34YcY_ZajlwNiWae6PWLimA_eCQauU_NAdmrw3Vs4eUF8n6R9-9SBfJuOSvXFRkSplr8fM4ABCsm0rMj1nUsPn3ySq_YNjLg46dkRncwovrDNbfCJLq/s526/Weissport+covered+bridge+circa+1890s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62AC3CXnaRzvGnSEnGjJ52_Omd34YcY_ZajlwNiWae6PWLimA_eCQauU_NAdmrw3Vs4eUF8n6R9-9SBfJuOSvXFRkSplr8fM4ABCsm0rMj1nUsPn3ySq_YNjLg46dkRncwovrDNbfCJLq/s0/Weissport+covered+bridge+circa+1890s.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPraM7YOc6hthDfpmq9aYmxNNkOdiepaMWazq4_2MXxDxyy3sUQho-7AyFOg_EYXDcLhflnFUanXKek5jVBAljurjuu-4LbgtYfkJZG67-E8sLEIWQ7rIXpaIqz1gXWAv5ATDlnw-yGjhU/s2048/Weissport+Lehighton+trestle+bridge+1940s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1634" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPraM7YOc6hthDfpmq9aYmxNNkOdiepaMWazq4_2MXxDxyy3sUQho-7AyFOg_EYXDcLhflnFUanXKek5jVBAljurjuu-4LbgtYfkJZG67-E8sLEIWQ7rIXpaIqz1gXWAv5ATDlnw-yGjhU/s640/Weissport+Lehighton+trestle+bridge+1940s.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weissport bridge late 1930s.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSInvNT2aQbGuWWvNxmkj4QwUPFtbzEnjXGrcFPtSKU_YrKrEPqqk0-tMgNQ7eCQz7Rm_CxE-lQ_lEkLajJu9A_VteijsOLnix-vhe-dtLb13VTPeiBLtjaMChLurlDTRYbDbwhWBMPCqX/s960/Wm+Hicks+painting+from+Albrightsville+Keiper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSInvNT2aQbGuWWvNxmkj4QwUPFtbzEnjXGrcFPtSKU_YrKrEPqqk0-tMgNQ7eCQz7Rm_CxE-lQ_lEkLajJu9A_VteijsOLnix-vhe-dtLb13VTPeiBLtjaMChLurlDTRYbDbwhWBMPCqX/s640/Wm+Hicks+painting+from+Albrightsville+Keiper.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Wm. Hicks" was best known for his "Last Supper" paintings he did all winter long to help make ends meet while he boarded at Harry Berger's Hotel. It's been said that half the homes of Albrightsville had one hanging in their kitchens, however I've yet to see one myself.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtcXmiOoAW9JnmU9cg3H8_fADLuPDyxVtr_CcEhJ_WsoKG46stllQqWQnpKGqf5lSxgd72cvA2hXi_uxBJlKkbvBUHLrpxwmshCLduYC3m5JlppDvdpQLO2_8aT02cXc0SQu5as_oP43X/s2048/Hicks+cradle+guitar+with+tape+measure+Jean+Keiper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtcXmiOoAW9JnmU9cg3H8_fADLuPDyxVtr_CcEhJ_WsoKG46stllQqWQnpKGqf5lSxgd72cvA2hXi_uxBJlKkbvBUHLrpxwmshCLduYC3m5JlppDvdpQLO2_8aT02cXc0SQu5as_oP43X/s640/Hicks+cradle+guitar+with+tape+measure+Jean+Keiper.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hicks also enjoyed carving and small handcrafts. He was known for his odd common-man philosophy and adages. Once the Getz family took him in for a few weeks one winter, and old Arsula Christman Getz, Charlie Getz's grandmother noticed Hicks walk up the stairs backward. When he came back down, the normal way, she asked him why he walked up backward. Hicks said, "Well that way I wont have to turn around when I get up there, of course."</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1MT3nIlNdUJVKT1OLszOxx0NP7k5lt01wIkjGf26WiO1DoBNvMqPQj5DOJsYNzevKI603Vu9iGsfwy51ZPJJPWIhNwZ_MalZA1peFHMWPtfujv5y9MjizUZmGBicWs25ePT376B2nJc2/s880/Hicks+Bergenstock+Albrightsville+rotated+cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1MT3nIlNdUJVKT1OLszOxx0NP7k5lt01wIkjGf26WiO1DoBNvMqPQj5DOJsYNzevKI603Vu9iGsfwy51ZPJJPWIhNwZ_MalZA1peFHMWPtfujv5y9MjizUZmGBicWs25ePT376B2nJc2/s640/Hicks+Bergenstock+Albrightsville+rotated+cropped.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One-eyed William "Hicks" Bergenstock - <br />Originally from Allentown, most never knew his last name. <br />A loving, musical family of older sisters and their mother who performed together for birthday celebrations and the like, but also a temperamental alcoholic, father who ended his life in suicide. Hicks lived a life of solitude, hand to mouth doing paint and wallpaper work around Albrightsville most of his adult life.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvUNqOAUsc4hkRtG7Or0IwyECCavOS4ggZeiJ2pjb6kKQjnBl8e0D176JrfgwOAJFcApNfFQybZPNI3h5y9vmq_MSIYbCAEqD3_fNBW9BdZkiKj3goWwfgJFKeJYxdHT20D5fsvm1Q3q3c/s800/The-Uhlertown-boat-yard+from+D+and+L+site.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvUNqOAUsc4hkRtG7Or0IwyECCavOS4ggZeiJ2pjb6kKQjnBl8e0D176JrfgwOAJFcApNfFQybZPNI3h5y9vmq_MSIYbCAEqD3_fNBW9BdZkiKj3goWwfgJFKeJYxdHT20D5fsvm1Q3q3c/s640/The-Uhlertown-boat-yard+from+D+and+L+site.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7f7MrGSR3v0UodEztU3TnH3w20JjebgiAdVmjXHPB37yvj88DeeNptVZB5pz_PtWHku86lY1mtpeqPezKF8EM667RU4BXGd9qrgnX5iVLF-G0fFK2T4ECRYeQRPfd1NRiyuGiPXBKSBuF/s800/The-covered-bridge-over-the-Delaware-Canal-at-Uhlertown-has-been-in-use-since-1832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="3000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloEM9-YR2XQEPSeGc1-_Q5Jw_7KbVDsUB7OOb1rqvt6XBOFszKzp34tEE8S_0IrHZMtPPM1lca2a7SeD41olpJdqjQKux8YXzIqI_qLH7nGkkyfjjetPsECdzdu0nJMy0-1UGEq8tZiaF/s640/IMG_2244.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foot Bridge over the Delaware near Tinsman Lumber and Lumberton - Once was spanned by a wooden covered bridge, destroyed in 1903 flood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB79QppJUAMwxnzvAaaJYjeq9-l84bq6fStAS53jDyfFF3AT1-IC3dnVHRPMDOWDlVPqslgEvCakz3nA_bRzfHK7DTAEp7lKHzMI_tYhz_8wMf_BsZMnh7EW6uaienQR9-zIkgD61VxNp9/s750/seitz-brewery-delivery-truck-e1452089140583.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB79QppJUAMwxnzvAaaJYjeq9-l84bq6fStAS53jDyfFF3AT1-IC3dnVHRPMDOWDlVPqslgEvCakz3nA_bRzfHK7DTAEp7lKHzMI_tYhz_8wMf_BsZMnh7EW6uaienQR9-zIkgD61VxNp9/s640/seitz-brewery-delivery-truck-e1452089140583.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A colorful history - Even during Prohibition when up to 70 workers still did shift work there. In 1926 Federal Dry Agent Roy Edens single-handedly conducted a night-time raid of the brewery in Easton, was allegedly offered a $3,000 bribe he refused, later became of the Federal overseer of the plant, then arrested himself for producing and selling beer from the plant. Lost his federal job because he could not read or write to pass the newly imposed civil service test, so he went back home to Butler, PA, and was arrested again as a "rum-runner." Then the story gets sad.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4JcD3Xlp0_PAKIMd0TEdxcrOV1iGbIXhopt_vX_kHBDl091hFdjCHO8MQqov96BNdT69pmbtA0IrSQnESX0G3G2OyNBgD9iqWlwj43J1zVrC2TG2J3CLxr9xIyXNMimCJKfXw-51yu4h/s1600/IMG_3637+hicks+Christ+painting.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4JcD3Xlp0_PAKIMd0TEdxcrOV1iGbIXhopt_vX_kHBDl091hFdjCHO8MQqov96BNdT69pmbtA0IrSQnESX0G3G2OyNBgD9iqWlwj43J1zVrC2TG2J3CLxr9xIyXNMimCJKfXw-51yu4h/s640/IMG_3637+hicks+Christ+painting.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ascension of Christ by "Wm. Hicks" - St. Paul's Church - Albrightsville. Hicks like to toy with the congregation by painting subtle little hidden pictures in this painting as it developed from week to week.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMt0lFB1hhbcCtNdKG3ZPHWED8iRKrfy-EtCQtHB3vVgB6z8TQqA40E72jeIldqic3TesYA0sHouN4ujrLOqVipUum0BEzd4_OWX5VGJ_zVsW-LKSVAYhhfsGh9OWDv6FUIIRDDAuhtMA/s800/Tom+Held+Jonas+Snyder.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdMt0lFB1hhbcCtNdKG3ZPHWED8iRKrfy-EtCQtHB3vVgB6z8TQqA40E72jeIldqic3TesYA0sHouN4ujrLOqVipUum0BEzd4_OWX5VGJ_zVsW-LKSVAYhhfsGh9OWDv6FUIIRDDAuhtMA/s640/Tom+Held+Jonas+Snyder.jpeg" width="640" /></a><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is an unknown man from Jonas Hotel. This picture gives the physical inspiration for Joseph Gambler's character in my book. Gambler actually lived in the Albrightsville area. He was a survivor the Great Fire of 1875 (May). The fire swept Hickory Run to Hell Hollow, Wild Creek Area.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nCXhlR9r50XXlRflnAXlF1MROvP3_opUIeCRDAU76BBP8m95Hk38xK2avTejxdgmU5YcLZWey_IuWvKrB5r9FpTFnkoTDkQQvBAUgNQUr5Zz6EG5Q70DN-R6aay8IgQqO0b9Q7-Ubugr/s986/Wm+Hicks+painting+of+Chubby+Berger+Hotel+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nCXhlR9r50XXlRflnAXlF1MROvP3_opUIeCRDAU76BBP8m95Hk38xK2avTejxdgmU5YcLZWey_IuWvKrB5r9FpTFnkoTDkQQvBAUgNQUr5Zz6EG5Q70DN-R6aay8IgQqO0b9Q7-Ubugr/s640/Wm+Hicks+painting+of+Chubby+Berger+Hotel+resz.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Harry Berger Hotel of Albrightsville, as interpreted by "Wm. Hicks" - This mural appeared behind the tap room bar.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoUlb7Wh1WxRRNfwxWzYY98fMvjMWy_2ZPGcHlIIFGajVRI5KSim-VWfyu8vynaOcfwU3kPLERGUaW9Cf3pzM8KBeOiV6yvW-0aqa3SKRv7z5NqqG8uYLmD8yr0xuFSC7FRf941ns6BpNH/s2016/Blake+Lively+Poet+New+Orleans+Feb+2020+IMG_6744.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoUlb7Wh1WxRRNfwxWzYY98fMvjMWy_2ZPGcHlIIFGajVRI5KSim-VWfyu8vynaOcfwU3kPLERGUaW9Cf3pzM8KBeOiV6yvW-0aqa3SKRv7z5NqqG8uYLmD8yr0xuFSC7FRf941ns6BpNH/s640/Blake+Lively+Poet+New+Orleans+Feb+2020+IMG_6744.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poet Blake Lively of New Orleans makes a cameo appearance in <br />"Kinglets in the Winterberry" - Mardis Gras 2020.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi-y1nEMKMsy4StyYYsI3Y7J2CmgWPF5pm7cs-vDQbJT6IPyAHSMACrAo4xX5Hg3xB6cJ6vJDx0MuSXWtiuA9EmaqLpY6hrrgQ4A13XltO-CGa5XZ6Xi2tQFhI0uziP9dVQe5IEESt8w_y/s1771/Ervin+Ahner++Mamie+Strohl+Ahner+with+from+Left+Esther+Dorothy+and+Mamie+c+1918+weigh+lock.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1771" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi-y1nEMKMsy4StyYYsI3Y7J2CmgWPF5pm7cs-vDQbJT6IPyAHSMACrAo4xX5Hg3xB6cJ6vJDx0MuSXWtiuA9EmaqLpY6hrrgQ4A13XltO-CGa5XZ6Xi2tQFhI0uziP9dVQe5IEESt8w_y/w512-h346/Ervin+Ahner++Mamie+Strohl+Ahner+with+from+Left+Esther+Dorothy+and+Mamie+c+1918+weigh+lock.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Ervin and Mamie (Strohl) Ahner - at the Weigh Lock around 1917 - <br />with (l-r) Esther, Dorothy, Mamie. Esther lived to be 106, passing away in 2016. The last living person who lived on the canal. A video was produced about her life on the canal, among other things. A featured part of the segment featured her dancing at age 104.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbWer74_1zRjQYoUODI1q5r3bLqCNEWhh5l46jYXYT2CP7-tQm85bnI97UA4r3-kJTM-6yY91D-lQ2QQrWdRPJtLMyM4KzXIib60lNzmm5e5clMBYg9AJxmQRJd0PDh6XbucOqc7qBn3X/s1786/Mamie+Strohl+Ahner+right+with+Cousin+and+dau+Dorothy+c+1918+from+Karl+Sheffy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1786" data-original-width="1144" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbWer74_1zRjQYoUODI1q5r3bLqCNEWhh5l46jYXYT2CP7-tQm85bnI97UA4r3-kJTM-6yY91D-lQ2QQrWdRPJtLMyM4KzXIib60lNzmm5e5clMBYg9AJxmQRJd0PDh6XbucOqc7qBn3X/s640/Mamie+Strohl+Ahner+right+with+Cousin+and+dau+Dorothy+c+1918+from+Karl+Sheffy.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mamie Strohl Ahner with gun right. During WWI, soldiers were<br />stationed at the weight lock to protect our industrial might during the war.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEt2iYlPUsxcSStF9V9NpYTt1r2VKcqagr9ruECbBnRrEZBmYCB-yImsSaW05CZJ96RNm72BHp1CVpJ7YdGS46suMHbjCNBcw3va2nbq7iAfWgcDuIlM0LmSC3yR2YUYHPzbKwSD99Ias/s1038/1936+Weissport+Flood+pics+car+in+mud+water.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="990" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEt2iYlPUsxcSStF9V9NpYTt1r2VKcqagr9ruECbBnRrEZBmYCB-yImsSaW05CZJ96RNm72BHp1CVpJ7YdGS46suMHbjCNBcw3va2nbq7iAfWgcDuIlM0LmSC3yR2YUYHPzbKwSD99Ias/w488-h512/1936+Weissport+Flood+pics+car+in+mud+water.jpg" width="488" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1936 Weissport Flood</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1855" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeVbMrwNhqGFGazLesB9KNwECfYH6AxhoaQN5YlXvYX7JdGVhM8CmfLA74LoAgtypLSqiIgiEO2D4K1VKnZscW4vr60k0uasTrb8rhTWJFA-W9oA2cCts2KCbJjVCikyFMh8mlzk7LSPs/w464-h512/Beer+recipe+from+Rickert+home+1880s+to+1920s+handwritten.jpg" width="464" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rickert Beer Recipe - Sent from a friend, perhaps Fred Horlacher.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRllfSM9qeh7HGuKrmCnlFleTA70omN5ztYpIy1oGC3mH4q2EORlYwL1mbNBMuJdl4OwA83KOI9WbZnMUb58OWGLbxjWCIXQZuwB7IWYbG92w_zZsbfZ9klIpViE6EDlRnrAzjT50rgUbo/s2048/Dilldown+Dam+by+JOhn+Stoji+Dec+2017.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRllfSM9qeh7HGuKrmCnlFleTA70omN5ztYpIy1oGC3mH4q2EORlYwL1mbNBMuJdl4OwA83KOI9WbZnMUb58OWGLbxjWCIXQZuwB7IWYbG92w_zZsbfZ9klIpViE6EDlRnrAzjT50rgUbo/w512-h342/Dilldown+Dam+by+JOhn+Stoji+Dec+2017.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dilldown Dam - Photo by John B. Stoj of Albrightsville - The Hickory Run area had many man-made dams to power the sawmills and to store logs. The terrible and tragic flood of October 1849 that took so many lives, including the Gould family who owned the timbering company. Their house was knocked off its foundations and tumbled under water for 500 feet. Enough air remained inside for some of the occupants to survive. The blacksmith West lost his wife, two girls, and two boys. Some of his children survived.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2EedIVdIB99mornJXht2K3e7-nW3FLYGeqc_8QYGVBP0j-z0303vlZtjjQs6smX5Fui96N2dOIkvaxip4my-wJEzfie3fA6Daa0PHVVycEd90wYz0dpUf-KgKbqDhNrGqePUJYohjg3ki/s600/Hotel+Wahnetah.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2EedIVdIB99mornJXht2K3e7-nW3FLYGeqc_8QYGVBP0j-z0303vlZtjjQs6smX5Fui96N2dOIkvaxip4my-wJEzfie3fA6Daa0PHVVycEd90wYz0dpUf-KgKbqDhNrGqePUJYohjg3ki/s0/Hotel+Wahnetah.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimNbQzctuI0NARCMVEAgop-oECPWdD4chVjLZ7N_XRcMp2fJuOovewk3AMRakgWUw6t_KXWQcww8sfmgKJ_9uoE1UB06cT5nmqRtIm8ncZEEYIeIOIxTWnXaB7RTUBQ41BzBy8Zq2FLv9-/s1001/John+Ritter+Allentown+street+character+Schnupty+from+1880s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="795" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimNbQzctuI0NARCMVEAgop-oECPWdD4chVjLZ7N_XRcMp2fJuOovewk3AMRakgWUw6t_KXWQcww8sfmgKJ_9uoE1UB06cT5nmqRtIm8ncZEEYIeIOIxTWnXaB7RTUBQ41BzBy8Zq2FLv9-/w406-h512/John+Ritter+Allentown+street+character+Schnupty+from+1880s.jpg" width="406" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Schnupty of Allentown - Probably not the 1890s "Jack the Hugger" of Allentown.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCg9FeBI-ZvGzRk61Q6cQEeVw_1OgZgc2ACe5dL1avE0V9Gn3TyMquqv2mTRxIjJ-IEvt8Ar7617u3qUnkKIc41LP2ynppPWEB6BE7CCbndwQcAnbaOvb0JZVhI_8mWNicjqpBR37LwxHW/s800/Lehigh+Canal+Lock+1+Guard+Lock+Dam+early+Mauch+Chunk+photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCg9FeBI-ZvGzRk61Q6cQEeVw_1OgZgc2ACe5dL1avE0V9Gn3TyMquqv2mTRxIjJ-IEvt8Ar7617u3qUnkKIc41LP2ynppPWEB6BE7CCbndwQcAnbaOvb0JZVhI_8mWNicjqpBR37LwxHW/s640/Lehigh+Canal+Lock+1+Guard+Lock+Dam+early+Mauch+Chunk+photo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guard Lock of Lehigh Canal - Lehigh Valley RR station to right - Jersey Central (center - beyond the <br />foot bridge) - Dam and Harbor supported the loading of canal boats from chutes off that once came off the mountainside above left (until 1872) - Boats could also be loaded to float upstream to Lock #1 of the Upper Grand Canal that traced the Lehigh on up to White Haven. That canal system was ruined in the June 1862 flood of the Lehigh River. Several hundred lives were believed to be lost. The village of Burlington (East Packerton along the river) was wiped out. Making way for the LVRR to take control of the land and build their Packerton Yard there.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCg9FeBI-ZvGzRk61Q6cQEeVw_1OgZgc2ACe5dL1avE0V9Gn3TyMquqv2mTRxIjJ-IEvt8Ar7617u3qUnkKIc41LP2ynppPWEB6BE7CCbndwQcAnbaOvb0JZVhI_8mWNicjqpBR37LwxHW/s800/Lehigh+Canal+Lock+1+Guard+Lock+Dam+early+Mauch+Chunk+photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43NmsL_3r6L8ZOD5oCaI61Mw3Nc8FjdBGi95s1HEXInAPCuBNmSvmxx9Ox6Ryhe21hIbvVq2adstyYEfFCJ4VzvG80udk4BmRdvJ_sVwZnEziYN1vksDEdiy2mOvx8PCE3W5rJAyu-W5_/s1777/Lehigh+Coal+Navigation+Company+Stock+Share+100+FRONT+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="1777" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj43NmsL_3r6L8ZOD5oCaI61Mw3Nc8FjdBGi95s1HEXInAPCuBNmSvmxx9Ox6Ryhe21hIbvVq2adstyYEfFCJ4VzvG80udk4BmRdvJ_sVwZnEziYN1vksDEdiy2mOvx8PCE3W5rJAyu-W5_/s640/Lehigh+Coal+Navigation+Company+Stock+Share+100+FRONT+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYB0mN2r07rdUrjevRhuZ7yZA9fNwHJ14OSlCgU5k0VQcO13MZfaQNjpaRlLbgQnAbptkb1o9G3Thdc0cYBDrpYsfXaQIHjjiy9vIv8DP5YibAr8r3g0pEqqYp6FMmGxU7Bq99x1JvOntp/s2048/Lehigh+Coal+Navigation+Company+Stock+Share+100+FRONT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1329" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYB0mN2r07rdUrjevRhuZ7yZA9fNwHJ14OSlCgU5k0VQcO13MZfaQNjpaRlLbgQnAbptkb1o9G3Thdc0cYBDrpYsfXaQIHjjiy9vIv8DP5YibAr8r3g0pEqqYp6FMmGxU7Bq99x1JvOntp/s640/Lehigh+Coal+Navigation+Company+Stock+Share+100+FRONT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNYn_dd0g8ZSdRfs3NA4-AMSBGbp9fsmAwrX7jdmlBrpCndeM9fwFOmidrtfDDjyrKhlwx-3dNqcuP4pmZRgsGj2v0FbPaPM8MM5WUlrL-7m3-uOm8loXoZKAsO0EiYaP9wu5fp_UUkW-/s960/Lehighton+Brights+Santa+Dept+store+window+1950s.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNYn_dd0g8ZSdRfs3NA4-AMSBGbp9fsmAwrX7jdmlBrpCndeM9fwFOmidrtfDDjyrKhlwx-3dNqcuP4pmZRgsGj2v0FbPaPM8MM5WUlrL-7m3-uOm8loXoZKAsO0EiYaP9wu5fp_UUkW-/s640/Lehighton+Brights+Santa+Dept+store+window+1950s.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lehighton's Brights Department Store display window 1955. Brights's original store started and continued to run in Lansford.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSROdOs-A8idpsBdPDxkhoSlpGM8sODgatwnOTVLi9JeapXFyvWBKoXJh8jpLwxZuT2JaCfjD5ma7YGiJeSDEMmemlw89i7TnLszyWska6nt-1V57ENPE-1gIVvqyzXhHX7h-Csu2RZ4nI/s2048/Lehighton+Fireworks+from+Lehigh+River+July+2+2017+IMG_5833.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSROdOs-A8idpsBdPDxkhoSlpGM8sODgatwnOTVLi9JeapXFyvWBKoXJh8jpLwxZuT2JaCfjD5ma7YGiJeSDEMmemlw89i7TnLszyWska6nt-1V57ENPE-1gIVvqyzXhHX7h-Csu2RZ4nI/s640/Lehighton+Fireworks+from+Lehigh+River+July+2+2017+IMG_5833.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lehighton Fireworks as seen over the Lehigh's waters from the outskirts of Rickertsville 2019.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UgFJhY-gzH4YLcGVAf5fOvM93VYfmOwwt5B3W9J1TdXT76NFmKGC8tzX4tsR1chOM_v0XLTxk-WuV3JeTL5uHpqpSnzIsKZCV-7x-O07-94wnyziWxNXZj2Gv2_kRqsLLyKZQayDP9JC/s2048/Packerton+Post+Office+RR+tracks+station+from+Helena+Griffith+Ju.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UgFJhY-gzH4YLcGVAf5fOvM93VYfmOwwt5B3W9J1TdXT76NFmKGC8tzX4tsR1chOM_v0XLTxk-WuV3JeTL5uHpqpSnzIsKZCV-7x-O07-94wnyziWxNXZj2Gv2_kRqsLLyKZQayDP9JC/s640/Packerton+Post+Office+RR+tracks+station+from+Helena+Griffith+Ju.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Packerton Post Office - Along the RR tracks - Post June 1862 Flood. This was the former village of Burlington. The new area now aptly named for the progenitor of the LVRR, Asa Packer. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UOWBOmYUYSXJd4W6Ymfnolo5WbWI1zIlbyvYtmQmy927Z_hU4Sm57E9Rnm2mQrxnJu-dsRMWhsfVFOHkQzsfgrLDV4-XdjSl57fGqT8AUzX8A0_JIrX61ECi7kwFUyKogC5-LMhQcavZ/s640/view+from+back+of+Haas%2527+Store+cropped+view+toward+Mahoning+Mtn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-UOWBOmYUYSXJd4W6Ymfnolo5WbWI1zIlbyvYtmQmy927Z_hU4Sm57E9Rnm2mQrxnJu-dsRMWhsfVFOHkQzsfgrLDV4-XdjSl57fGqT8AUzX8A0_JIrX61ECi7kwFUyKogC5-LMhQcavZ/s0/view+from+back+of+Haas%2527+Store+cropped+view+toward+Mahoning+Mtn.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowy winter view of Lehighton as seen from Fifth and Coal Streets looking SE from second floor of Haas Store - 1940s.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-B6xUb8kMG45xmjlHUsiLHe9REH7N9NmVZ3xCzuHgTY1hMu3WLrR_Z00M420JkW2ZOHZvgemCC06t0oH-DLs94ESYyry38oY-VJx_gpW_eSqbgM4knd8PJao4-_vouBBc8zXy_dIT7gmE/s843/Weissport+Jersery+Central+crossing+bridge+over+canal+up+Main+Rd+from+Joyce+Kopack+FB+Nov+2016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-B6xUb8kMG45xmjlHUsiLHe9REH7N9NmVZ3xCzuHgTY1hMu3WLrR_Z00M420JkW2ZOHZvgemCC06t0oH-DLs94ESYyry38oY-VJx_gpW_eSqbgM4knd8PJao4-_vouBBc8zXy_dIT7gmE/s640/Weissport+Jersery+Central+crossing+bridge+over+canal+up+Main+Rd+from+Joyce+Kopack+FB+Nov+2016.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwNP8XnodTSWjesxOElknlAmloEVOZnjOZ5wYvuN3kY8x80f6tO176IvMXWLdsjW8HJEFIhlH9WRxG-CPj_71zJeYA1EhJxW7g5Pai-tO_04fnJtypla75kx415-mX4-tUXeyft_nlsSB/s2048/1950+Charles+Snyder+bro+John+son+Jonas+1878+1958.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1653" data-original-width="2048" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwNP8XnodTSWjesxOElknlAmloEVOZnjOZ5wYvuN3kY8x80f6tO176IvMXWLdsjW8HJEFIhlH9WRxG-CPj_71zJeYA1EhJxW7g5Pai-tO_04fnJtypla75kx415-mX4-tUXeyft_nlsSB/w512-h414/1950+Charles+Snyder+bro+John+son+Jonas+1878+1958.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Snyder on the day they sold his family hotel to the Held family.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu0z50Vx36G3DZRxbQrw63LuBvGiAJktrZUGF04EhhS43SX1a_9dduwWzdaxO4LqvV6SuofJ9YqTrzMGLKWM_OdQw7TypKDsFBhwcf5e75SYk03SK51X0l4kT0Zv5tjrUcWycBwVLStBZU/s800/Charles+John+Snyder+c+1905+bar+good+apple+jack.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu0z50Vx36G3DZRxbQrw63LuBvGiAJktrZUGF04EhhS43SX1a_9dduwWzdaxO4LqvV6SuofJ9YqTrzMGLKWM_OdQw7TypKDsFBhwcf5e75SYk03SK51X0l4kT0Zv5tjrUcWycBwVLStBZU/s640/Charles+John+Snyder+c+1905+bar+good+apple+jack.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A younger, Charles Snyder at Hotel Jonas.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6GbgCd2Q-cfkWtmekQ41wQHl6jQh0R-aAS9YJHnr2rY_ZV8tfyD28rklbr0irxg4vtTOszb-6UxTB93BAMZY3soQZ2pCE_FwEFOhJ3541R5u9GACPjhvLQuedi5M7XR8Esp4JLNp4PwP/s511/Morris+Desch+w+long+barrel+pistol+in+woods+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6GbgCd2Q-cfkWtmekQ41wQHl6jQh0R-aAS9YJHnr2rY_ZV8tfyD28rklbr0irxg4vtTOszb-6UxTB93BAMZY3soQZ2pCE_FwEFOhJ3541R5u9GACPjhvLQuedi5M7XR8Esp4JLNp4PwP/s0/Morris+Desch+w+long+barrel+pistol+in+woods+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morris Desch, a friend of John Bitterling of Allentown, did extensive hunting in Hickory Run area.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogaWBABRatDXeXKy0RSdnxXy_mLF7LzgYVwPmwSSXL66SoOmHt2SMn0QCeEx-_YTu2yWD0kLdHP7nwJtqsg3Kbx9ah-w45_Wkk3uuVz-jdn9h7te1T0-bvwS4ONXS8Iq-Icp3eKk6BJ6Q/s1024/SCAN0320+1905+Hazard+Powder+mallard+Jonas+Snyder%25283%2529+%25281024x549%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogaWBABRatDXeXKy0RSdnxXy_mLF7LzgYVwPmwSSXL66SoOmHt2SMn0QCeEx-_YTu2yWD0kLdHP7nwJtqsg3Kbx9ah-w45_Wkk3uuVz-jdn9h7te1T0-bvwS4ONXS8Iq-Icp3eKk6BJ6Q/s640/SCAN0320+1905+Hazard+Powder+mallard+Jonas+Snyder%25283%2529+%25281024x549%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuJPbxxZqtwJ-9slEO_PFVPEDXG9hdoLX5d6vhBYK1AytXwaEhpC5sAjPmho_njvf3txrur7GbBzqO9TtRJBtySkKCDaNorb8WOJfLF4DQ4jAlDRItcanQiVARPwSsEHE4fzNhoB0vbbW/s487/SCAN0326Mauch+Chunk+Brook+Trout+Company+of+PEnn+Forest+1917+timothy+hay+%252418+20+%252422+haggle+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfuJPbxxZqtwJ-9slEO_PFVPEDXG9hdoLX5d6vhBYK1AytXwaEhpC5sAjPmho_njvf3txrur7GbBzqO9TtRJBtySkKCDaNorb8WOJfLF4DQ4jAlDRItcanQiVARPwSsEHE4fzNhoB0vbbW/s0/SCAN0326Mauch+Chunk+Brook+Trout+Company+of+PEnn+Forest+1917+timothy+hay+%252418+20+%252422+haggle+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mauch Chunk Brook Trout Company - Penn Forest 1917.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8xb4f5BdqRkCTprhUCz1pJb8d7alyZSc32-ohv4WUtPaXHmOJAe31f1now9iJHq0KABLHQKysxItaaPrtgtV2fSX9t4sA-toC6ow6PrfaTsZE9QcAnLX5CeVCCGXZrEmvgxFPyoFEf7c/s1092/SCAN0338+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="763" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8xb4f5BdqRkCTprhUCz1pJb8d7alyZSc32-ohv4WUtPaXHmOJAe31f1now9iJHq0KABLHQKysxItaaPrtgtV2fSX9t4sA-toC6ow6PrfaTsZE9QcAnLX5CeVCCGXZrEmvgxFPyoFEf7c/s640/SCAN0338+%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unknown women imbibers at Hotel Jonas - "Woman with the Clay Pipe."</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ORI6fii9bzDn_GWPuX-L_V8KINvqXB5JNTJE0RcVVvEbbEBlEU7CprvVyrMAZ5RJu4LcRb1KPZP5LQPOUAWf5Gned3331Rf0N5IegE7eg-A6Jaw3wehRt6eHP4EuWewsCPuHJSKmQHVk/s1097/SCAN0338+%25283%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="706" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ORI6fii9bzDn_GWPuX-L_V8KINvqXB5JNTJE0RcVVvEbbEBlEU7CprvVyrMAZ5RJu4LcRb1KPZP5LQPOUAWf5Gned3331Rf0N5IegE7eg-A6Jaw3wehRt6eHP4EuWewsCPuHJSKmQHVk/s640/SCAN0338+%25283%2529.JPG" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2xGTv2684CsuGAX_mprqOJWv3Soxar9BkWunJ0urc8FVrEhTs887UnpQRE12KURZ_9QFFiXH8_mYvJI5OJ7sI8LpPGfQ8a-7LkvcLuJav2VmWpfthT0FDXOSVtO0t_S8o9cEhJjgmbhu9/s2048/SCAN0385Charles+Snyder+wht+John+Snyder+cigar.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1328" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2xGTv2684CsuGAX_mprqOJWv3Soxar9BkWunJ0urc8FVrEhTs887UnpQRE12KURZ_9QFFiXH8_mYvJI5OJ7sI8LpPGfQ8a-7LkvcLuJav2VmWpfthT0FDXOSVtO0t_S8o9cEhJjgmbhu9/s640/SCAN0385Charles+Snyder+wht+John+Snyder+cigar.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles and John Snyder, sons of Jonas Snyder - The inspiration behind the characters of Charles & Jonas Reise - Brains and Brawn. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN9DD7cDLxCFm6SEgJJ1z_xrJljpvQ-zeSX1MPVeMC9l7C1TCFUTJzFFs_ZKEg8g0TR50CyKin_FIrQZN3AuADyuZkfL3rMbg8zGfSTbEx5UvJsVWhOsM0BAW8YQOKQTqHJxtfZR14aUY4/s1024/SCAN0386+Jonas+SNyder+holding+dog+orig+hotel+never+went+in+new+hotel+c1890+%25281024x733%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN9DD7cDLxCFm6SEgJJ1z_xrJljpvQ-zeSX1MPVeMC9l7C1TCFUTJzFFs_ZKEg8g0TR50CyKin_FIrQZN3AuADyuZkfL3rMbg8zGfSTbEx5UvJsVWhOsM0BAW8YQOKQTqHJxtfZR14aUY4/s640/SCAN0386+Jonas+SNyder+holding+dog+orig+hotel+never+went+in+new+hotel+c1890+%25281024x733%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonas Snyder & family- Front Center with animal on lap - c. 1890s.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Ltt1mUcoLDTc9Dd1LFP3KBJZ86AEmRBES0PyzmmQCCUdXJ_5O2Xx4rgRUDZPJvQIJ_c-vYr2NCjNhQ2E3LbuCH8-Gviuo1QDXQxM26BsU8-XnUUO_paNHMZHwHnmpbpm6Ckx2bpeQxwu/s2048/SCAN0389+Arthur+and+Charlie+Meckes+with+Eddie+Holtzman+local+sign+painter.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Ltt1mUcoLDTc9Dd1LFP3KBJZ86AEmRBES0PyzmmQCCUdXJ_5O2Xx4rgRUDZPJvQIJ_c-vYr2NCjNhQ2E3LbuCH8-Gviuo1QDXQxM26BsU8-XnUUO_paNHMZHwHnmpbpm6Ckx2bpeQxwu/s640/SCAN0389+Arthur+and+Charlie+Meckes+with+Eddie+Holtzman+local+sign+painter.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arthur and Charlie Meckes with Eddie Holtzman Hotel Jonas 1950s.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbwGVFBz2HbXcDnXLapnYkNhO3jYv3En0icuHvmwWYcSKvp8xljGPUSmiHH8WRE7xBB5t793ldamJNFRQuV7j5Akuw-gGnxujh6ZmfWdHEXpf9GZ6uFgUVrmNprpUsyzFXjO6v47rkmD0/s1785/SCAN0389+Randy+Starr+a+dentist+wrote+songs+for+Elvis+in+1960s+the+Green+Door.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1337" data-original-width="1785" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbwGVFBz2HbXcDnXLapnYkNhO3jYv3En0icuHvmwWYcSKvp8xljGPUSmiHH8WRE7xBB5t793ldamJNFRQuV7j5Akuw-gGnxujh6ZmfWdHEXpf9GZ6uFgUVrmNprpUsyzFXjO6v47rkmD0/s640/SCAN0389+Randy+Starr+a+dentist+wrote+songs+for+Elvis+in+1960s+the+Green+Door.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A dentist, Randy Starr, wrote the song "Green Door" for Elvis in the 1960s with a Held family relative.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPacX8E0ZdOAAwVErJ31QfQDW3G0T1HtvnmRivAkaTJD9I_QjsLpEh7wYFcj1QNKMpnJyEY2oVuUjdTE5KmBXIXnA5dtKiVOykj_ZidTpnwtHrLM1zEj25DR_LdHHVoeoUBP9HAEr65H2x/s1211/SCAN0391+Charlie+Snyder+pitch+pine+logs+poss+fire+fighting+equip.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPacX8E0ZdOAAwVErJ31QfQDW3G0T1HtvnmRivAkaTJD9I_QjsLpEh7wYFcj1QNKMpnJyEY2oVuUjdTE5KmBXIXnA5dtKiVOykj_ZidTpnwtHrLM1zEj25DR_LdHHVoeoUBP9HAEr65H2x/s640/SCAN0391+Charlie+Snyder+pitch+pine+logs+poss+fire+fighting+equip.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Snyder with pitch pines and forest fire gear - Younger, top, older, bottom.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5UFS-8FNwXJh-KiMwdPqjVRv8tSuBKAwcqons2Iv3w3fO1ctDO3Cai52Rm3UuSQ9DJFOyGrhghJYpzAZzKEP0V5mptZdmbq1sKGfE5ivi5GBIle_V3iVs1N8-dvNPx7dxPH0DsAKpcPb/s1224/SCAN0394+Snyder+with+Forest+Fire+equip+with+original+hotel+of+Jonas+Snyder.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIV2Lc-kZbqF8qwAGUO_AaJCbURPLdQSEtWHOegkAQivls87atiAvLt-Lh0iqpYhyDvNoCHt4E142IISC1yzm-qNm9bSI9Kev0aX6SRmvhz67pUITXudQrm6Jmae-uUnF93x5baHUyhyphenhyphenHn/s1341/Both+are+Abraham+Ahner+son+of+Amos+Amos+was+a+known+bootleger+a+crop+1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIV2Lc-kZbqF8qwAGUO_AaJCbURPLdQSEtWHOegkAQivls87atiAvLt-Lh0iqpYhyDvNoCHt4E142IISC1yzm-qNm9bSI9Kev0aX6SRmvhz67pUITXudQrm6Jmae-uUnF93x5baHUyhyphenhyphenHn/s640/Both+are+Abraham+Ahner+son+of+Amos+Amos+was+a+known+bootleger+a+crop+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abraham Ahner and sons - Not only does this picture suggest they ran moonshine, but...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6jm4OipgiQwT9ou74TlMgfRJ2yjXIFNSb0MLtcT-0SS2fZhJ5hNwYM6tPUh1pUAen0Ka3YoIzzl-BcsxFQelKpVtPSNw6_oYvPVAJzPTfLJZO7S5VaOmA_QHzyzywrOxd2q6UDHMq7jR/s1015/Mary+Alkire+Ahnerstepdaughter+of+Amos+dau+to+Elizabeth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1015" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6jm4OipgiQwT9ou74TlMgfRJ2yjXIFNSb0MLtcT-0SS2fZhJ5hNwYM6tPUh1pUAen0Ka3YoIzzl-BcsxFQelKpVtPSNw6_oYvPVAJzPTfLJZO7S5VaOmA_QHzyzywrOxd2q6UDHMq7jR/s640/Mary+Alkire+Ahnerstepdaughter+of+Amos+dau+to+Elizabeth.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long Run Ahner girl with chickens.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmV3CgaxgKkKIeUP9H3lzejcfOmc1rJv2NynmNu5mQcFjcy4-o_g4EwB3w0S6-PauXE6mxoJ2PQlA7xHHgc930lIUI9PriA6cZG7I03Oj-6GK2sHO_d8GzNmWB_zoczkcq0b4Pw4ziicD/s2048/IMG_3662+Hicks+Bergenstock.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmV3CgaxgKkKIeUP9H3lzejcfOmc1rJv2NynmNu5mQcFjcy4-o_g4EwB3w0S6-PauXE6mxoJ2PQlA7xHHgc930lIUI9PriA6cZG7I03Oj-6GK2sHO_d8GzNmWB_zoczkcq0b4Pw4ziicD/s640/IMG_3662+Hicks+Bergenstock.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William "Hicks" Bergenstock's simple grave at St. Paul's in Albrightsville - He bartered the plot for<br />the painting of Christ's Ascension.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVeel2axGAJLvgyVNGxXkY33cO5LKh5tS0n-vKWBaRy-OjpGzBJ8yYeyv3m_pyyZcmVKebGeu6tgrZbrW8wnqjumN8HAhg5NdWnm1m59HJeU9dRVWRQyOBiQVU-bwTSGuPWicqqxUKaUO/s640/Aquila+Henning+Albrightsville+Cem+near+Mud+Run+shot+by+Harry+Wilkenson+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVeel2axGAJLvgyVNGxXkY33cO5LKh5tS0n-vKWBaRy-OjpGzBJ8yYeyv3m_pyyZcmVKebGeu6tgrZbrW8wnqjumN8HAhg5NdWnm1m59HJeU9dRVWRQyOBiQVU-bwTSGuPWicqqxUKaUO/s0/Aquila+Henning+Albrightsville+Cem+near+Mud+Run+shot+by+Harry+Wilkenson+resz.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>"An Innocent Soul Sent to Eternity"</u></b><br />"Quilly" Henning's grave at the Old Albrightsville Cemetery at Henning and Old Stage Coach Roads - The Wenz Monument Company of Allentown took sympathy for the Henning saga from the sensational trial that ensued from the killing of Quilly (seen here, full body left, looking right) as the central character is the villain, the one-armed school teacher and part-time game warden Wilkinson, along with a cast of characters lurking in the woods, some of the human faces look like dogs. The fight occurred over the shooting of a Henning dog.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjha4uX9-sX-wLFFqzxehqWJVp8XD_nvk4yeWFOkwC8mOBdwH3LelQRCJ9iKjkKlSTTSL2VlOyvZABR1_xXPVCqnM9GoHJYHgQe2HoXnd0YIp5jinHY2NyBbWqT6W-J50fLXj7Aa3IZHKBr/s279/H+C+Wilkinson+pr+BM+Shull+asst+Russell+Ditterline+Dorcas+Boyer%252C+Margaret+Schoenberger%252C+Eliz+Boyer+Kathryn+Everett%252C+James+Storm%252C+MAy+Beaver%252C+Lena+Boyer%252C+Loren+Laury%252C+Willard+Kocher%252C.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjha4uX9-sX-wLFFqzxehqWJVp8XD_nvk4yeWFOkwC8mOBdwH3LelQRCJ9iKjkKlSTTSL2VlOyvZABR1_xXPVCqnM9GoHJYHgQe2HoXnd0YIp5jinHY2NyBbWqT6W-J50fLXj7Aa3IZHKBr/s0/H+C+Wilkinson+pr+BM+Shull+asst+Russell+Ditterline+Dorcas+Boyer%252C+Margaret+Schoenberger%252C+Eliz+Boyer+Kathryn+Everett%252C+James+Storm%252C+MAy+Beaver%252C+Lena+Boyer%252C+Loren+Laury%252C+Willard+Kocher%252C.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wilkinson was a principal in lower Carbon<br />County Schools. He lost his arm in his<br />youth. He is buried at Big Creek.</td></tr></tbody></table>Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-63321141064079633272020-03-24T13:19:00.001-04:002020-05-20T08:53:57.080-04:00The Genie Leaves the Bottle - A Brief History of our Local Pandemics <br />
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From the report written by health professionals in Luzerne
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<i>“About all that could be done at the start was to adopt an
attempt to enforce drastic regulations to minimize contagion...but even in view
of these regulations, and when the plague had burst forth in all its widespread
malignity, the country at large seemed slow to awaken to the enormity of the
peril it faced.”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Tough decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes in life they are tougher than they appear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Denial often rears its ugly head in times
like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worse yet, false information
and conspiracy theories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lifebuoy Soap Ad - 21 Nov 1918 - <br />
Same advice holds true today.</td></tr>
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Mary Rabenold was born near the “Pit” in Tamaqua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her parents were recent immigrants from Germany,
they were butchers to the coal miners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
life was austere her entire life of 93 years.
She never owned a car, she made all her own clothes.</div>
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Her second daughter caught a bad cold in the early spring
month of March 1917.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was just a
cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then dear Helen's cough became more “croopy."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shallow,
labored breaths from an obstructed airway followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a week they looked back upon this time as the
“crisis.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sign of the Times 1917 - Quarantines were more common then.</td></tr>
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She called Dr. W. K. Kistler to her home in the middle of
the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He arrived and laid the three-year-old
on the kitchen table, the same table I now use as my office desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The table I write this story to you now is
that table. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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His advice was to open her airway with a tracheotomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was a strong chance of infection and she might not survive that procedure either. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a difficult choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They decided to wait one more night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Little Helen Rabenold died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr. Kistler died of pneumonia the following year during the Great
Influenza Pandemic of 1918.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like the quote my son Nate just reminded us about: <i>“That men
do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>~
Aldous Huxley<o:p></o:p></div>
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Use whatever metaphor you want, “the genie is out of the
bottle,” “the horse has left the stable.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is spreading and we would all be better served to take a
pound of cure here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cant make up for
the time since it spread other than to socially isolate ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s advice from the 1919 book on this
subject: “Remember that it is easier to prevent an epidemic than it is to stop
one when conditions become dangerous.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we are short sighted, we will experience many rebounds and outbreaks
that will kill people and overwhelm our hospitals who are working as best they
can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Let ‘Safety First’ be the motto of
all people,” the book went on to say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three nurses died in the first week of October in Hazleton in 1918.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They called for all nurses in their third or
fourth year of training to be released to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They asked for the nursing instructors to become active nurses again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A desperate plea went out: “It is the sense of this meeting
that all patriotic citizens will, in every case where possible so to do, release
nurses from their private employ for the general good of the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is their patriotic duty to do this during
the present grave emergency.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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By October 1<sup>st</sup>, Wilkes-Barre had already closed
public places like movie houses and bars, and made funerals private.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By October 5<sup>th</sup> there were more
state health department mandates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Oct
8<sup>th</sup>, there were sixty new cases of it in one day in Wilkes
Barre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miners were not reporting to work
in droves, no one knowing for sure how many actually had the virus.</div>
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The virus was wiping through army barracks both here in Ohio,
Camp Colt in Gettysburg, and Camp Lee Virginia as well as overseas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newspapers were filled each day with deaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet on September 28<sup>th</sup>, on the very
same page announcing the Liberty Bond Parade in Philadelphia, attended by
200,000, it listed the deaths of many of our service personal, a large number in
transit in close quarters of naval ships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many in our area died while in service, including Horace Hongen (Union Hill) and Moses Mertz (St John's, Mahoning).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Servicemen were confined to close quarters, they had<br />
among the highest rates of the disease - 11 Oct 1918</td></tr>
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Some reports said that whiskey was a good cure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prohibition had started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it was wishful thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You talk to old timers of the coal regions
and they all tell you that their favorite drink ‘Boilo,’ made of Four Queens
Whiskey (no cheaper whiskey known to man), orange peel, honey, cinnamon, was
what staved off the illness back then.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"If sounds too good to be true..."<br />
Wasn't mother's advice always right?<br />
October 1918 Minersville</td></tr>
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Nevertheless, there were many newspapers of that time
carrying the story of army barracks ordering cases of whiskey for their
men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A local doctor in Minersville
disagreed with the cure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funny how people
stake claims and believe them so easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do so many prefer to believe anecdotal information and conspiracy
theories when science says otherwise?</div>
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The husband and wife this week took aquarium cleaner in a
small dose because it contained the chemical chloroquine because people have
been promoting it as an anti-corona virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our own President adds to this by over-stating these ideas in his press
conferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scientists and doctors
try to correct this but again, back to the metaphor of the genie in the lamp or
the horse and the stable, once it’s out, its hard to rein back in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then people die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wife is in critical condition. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once these little lifeless bodies get out into hosts (us)
their job is to replicate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Viruses are an odd mix of “life.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike bacteria, a virus can only reproduce
in a host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are really good at
living in our nasal passages and upper respiratory tract, such as in the common cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some, the particularly deadly ones, like to
live deep in your lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This COVID-19
likes both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It thrives on the protein of
the host and can replicate itself by hijacking the cells of your airway and can
multiply rapidly, waiting for you to sneeze or cough or spit out, to spray it
so that it can find another host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so
on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There have been other pandemics that were tough: The H1N1
virus in 1951 and 1957.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
another in 1968 and up until more recent times H1N1 swine flu of 2009, and now
today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What makes today so remarkable is the longer it takes for
symptoms to surface and the number of people who are asymptomatic, meaning,
they aren’t showing any signs of the disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr. Deborah Birx took her temperature every day, and noticed a slight
increase of Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She self-quarantined
and she turned out to be fine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Tony Fauci has been a steady voice of reason in a chaotic response. A response that has spread misinformation and went through a rather consequential period of denial of the potency and havoc that this disease has now inflicted on our people and the throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I found a book written in the immediate aftermath of the
1918 Pandemic, “The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: An Account of its
Ravages in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the Efforts to Combat and Subdue
it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was dedicated to the brave men
and women, nurses and doctors, who risked and sometimes gave their lives in
their care of the suffering.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s take a quick look at the history of some scary times
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Look at the cholera epidemic that hit Lehighton and Mauch
Chunk (Jim Thorpe) in August to October in 1854.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was the year Asa Packer was building his railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was spreading from Baltimore and
Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Easton got it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then as was noted in the time it “followed
the path of commerce.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the Lehigh
Canal, the work being done to build Packer’s Railroad was that path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Much had been written that we were “above the Cholera line.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That the fresh air and cooler climate of our
mountains would protect us, an image I can relate to my youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People still had that idea that we were
remote and removed from things, certainly that could not come here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But it did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It broke
out in a boardinghouse where the “lower classes” stayed in Mauch Chunk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The disease, once one person became infected
could be passed in the germs from their mouths and also from their urine and
stool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So water wells susceptible to bad
sanitation could become a source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The affluent
of Mauch Chunk had the luxury of their own water supplies, they did not need
the public pump that became the epicenter for the spread.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It didn’t take long for the people around here to pick up on
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their scapegoat had arrived: It
was brought here by “foreigners,” most likely those employed constructing Packer’s
railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I refer you once again to the
quote about history and not learning from it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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scapegoat even in today's times. The affluent had<br />
their own water supplies, so it spread among those<br />
living in boarding houses, often times recent<br />
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There is evidence of this same type of blaming going on
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s promise to recognize it and
call it what it is, racism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And let’s
not tolerate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is something we can
avoid, but sad how it keeps rearing its ugly head like a bad weed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mauch Chunk had three doctors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of them died of cholera before it was
over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two more came here, young doctors
in the twenties, brothers Linderman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Garrett ended up marrying Asa and Sarah Minerva Blaksee’s least known
daughter Lucy (she died shortly after marrying in an accident odd a horse.).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/10/mauch-chunks-plague-year-and-linderman.html" target="_blank">Click here for the complete Cholera story I wrote in 2013.</a></div>
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So you could say, Carbon County had its own version of <i>Love
in the Time of Cholera</i>, a great book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (though my
favorite book of all-time is his <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>, which
this social distancing we are currently in seems also quite akin to.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a deep look at that Cholera crisis and to
learn about Dr. Snow who discovered the “Broad Street Pump” as the source of it
in London read this blog post I wrote in 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Dr. Snow’s work was revolutionary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the basis of all epidemiologist work used
today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Typhoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also
a killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spread much the same as
typhoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could be spread person to
person like today’s COVD-19 but also in their feces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It got into wells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It came from milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was nasty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It killed my Great Uncle Garrett Rabenold when he was just 14 in October
1905. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. Kuder buried him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. Kuder’s son later became a doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of his training he came to Lehighton
in 1917 and did a sanitation study and published it in a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a post on that which included many one
of a kind pictures of what Lehighton looked like just months before the Great
Influenza Pandemic hit in 1918.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/11/typhoid-fever-and-toilet-slops.html" target="_blank">For many original 1917 pictures of the sanitary coditions of Lehighton - Click Here.</a></div>
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My great uncle Garrett was the same age as the young Dr.
Kuder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They attended the same church,
perhaps the same confirmation class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wonder if Garrett’s death impacted Dr. Kuder to do the work he did?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a link to that story on Dr. Kuder, whose
son also became a doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both doctor
Kuder’s served in mobile military hospitals in WWII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was fortunate to interview <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/10/dr-joseph-kuders-sanitary-view-of_20.html" target="_blank">Dr. Kuder II beforehe died. (I’m always fascinated about howmany places and people my search for the truth in history has taken me.)</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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In January 1907, Lehighton’s own Dr. Horn was seriously ill
with typhoid fever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People could suffer
with a fever for one to two months!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
February 1907, the U.S. battleship left Puerto Rico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time it hit the Bahamas, thirty-one on
board were in critical condition with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They anchored in New York City where it was placed under quarantine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In September 1912 a typhoid epidemic broke out in Bethlehem
tied to milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were serious, some died
in just a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Horn survived his ordeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So did many others, like Giant’s catcher Al
DeVomer in July 1924.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the 1920s,
motor touring had become rather popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in July 1927 motorists were advised to stay away from Montreal with
5,000 people sick and at least 300 deaths there due to typhoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The advise said to perhaps avoid the city for
a year or more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course, there was Typhoid Mary Mallon, the Irish cook in
New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was an asymptomatic
carrier of the disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1900, she
cooked for seven different affluent families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Within about two weeks of her arrival, the families got violently and
deathly ill.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She moved on to Manhattan, 1901.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family developed fevers and diarrhea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hired laundry woman died of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she moved to a lawyer family where seven
of the eight became ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She moved on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This went on and on until one family hired an epidemic
researcher to track down where it came from and they found Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They quarantined her on North Brother Island
New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She refused to give stool or
urine samples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She refused to have her
gallbladder removed because doctors believed that’s where the bacteria that
caused typhoid lived, even in those days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If she would have submitted to this treatment, she would have been freed
of the contagion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she didn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was released in 1910 under the promise of never cooking
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sought work as a
laundress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the lure of more money to
cook overtook her and she was soon infecting people again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was quarantined again to the island in
1915 where she stayed until she died in 1938.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again, a simple gallbladder removal would have been an easy fix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She refused. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nobody wants to be known as a typhoid Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s listen to the scientists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What science tells us is the course
we must go by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay positive, stay
healthy, keep the faith.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s much to be learned from the 1918 pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They set up many emergency hospitals in
armories and school buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And since
churches were not supposed to be open sometimes churches were used, taking
doors off hinges and laying them across the pews as beds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They formed canteens in church kitchens to make soup and
broth to be delivered to the sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wilkes-Barre was a hot spot for it and so were the coal regions in general,
where so many men worked in close contact with each other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It even struck in the “Silent North” of Labrador where there’s
nothing of civilization among the Inuit population there, where they said even canned
milk was a luxury, where candy was hardly ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And without a doctor or nurse of any kind, these
entire communities of seventeen to thirty people were wiped out by the disease,
in one case where just one person survived them all. And now with this pandemic, we are seeing our most susceptible populations ravaged, the poor of our inner cities and the Navajo nation, where they still drink from communal wells, most homes lacking indoor plumbing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the Luzerne County report, by the first week of October, six deaths occurred around Catawissa, near Bloomsburg. Even though the schools were closed and they were converting them into emergency hospitals, overall, people were not heeding the advice of the health departments, they were ignoring science. </div>
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As Dr. Arment of Catawissa said the situation is bad,"Schools are closed, yet the saloons in Centrailia were wide open, doing business as usual." </div>
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No one is immune to all viruses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one is super human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all mortal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s choice what science says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s stay focused, let’s keep our eye on the
ball, our eye on the prize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s stick
together, like Ben Franklin’s snake, Unite or Die never had a more apropos
meaning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stay positive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep
the Faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://northamericalehighton.blogspot.com/2020/03/students-are-really-doing-well-on-their.html" target="_blank">(Yesterday I wrote a storyabout an inspiring many I never met, but one of my Dad’s war buddies who wasinterned in our WWII Internment Camps. Readthat short story for inspiration on keeping the faith. Click here.)</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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~~~TO SEE MORE MANY MORE ARTICLES FROM 1918, CLICK THE ABOVE LINK~~~</div>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-63946034261121978162019-10-20T16:26:00.001-04:002019-10-21T08:13:31.239-04:00Charles Shutt creates 'Tecumseh' + 5 Other Interesting Lehighton Legionaires<br />
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most unique traditions.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-american-legion-and-legion-post-314.html" target="_blank">For more about the 100th Anniversary of Lehighton Legion Post #314 including rare pictures from Last Mans Club dinners of WWI and WWII.</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You hear it at every home game at Lehighton for about
50 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It fires a 10-gauge blank shotgun
shell and reverberates throughout the entire Mahoning Valley and all through
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the 1920s he ran a confection shop on Second Street but later became an
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in the area, securing funding for the Troop 81 at All Saints Episcopal Church
from James I. Blakslee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his wife
also ran the Lehighton Youth Center in the 1940s and 1950s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Army-Navy football game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He purchased
the cannon in the early 1960s for $15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lehighton
football games wouldn’t be the same without the thunder from this gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for a short-time restriction by
Principal Daniel I. Farren, the gun has not missed a game in over 50 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the rip cord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In recent years the
firing is conducted by former Lehighton Mayor Don Rehrig. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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highlighted at the 100<sup>th</sup> Anniversary ceremony of Legion Post #314 in
September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These people dedicated their
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 1936 Graver Bathing Casino -<br />
Evelyn Ripkey (who had a beauty shop in Lehighton for many<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.8192px;">years) was crowned "Miss Carbon County," Hontz, Helen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.8192px;">Tyson "Miss Mahoning," and Betty Smith. Not pictured</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.8192px;">was Dorothy Beers crowned "Miss Lehighton."</span></td></tr>
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along with the first 100 from Canada to join the British Expeditionary Forces
early in the war, a full year before the U.S. entered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and right arm at Meuse-Argonne the last month of the war, his 7<sup>th</sup>
over there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lehighton Heights after WWI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was well
known as a kind and cheery fellow and a friend to many. He later achieved Lehighton immortality starting Dunbar Bottling, at one time where "Dance With Kim" is located at South Fourth St and currently along the bypass in Lehighton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But in 1935, national newspapers picked up on a story
of Lewis serving in WWI while he attended the state Legion convention in
Wilkes-Barre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The headlines proclaimed
him to be the “fattest WWI Legionnaire.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he should have never been allowed in the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stood only 5’3”...he was one inch to short
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will do wonders for morale of the other men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first weeks of training camp at Fort Lee Virginia, without pants because the
army had none with a big enough waist band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Graduate of West Point, fought in
Japan, fought in Korea, and 3 campaigns in Vietnam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silver Star. Legion of Merit with two oak
clusters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bronze Star. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and his comrades being a tolerant group of men, one member of the WWI LMC was
George Harmon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shoemaker’s shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He instantly immersed
himself in giving his time to civic duties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Besides being an active Legionnaire, he was a firefighter, coached youth
baseball for seven years, and along with Wilbur Warner, did everything he could
to help get the Hospital up and running, and served in many volunteer
capacities there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stayed up all night working the dispatcher radio coordinating emergency
services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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donations and worked around the clock making 100 pairs of shoes, for free, to
help the victims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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troops of WWI, he came to Lehighton to become one of our most integrated and
selfless citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His wife Sarah moved here from Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They married at Fire Company #2 and held
their banquet at the Legion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire
WWI LMC was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kept giving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both he and his wife
donated their bodies to Philadelphia Medical Colleges for research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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National Legion Convention in Miami Florida October 1948 - My dad, Randy Rabenold, was a young Marine Corps recruit. He was a member of the Marine Corps Band and they were called down to march in the parade. In his letter, he wrote how they played "Hail to the Chief" for President Truman and his daughter. He said Harry walked within 10 feet of him.<br />
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-49271321109738654022019-09-14T12:55:00.003-04:002019-10-20T16:57:53.193-04:00100th Anniversary of American Legion Post #314 <b><u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">5 September 1919 to 2019</span></u></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">American Legion Post #314, Lehighton turned one hundred on Sunday 15 September 2019. A day before Congress officially sanctioned the national charter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So it was fitting that Post #314 held a dinner and program to reflect on the impact of what 100 years of Legionism has done for our community as well as honor some of our longest serving Legionnaires.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~<a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2019/10/charles-shutt-5-other-interesting.html" target="_blank">Be sure to check back soon for a look at Post #314's 6 Interesting Members" to be posted later this week.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~Be sure to check back for future posts regarding transcripts from WWI and WWII Last Mans Clubs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~Inquiries may be directed to Rabenold@ptd.net.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three World War II veterans were on hand to receive recognition from both the local and state level of the organization but also from Senators Casey and Toomey, State Senator Yudichak and State Rep Doyle Heffley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WWII veterans recognized were Asher Repsher, a former dairy farmer from Ashfield. Chester "Chet" Frantz, born in Summit Hill and currently of Tamaqua, who served in the 100th Infantry Division and Marvin Barry Sr., father of Major General Marvin Barry II.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After honoring the guests, a 15-minute presentation was given by Ron Rabenold, which delved into the unique impact and the critical role the men and women of Post #314 have played within our community for the past 100 years. </span><br />
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as a Son of the American Legion, I am proud to have been asked to speak to you
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not changed in the hundred years since its inception. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Democracy was here before any of
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the closing the Legion staff and volunteers served a delicious home-made meatloaf, ham, potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, salad, and a marble cake. It was a fine day of Lehighton fellowship and appreciation, an important day to recognize an organization as integral to our town's life blood as any.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank Bayer of Lehighton. Mary was among</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the British Expeditionary Forces before</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last Man Club. She was Vice President</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the Club and its 10th member of 72 to die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary Bayer was selected as one of 5 Unique</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Members of Post #314's History. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To Read About All 5, CLICK HERE.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank Bayer Senior the day before</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the right arm and left leg at Muese-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Argonne in October 1918 after being </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">overseas for seven months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a transcript of Rabenold's "5 Unique People of Post #314" click here. There were five people, with distinctly different and varied talents, who embodied the ideals of being a Legionnaire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Lehighton's Bert David and the National Legion - Paris, Spring 1919 - </u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rabenold went onto say:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The First Great War had just ended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But our service personal didn’t leave
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">They had one more job to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And before coming home, one thousand
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He fought in WWI. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For God and country - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">These were the founding ideals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the heart of the ideals of American Legionism is patriotism and looking after each other. And as an overarching consequence of that is strong community involvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until there was WWI and Last Man Wilbur Warner, it seemed as though Lehighton would never have a community hospital of its own. Warner seemingly willed this to happen on his own will power alone. He raised over $750,000 for the project and Post #314 came up with $5,000 of it. (That would spend like $52,000 today. Warner was also able to secure a grant from S. S. Kresge, founder of Kmart, for $100,000. Kresge was born in Kresgeville.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In August 1936 the Legion hosted a swimming carnival at Graver's Bathing Casino. It included swimming races and a penny scramble. They also held a "Bathing Beauty" contest. The contest served as a qualifier for the Miss Anthracite Pageant which was a qualifier for the state pageant in Pittsburgh. The state winner would go to Atlantic City that September. The local winners that year are pictured with Legion Commander Lee H. Hontz.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evelyn Ripkey (who had a beauty shop in Lehighton for many<br />
years) was crowned "Miss Carbon County," Hontz, Helen<br />
Tyson "Miss Mahoning," and Betty Smith. Not pictured<br />
was Dorothy Beers crowned "Miss Lehighton."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nat Hyde's Orchestra played for the dance that night. Lehighton swim winners: Ardith Ruth (1st - under 12, 30 yard), Ann Humphries (2nd - under 14, 30 yard), June Snyder (2nd - under 18, 30 yard and 2nd - open, 50 yard). Diving was won by Minnie Hill and John VanHorn of Lehighton. In boys diving it was Alton Kistler with 1st with a second for John Goldbach. Russell Jones of Weissport (1st</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - under 12, 30 yard), Paul Miner </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2nd - under 12, 30 yard), John Heller of Weissport </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1st - under 14, 30 yard), Bill Humphries </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2nd - under 14, 30 yard), Percy Slick </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1st - under 18, 30 yard and 2nd - open, 50 yard), and Ernest Bowman </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2nd - under 18, 30 yard).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The official starter was beloved Lehighton teacher Albert Dominico. Judges were Marion Bock, Lewis Ginder (another Lehighton icon), and also Dominico. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Post #314 also was the sole sponsor and coordinator of Lehighton's annual Halloween Parade up into the 1950s. The post also makes Lehighton's annual Memorial Day services possible. And by way of Americanism and Patriotism, the post has held Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Ceremonies as well. The Hometown Heroes banner program is also facilitated by the Legion. Oratory and essay contests for all ages of school children also occur each year through their efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do Americanism projects have an impact on building patriotic citizens? When WWII Veteran Chet Frantz, mentioned earlier, was a young boy scout living in Summit Hill, he took part in his communities Flag Day ceremony. When Ron Rabenold was in High School, he competed in the VFW's "Voice of Democracy" oratory contest, leading him to speak at his first Memorial Day services in 1985. Rabenold is a frequent speaker at Memorial Day services and at other civic occasions. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Years before the Legion Home was complete, the first WWI First Man Club</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dinners were in the dining hall of Mrs. Cora Person's "New Fort Allen Hotel."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cora was the mother of WWI veteran Wilbur Person, a well-known insurance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">agent on First St Lehighton known for his framed Currier and Ives prints on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the walls. Wilbur's son Wilbur was a veteran of the Vietnam Era and the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">original office is still intact, run by grandson William Person today.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Differing amounts of privilege.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But one set of ideals. Ideals of the American Legion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">They pledged to help their fellow man
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To Legionnaires of Post #314 gathered
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It gives me great pleasure to inform
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WWI LMC - Bert B David was the 11<sup>th</sup> WWI Last Man to pass away. Forty-five members paid farewell; Wilbur Person gave the Eulogy Sept 27 1948; Last Man
David attended the first meeting of their club on Nov 12, 1938 and was the
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'Last Mans Club' (LMC) for WWI did not gets its start until November 12th, 1938, nearly twenty years after the war. Only 72 members joined and saw their membership through until the end. (If a member lapsed in their dues, 50 cents a year, they were dropped from the rolls. At least 5 to 10 members were dropped over the years.) Even so, counting 72 members, twenty years from the war, it seemed that at first, the WWI Club saw fewer members pass on than did the WWII LMC. Below here find the original typed funeral service for LMC Members for WWII. Not the chaplain wrote and crossed out names upon the succession of deaths. These names here represent the first six men of WWII.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But something to keep in mind is, these are only the men who joined the LMC. There are numerous men in the area who returned home without joining the Legion. And some of these men died in unfortunate and tragic ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seeking mental health services was frowned upon in the society of that time. The entire perspective of the field has changed and even though medicines and techniques have improved, the level of care in those days was rather bleak, in addition to the reticence of these men to seek help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Let the reader be reminded in this era one could be involuntarily committed. Getting some one "locked up" was sometimes more of a punitive than therapeutic measure. A perusal of the papers of the time can find certain vice crimes were deemed as "perversion" and often these offenders were committed to state psychiatric facilities. Thus there being such a strong stigma attached to seeking care that many died by way of a variety of self destructive ways.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We recognize the destructiveness of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder today (PTSD). It's hard to imagine the struggles our men carried in that era. Service personal come home today with a myriad of struggles. Lehighton is proud of them all and we as a community should grieve for the sacrifcies both on the battlefield and for those who lost their fight in the war they brought home with them (See the Michael Wargo monument along the bypass or read this tribute to him here.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even though he was a member of Shoemaker-Haydt Post #314, Milton Green (a brother to Mary Green, wife of Herman Ahner) he apparently did not join the LMC. Green's death is most certainly a tragic accident. One friend and pallbearer of Green was Levi Monk who died from a fall from an old bridge several nights later. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: medium;">9 August 1945 - Morning Call - </b>Headlines like these were nearly weekly occurrences in the years right after the war. How much influence did PTSD symptoms have is anyone's guess. A pre-occupied mind certainly can be a contributing factor in accidental deaths, particularly in the jobs many veterans found themselves working after the war: the railroad, mines, Bethlehem Steel, etc.<br />
<b>Complete article of both Monk's and Green's deaths appear at the bottom of this article.</b> </td></tr>
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The<span style="text-align: right;"> Lehighton Legion Post #314 turns 100 this 19 September.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wounded one in Italy and twice in Germany, Charles Yenser of Mahoning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and Post #314 member was interviewed for Veterans Day 1999.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually, Yenser rose to the rank of Colonel with the PA National Guard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and helped fete Major General Bert A. David at the Lehighton Elks in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1972. <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/all-charlesyenser-story.html" target="_blank">The picture here is from the Morning Call article written by <br />David Venditta and can be viewed by clicking this link.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yenser passed away three months later. His son Denny was a</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lloyd Arnold loved the radio. He was a radio operator in France during the First War and in 1922 served as a radio specialist on a submarine and also during the Second War. He was Lehighton's only member of both Last Mans Clubs and he was the third last survivor of the WWI club. He passed away 15 November 1984 at the age of 86. At his death, he was the oldest member out of 6,684 members of the U.S. Submarine Veterans Association. He was the 70th of 72 members of the WWI club.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">12th Annual -World War I Last Mans Club Dinner - November 12th, 1949</u><br />One distinguishing visual between the WWI and WWII LMC was their uniforms. The WWI club bought club uniforms early in their forming. By the 12th annual here, many are also seen in civilian suits. This dinner was held in Post #314's Dining Hall before the present day bar was constructed there. You can see the current bathroom doors on the wall and distinctive support beams above. Unfortunately George Harmon, second from right in fore ground, is the only verified person in this picture. George was well known in town for his many civic contributions. There were 55 members present and President Wilbur Person called the meeting to order at 6:48 PM. The pledge of this WWI as well as the WWII meetings went as follows: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the country for which it stands, Our Last Man's Club to the end, With liberty and justice to all." There are several slight differences between this and its current form. "Under God, indivisible" were added in 1954. It is not known why the clubs chose "and to the country" when all flag codes at that time were using "nation." Continuing the tradition started at the New Fort Allen Hotel meals, the men ate a "delicious turkey dinner prepared by the staff of the American Legion." This is the first LMC Dinner without its sole female member Mrs. Mary Kennedy Bayer. The flowers were donated by the WWII LMC and the WWI club reciprocated for their December banquet. It is certain that Lehighton's LMCs were rather rare. The speaker this year was former state Legion Commander Charles S. Cook. He said, "This is the first time I was ever a guest or present at a Last Man's Club meeting." He was impressed with the meeting and in particular the fireplace service when the glasses of the departed members are smashed. Last Man Clarence Hahn sang "Face to Face" and "A Glad Prayer" which were "enjoyed by all." The club made $22.31 profit from the 1948 banquet and earned $2.39 interest on their balance of $137.30. It was noted that one person gave a $1.00 donation. After spending $18 for the WWII LMC's flowers, the group had exactly $145 going forward. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">34th Annual Officers from 1971. President Wilbur Person is left. Even into 1971, with all the changes to the national pledge allegiance in place as they are today, the LMCs still said the pledge as follows: "I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, And to the COUNTRY for which it stands, Our Last Man's Club to the end, with Liberty and Justice for all." Last Man James G. Smith gave the Toast to the Dead, Last Man Raymond J. Rex gave the Toast to the Sick. Last MAn Wilbur Person went to the fireplace and broke glasses for: Jay Dreisbach (7/22/70), Robert C. Semmel (7/7/70), and Mark Zellner (5/31/70). Apparently the club recognized them from most recent to less. LMC Chaplain was Raymond J. Rex, Secretary Arthur F. Everett, and Herman Lewis was Treasurer. It appears Frank Bayer took over his wife's duties as Vice President. As was the normal custom, the group closed with "God Bless America" and the members then held hands "forming a continuous chain" and sang two stanzas of Blest Be the Tie That Binds." A list of all members present: George Acker, Leon B. Arner, Lloyd Arner, Charles Bauschpies, Frank Bayer, Al J. Evans, Charles Gerber, Arthur F. Everett, Clarence Hahn, Allen J. Fritch, Floyd Harleman, Mahlon Kistler, Floyd Kromer, Herman Lewis, Allen S. Mertz, Wilbur Person, William E. Reigel, Raymond J. Rex, James G. Smith, Raymond C. Smith, and Joseph Vanage.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WWI LMC sometime in the 1950s - George Harmon is front center left facing the camera. In 1947 he gave the toast to the living. In the 1940s, he coached a youth baseball team for seven years. He also helped pioneer the early days of Lehighton's famed Soap Box Derbies. Originally from Delaware, born to a father who made a living as a "coachman," Harmon never left the states in WWI. He served as a mechanic in the segregated 2nd Company of the 154th Development Battalion at Fort Meade, Maryland. George was forever working on something both in his shoe repair shop or with the Fire Company or volunteering at the hospital. He was once quoted saying, "The only time I don't work is when I'm lazy, and this isn't very often." When it was his time to marry, the Legion Post hosted his wedding part after services were held on the second floor of Fire Co. No. 2. His wife Sarah moved here from Philadelphia. An active firefighter in his early years, Harmon spent the night of the devastating fire of December 1955, directing emergency services via radio dispatch. "It was a great experience. The religion, color or creed of the man behind the desk didn't matter. We all had a job and we did it." He work around the clock and did not charge a single cent after the 1955 flood making nearly 100 pair of shoes for the victims in Weissport. In 1955, suffering from diabetes, Harmon became deathly sick and spent 30 days in the hospital he helped create. Nearly destitute, the community came together (under the leadership of Wilbur Warner) to take care of Harmon's bills. Sarah died in 1959 and George followed in 1960. However, do not look for their graves. "I'm giving my body after death for research is my way of squaring my debt." George's body went to Penn's medical school and Sarah's went to Jefferson's, both of Philadelphia.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">1st Annual Last Mans Club Dinner - December 7, 1946</b><br />At this point, no member of the club had passed away.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LAST CALL - This was the final letter urging any eligible members to join the Last Mans Club<br />
of WWII. Opening the membership was brought up at subsequent meetings but after the<br />
deadline above, no new members were ever accepted as near as can be certain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Marked "1947" which would make it the "2nd Annual - December 7, 1947"</u></b><br />However, the club didn't experienced its first loss until 29 June 1948. David W. Reiner of Parryville broke his<br />neck from a fall from a ladder while painting a building at his home. <b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Therefore, this is probably either the 3rd or 4th Annual in 1948 or 1949 </b>by virtue of the "1" on the floral hanging on the mantle. Since the photo below also has a "1" on it and is marked "1948," this photo could be from 1949. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>3rd Annual - December 7,1948</u></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">"4th Annual - December 7, 1949"</u><b> -</b> It is marked "1949," however the is no discernible number on the wall hanging on the mantle. If so, that could make this one 1947, the 2nd Annual.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4th Annual Dinner - December 7, 1949</span></u><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />George "Yix" I. LaRose, Secretary-Treasurer; Arthur Webb, First Vice President; Michael Markovitz, National Legion Rehabilitation Officer; Richard Evans, Toast to Living; Donald "Jack" Anthony, President (shaking hands with Markovitz); Edward Knappenberger, Toastmaster and Norman Benner, Toast to the Dead. The portrait of William W. Shoemaker, the Post's WWI namesake, looks on from the back. Markovitz urged the veterans to fight for "a fair adjusted compensation" in PA, with 4 million WWI and 18 million WWII veterans, "we have more power than we realize." Lloyd Arnold was presented a gift from President Anthony for being the only member with dual membership in both the WWI and WWII Clubs. By a standing vote of 67-50, a motion was defeated to open the membership up for one year. NOTE - The #1 on the floral hanging on the wall signifies they had one departed comrade, David W. Reiner who fell off a ladder in 1948.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>6th Annual - December 7, 1951</u></b> - This one appears to be marked correctly, as the club did lose four members by 1951: David Reiner (1948), Delphin Crowley (1950), Noel Gombert (1951), and Darryl Beisel (1951).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">December 1949 - Markovitz, Evans, Anthony, and Benner.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: right;">The Lehighton Legion Post #314 turns 100 this 19 September.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: right;">The Lehighton Legion Post #314 turns 100 this 19 September.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In terms of 1953 buying power, the $2.50 would spend like $22.45 today.<br />
Gas was 22 cents a gallon and a loaf of bread was 16 cents. Average income<br />
was $4,011 and the average house was $8,200.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>27 July 1945 - Morning Call - </b></span>Milton Green was the brother-in-law to Herman Ahner, one of the craftsman who built the Legion Hall.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As always, when Mayor Clark Ritter gives a proclamation, he gives it in a nice frame. <br />
One of many ways Clark continues to give back to his community. <br />
We are fortunate to have such a good man as he.</td></tr>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-45409945119607152692019-05-27T15:59:00.001-04:002019-09-17T11:31:06.664-04:00Take Action - Lehighton Memorial Day 2019<br />
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Charlie Uhler and Carlos Teets who are no longer with us)…to my Dad who
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for the flowers the children will strew on the graves later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They continued the work of the Operation
Never Forget Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With any luck, I hope
to get that club up and running once again.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://youtu.be/PVxKKeOoVc4" target="_blank">Lehighton UVO salautes at Weissport Park</a></span><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/WmWhKBK0fl0" target="_blank">Services at Union Hill Cemetery - Steve Ebbert speaker</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/NI1y3hoICAI" target="_blank">Honoring the Lost at Sea - Wreath into Lehigh River</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/zVMCr9rmL_o" target="_blank">Wreath Floats Away</a><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/lx_t6Mc6iBw" target="_blank">"Faith of Our Fathers" - Lehighton Band + Lehighton Boys & Girls Band</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today is a glorious day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We have the sun on our face, clouds to keep us cool, the wind at our backs,
dew on our feet, and joy in our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are here to remember those who paid for our
freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Your presence today is an action that shows your devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They took action to secure our freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a day to refresh and renew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let us take a fresh look upon a grave with renewed interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let us take action to remember those who showed their
love by giving their time and devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s make a mental picture of what devotion looks
like:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Use your mind’s eye right now, remember what you see…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHrkKRvSxqplyDfxAhrD_w9K6MO9_6VO98k_irfQIWt4T9oLOqQQTQuJx2_2w9bf646i3k-5IvFSMIU5_hwAdwMKNebnYnwH6aLAmSzUEuaTjrTQnWqV2vkH4ef1CTAWpv-1WvH61ZUBI/s1600/IMG_2883.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPHrkKRvSxqplyDfxAhrD_w9K6MO9_6VO98k_irfQIWt4T9oLOqQQTQuJx2_2w9bf646i3k-5IvFSMIU5_hwAdwMKNebnYnwH6aLAmSzUEuaTjrTQnWqV2vkH4ef1CTAWpv-1WvH61ZUBI/s640/IMG_2883.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayor Ritter and the Poppy Queen enjoy the shade before the program began.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you look at the Tomb of the Unknown, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you look out at the rolling Hills of Arlington, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you see the low country of Luxemburg, the sandy
bluffs of Cambridge, and the beach front cemetery of Normandy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When you cast your eye across the sea of white crosses,
each one, representing its own story of devotion to our country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That is love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XtOl8oLB6_bWPPLtjQYreZ0hH-8XsNZVswQE47UWFFlY9vo_bzo8ymAKcxfv_TzJ0OENYfnjTD4M-bwEOcAIcXO0Ac8OjIkjjGEmWV_nP_jVjfhEvwH1Ckw_L5jxlgbrcxYGnJ73b3ZU/s1600/IMG_2893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XtOl8oLB6_bWPPLtjQYreZ0hH-8XsNZVswQE47UWFFlY9vo_bzo8ymAKcxfv_TzJ0OENYfnjTD4M-bwEOcAIcXO0Ac8OjIkjjGEmWV_nP_jVjfhEvwH1Ckw_L5jxlgbrcxYGnJ73b3ZU/s320/IMG_2893.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carol Kimmel Ritter shows me the aluminum<br />
bracelet her father Bob made for members of<br />
his family. This one he made for his wife. He<br />
made a matching one for himself that he and<br />
his wife wore. The metal came from a<br />
Japanese zero that crashed into Bob's destroyer<br />
escort ship he served on during WWII.<br />
Bob Kimmel and my Uncle Robert<br />
Haas were the best of friends, having<br />
coffee with each other everyday, several<br />
times a day, like clockwork. Carol<br />
recently shared this story with me when I<br />
visited with her and Mayor Ritter this week.<br />
I was so glad she flagged me down to show<br />
me such an important family memento.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’d like to share a few stories about love and devotion.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’d like to start with a few living and a few who have
died securing the freedoms we love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let’s start with Major Pete Semanoff who is stationed
in Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s earned two bronze stars
for tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But he took action as a young boy too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He devoted himself to get to know Clarence
Smoyer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And because of this, a book was written about Smoyer
that is a national best-seller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SoXpmLalWZUVVhXom7Mn6ZAzCiCXOarfxsWWpF0y6L1_ef3_ReoTO-bxb1Fa1OQjOplQmxDvSDa4sG3Eo4CXYrZrL6HP_Z-ud9EIDv31q9rxWdVyh7uscerC1T1mBiInyLpujQwZ0L6D/s1600/IMG_2907.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1600" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SoXpmLalWZUVVhXom7Mn6ZAzCiCXOarfxsWWpF0y6L1_ef3_ReoTO-bxb1Fa1OQjOplQmxDvSDa4sG3Eo4CXYrZrL6HP_Z-ud9EIDv31q9rxWdVyh7uscerC1T1mBiInyLpujQwZ0L6D/s400/IMG_2907.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayor Clark Ritter greets Clarence Smoyer, Lehighton native and subject<br />
of Adam Makos book entitled <i>Spearhead</i>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And now Smoyer’s story of love and devotion to country
is known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pete’s Dad is Gene Willard Semanoff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gene is named after two uncles, both of them KIA
during WWII.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gene’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mother’</i>s
brother, Willard Reabold, of Hacklebernie, died in the Battle of the Bulge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gene’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">father’s</i>
brother, George “Gene,” was killed at Saipan while honoring his commitment to
bring someone home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That someone was Samuel Kutalek of Nesquehoning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Samuel Kutalek enlisted the very day Hitler invaded
Poland, September 1<sup>st</sup>, 1939.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was sent to the Philippines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was captured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDGZylWYNZbVK0Jq-tRcaqGEWZPRPAsiNL-_lljN1Q4NSNrQL4lwP8PXUkzMJw0orNXv0NrGqUfGnuAEDT6S8PXEvzpZeZlnTK9YSGqnAwqk4DQb_sNj0SJXaqkjIvBDgzvNajxIVCdBi/s1600/Kutalek+Sept.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDGZylWYNZbVK0Jq-tRcaqGEWZPRPAsiNL-_lljN1Q4NSNrQL4lwP8PXUkzMJw0orNXv0NrGqUfGnuAEDT6S8PXEvzpZeZlnTK9YSGqnAwqk4DQb_sNj0SJXaqkjIvBDgzvNajxIVCdBi/s400/Kutalek+Sept.png" width="245" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam Kutalek took action as soon<br />
as he heard of Hitler's invasion of Poland.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And there he was marched at the point of a Japanese
bayonet, during the infamous Bataan Death March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And unknown to his parents, he had survived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But they did not know this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was reported missing for over a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When they learned he was alive, Sam’s brother Paul and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his best friend,</i> Gene Semanoff, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vowed to join the Marines, find Kutalek, and
bring him home.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Both men, Paul and Gene, died honoring their vow,
while Sam Kutalek was released and lived a long and happy life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGAjC84pSWDRoTAw9ItFQEGoTW_jQez0IRUkRi7GIQxLhXdTcuDfLEt2ZuICyx7M96QB64004Rw57s4ki8ZfWFN2wi3U41SpsuiWdiPu34i-YVanJBNZdwLr0R72TQ9js1f1iUrAPXNyy/s1600/Kutalek+Sept.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="382" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGAjC84pSWDRoTAw9ItFQEGoTW_jQez0IRUkRi7GIQxLhXdTcuDfLEt2ZuICyx7M96QB64004Rw57s4ki8ZfWFN2wi3U41SpsuiWdiPu34i-YVanJBNZdwLr0R72TQ9js1f1iUrAPXNyy/s640/Kutalek+Sept.png" width="314" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">18 September 1945 - The announcement of<br />
Sam Kutalek's release and the deaths of his brother<br />
and George "Gene" Semanoff.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Clarence Smoyer and Joseph “Yzush” Sitarchyk were
friends as young boys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These children of the Depression had it rough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sitarchyk’s father died when Joseph was just 11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Joe’s father died while trying to keep his family warm.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He had a wooden cart he’d push through the scrap woods
along the river and the RR tracks near North First St.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The news accounts of that week described the
early November cold snap we were having.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wood he’d gather to keep his family warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And one day he was hit by a car and killed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Joseph grew up in want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He’d sometimes steal a can of soup from the store just
to have something to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And according
to Clarence, Joseph was well acquainted with more trouble as he got older…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">18 November 1935 - The Great Depression<br />
made many of our "Greatest Generation" tougher,<br />
but Joe Sitarchyk had a rough start, his family losing<br />
their father so many in the family. The Sitrachyk name<br />
had the family name Harvilla attached to the end of it.<br />
Joe and his brother John Sitarchyk dropped that<br />
part of their name, however the paper only printed<br />
Harvilla.</td></tr>
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with his BB gun and roasting their legs over a fire along the Mahoning Creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These tough times made tough men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only 9 escaped unwounded and uncaptured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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bridge and vowed to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They swore allegiance and famously signed a dollar
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many who survive such terrible ordeals live with
memories that cannot be shaken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some take these memories into further actions to help
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By sharing his story, Smoyer has given us a look into
the heart of a humble and devoted warrior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a picture of Joe Sitarchyk taken by Pete<br />
Semanoff in his 30 interviews of area veterans<br />
for his 1994 Eagle Scout Project. We are lucky<br />
Pete took the time to document their stories, otherwise<br />
many of them would have been lost to time. Joe<br />
passed away in 2002.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not one who wanted to kill for malice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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family he loved so dearly, the family who drove inside his sardine can on
tracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Smoyer was driven to perfection out of loyalty to
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with many terrible memories he couldn’t shake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are lucky to have men and women like these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They took action, they served, they fought, and too
many died, securing our freedoms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As a youth, Smoyer and his friends<br />
had a hut near Heilman's Dam on<br />
the Mahoning. They'd shoot bullfrogs<br />
with their BB guns and eat the frogs<br />
legs over a campfire.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They gave all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Take action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Visit the Michael Wargo Memorial today and renew your
sense of devotion to country and to those who are gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Renew your love and devotion for family, for country,
for those brave men and women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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love and devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today is a Glorious Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We have the sun on our face, we have clouds to keep us
cool, the wind at our backs, dew on our feet, and joy in our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are here to remember those who paid for our
freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0XA0bvTj4q-sKtJUDVgoMfWsYE8XzegXdleaKO88OiFKKDmFwr_yHelRX6C5L_Xauvxq7fDEysbhYVwJSOwBNpTOrAExBmy5cJ0jXyMU7ObGs8ypI656-5YSpd_dmYa_E0_d-Qs0yB3x/s1600/IMG_2897.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0XA0bvTj4q-sKtJUDVgoMfWsYE8XzegXdleaKO88OiFKKDmFwr_yHelRX6C5L_Xauvxq7fDEysbhYVwJSOwBNpTOrAExBmy5cJ0jXyMU7ObGs8ypI656-5YSpd_dmYa_E0_d-Qs0yB3x/s640/IMG_2897.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the ceremonies, the UVO and the Lehighton Legion Post #314 host a free community lunch. This is a vital<br />
part of the day, where veterans can assemble and relate stories and friendship with each other. Here WWII tank gunner Clarence Smoyer meets Larry Ahner of Lehighton who served in an Abrams tank and later, with the Guard, was assigned to high-valued prisoners in Iraq, including the supervision of our #1 prisoner there: Saddam Hussein. Ahner had command and control of Hussein for many months in Iraq, holding him inside a prison cell we constructed in one of his palaces. Ahner had daily contact with the despot, the "Butcher of Baghdad."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This I found as a PowerPoint slide from a presentation someone posted on the internet. I would really hope the person<br />
who knows more about this story would contact me at my home email or on Facebook. Joe Sitarchyk was from Lehighton.<br />
I cannot determine more about this story and hope somehow someone could put us in touch with someone who does because this is an important human story that we in Lehighton would be fortunate to know more about. Rabenold@ptd.net</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fifth grade students came to the cemetery Thursday night 5/23 to do a Veterans Walk. Then they assisted the UVO and scout groups in decorating veteran graves with over 1,000 flags in preparation for Memorial Day Services.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Sitarchyk Harvilla's death certificate from November 1935 -It was a colder than normal Great Depression November when Pete was killed pushing his firewood wagon on North First St in front of the old Jamestown Hotel that burned downed years ago. Today it is a vacant lot.</td></tr>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-11750369384392290582019-05-12T21:13:00.003-04:002019-09-17T11:32:27.119-04:00Cpl Clarence Smoyer receives Medaille de la Legion d'Honneur<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lehighton native and subject of <i>Spearhead</i>, Clarence
Smoyer, received one of France’s highest honors: the Medaille de la Legion
d’Honneur on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at the French Consular Agency of France in
Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The medal was presented by
Michael Scullin, Honorary Consul of France.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Medal ceremony at French Consulate of Philadelphia - May 11, 2019 - Clarence Smoyer with Sam Semanoff and his daughter Cynthia Beurvenich. Jack Semanoff, Evelyn Semanoff and Gene Willard Semanoff are behind Kenneth Wong in yellow tie. Michael Scullin, Staff Sgt Kesterman of 1st Armored, and Ron Rabenold. Wong, the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army of Pennsylvania and former President George W. Bush's Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, along with Peter Semanoff, were instrumental in working with France to secure this honor for Smoyer.</td></tr>
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who died on French soil and reminded the gathered friends and family of Smoyer
of the close bond between America and France. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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many hardships starting back in our American Revolution, we have never lost
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France are examples of what an individual can bring to the relationship between
America and Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your accomplishments
and sacrifices have been great,” Scullin said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Malcolm “Buck” Marsh (36<sup>th</sup> Infantry
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were so fortunate that the M26 was here with their 90 mm gun, manned by that
veteran crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sherman would not have
had any chance against the Panther.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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thing is the German tanks would have had free access to that road, the houses,
and that switching station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We essentially
were trapped there and they would have blown those buildings to pieces and
killed all of us in there.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire story and the book release has been a non-stop ride for Clarence. Here he is in February of this year, all smiles, after a surprise Sherman tank ride around the block for a parade and ceremony at his neighborhood VFW. Behind Clarence is another surviving member of the 3rd Armored Joe Caserta also depicted in <i>Spearhead</i>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“For some reason “Big Mal” (James Mallet)
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the battle at Mons, Belgium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarence was Mal’s
loader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The reason it was so odd to me was that I always
could get him tangled up in my long legs,” Clarence went on. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I guess Mal kept wanting another chance at me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clarence Smoyer was born in Parryville, raised on<br />
Bankway Lehighton, and went to 10th grade<br />
before dropping out of school to work in a cabinet<br />
shop where his two older brothers worked, to help<br />
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stood and gaped when instead of hearing the light click of a firing pin into
an empty chamber, they heard the crack of the Luger and saw Big Mal fall to the
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training and the right temperament…In my case, I was completely unproven.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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against each other, in the event that they needed to jump in the gunner’s seat
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not appeal to me at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it
was war and I would have to deal with that, but it was better to put off that
hard reality.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anyone who talks to Clarence knows the man’s kind
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I asked him if he ever
hunted, he said he tried rabbit hunting, but never “really had the heart for
it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But he did tell me of his days playing around Heilman’s
Dam on the Mahoning Creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his
Bankway friends had built a hut from old wood from the ice house and the old
munitions plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Today this would be
down the bank from the Boulevard Drive-In and the WWI munitions plant was
behind Mahoning Court.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He and his friends would shoot bullfrogs with their BB
guns and cook the legs over an open fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many times this was the only meat the boys had during those Depression
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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those times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For tankers, getting in the
first shot was critical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seventy percent
of tank duels were won by the tank getting off the first shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was instinctual for Clarence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not from the standpoint of killing but rather
for protecting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarence above all knew
that the lives of the four other guys in his tank depended on him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he missed the first shot, the Germans
would win the second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he didn’t see
them first, they would get the first shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He wanted to protect his war family and his sardine can on tracks that
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the first American tanks to penetrate the “Fortress City” of Cologne, Clarence
knew he simply could not miss, he told himself that repeatedly, “just don’t
miss.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s what made him so good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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surviving his old company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even his
enemy and who eventually became a friend, Gustav Schaeffer, is gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unit die in combat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something he rarely
likes to discuss now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the summer. Betty Beraud in glasses set up the ceremony.</td></tr>
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was killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarence’s Easy company was
pinned down all day from mortar fire when one of their armored cars was hit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the tank, he witnessed two mortars explode beside his friend, blowing his
foot and ankle off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two medics examined
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told Clarence Paul had died
instantly.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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was wounded and sent home sometime after the battle of Cologne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passed away in October 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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few months (January 2006 of lung cancer), he had the fortitude to create this
web tribute to his brother “Johnny Boy” (<a href="http://www.phil-deriggi.com/john_1.htm">http://www.phil-deriggi.com/john_1.htm</a>).
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obscurity had it not be for a number of happenstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We may have never known about the “Hero of
Cologne” if it wasn’t for the army footage of his duel in front of the cathedral
shot by Jim Bates of the signal corps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the late 1980s that led Clarence to seek some resolution to a story he rarely spoke
about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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steeped in military tradition, named Pete Semanoff who sought out 30 Lehighton
area WWII veterans to capture their stories for his Eagle Scout Project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarence was one of those interviewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the time a Captain, Major Pete Semanoff<br />
came back to his old school to address<br />
the students on Memorial Day 2013.<br />
<a href="https://northamericalehighton.blogspot.com/2019/03/extraordinary-pete-and-clarence.html" target="_blank">For a story about how Pete and Clarence</a><br />
<a href="https://northamericalehighton.blogspot.com/2019/03/extraordinary-pete-and-clarence.html" target="_blank">met, click here.</a></td></tr>
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the entire Makos family, another family steeped in military service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was on Pete’s prompting that led Makos to
meet Clarence and write the best-selling book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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German MK4 that Clarence disabled in Cologne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He saw a German program featuring one of the two who escaped alive from
the tank named Gustav Schaeffer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the horror of perhaps firing the fatal shot that killed the civilian Katharina
Esser haunted Clarence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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front of the Cologne Cathedral, Clarence said, “The war is over, I guess we can
be friends now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Gustav that made
Clarence realize that neither of them killed Esser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was the war and the war alone that did that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The war made them enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the war that called Gustav to defend
the city and it was Clarence’s duty to take it to defeat the aggressor
Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esser, a store clerk, and her
boss had no reason to be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
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the day as previously mentioned by Buck Marsh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For more on that, you must read Adam Makos’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spearhead.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eagle Tank Commander Paul Faircloth.</td></tr>
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officer killed in the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
Clarence’s commander and was killed in an ambush on his way into Paderborn, just
a mile away from Clarence who was not in position to do anything about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allison is a doctor with the Army
and graduated from West Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Major Pete
Semanoff is stationed in Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
father, Gene Willard Semanoff served in minuteman missile silos in Montana
during the Vietnam War for the Air Force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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who was killed in WWII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His middle name
Willard came from his mother’s brother who received the Silver Star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Willard was in the 94<sup>th</sup> Division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was killed following the breakout after
being surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge, crossing the Siegfried
Line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He destroyed two machine gun nests
with grenades and died attacking the third.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the 4<sup>th</sup> Marine Division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was killed on Saipan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His body was
brought to the Nesquehoning Orthodox Cemetery for re-interment in May 1948.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 1948 - George "Gene" Semanoff's body returns to Carbon<br />
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-69325935865429925812018-09-03T22:25:00.006-04:002020-11-01T15:27:04.263-05:00The Lehighton Boys and Girls Band<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Mel Hill is playing the saxophone, his posture exactly
matching my memory of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was of the
second generation of the Lehighton Boys and Girls Band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Mel’s time it was only for the boys
however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name and rules changed in
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Gail Faust Rakos and Donna Ringeisen Maleski were pioneers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By being the first females to enter the band
in over 50 years, they took their share of abuse from some of the boys.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last Great War but because he ran a tight ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had a long experience doing what he did, and he did it well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t long for this fear of mine to evolve
into a deep respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That respect has
grown stronger and more complete in my current memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Standing in this hall, I wish my current self
could meet Mel all over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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James I. Blakslee, the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General of the United
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James I. Blakslee's sketch as it hands at the band hall.<br />
The benefactor of not only the Lehighton Boys and Girls<br />
Band but in other Lehighton institutions as well.<br />
After all he has done for Lehighton, perhaps it is <br />
time that our town can set things right by<br />
correctly spelling "Blakeslee" Blvd.</td></tr>
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</span>It is more or less exactly the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’ve modernized the windows from the metal-frame, single-paned and
glazed, drafty windows from 1957.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
walls are the same, but now painted a light blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mission of the place is unchanged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lesson. This shell has two modes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quiet
and serene versus the punctuated echoes of notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The peace of the place always waiting to be
filled with notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Notes from beginners, a member of the preparatory “Prep
Band” struggles through the weak, unintended side-toned squeaks of a clarinet
during his weekly lesson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hesitant,
clumsy beats of the drummer, unaware of his acceleration, is reined in by the
director’s taps of the baton on the metal chair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It cannot be escaped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was true for me then in a way that differs for me now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOxYOOoP8Pk1YQ6uRk89N5NWK4Z3b8G-nWsafbj-mhwN_czXGWJkKzkhpoBoLlgrNFeNriSI1dIh1jSoPelL5i8eDBl7bHCZMX4w2G8zDKISQ_BEvDBBYhObTAEANM-GKVA8MltL-lONZ/s1600/Boys+Band+1957+building+erect.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1297" data-original-width="1600" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOxYOOoP8Pk1YQ6uRk89N5NWK4Z3b8G-nWsafbj-mhwN_czXGWJkKzkhpoBoLlgrNFeNriSI1dIh1jSoPelL5i8eDBl7bHCZMX4w2G8zDKISQ_BEvDBBYhObTAEANM-GKVA8MltL-lONZ/s400/Boys+Band+1957+building+erect.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Sixth and Cypress Street location of the hall as it was being<br />
built c. 1957.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The same scents are in the air, though less
prominent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The years of dances, spittle
from the horn section, and floor wax, all mingle to form the hall’s unique
scent.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRJswfQHcKbab7C2GhJXvnQ1EmDvMqAmQ4W-yY1SECfDM-G3Ff8nsu_0Ps3fpVCFgrDPz2x3PR_JeQ-KWgp-asJEgioua1RCbvaqOEUsYmR2wxBggjTv1ASKOqvUx8FxBhaPazat2XsLA/s1600/Boys+Band+director+Fronheiser.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1600" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRJswfQHcKbab7C2GhJXvnQ1EmDvMqAmQ4W-yY1SECfDM-G3Ff8nsu_0Ps3fpVCFgrDPz2x3PR_JeQ-KWgp-asJEgioua1RCbvaqOEUsYmR2wxBggjTv1ASKOqvUx8FxBhaPazat2XsLA/s400/Boys+Band+director+Fronheiser.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo from c. 1960 shows then director Charles Fronheiser<br />
giving weekly lessons to five trumpet players. Fronheiser was a graduate<br />
of the band and so was his son Charles Jr. It looks like Lynn Solt is closest<br />
to the camera.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Lehighton Boys and Girls Band’s existence is a
saga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Independent notes of effort from
many, blending their talents into a sometimes cacophonous harmony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hall as it looked after its completion in 1957. See the end notes<br />
for a picture of the dedication from that day.</td></tr>
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</span>Membership used to be 75 cents per week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That bought your weekly half-hour lesson and
one hour session with the whole band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
my day, it was $2 per week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OeRsJ727aOtTeVCS3AztiiCHHEZp-DNr5bmnN3crxx8kAuSJUwFaQ6Adgp2EQEd_41zfooKgkNYUi2mfkA25fmtqmDNNbVpyQqoMT-9prm3G-tamvB9XzKzvtIuNopFQw4nLPQqtjJVz/s1600/Photo+by+Bob+Fatzinger+SCAN0503.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1312" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OeRsJ727aOtTeVCS3AztiiCHHEZp-DNr5bmnN3crxx8kAuSJUwFaQ6Adgp2EQEd_41zfooKgkNYUi2mfkA25fmtqmDNNbVpyQqoMT-9prm3G-tamvB9XzKzvtIuNopFQw4nLPQqtjJVz/s400/Photo+by+Bob+Fatzinger+SCAN0503.JPG" width="327" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A c. 1976 picture by Bob Fatzinger.</td></tr>
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director Alyssa Schoch was a 5<sup>th</sup> grade student of mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She took over the reins of the band in
January of 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Blakslee was the self-made man of Asa Packer’s nephew
who had an ability, energy, and foresight to start projects worth working on
and seeing them through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became
secretary of the state democrats during a factious time of restructuring,
endearing him to then New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Blakslee did the things he saw needed doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fond of the phrase, “Everyone has
their own row to hoe.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But as legend has it, before leaving town for his new
duties in the Wilson administration, he asked the band hall to return $500 to
him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not because he needed it. The
money could only have been a fraction of what he shelled out to start the band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He asked for this because it was his way of
saying “I gave you a hand up, not a hand out.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The band evolved out of Blakslee’s involvement with Lehigh
Engine #2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lehighton Boys Band was
originally the Lehigh Engine #2 Company band, started in 1910.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was also a time when there was a
separate Lehighton Girls Band as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(See the pictures of both boys and girls in the picture at Saylor’s
Lake.)</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwVTICQ8FOQBkefK1eDACbAH3pqazUC4tMo03jqPPo_rZ1SM5uEyjPpuxT8L8rpNjYnF4ZPo3KJSoRK1TJwlckgconZpyxJ4SyIyFGdmahwn0yy2WJ7VyLw-GiVKtUSKfJRDkSz4Oh3ElS/s1600/Boys+Band+CAMP+at+Saylor%2527s+Lake+1922.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="1600" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwVTICQ8FOQBkefK1eDACbAH3pqazUC4tMo03jqPPo_rZ1SM5uEyjPpuxT8L8rpNjYnF4ZPo3KJSoRK1TJwlckgconZpyxJ4SyIyFGdmahwn0yy2WJ7VyLw-GiVKtUSKfJRDkSz4Oh3ElS/s320/Boys+Band+CAMP+at+Saylor%2527s+Lake+1922.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Boys Band encampment at Saylors Lake - 1913</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgni5mK_VpemcUUa-flyNQvZqZfC_gJUYghUysifrjPSScRfTF2x0fSprnPsYt2lVJ5iwdpx_UUrL8rYvB7i-2fhNg5Spq6bBbiSDRVKPHMa95tUAOI6wxHVfAGGf8VZyUgL93IedcJZkpP/s1600/DSC01711+%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="1600" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgni5mK_VpemcUUa-flyNQvZqZfC_gJUYghUysifrjPSScRfTF2x0fSprnPsYt2lVJ5iwdpx_UUrL8rYvB7i-2fhNg5Spq6bBbiSDRVKPHMa95tUAOI6wxHVfAGGf8VZyUgL93IedcJZkpP/s640/DSC01711+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Boys and the separate Lehighton Girls Bands stayed for 10 days at a time at Saylor's Lake to perfect<br />
their craft in the summertime in the style of camp as well as being the "house" band to perform for other guests at the resort.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKP8f3saois95fqZzzcXAbDD1z7yQz_eK034p_xykuDaP5YDhDqtOJhW45mtfnuYZB0aq6GQqDlYfhZTu79FO_k9ryZT0OMUSQAWPre2UVe1UJxbi71BLfThqKEcX2DeZzwu1YgzWaUGG/s1600/Saylor+The_Morning_Call_Sat__Sep_3__1927_.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="932" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKP8f3saois95fqZzzcXAbDD1z7yQz_eK034p_xykuDaP5YDhDqtOJhW45mtfnuYZB0aq6GQqDlYfhZTu79FO_k9ryZT0OMUSQAWPre2UVe1UJxbi71BLfThqKEcX2DeZzwu1YgzWaUGG/s320/Saylor+The_Morning_Call_Sat__Sep_3__1927_.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the Morning Call, August 1927.</td></tr>
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to numerous others to hoe many hard rows for Lehighton’s young musicians. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much musical fruit was borne of the efforts of
the Board of Directors and the Ladies Auxiliary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They made civic pleas for financial aid from
the community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The directors held bank
notes to keep weekly dues at a minimum to ensure nearly everyone in town could
afford to join.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I think fondly of A. Henry Reiss, a man I never
met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the band’s first musical
director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He couldn’t have been paid
very much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The papers liked to mention
how he came from New York, as if that added extra value to his efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To know the man’s gifts is to know the true
measure of the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Despite what I assume was low-pay, it surprised me how content he looked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was obviously doing
something he loved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks solid, as
if he were composed of solid brick and mortar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Born in New York, Reiss arrived in Lehighton in 1911 from his job in a
music store in Richland County, South Carolina at the age of 35.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwyewY3GINi-gnnaxbTIcpDqidpRI39bn-CIlQ6kkxzJ8hXYodkfXPrrTqHZumXMM302CvKx6Mgt-0dEG2xiLnMzz6umIfPtSPcaTRkZoQfhyphenhyphen7X_1AcQMYyB59xujON4jVIowH74QtdCSL/s1600/Boys+Band+1930s+1960s+%25284%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="957" data-original-width="1600" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwyewY3GINi-gnnaxbTIcpDqidpRI39bn-CIlQ6kkxzJ8hXYodkfXPrrTqHZumXMM302CvKx6Mgt-0dEG2xiLnMzz6umIfPtSPcaTRkZoQfhyphenhyphen7X_1AcQMYyB59xujON4jVIowH74QtdCSL/s640/Boys+Band+1930s+1960s+%25284%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This undated photo, most likely at a concert at same Pocono resort or lake is from the 1940s when the band wore<br />
blue capes. The director is Charles Kuebler of Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk).</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYu6oLQPlOc4ZIhlPeYYYPfduXYAPhjsOgaIGfUFoCtEnJi2UcJEDezfevl0MpHwe7kNY5FSEnj5HUGFpRdKHkPMJ9_QQ-_5zTHXxIZ_Vgcc3bvVnerTSjWIZQt__PG_Vv2QgWvMi3noD/s1600/1914+Band+Portrait+SCAN0523+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="740" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYu6oLQPlOc4ZIhlPeYYYPfduXYAPhjsOgaIGfUFoCtEnJi2UcJEDezfevl0MpHwe7kNY5FSEnj5HUGFpRdKHkPMJ9_QQ-_5zTHXxIZ_Vgcc3bvVnerTSjWIZQt__PG_Vv2QgWvMi3noD/s640/1914+Band+Portrait+SCAN0523+resz.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Boys Band in 1914 with their first director A. Henry Reiss- <br />
Seated (l to r): William Frantz, Harold Rex, Walter Frederick, Harold Oswald,William Heberling, Warren Thamarus, Herb Fritch, Peters, Herbert Kresge, Wesley Shaffer, Randall Brassee, Harold Hontz, Thomas Bryan, and Donald "Toots" Bryan.<br />
Standing: Floyd Trainer, Floyd Harleman, William Smith, Norman Ronemus, Ritter, Howard Blank, Delroy Rehrig, Reed Brower, Harold Stermer (front), Paul Radcliff, Clifford Fenstermacher, George Ashner, Earl Snyder, Warren Ronemus, Ray Moulthrop, William Hontz, Ervin "Irving" Young, Daivd Roth, and Harold Rehrig.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Board of Directors 1976<br />
Front (l to r): Robert Fetterman, Carl Hochberg, Larry Markley, Paul Gross, Walter Hoover, and Mel Hill.<br />
Middle: Richard Ashner, Carmen Hill, George Markley, Elliot "Sammy" Markley, Chester Kleintop, and Ed Christman.<br />
Back: Paul Smith, Mel Everett, Franklin Fisher, Bruce Begel, and Ed Mertz.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The directors of the band had rich backgrounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking over after Reiss was Arthur Guimes, a
Greek-born graduate of Boston Conservatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His obituary in 1922 described him as “a musician of note and one of the
most widely-known bandmasters of this region.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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band at many cake walks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes at
church festivals and sometimes on the band hall grounds itself for the annual
fundraising block party with games of chance, funnel cake, and bingo games
inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I do not recall getting expelled. My recent research led me to that realization. And now a reckoning with either a forgotten or foggy past.</span></span><br />
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Middle: Unknown, Melba Gross, Mae Markley, Unknown, Florence Kresge, Florence Fronheiser (Director Fronheiser's wife).<br />
Back: Virginia Hill, Maureen Markley, Unknown, Anna (LaRose) Everett, and Gloria Reichard.<br />
(Please help identify these ladies by contacting me through Facebook or at rabenold@ptd.net.) </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Prep band would play for the cake walk in the
afternoon, followed by the Senior Band, and sometimes the Dance Band or pieces
of Mel Hill’s Big Band Ambassadors would entertain the evening crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I remember the annual bus rides to Dorney Park,
chaperoned by Mel Hill and sometimes Chester Kleintop and Elliot “Sammy” Markley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Yes the same man who patrolled LaRoses
skating rink with his whistle.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1978 Lehighton Boys Band Board of Directors - Front (l to r): Mel Hill, Jerry Reed, Mel Everett, George Markley, and<br />
Elliot "Sammy" Markley. Middle: Paul Smith, Paul Gross, Chester Kleintop, Carl Hochberg, and Dale Burnhauser.<br />
Back: Larry Markley, Paul Gombert, Ken Leffler.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a list compiled by someone in the band hall listing all the<br />
graduates of the band who have gone on to continue their life in music.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Both men were regular fixtures around the hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We boys were unaware of all their hard
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one time, the band hall held
Friday night dances with live music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
hall of course was built for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
had bandstand risers at one end and spacious room for dancing on its hard wood
floors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The risers look handmade. They are unchanged since before my youth. I can imagine a Saturday afternoon when members of the board, ever careful with each dollar, pitched in to construct them. I can say this because though they are sturdy and long lasting, they are far from the perfection of a seasoned wood-worker. These were made with love, not for profit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The ladies Auxiliary sold cookbooks with recipes
donated from members and friends of the band hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These fundraisers were essential to keep the
dues at such a low rate of $2 per week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The hall still holds Sunday night bingo each week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late 1950s/early 1960s- Lehighton Memorial Day Services - Saluting those<br />
fallen at sea with the Lehighton Boys and Girls Band in the background on<br />
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Day weekend. We'd drive all around, conveyed by some old rickety bus from Rehrig's transportation. Had you asked me then, I'd have sworn they invented these places just to make our days all that much longer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But there's something my current self draws from that today. It has drawn me closer to the significance of Memorial Day ever since, a sensation that grows stronger with age. It cannot be explained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">We'd play music at both small and intimate ceremonies around small family plots of graves and in the main Memorial Day Parade in town. This tradition con</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">tinues today.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Looking back at the dedication and what it meant to be
in the band is what strikes me now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I delayed my own entry to the band through my
own reluctance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Perhaps ‘reticence’
would be a better word?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did in the band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I consider
myself quite dependent on my love of music today, I really had little
enthusiasm to join as a 10-year-old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finally agreed to make some noise as part of the percussion section, certainly
this agreed with my sense of fulfilling my parents’ wishes and appeasing my
desire to invest as little as possible (i.e. I wouldn’t even have to learn
musical notes, just beats!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in June 1948.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Parris Island he
was accepted into the Marine Corps Divisional band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time, the Marine Corps was able to
send only fifteen cadets from the entire nation, into the Navy School of Music in Washington DC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad and his cousin Nuny got two of those fifteen spots, mainly because they had been members of the Lehighton Boys Band. <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/02/randy-rabenold-and-bulldogs-who-went-to.html" target="_blank">(To read more about these men, click here.)</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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careers in music and particularly in the service bands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my dad arrived at the school, the
director greeted him and his cousin Raymond “Nuny” Rabenold with enthusiasm, as
the band’s reputation had preceded their arrival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuny’s father Raymond was the longtime
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally earning your jacket, and moving from the Prep band <br />
to Senior band was a big occasion. Here Donald Getz gives his brother Neil<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here Director Daniel Troxell hands the ceremonial jacket to Donald Fisher. From Troxell: John Hanosek, Keith Holland, Kristen David, Duane Heydt, Amy Lobien, Ryan Behler, Allison Leffler, Steve Figura, David Carpenter, and Michelle Gombert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The brand new Lehighton High School was dedicated on September 4th,<br />
1918. On September 4, 2018, the Lehighton Area School District opened<br />
its brand new elementary center to students 100 years to the day later.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“Back in the day,” in the early days of the band, music
was everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no large public gathering of people without it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fair, church festivals, parades, private
parties, building dedications, ad infinitum: people danced and cake walked to
live music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Digitized sound has supplanted the live m</span>usician.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Lehighton’s first generation of band hall musicians
begins with A. Henry Reiss and Hontz’s Pirates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reiss was the first director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Passing onto the second generation, under the direction of Charles
Kuebler, we have the “Lehighton Boys Band March,” written by Kuebler in the
1930s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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musicians under Reiss and a Greek-born director Arthur Guimes were Charles
Fronheiser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First as musicians
themselves and later to conduct the band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fronheiser and Hill combined to lead the band from 1946 up to 1980.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not only did the Lehighton Boys and Girls Band stay and play at Saylor Lake, but so did former band hall student Ervin "Irving" Young. (See the circle above.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Ervin "Irving" Young's first bands, here at the stage of the Lehighton High stage in 1920s - L-R: Frank Drumheller, Robert Montz, Ervin Young, Floyd Harleman, Harold Oswald, and Frank Whitman. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ervin "Irving" Young's "Peerless Sextet" in Lehighton in the 1920s. (This photo courtesy of the Young Family.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Busy Summer- Ervin Young's band had plenty of<br />
work in the summer of 1921. This ad from July,<br />
the next one lower right from August.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The national music scene was reflected within our own
bands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ervin “Irving” Young’s first band
in the 1920s was the “Peerless Sextet.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The men plainly doubled on more than one instrument, but it featured
Irving on drums, a trumpet, trombone, saxophone, piano, and two xylophones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The piano, drums and guitars were considered part of
the rhythm section.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Big Bands,
there were these same essential pieces, with the addition of an expanded brass
section of 3 to 6 saxophones, trumpets, and trombones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tubas were in fashion early, but exchanged later for the stand-up double bass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This was reflected in Ervin’s later band, “Irving
Young and his Californians."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From 1925
through 1926, Young’s band toured extensively with vaudeville and film star
Frank Farnum, who was known as an “eccentric” dancer of the Charleston. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ervin and a bandmate have fun showing their<br />
high billing in the newly built Earle Theatre<br />
in Philadelphia. It was the most lavishly<br />
decorated and expensive decors of all<br />
city theaters at that time.</td></tr>
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bands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One ship, known as the “Evangeline”
was based in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Irving
Young and his Californians played extensively on this ship in the early, pre-WWII, 1940s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also played around Lake Hopatcong in New
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family that meant so much to Lehighton music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Melvin Hill directed the band from 1962 to 1980.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brothers Carmen and Maynard were also part of
Mel’s various musical endeavors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claude
and Esther Hill were a five star family during the war.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 16 Masters of Music at Flagstaff, Summer 1948 - Maynard Hill (at mic), Mel Hill (center saxophone), and Carmen Hill on piano. Mahlon Kistler Jr., of Lehighton Hardware is back row, right trumpet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 1947 Morning Call.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">After the war, the Hill brothers started a big band known as the “16 Masters of Music” (the number was sometimes 15).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It featured Maynard Hill on vocals, Carmen on
piano (part of the rhythm section) and Mel on saxophone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They played regularly at Flagstaff Moonlight
Ballroom in the summer of 1948. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruth Franks, mother of Lehighton artist and designer<br />
Ruth Bush provided vocals to the Big Band<br />
Jazz Ambassadors in the 1980s and 90s.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Maynard had gone to Penn State during the war for
training and became involved in music there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had Miss Frances Andrews as his instructor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Miss Andrews also worked with the high school
chorus in State College at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Then the fate of </span>a request from Rockview Prison, to Miss Andrews provide some music to the inmates, set up the meeting of Gay Brunner to Maynard Hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Here
is Gay Hill's story:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“Maynard came to Penn State with the Navy
program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He joined the college choir,
directed by the same woman who directed the High School choir, Miss Frances
Andrews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The High School choir was
invited to sing at the nearby penitentiary (Rockview State Prison).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Andrews arranged for Maynard to sing
solo as part of the program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was the
tenth grade accompanist for the choir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All went well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four or five years
later, the sailor returned to the college campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to make a recording of songs as a
Christmas gift for his mother Esther.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps he re-contacted Miss Andrews and once again she sent him to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so I played for the record, and
ultimately many more performances throughout my college years, marrying Maynard
in 1951.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In those in-between years, Maynard had formed a band
with his two brothers, Mel and Carmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gay Hill remembers driving from State College to Flagstaff, in
the late 1940s, on a date with Maynard so that he could sing in his brothers’
band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(Maynard gained fame outside of music as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the first to develop a model plane to
fly a trans-Atlantic flight from Nova Scotia to Ireland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His experimentation was critical in
developing drones within our military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His work also was able to confirm and discover science heretofore
unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the footnotes for more on
this.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1934 Lehighton Boys and Girls Band Spring Concert at the Lehighton High on Third Street.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Another first generation band hall player was Donald “Toots”
Bryan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toots Bryan played trumpet in
Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians band in the 1930s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was the Fred Waring band where Les Paul first became well known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Les Paul had a trio within Warings Band
featuring Chet Atkins’ older brother Jim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course in the 1940s, Les Paul went on to perfect the solid-body electric
guitar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Waring’s band with Lehighton’s Norman Ronemus and Bryan
produced wide-selling hits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were top-selling
artists for Victor Records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A foxtrot
called “Dancing in the Dark” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” are among their
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ronemus played with Waring for about
30 years, from the 1930s up to the late 1950s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This ad is from April 1925.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In what might be known as the 3<sup>rd</sup>
generation Lehighton Boys and Girls Band Hall player is Denny Seiwell. He went on to become a renowned drummer on
his own with Paul McCartney’s Wings. He
is featured on Wings’ signature piece, “Live and Let Die.” </span></div>
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music and band director at Jim Thorpe High School and plays in a few popular
local bands. Denny visited with
Lehighton Boys and Girls Band members in 2010.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Seiwells happen to be great nephews of “Irving
Young.” Both Denny and Erwin happened to
be drummers. Denny is the grandson of
Clara Young, who was a sister to Ervin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(Denny Seiwell remembers visiting his great uncle Ervin in Brooklyn as a kid. One of Ervin's sons played AAA baseball as a pitcher in the Dodger's organization. That son later worked for the FBI.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Director Fronheiser guided the band until his
unexpected death in 1962. His own son
Charles was a musician in the band and went onto musician third class in the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 1957, Mel Hill guided the Lehighton (Mens)<br />
Band, holding a joint concert with the Lehighton<br />
Boys Band. This bass drum is from the<br />
Lehighton Band, est 1864.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Of course Blakslee wasn’t the only benefactor of the
band. A man from New York City, George
Brandenstein, was given the distinction of lifetime honorary director. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Brandenstein became acquaintances with the Merluzzi
family in town by way of the garment industry. Brandenstein’s family made infant-ware “Fancy
Knit” clothing in Manhattan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Richard and
Gordon Merluzzi of Lehighton were just getting involved in the garment business in the 1950s when Brandenstein became a mentor and friend to the Merluzzi family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Upon Brandenstein’s death in 1973, his will stipulated
bequeathing $1,000 to both the Gnaden Hutten Hospital and the Lehighton Boys
Band. The rest of the money was given in
$1,000 increments to about 8 New York City area charities, and $10,000 went to
his family. He also gave $1,000 to his dear friend Richard Merluzzi.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo of George Brandenstein, honorary life-time<br />
director of the band sent this photo to Charles Fronheiser<br />
in September 1948.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In my time at the band in the late 1970s (3<sup>rd</sup>
or 4<sup>th</sup> generation perhaps?), a few people stand out to me as being
extremely talented and dedicated. There
was Duane Reichard, a natural on drums, who still serves the community with the
Lehighton Band, formerly the Lehighton Mens’ Band founded in 1864. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And of course there is Bradley Cressley. His early love of music was first honed at
Sixth and Cypress Streets. He went onto
the Lehighton Band too, married the conductor of that band’s daughter, Paul
Smith’s daughter Beth and has now become the conductor of that other of
Lehighton’s veritable music traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Cressley is also active with Zion’s U.C.C. and directs the Zion Opera
Workshop, the yearly theatrical production still set to live music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Band, circa 1925, in front of the Lehighton High. John Hill, the uncle of Mel, Carmen, and Maynard<br />
Hill is behind the young calrinet player at the bass drum.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Then there was another musical person I always admired
from the band hall: Dave Mantz. Dave on
trumpet to me was always the best. Up
until recently he was the go to trumpet for “Taps” at memorial services for the
Lehighton Band. In our youth as well, he often was the one to retreat behind the main mausoleum at Lehighton Cemetery to
play the “echo” repeat of the song.</span><br />
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Band Ambassadors. He was also a member
of the Lehighton Band and Perseverance Jazz band. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Don Mantz died at the age of 46 in 1988. A skilled clarinetist, Don was playing at a
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Carbon-Lehigh Big Band. Two of the men were
from Lehigh County (Eric Schlosser and Don Trainer were from Slatington) along
with Lehighton’s Mel Hill and Mantz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Schlosser had “traveled throughout the world and has performed with numerous
area bands.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Mel Hill was the oldest of six children from Claude
and Esther (Berger) Hill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">At first a
molder for Lehigh Stoves in Lehighton, Claude supported his family by painting
and paperhanging. They were a Five Star
Family during the war. Mel served in the
army and play in the divisional band. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Carmen trained in desert warfare for the army. Gerald
was in the combat engineers in the army while his twin sister Geraldine trained
as a Navy nurse. And second youngest
brother Maynard who turned 18 in February of 1943 joined the naval reserve and
received V-12 training at Penn State (where his met his wife Gay Hill). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Born in 1932, the youngest Hill sibling, Lamont, was not old enough to
serve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1975 Senior Band - Mel Hill, director<br />
Row 1 (L to R): Brian Eckert, James Markely, Robert Fatzinger, Bruce Ruch, Kevin Blauch, George Harris, James Snyder, Kim Berger, David Krum, Brad Markley, Jeff Bauchspies, Allen Graver, and Tim Koch.<br />
Row 2: Kevin Steigerwalt, Richard Ashner, Bruce Edwards, Kevin Koch, David Zellner, Robyn Williams, Gary Hill, Brian Hoffner, Harvey George, Cornelius McHugh, Larry Miller, Russell Cunfer.<br />
Row 3: Philip Latzgo, Layne Roberts, Tim Beers, Thomas Markley, Jeffrey Miller, Steve Neihoff, Tim Nothstin, Tom Nothstein, Richard Heine, David Shellhammer, Nik Millen Cameron Yanero.<br />
Row 4: Walter Freundt, Tim David, Paul Gombert, Randy Rabenold, Craig Bredbenner, Todd Begel, Scott Young, William Freundt, Mark Beers, Donald Grow, Steven Schneider.<br />
Row 5: Todd Campbell, Craig Mertz, Mark Bruker, Dennis Rodgers, Robert Ronemus, Drew Everett, William Getz, Thomas Swolenski, Duane Elsasser, Dennis Green. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Bob “George” Ronemus was in the Senior Band in the mid-1970s. He recalled a time when the band was asked to
perform at Lehighton’s Legion Post #314.
The audience was largely WWII veteran couples who were out to enjoy a night of
big band style music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“I was a drummer in the jazz/dance band…We named
ourselves ‘Mel’s Marauders,’ after our leader Mel Hill (I thought it was cool
because my dad, Dr. Roy Ronemus, was a field medic in Merrill’s Marauders
during the war.) I remember playing that
night…we were punks playing big band music from their time. The audience was thrilled and we got several
standing ovations. After 40 years I
still remember that night like it was yesterday. Mel was a great leader and a great man.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I can remember when Mel’s persona first began to soften
for me. His mother Esther lived across
the alley from my grandmother who lived at Ninth and Mahoning. Mamie was widowed in 1950 and Esther lost
Claude in 1970. The widows had become
close friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It was around 1978 or 79. I was cutting Mamie’s yard when Mel asked me
if I’d cut his mother’s grass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I remember how grateful he was for me to do it for $7
per week and how careful he was to teach me lessons I hadn’t yet realized, namely
how not to fill the gas when the engine was hot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">His instructions were less about the quality
of the work than they were about watching out for me. My fear of Mel began to fade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">All of us who have been associated at the Hall have
had their lives enriched in some way.
For me it was less about building musical talent as it was in lessons in
life. I do have an amplified
appreciation for music today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We almost
never know from where the positive influences flow while in our time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Lehighton was lucky to have Blakslee in its life just
as I am grateful to my parents, my aunts and uncles at Haas’ Store, and people
like Mel Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Kuebler was band hall director from<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Blakslee had a vision of how he could positively
impact his adopted hometown of Lehighton, determined to make an impact on each
voting ward, Blakslee oversaw the construction of All Saints Episcopal Church
in the Third Ward and he was a benefactor in construction of Lehighton’s Engine
Company #2, building a new building there in 1917 for the Second Ward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">He purchased the former Lewis Graver homestead with a
mind’s eye into turning it into Lehighton’s first hospital for First Ward. However his unexpected death in 1926 brought
an end to that dream. His widow instead
donated the home to become the current American Legion Home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As my years begin to flow by, I think of that first
generation of the band, and I feel a measure of their existence on my own life
today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I think of Henry Reiss and his
life in music. Though in his later years he relied on work as a barber, his love for music never faded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">By the 1950s, both he and Addie (Cox; born in Ohio) were living
in the Tampa Bay area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">There is nothing more true than music and there is no
joy more pure than what it brings to our lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">These are undeniable facts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hontz's Pirates at Saylor Lake 1913 - Sitting(l to r): Harold "Pat" Oswald, Donald "Toots" Bryan, U.S. Hontz, David Roth, and Floyd "Tarp" Trainer. Standing: Delroy Rehrig, Herbert Fritch, Wm. Hontz, Floyd Harleman (great uncle to one time director Dale Harleman), Warren Ronemus, Earl Snyder, Thomas Bryan, Harold Hontz, and Ervin "Iving" young. Ervin Young was a brother to Lehighton's legendary "Young's Bakery." <a href="https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/06/work-work-work-lehightons-baking-past.html" target="_blank">To read more about their story and how they arrived in Lehighton click here.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">With my return to this hall, I have found my memories encapsulated in resin and amber.
The toil and the dread I once felt here is now tempered with joy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uylsses Hontz of Lehighton, among others,<br />
was a dedicated person for the band.</td></tr>
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days off to cook for the band at Saylor’s Lake (See the 'Hontz's Pirates' picture above). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It fascinates me that so much effort was undertaken to get the band out
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">S</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">urely it was mostly dirt roads between here
and there at that time.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">(1911 was the year the U.S. postal service
ended a stage coach run between Lehighton and Kresgeville.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">A private firm re-established the run three
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I think of all the times Mel Hill and all the others
could have found perhaps something less aggravating than teaching reluctant
students like myself. They all gave much
of themselves. And in that time, those
of us lucky to have been part of this band hall, had moments when we lived in
truth, in something pure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am personally and forever grateful to
them for how my experience within the band hall has enriched my life. I feel so fortunate that I am able to have
this experience of reflection on what this hall has meant to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">You are the most genuine of genuine organizations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">You look toward tomorrow without even trying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I am a lucky man. Blessed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Please re-visit this post as not all the supporting documents have been uploaded yet. Names of band members will also be updated when time allows.</span></div>
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Maynard Hill - Aviation Record Setter - Member of Hall of Fame:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">December 1972 - The Daily Journal<br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/model-airplane-history-maker-maynard-hill-dies-at-the-age-of-85/2011/06/08/AGcnyQNH_story.html?utm_term=.b37165bbb286" target="_blank">Click here to read more about Maynard Hill's aviation accomplishments in the Washington Post.</a></td></tr>
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Band Photos - (There are plenty more pictures to be posted soon...The following is just a start...Please be patient.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1966 Mel Hill Prep Band Spring Concert</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1979 Senior Band graduates with Mel Hill.<br />Front (l-r): Scott Berger, (Bierman ?), Mike Sanguiliano, Doug Edwards.<br />Middle: Bert Rex, Samuel Reichard, Rick Rabenold, Steve Hoats, & Steven Rhoads.<br />Back: Randy Bollinger, Todd Laury, Brad Cressley, Maynard Ahner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1981 Dance Band above and Senior Band graduates below. Mel Hill's Dance Band - Row 1 (L-R): Rob Moyer, Dan Putkowski, Darrell Arner, Tim Schnell. Row 2: Damien Walck, Robert Strohl, Sam Reichard, Maynard Arner. Row 3: Brad Cressley, Scott Berger, Bierman, Duane Reichard, David Mantz, and Unknown. <br />
Bottom photo with Ken Leffler: Row 1: Hanosek, Mary Cox, Bill Person, Hanosek. Row 2: Ron Rabenold, Tim Schnell, Paula Farkas, Chris Gaumer, Gerald Tkach, Kevin Snyder. Row 3: Ockenhouse, Gail Faust Rakos, Russell Young, Ockenhouse, David Carpenter. (I greatly apologize for not know these names better. I know many people on FB have told me who is who, but I've had some trouble keeping up. Please keep after me if I do not get this labeled better soon.) </td></tr>
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<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ8e218wZFqpXCVi5GBfiADUcgUW4Y2TJztY-zi9goUg22mvUCZH_inPOeQTx70maJmp-9T6oEmUHh73IQtbJfIS9Pyi6Azr2laJMoZk1XVG5rVf6ugPAwrm5kfpfyjo226BlglUxucu8n/s2048/Band+resgister+1982+Ron+expel+SCAN0518.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1372" data-original-width="2048" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ8e218wZFqpXCVi5GBfiADUcgUW4Y2TJztY-zi9goUg22mvUCZH_inPOeQTx70maJmp-9T6oEmUHh73IQtbJfIS9Pyi6Azr2laJMoZk1XVG5rVf6ugPAwrm5kfpfyjo226BlglUxucu8n/w640-h428/Band+resgister+1982+Ron+expel+SCAN0518.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sadly, I was the only person I knew who was ever expelled from the Band Hall. I continued on good terms with Mel Hill, cutting his mother's grass (Esther Hill) across the alley from my grandmother's home on 9th and Mahoning Sts. And I still consider Ken Leffler as a friend now as adults. It is a rather complicated tale as to the why and how it happened.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5j12NryUQpZpYXnZ1-v0v8S0P4xcjAKGnWgYqGc2Zj2VsFByidJeM8z0V9u1nnVP-i-YSajyQsAQojp4i6t4fTL-ytTjMDvBcGv6Hs2_oKOoYfDegId1YW67wf_mul4wr0_yWXl2YWyhR/s2965/1980+SCAN0512+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="2965" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5j12NryUQpZpYXnZ1-v0v8S0P4xcjAKGnWgYqGc2Zj2VsFByidJeM8z0V9u1nnVP-i-YSajyQsAQojp4i6t4fTL-ytTjMDvBcGv6Hs2_oKOoYfDegId1YW67wf_mul4wr0_yWXl2YWyhR/w640-h230/1980+SCAN0512+%25282%2529.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1980 Preparatory Band with Mel Hill -<br />Front: Unknown, Unknown, Ockenhouse, Ockenhouse, Bill Person, Mike Noll, Unknown, Hanosak, Hanosak, Mike Heery, Trevor Walck, Frank Lorah, Roth, Klotz.<br />Second: Unknown, David Carpenter, John Claypoole, Tim Cobal, Robert Strohl, Wad Hydro, Dave Brobst, Mahalko, Unknown, Ron Rabenold, Rehrig, Cressley, Ron Roth.<br />Third: Unknown, Tim Schnell, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Damian Walck, Chris Gaumer, Darrell Ahner, Jan Elsasser, Unknown.<br />Fourth: Rusell Young, Mike Strohl, Kerry Graver, Keith Mooney, Kurt Hansel, Unknown, Rob Moyer, Unknown, Ockenhouse, Ockenhouse. </td></tr></tbody></table><br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-14650387299181415912018-06-11T12:21:00.002-04:002018-06-19T09:06:25.296-04:00A Sense of Our Purpose - Clyde Houser Annex Veteran Program Sponsored by the Lehighton Historical Alliance<br />
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Duty and Determination<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some lack that in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We all lack that sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our country needs a purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We all need a purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a summertime picnic. It was in Weissport, at Jacob's United Church of Christ. And despite its long traditions and its 175-year history, one of the oldest in Carbon County, the a</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">ttendance at their annual picnic was surprisingly low. Even lower than previous low years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The older members reminisced about the 'old days' when it was large families plus their extended families all in attendance. The bounty of food that seemed to multiply, the homemade root beer and mint tea, the singalongs that went on and on.</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/02/randy-rabenold-and-bulldogs-who-went-to.html" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">Randy Rabenold & the Bulldogs Who Went to War</a></li>
<li><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2018/05/universal-truth-union-hill-memorial-day.html" target="_blank">Memorial Day at Union Hill 2018- Universal Truth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/ezra-kreiss-kia-english-channel-28.html" target="_blank">Ezra Kreiss, husband of Madeline Haas, Lost in the English Channel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/walter-haydt-kia-on-hinchinbrook-island.html" target="_blank">Walter Haydt - Lost in the South Pacific</a></li>
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Bob Getz, a sergeant with the 517th Heavy Maintenance Co. Field Army during WWII, lamented. He said our towns, our church, even our country, were lacking purpose. "As much as I hate to say it," he went on, "what this country needs is something to rally around, like we did in the war."</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some Commonalities: Many times, men and women who enlist do so for a sense of purpose. Many veterans I've interviewed, including my father, all say something similar, "What else was I going to do?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Obviously on at least an underlying level, there was a sense of duty and of patriotism. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's what Buddies do - Gene Holland (r) and Murphy washing<br />
Holland's car before leave. At one point during his time at<br />
Camp Pendleton, Randy and his buddies bought a car together.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Buddies sign up together, they buy a car
together to drive home for leave, they cajole each other, t</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">hey will argue with each other like siblings, but they
will always, fight for each other. (Before the Korean outbreak, my dad and some of his Camp Pendelton buddies, including Gene Holland, bought a car together and they were going to drive it cross country for leave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the car kept nickel and diming them into debt, each man paying his fair share, and eventually the idea and the car ownership vanished. One anxious letter he wrote home defending the idea to his parents:</span></div>
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<li>Samples of Letters Home from Randy Rabenold - Before the war, from Camp Pendleton, CA: "You'd think the way you talk that we're driving thru hell on a go-cart. DONT WORRY ABOUT ME!" and from Korea: "P.S. Don't worry about me. I am very safe behind this thirty cal...".</li>
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Letters Home<br />
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Love letters, last letters, letters saying
not to worry.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Letters with white lies,
telling them they are safe.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Letters and
now phone calls, telling th</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">eir family they are safe and completely out of
harm’s way and l</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">etters that warned against
gossip. (See an alternate version of </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">"</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Loose Lips Sink Ships" at the bottom of the letter from Ezra Kreiss.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ezra Kreiss was lost in the English Channel on a training run leading up to D-Day. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/ezra-kreiss-kia-english-channel-28.html" target="_blank">For more on his story, click here.</a></td></tr>
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<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/ezra-kreiss-kia-english-channel-28.html" target="_blank"> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-indent: -24px;">The letter no one wants to get - Ezzie Kreiss, KIA.</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Walter Haydt, of Union Hill, was also KIA/Missing in Action. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/walter-haydt-kia-on-hinchinbrook-island.html" target="_blank">You can read his story by clicking here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/02/randy-rabenold-and-bulldogs-who-went-to.html" target="_blank">Bobby Kipp was the one Bulldog who didn’tmake it home.</a> Don Blauch remembers he
and Bobby were on the transport ship to Korea together. It was a typical Pacific summer and they both
found it too hot to sleep below deck. So
the two friends found a life boat they sleep in each night, out under the
stars. Don Blauch told me how the spoke
through the night, talking about girls, their former glory on the football
gridiron, to their hopes, dreams and fears.
George and Dorothy received one of those letters as well. Their only child. They received one last letter from Bobby
dated the same day he died.</span></div>
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Duty and Determination<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">My grandmother was Rebecca Nothstein, the
great, great granddaughter of Lt. Peter Nothstein who fought with General
Sullivan and served for more than 5 years of the Revolutionary War. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Washington was trying to hold onto New York
early in the war after Bunker Hill. Sullivan and his men
were pinned down, getting decimated by the Hessians. Many were surrendering and being taken
prisoner. Peter Nothstein had the
gumption to sling his musket across his back, and to swim across the Long Island
sound to the safety of Washington’s retreating army from Manhattan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Clarence Smoyer is here with us today. He was and still is a very humble man, but in the thick of the fight, he was a determined marksman in his new Pershing Tank. His three quick,
successive shots changed the course of a battle that changed the course of the
war. He was a true ace in destroying 5 armored vehicles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">His stopping the German Panzer in
the the Battle of Cologne is one of the most famous films of WWII. When Cologne fell, it was Germany’s fourth
largest city, and the first taken by our American forces. (Mr. Smoyer, born in Parryville and grew up in Forest Inn, was present at the service today. <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234847/spearhead-by-adam-makos/9780804176729/" target="_blank">A national book is soon to be released, "Spearhead" by Adam Makos, click here to order.</a> <a href="http://www.3ad.com/history/wwll/memoirs.pages/smoyer.pages/combat.story.htm" target="_blank">You can read about Smoyer's Cologne battle here. </a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYkqUG8DLIA" target="_blank">You can watch the film footage featuring interviews with Smoyer here.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYkqUG8DLIA" target="_blank">Clarence Smoyer interviewed on History Channel</a>.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lehighton's Major Randy Fritz, Spike Long, and Clarence<br />
Smoyer on Memorial Day at the American Legion with the<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Of course these were young men.
Letters from Sweethearts were important.
Don Blauch had many penpals. Here
are a few</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Gustav Schaffer and Clarence Smoyer reunited in Germany. Gustav was a member of the Panzer tank crew<br />
destroyed by Smoyer in his Pershing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUDT9flAOpA" target="_blank">Upon meeting Gustav, Clarence said, "Well I guess we can now be friends."Click here to watch a video featuring both Smoyer and Schaffer.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are just some of the letters Don Blauch collected during his service years. He told me he never met any of them.<br />
The ladies on the car above were from Texas, the lady in the dark suit was from Alabama. The lady in top right and bottom center was Cecelia Ament from New Jersey. Don told me he would take an extra pen-pal from the home town of his service buddies. He had an extensive collection of these pen-pal letters in a trunk in his basement.</td></tr>
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The Birds and the Bees – Truth and Fiction<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">One truth, one myth –</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“It is better to fight the enemy you know than you don’t know.” - After less
than a month of duty, in September 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, the war’s
bloodiest 2-day battle, the green recruits of the 132</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> PA were
given the necessary courage to charge into the Confederate line because they
were being chased by a swarm of bees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">“A
bird in the hand…” - During the first day at the Battle of Gettysburg, up on
Oak Ridge, PA’s 90</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Regiment was being outnumbered in close
fighting. While the concussions of
ordinance reverberated the air, a simple nest of young robins was dislodged
from the safety of the tree. With momma
bird squawking to bring her peeps back together, a soldier from the 90</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">
PA Regiment braved a storm of bullets to gather up the peeps into the nest and
place it back onto the limb it fell from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">In researching the dedication of the 90th Regiment monument, there is no mention of the birds' nest story. In fact, the nest is referred to as a dove's nest, a dove representing peace and the backpack hung on the tree to show that the soldier's day was over, symbolic of the peace that followed the war. It appears that the bird story has been passed down from tour guide to tour guide at Gettysburg. I myself heard this story from a guide on a tour of the battlefield back in the 1990s.</span><br />
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The Dogs of War - “Sexy” & “Sallie Ann”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Sallie Ann - Started as a pup with the 11</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">
Reg as they trained on the fairgrounds near West Chester. She was said to have made several
reviews with the men in front of Abe Lincoln. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">They said she had no fear in battle and often stayed with the wounded and dying men at Gettysburg. During the first day, she was separated from the retreating men from Oak
Ridge. However, when the dust cleared after the third day it was discovered that she had stayed back on Oak Ridge, comforting the men from the 11th who were wounded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">She made it to February 1865, just two months shy of the
end of the war, she was killed by bullets under heavy fire. The men buried her on the spot.</span></div>
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Sacrifice and Deprivation - Near Total Annihilation </div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaking of Chosin – My father missed it,
but most of his outfit did not. Dad was
sent home because his father died. After
spending part of October and much November at home, they called him back and was crossing the Sea
of Japan just as our men were cut off and surrounded by the Chinese at the
Chosin Reservoir. He and some loose
company of others were about ready to be sent in to help break through to break the men out. Lucky for dad, our men were able to get out themselves. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it came at high cost. The 1st Marines had to break through the overwhelming numbers of Chinese just to join up with other pockets of men similarly surrounded. Not enough people realize how desperate this battle was. The Marine Corps places this battle inside their top 3 most desperate battles ever fought (Imagine what you know of </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Okinawa</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, the Hue, and the second Fallujah.). It was the closest they ever came to total </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">annihilation</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Dad remembers the bitter cold and the 1,000
yard stares of the men. Some of his 1</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">
Division buddies didn’t make it out. Francis Eugene "Gene" Holland was one of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">He
always says, the timing of his dad’s death saved his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Moses Mertz of Mahoning Valley listed “weak heart” on
his WWI Draft card. According to Chester
Mertz, a WWII veteran and nephew of Moses, Moses had such a strong sense of
homesickness, that his heart gave out, just one month before the end of the
war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Deprivation and underwear - The
First Marines during September and October of 1950 in Korea had been engaged
with the enemy non-stop. So much so, not
only had few even had chance to bathe in two months, most didn’t even have the
chance to change their underwear. Once
the men began to establish some stability at an area in Korea known as the “Bean
Patch.” The crusty uniforms literally
needed to be scrapped off their bodies.
There was never any consideration of keeping and washing these
clothes. Underwear and all were burned
in a large bonfire onsite, as new uniforms had arrived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Speaking of unmentionables:
Underwear and a Purpose in Life – Our servicemen fought side-by-side with some
British troops in Korea. Many atrocities
were committed against these prisoners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Many got homesick and gave up. The British soldiers noticed something unique
about the American GI’s compared to their more austere behavior: The Americans were far more emotional. They had ups and downs, like when a new POW
arrived whom the men knew, they hugged and cheered and laughed and cried at
their reunion. Some wistfully spoke of
the fine dinner they would have once they were liberated and back home, but
they’d skip their meal of cattle slop sorghum and millet. These men were the most prone to what the
Brits called Give-Up-It is”….</span><br />
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Chosin with British Commandos. Francis<br />
Eugene "Gene" Holland died there<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">A delegation of men would spot this and
get tough with these men, saying, “If you don’t eat, you don’t shit, if you
don’t shit, you die.” One of those
British officers was Lt Bill Cooper of Northumberland Fusiliers – He credits
his survival under the harsh Korean camps with his frame of mind. Each day, he woke up, and demanded this of
himself, by saying to himself: “What worthwhile thing are you going to do
today?” His answer? To wash the soiled, ghastly rags the men who
were crippled with dysentery wore as underwear.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2010/03/ira-smith-not-your-typical-boy-loses.html" target="_blank">IR</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2010/03/ira-smith-not-your-typical-boy-loses.html" target="_blank">A Smith from New Tripoli,Kistler Valley – </a>I learned of Ira’s story after finding this picture in a book
published in May 1945. He was shot in
the hand at the Battle of the Bulge and taken prisoner. The German surgeon
taunted the bullet in his face and happily showed Ira he was hit by an American
bullet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Then he and other POWs were
taken to a warehouse for storage until they could be moved to a camp. While on the third floor of that warehouse,
American bombers came and hit the building. The bomb hit the outside wall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Moments earlier, the Americans were sitting along the floor against the walls while their German captors sat at a table in the middle of the room. Superiors came to the room, noticed the Germans were "surrounded," and were told that they should sit along the outside of the wall. They were killed, along with some Americans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Ira fell
through the three stories and broke his back.
But when his captors told him to march, with the help of his friends, he
had to march. Had he been unable to
move, they would have killed him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Once they arrived at Stalag 12A, the real interrogating began by the SS. There were guys coming out of the interrogation
barracks smoking cigarettes, rewards for providing good information. Ira said, “I told them if my back wasn’t broke I’d kick all
their asses for talking.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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POW-<br />
<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Nothing sums up the service, the
sacrifice, determination, deprivation, and sense of duty than our POWs like Ira. Moses Rehrig – Andersonville. How he survived 2 months at our Civil War’s
most notoriously deadly prison camp in Andersonville Georgia is anyone’s guess. There were 1,849 men from PA alone who died
there. He came home and was a civic
minded contributor to our town Lehighton.
But one day Sgt Rehrig took his own life, hanging himself from the
rafters of his shed they say because he feared he was going blind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Richard Levan, another graduate of
the the old LHS, the current Clyde Houser Annex building, Class of 1960. He once described how rats were eating chunks of his face in a VietCong
POW camp.</span><br />
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PTSD/Buddies<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">It is little wonder that local men,
came home still fighting the war in their minds. Like Mike Wargo; missed the support of his
buddies; Marcus Maier wandered from old soldier home to home, mostly among
confederate soldiers, trying to find a sense of purpose or to rediscover the
comradery he missed from war, or perhaps absolution. And to the countless others who have come
home with the war still on their minds, we should salute and honor them for
giving so much.</span><br />
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A Sense of Purpose – Of Tradition and of Duty<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Generations of Longs – Henry Lange,
to Henry Long, to Spike Long – Spike’s Dad is Henry, served in the Military,
his dad was also Henry, - Spike’s grandfather’s grandfather was the original
Henry Long, who served in the 132</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Pa Regiment who was induced by
the bees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">From Joe Semanoff, to Gene Semanoff,
to Captain Pete Semanoff. Gene
Semanoff’s Uncle Willard Reabold, KIA but received a Silver Star for his
actions in Luxemburg, his first day…</span><br />
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Your Mission in Life -<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">But that’s not my mission, that’s not what
I was sent there to do…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Larry was part of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He got the call many were getting across the
nation during Operation Iraqi Freedom: You will report for duty, after
Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">First Lieutenant Larry Ahner and
his 33-man combat support military police platoon was trained for route and
area security work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">The timing of their arrival in Baghdad was
a twist of fate. It was a mission for
Bravo Company. But Larry and his Charlie Company landed first. His orders: Provide security for
detainees. In other words, prison
guards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Larry had to follow orders, even though
this wasn’t the mission he was trained to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">He soon realized these were what’s known
as “High Value Detainees.” And not just terrorist
leaders and other undesirables. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">For the next 11 months, Larry and
his platoon would be guarding the Butcher of Baghdad, the Ace of Spades: Saddam
Hussein himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Larry was in charge of Saddam from March
2004 until Feb of 2005. He watched him
garden, he made sure he got a haircut, he took him in the Rhino Bus to his
arraignment, he monitored his meals, his visits from his defense lawyer,
everything. They built a cell within the
belly of one of Saddam’s main palaces, built in the middle of a man-made lake on
the fringe of Baghdad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Upon meeting Saddam, with a firm handshake
while looking the brutal dictator square in the eye and he said, “I am in
charge here. I will keep you safe and
well.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Saddam was a treacherous socio-path that
could not be treated lightly. He was
highly engaging and charismatic. And
Larry knew it would be easy for him and his men to fall under his spell. So occasionally, he required his platoon to
watch the brutal videos and descriptions of Saddam’s barbarism to remind
everyone just who they were dealing with.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">On Larry’s last day, when saying good bye,
Saddam said, “I knew from when I first met you, you were an honorable man.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Instead of just a western handshake, Saddam
offered the traditional Iraqi farewell: a hug, a kiss at each cheek, and ending
in a gesture of sincerity with his hand over the heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">That was February 2005 just months before
his trial for his crimes of genocide ecocide.
On 30 December 2006, Saddam was hanged by his neck until dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">1</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> Lt Larry Ahner received the
Bronze Star, for his “impeccable, outstanding leadership qualities, with
limitless potential for further positions of responsibility.”</span><br />
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Not bad for a from Dutchman<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> from Long Run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Military service has helped many to see their purpose. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> It becomes a defining part of their lives, a tool to shape and guide that perspective...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> And for some, clarity and fortitude.</span></span></div>
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Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-30676858418911606772018-05-27T19:01:00.000-04:002018-09-01T08:49:55.810-04:00Universal Truth - Union Hill, Memorial Day<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Thank you for coming today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">It is Memorial Day.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Hill Cemetery, East Weissport, Pennsylvania. Held Street runs parallel in the distance. Named after native son<br />
Reed Gaumer Held in 1962, son of Ethel and Marvin Held.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am here to talk to you
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Someone who placed hopes
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And here is the universal
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is no bond
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">All of our hopes and
dreams emanate from our family…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here today, we the
people, gathered here on Union Hill, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">We hold these truths to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">This was and still is, a
tight-knit neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can see all the
family homes around us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can see where the
Bauers’ and the Flickingers lived, and where the Getzs’ and the Millers’ lived,
and where the Haydts’, and the Helds’ all lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can imagine the
children playing, the mothers calling their children home for dinner.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walter in his Union Hill backyard of his family.<br />
Adam and Dora had seven sons: James,<br />
Willard, Walter, Kenneth, Earl, "Kelly,"<br />
and Raymond. James died in 1919. The<br />
last of the Haydt's, Raymond, died last week<br />
21 May 2018. I only knew Ray, and he<br />
was the best of men.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can imagine all the first
kisses and all the skinned knees that happened on this hill… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">These are the simple
pleasures and pains of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But things aren’t always
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The families of Union
Hill have given much to secure the freedoms of our nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">They too, had hopes and
dreams, for the children, they sent to war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’d like to tell you
about some of the people that lived here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radioman Walter Haydt. The Shoemaker-Haydt<br />
Legion Post #314 is named in part for him.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Adam and Dora Haydt
raised six boys on this hill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ray Haydt, the youngest,
died one week ago today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He told me how hard it
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">It was nothing but
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Williard Haydt served in
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Earl Haydt suffered such
severe frostbite he had to take the boots off a dead fellow soldier at the
Battle of the Bulge. He received a
shrapnel wound there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Walter Haydt was a
radioman on a B-24 bomber. His plane
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But Adam and Dora had to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The waiting made the
agony so much worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then there was the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Elwood M. Miller was the
son of a railroad engineer. Elwood was
the oldest child of Jennie and Warren. Elwood
was killed at one of our bloodiest battles Americans ever fought in:
Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elwood M. Miller of Union Hill<br />
He was killed at Guadalcanal 15 Jan 1943.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Legion Post is named
the Shoemaker-Haydt Post in honor of Walter Haydt. The Lehighton “Elwood Miller AmVets” post is
named after Miller. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ethel Held, with postmen Blaine Gerhard and Karl Hinkle,<br />
look at the new Union Hill street sign for Held Street<br />
in April 1962. It was named for Marvin and Ethel Held's<br />
only child Reed Gaumer Held who went missing on<br />
a surveillance flight in the South Pacific in 1946. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And the name of Held
Street, which runs directly behind us, was officially created in 1962 honoring
another Union Hill son, Reed Gaumer Held. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reed was the only child
of Marvin and Ethel Held. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ethel’s last name was
Reed. Ethel’s mother’s last name was
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reed Gaumer Held, a
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reed Gaumer Held in his 1939 Lehighton High yearbook. The only child of Ethel and Marvin, many of their most important<br />
hopes and dreams where in their son. Marvin was an instrument repairman at the New Jersey Zinc Co in Palmerton and residents of Union Hill. Their home is one of the finest in the neighborhood.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He was a radar
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ethel and Marvin had
hoped Reed’s name would go forward…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">To not only embody the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But also as the family
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But all this died, the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He was part of a top
secret intelligence gathering mission in the South Pacific. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And then his plane went
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warren Miller, leaving home for his last run as railroad<br />
engineer, on 28 October 1962, twenty years<br />
after his son Elwood died in WWII, and twenty years before he<br />
would die in 1983. Bone of my Bone, Flesh of my Flesh. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bone of my bone,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Flesh of my flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is no bond
stronger than the bond that holds a family together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">It is indivisible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">We hold God-given
rights, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">to Life, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">to Liberty, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">to the Pursuit of
Happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">But in war, we sometimes
forego these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Instead, we offer up our
brightest and our best. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And we are willing to
test the bounds of family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">It goes against natural
law, for Mothers and Fathers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">To send their sons and
daughters to war.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Families carry unexpected deaths like these with them forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Like a stone in their shoe, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">a constant reminder of sorrow,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">at every step in life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Neither Reed Held nor
Elwood Miller had any children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reed Gaumer Held died
with his powerful name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Walter Haydt had an ir-retractable
smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Walter’s daughter Janice grew up without her father, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">but Walter’s smile lives
on in Janice’s smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janice holding her father Walter Haydt's hat.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">So please, take the
flower provided to you today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And rest it at the head
of the Held family, the Haydt family, the Miller family, and to the seemingly
countless other veteran families buried on this hill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let everyone who comes
here know that you were here, thinking of them…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And please…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Remember what these
families gave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">To all you soldiers, now
at rest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sleep well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">That we were here to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Know that you <b><i>were</i></b>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And that you <b>still,</b> <b><i>are</i></b> loved…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rest well, knowing that
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are families
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are families still
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Families who still love
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Who still invest, their
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">In each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neither Haydt's nor Held's bodies were ever recovered. There is a marker at at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Nebraska for Haydt.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the universal grave of Walter Haydt's entire crew of the B-24 "Texas Terror" that went down with army<br />
payroll aboard.<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/walter-haydt-kia-on-hinchinbrook-island.html" target="_blank"> For complete details of Haydt's story, click here.</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrea Beth Miller's 1980 Lehighton High<br />
yearbook photo. She entered the Army after<br />
graduation and worked with the Military Police.</td></tr>
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Andrea Miller was killed in her apartment in Germany on Christmas Day 1984. There is one unconfirmed story that she was involved on a drug bust on a boat. One of the men waited until Christmas Day to exact his revenge on her for her part in the raid.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although she lived on Reber Street, next<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hal Hongen of Union Hill died in France<br />
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John Penberth was killed at Iwo Jima. His father was a coal miner and the family lived in Weissport and Lehighton, but they placed a grave for John on Union Hill. His body was buried at Sea. His mother, only in her 40s, died of a stroke in 1950. His father Edwin had been living at the Gnaden Huetten Inn in Mahoning when he died in September 1955. He hit the back end of a large coal truck traveling at low speed up a steep hill. He was leaving his daughter's house in Lehigh County and the coal truck was headed to New York City.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Haydt, tallest in center, was the oldest living resident<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not necessarily Union Hill, but a glimpse at life in Weissport from<br />
1962. Times were different, but kids will always be kids, no matter the era.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Hill - The Beidleman Home around 1907 along with a more modern picture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton UVO recognizes the service of our WWI Veterans at the north end of Weissport Park, Memorial Day at 8:45 am.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Universal Truth" Speech at Union Hill, May 2018. The Marvin and Ethel<br />
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As every year, the Legion Post #314 in Lehighton hosted the community for a free lunch of BBQ, hotdogs, salads, and liquid libation. This year, I got to meet a local and national war hero, Mr. Clarence Smoyer. His M26 Pershing tank takes out an MK5 Panther tank in Operation Spearhead in the Battle of Cologne, Germany in March 1945. The footage of this battle has become one of the most viewed and famed of the war and it's easy to find any internet search). There is a scene where German soilders scramble out of a tank, some fatally wounded, as a result of Smoyer's aim.<br />
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Another tank tries to back out and escape. However Smoyer is able to fire at the cathedrel, causing it to collapse onto the tank. That crew was taken prisoner. Among them was Gustav Schafer. Clarence traveled back to Germany and was able to meet Gustav. He took a second trip recently, but Gustav had passed. Smoyer is also featured in a book "Spearhead" by Adam Makos. (Makos also has a NYT Best Seller "A Higher Call.")<br />
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Smoyer grew up in the Forest Inn area and recently moved in with his daughter in the Allentown area. He is 95. If you need to contact Mr. Smoyer, you can email me at rabenold@ptd.net.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustav Schaffer and Clarence Smoyer in Cologne.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Author Adam Makos (r) and Smoyer (l) in Germany.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Major (ret) Randy Fritz, Rabenold, Spike Long, and Smoyer<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This postcard shows the rear of Smoyer's Perhsing tank<br />
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Carbon County, Carl F. Strauch may have lacked the pedigree of some in his field,
but the depth and breadth of his literary acumen was undeniable. His life’s work of research and analysis
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twenty-four. Frequently cited in
masters’ theses and doctoral dissertations, he wrote dozens of scholarly
articles published by the Emerson Society Quarterly and elsewhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He was the ever popular English professor at Lehigh
University for forty years. He was a stirring and dramatic professor, with a self-professed
Socratic bent. The impetus for his hiring from
instructor to professor was initiated by the on-campus murder of
English professor C. Wesley Phy. Strauch
subsequently filled Phy’s chair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehigh University English Department as it looked in 1935 before C. Welsey Phy's murder. Back row second from the left is Carl F. Strauch, to his left is Phy, the man Strauch would replace<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> after the June 4, 1936 campus murder-suicide.</span></td></tr>
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was among the few people entrusted with the key to Harvard’s Widener Houghton
Library, the first repository of its kind in the nation devoted to the
preservation and study of the original manuscripts and rare books from among
America’s literary heritage, including Emerson and Thoreau. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Library in Boston by special permission of the Emerson family to investigate
the personal correspondence of Emerson.
This unfettered access and intimate interaction with Emerson’s own papers
and letters helped Strauch to be placed among the top three researchers of Emerson in the
world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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posthumous resolution by the Emerson Society of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Society called Strauch “One of the few who
met Henry David Thoreau’s high criterion, to serve with conscience as well as
with body and mind.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">With a biting, and at times a withering wit, the ever
apodictic Strauch, knew no limits in his ever upward-spiral toward mastery
of the Romantics and Transcendentalists.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The titles of just a few of Strauch’s essays and
critiques themselves are thought-provoking: <i>Kings
in the Back Row: Meaning through Structure- A Reading of Salinger’s ‘The
Catcher in the Rye’</i> (1961), <i>The Year
of Emerson’s Poetic Maturity: 1834</i> (Oct 1955), <i>Emerson's New England Capitalist </i>(1956), <i>Emerson’s Unwilling Senator</i> (1966), <i>Romantic Harmony and the Organic Metaphor</i> (handwritten copy), <i>The Problem of Time and the Romantic Mode in
Hawthorne, Melville, and Emerson</i>, and <i>Style
in the American Renaissance</i> (1970).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who grew to adulthood. His father Heinrich
was a butcher and immigrated to Tamaqua, Pennsylvania with his parents and his
brother John in 1879 when he was twenty-one.
Strauch’s mother, Anna-Margaret Foesch, arrived with her brother Michael
in 1887. Heinrich and Anna-Margaret </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">married on September 24</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">, 1888 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, on Tamaqua’s “Dutch Hill.”</span></div>
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1889. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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miners. Frequent strikes put a strain on
everyone. When Heinrich’s father John
died in April 1898, the Strauch’s moved to Hacklebernie, a small mining village
west of Mauch Chunk. </span></div>
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rested between the Mammoth-vein coal quarry operations of Summit Hill and the
coal transport hub town of Mauch Chunk. This was the very same vein of coal behind their Tamaqua dwelling (and it extends all the way to Harrisburg). Hacklebernie nestled along the hillside on the downhill run of the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mighty Allentown Strauchs in 1917 - The beautiful Caroline 'Lena' sits at the right hand of her father Heinrich. <br />
The portrait was said to be taken ahead of Lena's eventual death from consumption in October 1917. Carl, the youngest sits between his parents with his favorite sister Margaret behind him. His mother Anna-Margaret and sister Elizabeth finish out the front row. Back row: Henry, Leonard, Kate, Louie, Willy, Mary, and Edwin. Heinrich and Anna-Margaret met in Tamaqua after each had immigrated from Germany. They lived in Hacklebernie for about two years and then for about twelve years in Lehighton. After 1911, they moved to downtown Allentown where Heinrich opened his own butcher shop.</td></tr>
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Switchback’s eighteen-mile gravity railroad was a leading national tourist
attraction of the time. It was among the
many topics discussed between Strauch and <i>Weird
Tales</i> author H. P. Lovecraft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heinrich and Anna Margaret on September 25, 1908 while the family still resided
in the Jamestown section of Lehighton.
By then, Heinrich worked in a “slaughter house” most likely Obert’s
Packing House on First Street Lehighton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hand over her mouth) along with her sister Kate and Floyd Harrier. The<br />
man in the center was a family friend from Tamaqua, Fred "Fritz" Meder.<br />
The girls, from tallest to smallest: Gladys Rabenold, Pauline, Arlene, and<br />
Ruth Harrier. Meder was a cousin to the Kellner side of the Strauchs.</td></tr>
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giant from his books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carl Strauch as a young boy at his sister's<br />
home in Lehighton around 1915.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch remembered the moment he knew books would be
his life. “I stood only four feet in a
family of tall, lean giants.” His immersion into books was the result of a memorable pummeling he received in the
neighborhood sand lot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Though only reaching to five-foot-nine as an adult, reading
made him feel as though he were “seven feet, ten inches tall.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The other Strauchs were exceedingly tall. The older men were over six feet. Sisters Mary and Margaret were each over five
feet eight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He was a man of high ideals. His exacting standards were rooted deeply in
the Lutheran faith, yet Strauch trembled not before any god. To some, Strauch was god. Former student and later longtime friend of
Strauch, Professor Alex Liddie once said, “I was always in awe of him.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“<i>If I was a Carpenter, and you were a Lady</i>…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Romance
entered his life when he met Helen Dery on blind-date, a doubles tennis match in
1935. She was the daughter of
Austrian-born D. G. (Desiderius George) Dery.
Dery came to America in 1887 as a foreman to a New Jersey silk
manufacturer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A young and still prospering D. G. Dery<br />
from the 1890s.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">By
1919 Dery owned forty-two mills employing around 10,000 workers. Eight of those mills were in the Lehigh
Valley. He was believed to be one of the the largest silk
producers in the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He constantly improved his Fifth and Pine Street property sitting on 4/5ths of an acre. At times he lived in the top of his wooden carriage house while going through remodeling work on the home that taken as a whole, was quite extensive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He added a West wing to the main residence first. Followed years later by a observatory, solarium, and indoor
pool. This South Wing of the home was a ballroom and to display his fairly extensive collection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The 56-room mansion also had a basement taproom with leaded glass foundation windows. The stained glass scenes depicted Native
Americans in various pursuits of big Pennsylvania game animals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">A
man of many interests, D. G. had an observatory and a scientific research
laboratory installed in 1917 as well as a false-paneled wall to conceal his
writing room where he penned articles and novels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">D.
G. wrote at least two novels. <i>Under the Big Dipper</i> was praised by H.
L. Mencken as an “impressive first work of an unknown writer.” Another was
entitled <i>Jean Kressley. </i>Strauch became the perfect-fit son-in-law
for Dery<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This February 1924 article claimed Dery owned<br />
"nearly sixty mills." Dery's fortunes were in full<br />
reversal by the end of 1922.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strauch
once said his father-in-law’s father was part of the landed gentry of Baja,
Hungary. “Not part of the nobility, but
one step below it.” The father took part
in the Austrian revolution in 1848 and had to flee from the Russian troops sent in to
quash the rebels. From then on he had to
seek refuge in a tiny corner of the empire. But as fate would have it, it was where he met
his wife. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">According
to Strauch, D. G. Dery was a man of style and taste that reflected his Austrian-Hungarian
upbringing. “He was a gentleman of the
old school. I could never imagine him in
blue-jeans.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the 1920s, with world silk prices in drastic decline, Dery fell on hard times. In a last dash to save his empire, he resorted to some creative accounting to prop up his holdings. Soon he faced fraud charges and had to abandon his mansion. He was forced to move to the smaller house across the street. But his financial failure didn’t change the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A modern day view of the Dery Mansion<br />
today. The tile were Moravian Tile from<br />
Doylestown. The columns were linestone<br />
from Colorado.<br />
More can be viewed at the end<br />
of this article.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The D. G. Dery Mansion in finer days with bunting. This view appears<br />
to predate the extensive 1917 remodeling by D. G. Dery. This is the<br />
front of the home as it faces Pine St, with 5th street to the left. The bricks<br />
were multi-colored tan and brown Romand style bricks.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1170893916"></span>Photo courtesy of<br />Borough of Catasauqua History Page - can be accessed by clicking here<span id="goog_1170893917"></span></a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He continued his astronomical
observations, writings, and speaking engagements. In his last days he moved into the Bethlehem
home of Strauch and Helen, dying there in 1942.
With the property in receivership since the 1920s, the observatory was
used by air raid wardens during the war.
Wiring was installed to sirens at the Phoenix Fire House from the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The disrepair and vandalism of the Dery mansion at Fifth and Pine Streets in Catasauqua in July 1942. In the 1950s it was converted into luxury apartments, the ballroom and downstairs lounge/bar were available for wedding receptions. In the 1980s, the Albert Moffa family attempted to restore it to its former grace and lived there for a short time. However, it has once again fallen into disuse, as the property is far too expensive for a single owner to maintain. the top right photo here shows the Art room as it looked in Dery's time. Later remodeling work took this room and split it into two levels. The swimming pool and observatory end of the wing is behind the taker of this picture. The stairs seen here attach at the front main part of the home. See the After Notes section for some modern photos of the mansion as it appears today.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 1985 article in the Morning Call about Albert Moffa and his renovations of the Dery Mansion. Shown here the subterranean "Dery Lounge" basement bar of Dery. Note the curved wall with the leaded glass. This curved end extends from the South Wing and faces West. Above one floor is the Dining Room and above that is the Dery Master Bedroom. D.G. made that his own bedroom while his wife took the smaller, square room to the south.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery’s wealth afforded him opportunities in art. Of mutual interest to him and his wife and
in-laws was their shared interests in the arts. D. G. Dery had an extensive
collection, of which Strauch referred to as “sentimental” in theme. Dery had a 17<sup>th</sup> century reliquary
of Christ on the Cross, a Gothic Cross, a painting "Little Mother," and a Carrara marble statue known as the “Blind Girl,” modeled on a
character in Bulwer-Lytton’s 19<sup>th</sup> century novel, “The Last Days of
Pompeii.” </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D. G. Dery's art purchases made the news in<br />
February 1912.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery’s taste reflected his
upbringing in middle class 19<sup>th</sup> century Vienna. “If he had put himself in the hands of an art
expert, he would have been able to acquire Impressionists for almost nothing,”
Strauch was once quoted in a 1984 article of Dery in the Morning Call.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And so began the life of the son of a
several-times-over broke German butcher and the daughter of a wealthy, and soon
to be broke, silk industry magnate. Helen
majored in art at the Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, was active in the Civic
Little Theater, and spent considerable time engaged in extensive travel and
study in Europe. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Helen Dery's charcoal sketches from her<br />
Harcum College yearbook. It was at about this time<br />
that she was studying the art of Europe.<br />
She met Strauch <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">shortly after her return. </span></td></tr>
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presented their work at a spring 1937 Muhlenberg College art show. She entered pencil portraits and water colors, while
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Allentown Call-Chronicle,<br />
16 July 1933.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strauch
was known in circles from H. P. Lovecraft to H. L. Mencken and from W.H. Auden
to Robinson Jeffers. He considered these men to be his friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mencken, who
believed that every community produced a few people with clear superiority who
distinguish themselves by their will and personal achievement, had a penchant
for seeking out and affiliating himself with like-minded thinkers. Strauch
expressed an almost familial bond with Mencken, to whom he described as his
“friend, guide, and mentor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“A subtle chain of
countless rings<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The next unto the
farthest brings;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The eye reads
omens where it goes,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And speaks all
languages the rose;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">And, striving to
be man, the worm<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mounts through all
spires of form.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">~Ralph Waldo Emerson from ‘Nature’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1932 Muhlenberg yearbook the five students and their advisers who started the inaugural Phi Sigma Iota national<br />
honor Romance language society. Centered and bow-tied, the indefatigable Edward Fluck along with an equally smiling Carl F. Strauch to his left.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">While a student at Muhlenberg in 1928, he along with
five other students started the Lambda chapter of the Phi Sigma Iota, national
honor Romance language society. The
fraternity was the first of its kind at Muhlenberg. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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immediately took his first job there as Assistant Librarian. It was during this time that he developed a
friendship with H. P. Lovecraft through their mutual friend, Dr. Harry K.
Brobst. Strauch earned his M.A. from
Lehigh in 1934 and joined the Lehigh English department the same year. On at least one occasion Strauch was welcomed
into Lovecraft’s Providence Rhode Island home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before Email, Twitter, and Texting - Lovecraft sent<br />
sketches of his new abode to Strauch. And when Strauch<br />
too moved to his new home in Bethlehem, he returned<br />
sketches of his own to Lovecraft, including a schematic layout.<br />
This sketch appears courtesy of <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">S. T. Joshi</span><br />
<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">
and David E. Schultz’s <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: start;">H. P. Lovecraft: Letters<br />to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-align: start;">,<br />Hippocampus Press (2016).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He attended Penn for graduate work in German, “But
when the depression deepened for me I came home and enrolled at Lehigh…I was
not following a Tennysonian Gleam.” For
me, “There was no Gleam.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Haverford, Amherst, or Williams,” he said his exposure to “high standards and
good teaching began in 1933 at Lehigh.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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job, of which Strauch commented,
“Happenstance was beginning to provide some footing.” But it was a the tragic murder-suicide by Clow that changed Strauch’s gleam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovecraft's layout sketch - Appears courtesy of S. T. Joshi<br />
and David E. Schultz’s <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: start;">H. P. Lovecraft: Letters <br />to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-align: start;">, <br />Hippocampus Press (2016).</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“It was a cruel quirk that led me to American
Literature.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">This ‘cruel quirk’ took place at Lehigh’s Christmas-Saucon Hall on the morning of June 4<sup>th</sup>,
1936. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">News of Phy's murder<br />
and Clow's suicide swept<br />
the country, articles<br />
appeared from <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Santa Cruz</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Detroit to Altoona. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">article came from the </span><br />
June 6, 1936 edition of<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Indiana's</span><br />
<i>Journal and Courier</i> paper.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Clow was a senior mining engineering major who was
failing at least two classes. One was
metal-mining, the other was in Professor Phy’s English class. On the night before the murder, Clow phoned
Phy’s home and warned Phy’s wife with an ominous tone that his grade better be
changed by 7:00 pm that night.</span></div>
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mining professor but he wasn’t there. So
Clow proceeded to the office of Phy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A fraternity brother of Clow’s happened to be in Phy’s
office taking an exam and witnessed the murder.
He heard them exchange words about re-examination but Phy stated he
needed written permission from the dean to proceed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Then Clow said “Well” while he pulled the 38 revolver
from his pocket. Phy jumped up and
shouted “No, you don’t!” while Clow fired two shots into his chest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite one of the shots hitting his heart, Phy was
able to run down a flight of stairs to the infirmary and died at the feet of
campus physician Dr. Raymond C. Bull.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On the floor above, Strauch opened his office door,
which faced Phy’s, to find the body of Wesley Clow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">At first, he thought he was hearing the popping of fireworks. Realizing it was a full month before Independence Day and sensing something was amiss, he dashed into the hallway to find the stand-out Lehigh wrestler with a gunshot wound to his head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After seeing the gun and realizing Clow’s
life had ceased by his own hand, Strauch phoned the police.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Carl
F. Strauch married Helen Dery in New York City on September 1, 1937, just as he
launched into his doctoral studies at Yale.
He completed his Ph.D. there during summers and breaks from 1937 and to
1946. On July 2, 1953, he was promoted
from “associate” to “full professor” at Lehigh.
Their only child, Helen ‘Dery’ Strauch was born in 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Alex Liddie, the former student, colleague and
friend, said “His courses were an extension of the man…he had an academic aura
that imparted equal parts expertise and personal philosophy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Your sense of humility overtakes
you. Noiselessly, the little stones
you’ve collected drop to the ground. Why
look down? Alas you stand in the
presence of greatness. A nod of the head
and it is bestowed upon you. Little
traces left behind for those who may follow.
Let them ferment and take root, the radical searching onward and upward,
the pathway is clear. Follow now onto
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Liddie heard of him while he was still in high
school. His older brother had taken
Strauch as an elective and was mesmerized.
He told Alex he had to take him even though he was a business
major. This bit of happenstance would
forever change the course of his life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neither the two shall meet -<br />
The following two Allentown Call-Chronicle articles tell of the<br />
concurrent lives of Professor Strauch:<br />
Above, a party at the Hotel Traylor (just blocks from the<br />
Strauch home) with attorneys and the like with no mention of the<br />
Strauch family in attendance (1 September 1938).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Call-Chronicle article from 28 August 1938<br />
seems to depict a simpler farewell to the first<br />
year newlyweds. Just as above, there is no<br />
mention of in-laws in attendance.</td></tr>
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he went onto his M.A. and Ph.D. at Rutgers in literature, becoming a teacher of
English specializing in American Literature at Trenton State College. He also served as chair of the English
department. Thus the lives of countless
and successive students were transformed, fueled by the power of Strauch’s
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and authoritative scholar” but was also “a showman, a commander of the
classroom, a raconteur, and the life of a party.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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both imposing and impassable. He could
be both an obstacle and a blessing to both his colleagues and his family alike. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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peace and life made history. Helen Dery
Strauch Woodson became the longest incarcerated peace activist in U.S.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Carl and I
stayed in touch until just before his death…He was my frequent overnight house
guest and he attended my second wedding in '77…He was a colorful character,
worthy of a mini-biography, and perhaps a mystery to his family…</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I
had such utter and complete respect for him, we all were in awe of him.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Liddie was a long-time and loyal friend of Strauch who graciously <br />
gave his time to the publication of this article. <br />
Though they grew quite close in Strauch's declining years, <br />
Liddie said he was always "in awe" of Strauch.</td></tr>
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his grandfather Heinrich Strauch as a “gloomy” and tyrannically “stern” man,
who “never smiled and rarely spoke.”
There is no mention in family lore of any of the siblings ever working
in Heinrich’s meat shop. None followed him into his trade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps it was the intermediary years removed from his father's death and the heartache of Helen's death that started Strauch's inward reflection that allowed him to renew his close bond with his sister Anna-Margaret ("Margaret").</span><br />
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than Carl, seemed to inherit their father’s mean streak. Carl remembered one blow he received from
this brother as particularly devastating and memorable. Lewis was a loom fixer in a silk mill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the faded hex sign from the author's Great Uncle<br />
Raymond Haas's Weissport barn from the 1960s.</td></tr>
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tennis court. He savored his walks into
nature, taking in country scenes. He had
a proclivity for “great walks” of fifteen or twenty miles, often times logging fifty
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">He had many </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">“epistolary friends.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">He'd write letters of the things he experienced: the honesty of a crooked farmhouse chimney and weathered hex signs, framed by gnarled apple trees and tangles of wild grapes, scented in August ripeness...t</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">he somber December hoot of mating owls, collected in a hollow of pines. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Distinguish and still in command:<br />
Strauch from the prime of his career.</td></tr>
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Stuart Mill, whom Strauch spoke of as “a child prodigy disciplined by his harsh
and unfeeling father in a regimen of the narrowest intellectuality, without any
concession to emotional life. The result
was that the young Mill, in his late adolescence and early manhood, had a
severe case of depression, the cure for which he sought in Wordsworth’s nature
poetry.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch’s own words here could easily be seen as a mirrored projection of his own life, for Strauch certainly used literature for his own journey within. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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advocated poetry as psychotherapy.” Strauch’s
own battles with insomnia and depression began as he watched the eventual
demise of his wife. He sought medical
help for it in the early 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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professing his love for baseball and the hapless Chicago Cubs. Among his favorites was the pitcher “Three
Finger” Brown (1876-1948). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hand allowed for a grip that gave him an exceptional curveball. “Three Finger” was the stuff of Strauch
legend: a person who outperformed despite his past. His daughter Dery recounted
playing catch and hitting baseball from the age of eight. She remembers how special it was when she got
her first “Louisville Slugger” and outfielder’s mitt from her father. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Floyd Harrier. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floyd Harrier, Strauch's brother-in-law,<br />
entered Allentown City Council race in<br />
1933 on the Socialist Party ticket. He lost.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The story goes that Kate fell into various escapes to
avoid her duty to her husband and her children.
It was said she had an insatiable infatuation for Rudy Valentino, often
escaping to the movies. Floyd was often left alone to mind their kids during afternoon matinees, even though he needed his rest from
working the second and third shifts at the mill. During one of those afternoons, their eldest
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floyd Harrier (l) with his brother-in-law Zach Rabenold, <br />
Flagstaff Park, Mauch Chunk, 1920s. Harrier and Rabenold married<br />
two of Carl Strauch's sisters.</td></tr>
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worse. Strauch’s nephew, Dr. Richard
Harrier became a Shakespearian professor of note at New York University. Dr. Harrier had little good to speak of his
father who he sensed deserted the family.
When this author asked Harrier whatever happened to his father, he
stated that he “probably ran-off with his socialist pals.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Harrier, Strauch's nephew through his sister<br />
Kate, became a man of letters at NYU. He credited<br />
his high school principal for pushing him to take the<br />
competitive exams that helped launch his career.<br />
Even in his late years, Dr. Harrier held animosity toward<br />
his father whom he felt had abandoned the family.</td></tr>
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before the unions were legally recognized.
He was active in the Lehigh Valley “Keystone Athletic League.” There are several photos of that group's holiday
philanthropy with Floyd Harrier and others of the club. In 1933 he ran for Allentown city council as
the Social Party candidate. Harrier had
a big heart and was fondly remembered by both Strauch and his sister Mary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch's entire family were working class people, most working in silk mills. He certainly identified with their struggles. He spoke fondly of another socialist union leader
Eugene V. Deb’s (1855-1926) in his 1932 poem entitled ‘In Memoriam: Eugene V.
Debs.’ His words illustrated the
powerlessness of the worker who lacked “vital fire” and who had “rootless tongues”
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page 1 of 4: Strauch's tribute to Debs could have its origins of <br />
Strauch's socialist brother-in-law Floyd Harrier. <br />
Debs had died in October of 1926, in a time before<br />
socialism received such distaste and distrust in America. Reading just a few<br />
of Debs' quotes could further impute Strauch's rationale for writing these<br />
words to such a man. <br />
Debs: "While there is a lower class, I am in it,<br />
while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison,<br />
I am not free." These words certainly could have been written by Strauch of his<br />
daughter Dery.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The poem ends with a wishful, yet perhaps spiteful
thought “hast thou found in that dim world the rose without thorn?” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(This last line bears a similar
tone to T.S. Eliot’s “Hollow Men” poem published in 1925: “</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Sightless, unless the eyes reappear,
as the perpetual star, multi-foliate rose, of death's twilight kingdom, the
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The trajectory of his life of letters was just beginning to ascend. He published his <i>Twenty-Nine Poems</i> in April of 1932 while working as Muhlenberg’s
assistant librarian. He presented many copies to his family, friends, and colleagues. Five hundred were printed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">To his professor Simpson, he wrote “With respect and
admiration.” To his Phi Sigma Iota
brother, the future Dr. Edward J. Fluck, he wrote, “For Edward Fluck, whose
taste is as impeccable as his friendship is sincere.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carl F. Strauch's inscription in his <i>Twenty-Nine Poems</i> book<br />
to his good Muhlenberg fraternity brother Edward Fluck.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">To his brother Edwin, Strauch sounds rather terse. Edwin’s
inscription simply read, “For Edwin, From the author, Carl F.S., April 26,
1932.” Uncle Edwin was an affable and jolly man who enjoyed reading. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Another inscription of his <i>Emerson’s Unwilling Senator, </i>to Rosemary Mundlear, he wrote: “To
her, Apr 2 ’84.” The back of the 1970’s
era photo in his office has “To Mildred with Love.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He presented the book to Fluck on the day it was
announced that he was appointed as a Fellow of the Archaeological Institute of
America, at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. Fluck’s copy of Strauch’s poems looks well
worn, a lasting tribute to his friend’s words.
(See “End Notes” for more on Fluck’s distinguished career.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch’s poems received congratulatory local notice,
earning him literary respect across the Lehigh Valley. He was also known as a resource in Pennsylvania
dialect and hex lore, which drew him into the gaze of H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft achieved lasting cult fame for his
stories in <i>Weird Tales</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The friendship between Lovecraft (1890-1937) was sewn
together by their mutual friend, Allentown’s Dr. Harry K. Brobst
(1909-2010). Strauch and Lovecraft
corresponded from September 1931 to July 1933, as recorded in S. T. Joshi and
David E. Schultz’s <i>H. P. Lovecraft:
Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White</i>,
Hippocampus Press (2016).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the macabre and a penchant for deriding organized religion. Contrast this with the dogmatic Brobst, who would eventually
earn his doctor of divinity after serving a full career in psychiatry. He earned his </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Ph.D. in psychiatry and worked as a professor at Oklahoma State before becoming ordained in the 1970s. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The friendship between Brobst and Lovecraft developed
while Brobst was a psychiatric nursing student at Brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Born the
same year as Strauch, he outlived his compatriot by twenty years, living to
within one month of his 101<sup>st</sup> birthday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conversation between Lovecraft and Strauch which included one visit to
Lovecraft in Providence in September 1932.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In a letter to Robert Bloch in the summer of 1933,
Lovecraft said that Strauch was “…delightful and affable-he visited Providence
last summer and will probably come again this September. Enthusiast in Germanic literature. Rather anti-scientific by temperament-affording
material for heated and interesting arguments with Brobst.” This attests to Strauch’s long held agnostic
beliefs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ever the journalist, some of the most endear-<br />
ing of Strauch's quotes in this article<br />
come from the <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">copious note-taking by</span><br />
Professor Robert "Bob" Cole (1937-2015) <br />
back in his grad assistant <br />
days beneath Carl F. Strauch.<br />
This author was grateful to Bob for his help<br />
with this article. Even though he was<br />
weighted by the advances<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">of Parkinson's Disease, Bob lent his time </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and energy to the writing of this piece on</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">his beloved friend and mentor Strauch. </span></td></tr>
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Robert Cole, were both so enamored by Strauch that they kept notes on the
things he spoke about. At times dark, at times jovial, and perhaps bombastic,
Strauch never ceased to entertain those taken in by his lectures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">For those who loved him, his lectures were a thing to
behold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He’d enter the room with the ceremony of setting his
pipe on the chalk tray. Then as expected,
would launch into what seemed like a torrent of information and debate fodder, heavily
steeped in transcendental discourse. And
as Strauch admits, with a pinch of “piffle.”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Alex Liddie noted that Strauch’s teaching style had
“elegant sentence structures, dramatic pauses and repetitions, and shifts from
high seriousness to comic interludes.”
Strauch admitted that he “was particularly interested in teaching
literature, not being a showman…but I did want drama in the classroom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Banter was a Strauch forte. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Liddie describes a Strauch-student encounter this way:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Strauch</i>: Will you tell us about The Red Badge of
Courage?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Student: [Busily writing, no response.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Strauch</i>: In the front row, in the red shirt, will you
recite?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What were you writing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Strauch</i>: That’s rather difficult isn’t it, considering
nothing has been said yet?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Student: [frowning, angry] Well, I had to write down
the title of the book, for God’s sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Strauch</i>: Oh, it was for God’s sake was it? You had no ulterior motive? Very well, recite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Strauch</i>: There, you see? You did rather well, considering you began by
hating me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Several years after his retirement, in a moment of
reflection, Strauch once said, “I do regret that occasionally I permitted my
love of showmanship to get out of hand.
I belatedly became aware that I was offending some students (I hope not
hundreds), and so I now, again belatedly, offer my sincerest apologies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strauch handwritten notes for "Romantic Harmony" -<br />
Date unknown (c. 1960s/70s) - Pg 8</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch had an anti-war, pro-life tone in much of what
he wrote. He once explained the
difference between the nature-worshiping Romantics to the serious modern
writers of the twentieth century. Modern
writers “shared the Romantics’ awe but not their optimism…Like earlier Deism,
Romanticism derived support from science.
Deism drew upon astronomy, and Romanticism upon biology and
geology. The affirmations of Romanticism
could not survive in this <i>murderous
century.</i> And so, between the two great
wars, sophisticated and ironic minds turned to Eliot, Pound, Auden, and Wallace
Stevens as well as others for cathartic effect.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch was said to be friends, if only perhaps
epistolary friends, with W. H. Auden as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch felt a kinship toward writers like Loren Eiseley (1907-1977). “His books have given me
immense satisfaction. For me, Eiseley
was an ideal man-scientist, nature lover, poet, and humanist.” He continued by quoting one of his favorite
19<sup>th</sup> century minds, Matthew Arnold. “And as Arnold said of Emerson,
“the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit.” Eiseley once said, "It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Loren Eiseley and Auden were known to be friends as well. When Auden asked Eiseley what his earliest
public memory was, Eiseley referred to a 1912 prison escape where the men died
in the Nebraska snow. But Eiseley
replied with the pronoun ‘<i>we</i>.’ This took Auden back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In his biography, Eiseley delved into his use of ‘we’
in the context of world affairs: “<i>We</i>
gathered like descending birds in spite of all obstacles. Like birds, some of us died because we were
old…Cheap liquor killed us; occasionally we died by gun…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wide-eyed Strauch 1930<br />
Muhlenberg yearbook.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Then Eiseley gets more universal: “<i>We</i> would be here when the city had
fallen…sitting among our hatreds and superstitions…<i>We</i> would throw stones and break what we could not understand.” This was written within the context as the
first governments were making the first moves toward World War I. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These sentiments were collected and underscored by
Strauch. Certainly he was of mind and
spirit with these men and their words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As a former librarian, he always had cause to keep the
record straight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One time in October 1941, Lehigh’s Brown and White
gave Strauch credit for a display of rare Emerson letters and papers. The following day Strauch submitted: “Allow
me to congratulate the <i>Brown and White</i>,
Mr. Jesse Beers, and you on the excellent report of the Emerson display in our
Library. I must, however, in all
fairness, disclaim having arranged the display.
Credit must go to Miss Mary E. Wheatley.
The greatest share I have had in the display has been the satisfaction
of noting that our library has a considerable number of first editions of the
most influential figure in American letters.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In January 1945 Strauch gave a lecture on the use of
literature as an escape as a worthwhile pursuit. He said lately Edmund Wilson
of the New Yorker decried it as “a kind of cheat, blasting the detective novel
while others defended it.” (Another of
Strauch’s books this author owns, Edmund Wilson’s <i>Apologies to the Iroquois</i> read by Strauch on October 4, 1971.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In his retirement, Strauch admitted to finding great
pleasure in reading the modern detective novels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch had a unique penchant for both self-promotion
and self-deprecation. As Bob Cole noted
from a first day lecture in September 1965 that he pointed out his graciousness
in allowing student access to his own papers and books he placed on reserve in
the library. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“I am the only faculty member I think who performs
this service.” Further along, as he
addressed the rigors and requirements of his syllabus, Strauch gave a “You
see?...” with a signature dramatic pause as he gave a sweep of his arm in a
calm over-arching gesture, “Please withhold your applause until I have shown
the last text.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In preparing for his own passing, Strauch made legal
arrangements for the sum total of his life’s literary work to be placed into
the special collections archive at the Linderman Library. His papers and files were found from the
basement to his bedroom. Along with many
published and unpublished manuscripts were collections of his letters with his
friend Kenneth Cameron of the Emerson Society and Orson Welles and many others
to name a few. All the boxes take up twenty-lineal
feet of the special collections archive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Among the categories for some of his folders was one he
self-entitled as “Fan Mail.” Some of the
letters display warm collegial affection.
Another discussed a bitter disagreement over an Emerson anthology, which
was rather tragic given the energy and perfectionism that Strauch applied to
his research and analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A letter from a former student, living in the Philadelphia
area, now a stay at home mom, wrote to him upon feeling the solace of being
snowed in and seeing a cardinal feeding outside her window. It reminded her of Loren Eiseley’s poem, which
Strauch shared in class, “The Sunflower Song” and how the cardinal’s eaten seed
transforms into song.</span><br />
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pen to prod Welles to make a movie production of Fitzgerald’s <i>The Great Gatsby</i>. He even suggested that Welles take the lead
role. The idea was graciously rejected. Strauch was seventy-years ahead of the 2013 production starring Leonardo DiCaprio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch too transformed over the years. At his last regular lecture at Lehigh (which
was preserved on audio tape, somewhere…) he entertained some regret of his career's devotion to the Romantics. He went on to
suggest that he’d been happier studying Henry James and his complex characters
than Emerson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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courses are on a strong foundation of <i>incompleteness</i>. Striving for completeness in this life is
vanity…possibly blasphemous…It may be the unpardonable sin.” A student then pointed out to the syllabus
where it states that “no incompletes” would be given. To this Strauch wryly assented. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rare Strauch sketch of Thomas Hardy's fictional "Egdon Heath" - April 1941<br />
Ever illustrating his vision of literature, Strauch took to pen and ink to create a<br />
visual representation to aid his students' learning. This 1941 original is owned<br />
by the author. It measures 9 x 14 inches.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Further evidence of the reverence of Strauch and his
humor comes from Lehigh’s <i>Brown and White</i>
newspaper. Cold-war tensions in April
1950 led the editors to publish a tongue-in-cheek story about the end of the
world. Various faculty and students were
lampooned into their fictional reactions to such a time. The article contained the following:
“Professor Strauch, campus pedagogue located in “English Hall” has invited all
interested persons both university and town, to attend a recital of Jonathan
Edward’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” said recital to be performed
by Strauch in person.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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themes of time and suicide. Whether it
be Ishmael’s reason for taking to the sea (“as a substitute for pistol and
ball”) or Ahab’s whole self-destructed march toward the end. Strauch said through this “thematic
development” we are to “understand what suicide is. It is the desire to divest oneself of
personality, to escape the oppression of time, and to merge with the nihilism
at the heart of the universe.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with depression from at least the 1950s, also wrote his own thoughts for ending
his life. In a letter to his doctor, he
spoke of his insatiable need for sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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big slumps of “Discord and malaise…Of the symptoms I have listed, only the
desire to sleep, and not consistently, remained. (Not entirely true – I have thought of
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of months following his wife Helen’s death in January 1971 that he felt fit. Five months following her death he saw a part
in the clouds of his despair. He wrote,
“Today I hope heralds my liberation-a day of feeling good and getting some work
done, household and academic.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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over tact. He once darkly chided about
the suicide of Cornell professor and Emerson scholar Dr. Stephen E. Whicher
(1915-1961), attributing it to the professional jealousy Whicher felt toward
Dr. Kenneth W. Cameron (1908-2006).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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professors. His middle name was
figuratively and literally Emerson.
Though Whicher was a seasoned WWII veteran, he took his own life saying
he could not handle the growing tensions of world affairs. He died November 13, 1961. (Strauch himself would die on the same date,
twenty-eight years later).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jealously for Dr. Kenneth W. Cameron’s scholarly upstaging of Whicher’s
work. Cameron was another cordial ally
of Strauch’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his friendship with Whicher with trademark audacity. “Professor Whicher and I had a glowing
relationship before he committed suicide.
He had done everything – He had edited the best anthology of Emerson and
written the best book on him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“gave me help and advice in my earlier years of research and remained my friend
and collaborator.” Strauch went on to
describe Cameron as “indefatigable and trustworthy” and “as for me the greatest
research scholar in 19<sup>th</sup> Century American literature.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and president of the Emerson Society Quarterly.
One of the studies by Strauch within the volume titled “Initial Love,”
examines Emerson’s interpretation of Cupid, “not as a god of love, but as a
dynamic life force in man’s evolution.” (Ownership
of Cameron’s personal copy of Strauch’s book, “Characteristics of Emerson Transcendental
Poet” of 1974 has been transferred to this author.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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French scholar, wrote an intellectual biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a
lifelong concern of his. He defended it
in 1964 but republished it in 1987 and only came into great acclaim in 2014
titled <i>An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and
Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson</i>, Princeton Legacy Library. In it he cites “Kenneth Cameron, Carl F.
Strauch, and the late Stephen Whicher- to cite only three names among many
worthy of mention- have contributed to a decisive transformation of our
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whicher received an honorary degree from Amhearst<br />
College in June 1961, just five months before his death.</td></tr>
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Rye” is still considered a defining critique.
Strauch is cited in Sarah Graham’s book on Salinger’s novel, where she
uses Strauch’s own words of “neurotic deterioration” and “psychological
self-cure” in his “long, demanding” essay.
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set by his surroundings. The Strauch family came to be amid the miners who
lived through the fervor of the Molly Macguires. In at least one of his letters to Lovecraft,
he mentions a family connection to those upheavals. In later years, his sisters would be
interviewed for various Molly Maguire projects of researchers and
documentarians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so-called “Hex Murders” that fascinated the nation in the late 1920s and early
1930s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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murder is perhaps the one<br />
that triggered all the <br />
hysteria. This Mennonite<br />
brother and church<br />
accountant was found<br />
dead with the crescent<br />
hex symbol carved into<br />
his temples. His<br />
naked body thrown from<br />
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Pennsylvania, known as the “Long Lost Friend,” prescribed and bestowed powers
of Pennsylvania Dutch pow-wow or hex (witch) doctors to anyone who possessed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tried to subdue a man who was casting spells upon, and holding power over, his
neighbor. They wanted to take his book
and a lock of his hair to bury them to take away his hex doctor’s power. Instead, the recluse doctor was killed during
the struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Another murder of a Mennonite accountant for the
church was done in cold blood, the victim left with crescent shapes carved out
of the skin of his temples. An Allentown
man was arrested on suspicion of foul deeds.
The scraps of paper in his pockets with known hex symbols on them were
enough to book him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And still another Pennsylvania court case was won by a
neighbor who accused the neighboring farmer for hexing his crops by planting
things around his fence. The man
responsible for this hex was placed on $1,000 bail for criminal mischief. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Liddie and Cole tried to capture the enigmatic nature and their fascination of Strauch by collecting notes on his lectures, including
unfiltered quips and examples of his “showmanship.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The temperamental Strauch at times could be hurt and
annoyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He scoffed at the lack of talent of the “modern” poets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A feud over content of the Harvard University Press’
‘Collection of Works of Emerson: A Definitive, Clear Text Edition,’ a project
Strauch worked on for fourteen years ended badly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1977 the Board drafted a new set of editorial
principles which, at least in part, contradicted Strauch’s aims. A flurry of impatient and perhaps impetuous
letters were exchanged leading to Strauch’s bitter resignation in 1978. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In this letter, Strauch forbade the Board to include
his name in this “now repugnant” edition on Emerson. He discouraged any further correspondence or
phone calls from anyone connected to the publication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It was written: “The Harvard Poems will have far
surpassed Strauch’s work when it finally appears, but his presence will be felt
there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Letters
to Germany:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch could also be warm, as in his letters to his
distant German cousins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As far as can be determined, the letter writing was
established between Strauch’s mother Anna-Margaret (Foesch) and the mother of Else
(Adolph) Muller of Freiberg, Germany.
The mantle carried forward by Lizzie and Margaret to Carl, and then from
2009 to 2010 it was once again picked up again by this author. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It was shortly after the war when the Strauch family
(notably Strauch’s unmarried sister Elizabeth) sent care packages to their
German family who were in want of basic necessities like clothes pins and
baking flour. This act of kindness was
never forgotten by the Adolph family, as subsequent letters to this day
attest. Hanna, daughter of Else Adolph
Muller, and this author continue the correspondence that began with the
Strauchs over a century ago. (Three
letters were exchanged before I received the untimely letter from Else’s
daughter Hanna informing us that Else had passed away.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It appears that it wasn’t just the American cousins
who had a taste for literature. In a
letter from December 1977, Else wrote “I just wrote your sister Margaret and
now it’s your turn…Tomorrow night Otto (her husband) and I are going to hear a
lecture on Goethe in Hessen. One never
knows too much of the history of one’s home country.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna-Margaret (Foesch) Strauch near the end of her life. She was still connected<br />
to her family back in Freiberg Germany.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The bloodline lost, but the allegiance continued. When Anna-Margaret died in March 1945, just
two months before VE Day, her obituary stated she still had a sibling living in
her home country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Their bonds strengthened by the act of humanity and
kindness, Elizabeth Strauch’s love and kinship was not forgotten even some sixty
years later. Else Adolph Muller’s
granddaughter, born in 1994, was bestowed with the name “Elizabeth” to enshrine
the name back to Germany where it all started. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjlXcOWw7sRzkPQ9wnKxYhPRRDv5w0Rk2cQGw7xeyJ-lTpr9VYPzYcDoAF5QLg7cylVfvLbELT4CDJYMnftd01uZBI-CLaSHsOKTwUDsb9CFriIP07PggE3UQAzXncXXa6RqRSBWpDCHDT/s1600/Else+Adolph+Muller+007+resz.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjlXcOWw7sRzkPQ9wnKxYhPRRDv5w0Rk2cQGw7xeyJ-lTpr9VYPzYcDoAF5QLg7cylVfvLbELT4CDJYMnftd01uZBI-CLaSHsOKTwUDsb9CFriIP07PggE3UQAzXncXXa6RqRSBWpDCHDT/s640/Else+Adolph+Muller+007+resz.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Though it was unclear just how the Adolph's and Strauch's were related, it is clear that Else (Adolph) Muller held up her end in Germany in keeping the family connected across the ocean via parcel post. This author only discovered her address amid Strauch's papers in January 2010 and had eight months of correspondence with her. Her daughter Hanna informed<br />
me of her passing in July 2010. She included the following poem from Gertrud von le Fort that Else selected a few months before her passing. It appears here translated by Hanna: "Do not welcome me when I am arriving. Do not bid me<br />
farewell when I am leaving. For I am coming and I am leaving whenever I am leaving." Else Muller, like her Strauch family cousins, was also a teacher. She taught English in the Freiberg public schools. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><u>The Dery Family:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helen Dery had two older brothers. Oldest was George Dery, who earned his
bachelors from Lafayette College in Easton and his law degree from
Harvard. Charles Frederick Dery, the
middle child, was educated at the Hill School, a private boarding school in
Pottstown. He was a Princeton
graduate. At the Hill School, Charles served
as associate editor of <i>The Dial</i>
yearbook under editor-in-chief F. A. O. Schwarz II. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrBOw4O4RjGPccCaCHC0btDQzt9rd9pRGv8NdCF6HNIHvNJQh3BnExBjtRS5OlX1r7f73m8OexKNDTI64po0s2disRwu2jM3SCQDjf2sd93pJUF1nmOGB41_lFlo1KuOytZZ89qbF7Nz5/s1600/Charles+F+Dery+Hill+School+Dial+-00062+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="647" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrBOw4O4RjGPccCaCHC0btDQzt9rd9pRGv8NdCF6HNIHvNJQh3BnExBjtRS5OlX1r7f73m8OexKNDTI64po0s2disRwu2jM3SCQDjf2sd93pJUF1nmOGB41_lFlo1KuOytZZ89qbF7Nz5/s320/Charles+F+Dery+Hill+School+Dial+-00062+%25282%2529.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles F. Dery's senior<br />
picture from the Hill<br />
School yearbook.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Frederick August Otto Schwarz was the grandson of the
New York City toy store founder. He
later earned his law degree and briefly ran the company from 1931 to 1932 after
the death of his father Henry. George
was the first to switch coasts when he headed to San Mateo California in the
1920s. Later on his little brother
joined him. George a law writer while
Charles worked as a writer and drama study at local theater groups. He later moved to San Francisco and wrote for
the <i>San Francisco Call Bulletin</i>. The Dery family continued to maintain a
summer home in Camden, Maine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Charles F. Dery wrote many letters to Strauch, some
from Maine (in 1982), and others from San Francisco. “As a pantheist I must question your use of
expression “bad weather” or else I shall be punished by the spirit behind the inanimate universe. Why not call it inclement? Quotes John Ruskin, "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow exhilarating." Charles goes on to say, "There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." He ends by quoting Strauch back on his own lines of his last letter: "I daresay we both have come home safely."</span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch
the Critic, the Curmudgeon:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ever the critic, Strauch scribbled on the edges of the
pages of a copy of the ‘American Scholar:’ “Horrible examples of current
‘poetry.” The page referred to two
poems: ‘Daddies’ by James L. Calderwood and “The Land of Nod” by Alice Wirth
Gray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Curmudgeon Strauch once relayed the following to
Liddie about summer heat and a reticent summer-intern, grad-assistant. In record 95-degree heat, in his second floor
apartment, without air-conditioning, papers sweating to his forearms, wearing
only his shorts, his back stuck to the chair, Strauch pulled together the
lion-share on his article “Hatred’s Swift Repulses.” Strauch delivered his dead-pan disdain of his
fair-weather friend who said he “hadn’t much done, it was too hot.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In another episode, Strauch was called down to
Washington D.C. to take part in a roundtable, to serve yet again as
contributing editor to another Emerson anthology. The only information known from that trip are now forever known in his notes as “that D.C. fiasco.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: 12.8px;">
Perhaps one of his last photographs from Lehigh,</div>
<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">
most likely after he retired during emeritus status</div>
<div style="font-size: 12.8px;">
days, a more weary and deserted Strauch.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch complained to Lovecraft about what passes for
good fiction in those days. Lovecraft
replied, “I heartily agree with you regarding the lame inadequacy of nearly
everything that passes for weird fiction in the popular magazines-to say
nothing of more pretentious specimens.” Strauch
also panned J.S. Fletcher (1863-1935) who was primarily a detective writer but
also a writer of weird novels at turn of century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft often referred sympathy back on Strauch for
things large and small. “Sorry your eyes
have been bothering you…” and “You have my sympathy regarding the tutoring- but
it helps, at least, if the subjects are willing and earnest.” This was a recurring theme for him. He was often quoted as saying to his students
in regard to their reluctant study of Emerson: “Oh but they flock to that which
they hate/scorn.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A recurring theme of Strauch was how, of cycles of
nature, of successive generations of minds, could transcend time. From his article and lectures of “Romanticism
and the Organic Metaphor” he writes, “Our perceptions magnetize our reading as
when we link writers in theme, motif, and psychological awareness, though they
are separated by a hundred years, geography, nationality and class.” He oft spoke of transcendence, and thus so
became his life’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Transcendental
Man:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch had a filial friendship with Henry Louis
Mencken, the American journalist and satirist, known for his coverage of the
Scopes Trial, dubbing it as the “Monkey Trial.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Both Mencken and Strauch lost loved ones to the
‘consumption’ of tuberculosis. The
former, his wife of five years, the latter his beautiful sister, Caroline, also
known as ‘Lena.’ It was plain to all
that Lena was father’s favorite, the only one who could pull a gleam from a
mostly gloomy persona. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Both men lost their wives, as Strauch’s wife Helen, a
heavy smoker, died from a long, struggle with brain tumors 1971. Adding disconsolateness to a man already
stuck in a “psychological swamp” of depression, Strauch implored “God and the
Saints, and Helen my saint of suffering, help me.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch’s poem “One Living to One Dead,” published
fifteen years after his sister Lena’s October 1917 death, speaks grandly of
what aromas they could smell together, ending with: “Crowning the azure
loveliness, Of an October dusk!...And in the conniving dusk, Fate led you down
a dark road, Toward a grove of cypresses, And there she put up, The too
brilliant sword, Of your perfection. She
murdered all the little singing birds, And all their ghosts went whistling down
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ending of Strauch's One Living to One Dead poem from page 36 of his<br />
1932 book of poems. </td></tr>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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letter “delighted” with his poems, “especially the autumn piece. Of poetic gifts there can be no question and
I am sure Allentown must be a notable abode of the Muses if it can produce many
genuine rivals! You have the true poet’s
sense of symbols and images, and a highly enviable command of the right words
and rhythms for their aptest conveyance.”
Apparently he must have told Lovecraft of his poetic Lehigh Valley
competition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In October, 1931, Lovecraft wrote, “I am aware that
your part of Pennsylvania is rich in folklore and superstitions-but was
surprised when Brobst told me of the prevalence of weird beliefs in the cities
as well as the rural districts. Such
superstition as New England still retains is confined wholly to the remotest
backwoods…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Allentown man arrested with "hex" notes in his pocket<br />
that hoped to cure bleeding and stop pain.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft also gave this spot on assessment of
Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, saying “This kind of thing ought to be studied
soon, I imagine, if it is to be encountered in its pristine purity; for a
generation or two of modern standardized life with radios, cinema, tabloids,
and cheap magazines will leave very little of the ancient folk-heritage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In December 1932 Lovecraft wrote: “Those “hex” circles
on your barns are intensely interesting and I had never heard of them
before. I certainly must see this region
someday.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In August, Lovecraft wrote to Derleth saying, “I find
that there is still a whole region in the U.S. where witchcraft is believed as
uniformly and implicitly as in the Salem of 1692. It is the Lehigh Valley region of PA, where
the ‘hex’ murders attracted attention a few years ago. I thought that those a rather isolated
vestigial case, but I now have two bright young correspondents in Allentown who
(themselves as skeptical as I) indicate widespread surviving belief…some
quasi-hypnotic psychological menace, a sheriff who wanted to search his
garage. The country folks paint on their
barn gables great circles filled with labyrinthine lines- to entrap any ‘hexes’
who may have designs on their livestock and grain.” (From H. P. Lovecraft
Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White, by S. T.
Joshi and David E. Schultz, 2016.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTF2WtqY4v-EBtiZuqC4FxAYpMcOF6RkRB6td7wjA0sxAblKtV89CwjEjcDLd4oWPxUA0N984p-x-GDcWzhSA-whONiHYg_5RE7-TMG4bCl47BAqxEAZkZOyCnnnmCK8nP2LIp5W9EhFRc/s1600/Katie+Lena+Strauch+Mauch+Chunk+Luther+Catechism+book.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="1565" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTF2WtqY4v-EBtiZuqC4FxAYpMcOF6RkRB6td7wjA0sxAblKtV89CwjEjcDLd4oWPxUA0N984p-x-GDcWzhSA-whONiHYg_5RE7-TMG4bCl47BAqxEAZkZOyCnnnmCK8nP2LIp5W9EhFRc/s400/Katie+Lena+Strauch+Mauch+Chunk+Luther+Catechism+book.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Luther's Catechism shared by two of Strauch's sisters from their<br />
days of living at Hacklebernie, the words still studied in the original<br />
German at that time. Katie (1890-1986) married the socialist Floyd Harrier<br />
and Carolina 'Lena' (1892-1917), perhaps the fairest of the Strauchs in<br />
beauty, died of consumptive tuberculosis in October 1917. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All of the Strauch siblings were raised in the
Lutheran faith, the older ones in Hacklebernie and Lehighton. He once recalled how he and his nearest
sister Margaret walked in the dark and snow to Christmas matins and how
enamored he was with the whole effect.
Carl was confirmed at St Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Allentown, April 5, 1925. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But he had a turning away after his confirmation, “I
expected great things…I looked under every table at the altar for angels’
wings…but alas, experienced nothing.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch made notes in the margins of transcendentalist
George Ripley’s 1882 posthumous biography.
Ripley quoted reads, “…unless a minister is to speak out on all subjects
which are uppermost in his mind, with no fear of incurring the charge of
heresy.” To which Strauch handwriting
reads, “<i>A minister should speak out</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Where Ripley said, “…formality and coldness which are
breathed from the atmosphere of our churches,” Strauch noted “<i>Church is dead</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strauch's wife's death in January<br />
1971 created disharmony in his life.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch had more than a passing affection for
disobedience. In his defense of saying
he “resigned from the human race in 1939,” Strauch replied with a litany of
influences from literary history, from Emerson’s opinion of the avariciousness
of America to his love for Thoreau’s ‘Necessity of Civil Disobedience, to Mark
Twain’s reference to “the damned human race.”
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Liddie once quoted Matthew Arnold to Strauch, that
literature must be a “criticism of life” to which Strauch heartily agreed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He wrote to Liddie: “Of course, some of the alienation
I encountered rubbed off on me. I made
the remark about resigning from the human race in the early 1950s, and you must
have caught it on the wing. 1939 was not
really a good year to hand in a resignation; I would have better advised to
choose 1914, when I was six and the wholesale murder began.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He said his friend Mencken would have called
resignation absurd because he so enjoyed witnessing the spectacle of man’s
folly and political carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch also counted Robinson Jeffers to be a “great
and good friend.” Jeffer’s quip “I’d
sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk,” resonated with Strauch who
added “Ditto for polar bears.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> “We are all of
us too late to have experienced an unmolested, unexploited American nature as
the Indian knew it. Is the magnificent
wildlife of central Africa to go the way of our American wildlife?” Strauch quoted Bernhard Grzimek, director of
the Frankfort Zoo in the 1950s and 60s, “From the Rockies to Siberia it’s been
the same sad story – slaughter and extermination.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxYBqL-oTMXWxrFMi87eWcGE5LLQYU7pKYyZ3mn_HQPZYI9NbT3OS6RZLcAi4AALEI9tZMgFpUau_fJZXV85EVFPLKJJwEaznFHfs68mKQb7xM59AQnQxULU4cQZ_NNQxmQeuCW9LvHVm/s1600/thestrauchsCarl+Margaret+Leonard+unknown+Henry+and+Lizzy+Nov+197.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="1600" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxYBqL-oTMXWxrFMi87eWcGE5LLQYU7pKYyZ3mn_HQPZYI9NbT3OS6RZLcAi4AALEI9tZMgFpUau_fJZXV85EVFPLKJJwEaznFHfs68mKQb7xM59AQnQxULU4cQZ_NNQxmQeuCW9LvHVm/s320/thestrauchsCarl+Margaret+Leonard+unknown+Henry+and+Lizzy+Nov+197.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the living Strauch siblings among their books in<br />
the family homestead in Allentown in the early 1970s.<br />
L-R: Carl, Margaret, Leonard, unknown, Henry, and<br />
Elizabeth "Lizzie." Neither Margaret, Leonard, nor<br />
Lizzie ever married nor didany of them ever own their <br />
own car. Lizzie, the family 'matriarch' after<br />
her mother died continued the care packages and letters<br />
to Germany. She was a Christian-Scientist. All<br />
were avid readers.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cold War threats were made very real to him from
letters from his cousin in Friedberg Germany in April 1960. Else Adolph Muller
wrote: “Will you please remember us to your sister, we have to thank her for a
letter in winter and her Easter greetings…So you understand the great fear in
our lives, that of Russia whose border is not far away from us, and we are in
great concern for our people in Eastern Germany.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the shadow of Vietnam, the recent Roe v. Wade
decision, the Yom Kippur War in Israel, and the federal response to the
occupation at Wounded Knee, forty-five members of the Lehigh University
teaching staff took out a full-page ad in the March 9, 1974 edition of the <i>Brown and White</i>. It pictured Albert Schweitzer along with the
quote: “When we lose respect for any form of life, we diminish all life.” Certainly the same sentiment expressed by
Strauch’s daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It is unclear if he anointed Helen “Dery” Strauch with
his sense of man’s inhumanity via transcendent holy waters or if it were merely
through the grace of the Holy Spirit, but “Dery” took on the mantle not just in
words. (She was named after her mother,
her middle name used in their home.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6jyQ3ouPsIG3WykIdx0M6a445gX7N21wJPc4BbgYm-jrfjYIvbyORisbgdBiXsBu59k0HpaWUdLhkeUIdM3xAykH1EXIgEQsPm5e8P2oV-UAvGzjws2ZIQBHPM0S089ZeEdThGKZB2_Ba/s1600/Liberty+High+Helen+Dery+Strauch+sid_1167_1960_0149+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1246" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6jyQ3ouPsIG3WykIdx0M6a445gX7N21wJPc4BbgYm-jrfjYIvbyORisbgdBiXsBu59k0HpaWUdLhkeUIdM3xAykH1EXIgEQsPm5e8P2oV-UAvGzjws2ZIQBHPM0S089ZeEdThGKZB2_Ba/s400/Liberty+High+Helen+Dery+Strauch+sid_1167_1960_0149+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helen Dery Strauch Woodson served on Liberty High School's 'Life'<br />
newspaper staff. This photo from the 1960 yearbook.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">From the books on his shelves, the telling phrases in
his works, and the friends he admired, it is easy to see Strauch’s affinity for
spotlighting man’s inherent inhumanity against himself and his dissatisfaction
with religion. He seemed to stir with
disobedience and he sought to correct it through his words. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">His “Lone Wolf” status and temperament was both a
blessing for his studiousness and scholarly analysis and dramatic teaching
style; While alienated those with differences of style and tact. To Strauch, people were either acceptable or
not. With him, there was little middle
ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">H. P. Lovecraft’s influence on the young Strauch
should not be overlooked. To have
Lovecraft who was an unflinching force, an influential, persistent and faithful
letter-writer, and above all one wholly interested in the support and mentoring
of young writers, one cannot discount the effect this had on our burgeoning writer.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> However, it is
possible that Strauch’s solitary attempt at a novel and Lovecraft’s subsequent
and fair critique of it may have hastened the end of both their friendship and
any further pursuits toward fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft’s editor and collaborator was August Derleth
(1909-1971). Lovecraft said this to him
of Strauch: “I reached home just in time to welcome young Strauch, who had come
from Allentown to visit Brobst and me.
He is a delightful youth-slim, dark, handsome, and extremely brilliant-
and I believe he will go far in the poetic field.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In late June 1933, Lovecraft wrote another member of
his inner circle, Robert Bloch (1917-1994).
He sent Bloch Strauch’s address and the following: “Poet with one
published book to his credit…Delightful and affable-he visited Providence last
summer and will probably come again this September. Enthusiast in Germanic literature. Rather anti-scientific by
temperament-affording material for heated and interesting arguments with
Brobst.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It appears that Strauch and Derleth did indeed have
their own friendship. In a May 1933
letter to Strauch, Lovecraft gently chided Strauch about upon hearing about
Strauch’s plans to visit Derleth in Sauk City.
Incidentally, Strauch’s only daughter would later move to Madison, a
mere twenty-four miles away. Derleth
died in Sauk City on July 4<sup>th</sup>, 1971 at the age of 62. Helen Dery Strauch Woodson moved there in the
middle 1960s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This book list appeared in the July 1932 Hartford Courant featured<br />
Strauch's book of poems.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1932 publication by Humphries Press, Boston.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After his 1932 <i>Twenty-Nine
Poems</i>, he set his sights on the American novel. Though the manuscript has been lost to time,
a fortunate peek into the characters and tenor of his story can be found in the
Joshi and Schultz “Lovecraft” book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch sent the 280-page typed manuscript to
Lovecraft in July 1933. Lovecraft
assembled a “near-convention,” a “spirited triangular session” with E. Hoffman
Price, Brobst, and himself. They covered
ten pages with Price reading the piece aloud while Lovecraft took kind-hearted notes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft reminded Strauch, more than once, that they
realized this to be his first attempt at story.
Hence Price’s “pointers” shouldn’t “be taken as actual derogation.” He seems to try to soften any perceived blows
on his work in many ways, at one point stating that Price “is quite the carper”
and he “brought up all sorts of minute matters…which would never have occurred
to me at all.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft also said “there is damned good stuff in
this story” and with a few changes “it ought to have a chance with
Wright.” Farnsworth Wright was a key
editor for <i>Weird Tales</i> and no doubt
another good friend of Lovecraft that he tried to connect to Strauch. He also suggested that he send it to Derleth,
but that he could be “savage in his candor” either as is or after he revises
it. But he prepped Strauch for
disappointment judging by the way Derleth “lit on J. Vernon Shea’s work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Clues to the tone and tenor of the story can be found
in several telling comments. He compared
it to Oscar Wilde’s <i>Dorian Gray. </i>He mentions it should be shorted by
cutting out excessive descriptions and “whimsical character-touches” and
“suggestions of scholarship.” And
although he felt it didn’t have enough “dark tenseness for a macabre theme,” he
does tell Strauch to “soft-peddle” on any references to bestiality or “anything
suggesting abnormal eroticism.” They all
agreed it should have less “smartness” as well as “paradox and other
incongruous elements suggesting the Wilde tradition…Be more direct and simple.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The triumvirate suggested making the Hopkins character
less of a “pretty-boy” unless Strauch chance his book be associated in the
style of the popular <i>Yellow Book</i>
magazine of the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Other characters in the novel were Meininglake and von
Hohenloe. Though he suggests cutting
back on describing these seven, old-time philosophers, he begs to learn more
about the one named Hohenloe. There was
also a long-dead sorcerer. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The climax occurs when Meininglake’s dead body, shot
up, transforms back to the living. He
tells him to cut down on the explanations of this “violation of the basic laws
of nature.” Instead, make it seem so
plausible that the reader will hesitate to question it as real. He says as written, it has a
“far-fetchedness” to it all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft suggested making some thread of continuity
between the old philosophers and the current scene. And though he says it matters not where the
setting takes place, he does suggest setting it within the context of Pennsylvania
Dutch folklore. He also suggested that there should be some sort of</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> handing down of the
legend from the German to the Dutch roots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It would seem that some of Strauch’s characterization
can be traced back to Thomas Carlyle.
Carlyle spoke of the devil being the true ruler of the world. And if man would live in eternity, stressed
the need to live in the timeless present of love, religion, and art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Carlyle used an old German philosopher known as
Teufelsdroeckh whom Strauch spoke of and wrote of in his lectures and essays. It was this character who quoted of love,
religion, and art transcending time: “A discerning of the Infinite in the
Finite, of the Idea made Real.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">To which
Strauch said, “Similarly with religion and art, even though, in the long run,
time will deface these symbols of man’s striving.” When translated from the German,
Teufelsdroeckh means ‘god-born, devil’s dung.’
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In a follow-up letter a week later, Lovecraft suggests
letting “Comte d’Erlette” take a look at the manuscript, a reference to Derlerth
again. ‘D’Erlette’ was a character in
Robert Bloch novels. The inspiration for
the name comes from the ancestral form of Derleth’s name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lovecraft ends with more encouragement. “I have no doubt but that after a few
experiments you will produce notable results.
In the course of time-after you have applied all the finishing touches
of revision that you wish-I hope to see your novel.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">How much more time Strauch devoted to this project is
unclear. Their cordial letters end a
month later. There is nothing uncovered
to date of any further work on this project by him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">With his courtship of Helen out and away on the
horizon, Strauch’s job at Muhlenberg was about to evaporate, and both his and
the national depression deepened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It was time for a change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Passing
the Cairn:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One of Strauch’s most intriguing lines, written in his
own hand without the benefit of any context: “But as one passes the cairn, one
compulsively drops his little stone.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When in the presence of greatness, one is humbled by
his own little works. We all make our
own way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">His longings to both stride and swipe at his 19<sup>th</sup>
century heroes are glaringly apparent. A
concept that was not lost on his daughter, Helen Dery Woodson.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">From his notes Strauch quoted from Thoreau: “The soil
it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it
may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the
earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?” In the margins, Strauch wrote, “Man, having
died, should be reborn.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It must be pondered: how much of Strauch was Strauch,
and how much of the man did he allow himself to be? He was considered by some to be a living
repository of Emerson, Melville and Salinger.
How much of that scholarly concentration stayed in his head, and how
much of it was truly felt in his heart is anyone’s guess. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The fact that he shared a life of loneliness with his
invalid wife, the ‘poor suffering saint Helen’, and that at such a young age,
and in a time of need, what drew his only child away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery would subsequently immerse herself into her own
zealousness, dedicating her work to “her father.” In the end, what was it he had in this
world? Did he achieve transcendence? Or was he simply seeking the psychological
self-cure in his works and letters of the Romantics?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sober and Intent - Helen Dery Strauch Woodson's<br />
1960 yearbook picture from Liberty High School,<br />
Bethlehem, PA.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps he was stifled by the lack of words spoken
from his stern father and severe mother, ironically, those words are now locked
and persevered in the Linderman library.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And so, after some three years removed from Helen’s
death and with forty years of “distinguished teaching,” Strauch retired from
Lehigh in May 1974. His house on High
Street becoming the static tomb of his declining years. Alone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Disobedient Daughter:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Both my mother and father shared the same birthday, September 25<sup>th</sup>…I still adore them both.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helen Dery Strauch Woodson still admires
the man. Strauch said to her during one
of her prison sentences, “You have lived out my ideals.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Dery” (Helen Dery Strauch was named after her mother
but called Dery to avoid confusion in the house.) was the only child of Helen
and Carl. She became the very embodiment of the
civil disobedience that Strauch taught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch once said of being a father and professor, “As
I grew somewhat older and became a father, reading <i>Winnie the Pooh</i> and <i>The Wind
in the Willows </i>to my offspring, I added affection to my feelings for my
students.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He developed serial characters at bedtime including a
memorable series about two mischievous elves.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery remembers her father being extremely lovable and
available to her. Besides their mutual
love of baseball, she remembers attending nearly every Lehigh football game
with her father. Her parents also made
an intricate doll house. The structure
built by Strauch in his woodshop. The tiny
upholstered furniture and window drapery were sewn by her mother Helen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery had one natural child of her own and adopted
eleven more, living out her deep felt religious beliefs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A newspaper stock photo<br />
of Helen Dery Strauch Woodson<br />
from her Gaudete Peace Center<br />
days in Madison, WI.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">The story goes that one day, Woodson and her young son David found a pro-life pamphlet in the street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">It was not only a teachable moment for them both, but a life-altering one as well. It was then and there when Dery decided to adopt as many children as possible, especially ones apparently cast away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All of her foster and adopted children had some sort
of mental or physical handicap, believing in taking care of all of God’s
abandoned children. She then formed the
Gaudete Center for Peace in Madison. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery’s mother Helen was sick most of her life. “She was obviously sick when I was eight,
very sick when I was twelve.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Aunt Margaret’s home became a sanctuary. “I had two weeks in summer for a wonderful
vacation and several times a week during the summer of 1959 when I had a job at
Adams Clothing Store in Allentown.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helen Strauch had good stretches and bad, her
recurring meningioma made life a struggle with seizures and small strokes. “She was in good health in July 1964 when my
son David was born. She stayed with me
in Wisconsin for his birth for three weeks…She was able to meet my first
adopted son Ethan in 1970,” Dery said.
In the intervening years she was very ill, almost dying in 1967. Helen Strauch finally succumbed in January
1971.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJnGOtdVG3kA7P6XCgxw2naS09ssxkJ5CKKOVgO1rYWHdtT4yxM45QpeKqd9aje1h6dF6qBmXtuz3mPZoUJ8fuZ6ceq3_hIS9fX3r4h-PjZ_l_NuKJhMNrGwBv9CnlFzgeE-XrK1G9yQtT/s1600/Carl+Strauch+in+Offc.tif" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJnGOtdVG3kA7P6XCgxw2naS09ssxkJ5CKKOVgO1rYWHdtT4yxM45QpeKqd9aje1h6dF6qBmXtuz3mPZoUJ8fuZ6ceq3_hIS9fX3r4h-PjZ_l_NuKJhMNrGwBv9CnlFzgeE-XrK1G9yQtT/s400/Carl+Strauch+in+Offc.tif" width="392" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An early 1970s picture of Strauch in his Lehigh office suite. With the death<br />
of his muse Helen in 1971 and with his daughter Dery living in Madison,<br />
Strauch increasingly relied on his renewed connections to his sister and<br />
brother-in-law to ease the daily pains of living.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Her death sent Carl deeper into what he referred to as
his “psychological swamp,” his varying in intensity battle with depression he
claimed to have fought since the 1950s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Some fifteen years after it was first published,
Strauch took on a defining analysis of J. D. Salinger’s <i>Catcher in the Rye</i>. Perhaps
this coincided with his only daughter’s ascendance to her rebellious teen
years. Perhaps the timing resulted from
indications of Dery’s future peace activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery was seventeen when he published <i>Kings in the Back Row: Meaning through
Structure </i>in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Winter
1961. To this day many critical
discussions of Salinger begin by establishing whether you are with Strauch or
not because of this definitive piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch understands, perhaps accepts, Holden’s
perniciousness through Whitman’s view of accepting evil as part of the
life-process as the personality “lets go.”
And thus “such Zen riddling easily translatable into existentialist
understanding.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch balances this internal conflict between
“organic and the mechanistic, the secret and the public, reality and
appearance, awakening and death. <i>The Catcher</i> hits off the strongest
Romantic affirmations from Goethe and Wordsworth down to Lawrence, and
Joyce. Whether at Walden Pond, at <i>Weissnichtwo (</i>Carlyle’s<i> Sartor Resartus </i>fictitious town<i> </i>translates to<i>“I know not where”)</i>, or in New York hot spots, the problem of
personality remains; one surmises that, after a century and more, as <i>A Portrait
of the Artist</i> and <i>Steppenwolf</i> (Hesse) likewise indicate, the struggle has
become intensified.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“At the close of <i>The
Catcher</i> the gap between society and the individual has widened perceptibly,
and far from repudiating Holden’s secret world, Salinger has added a secret of
psychological depth.” “Holden is another
bothersome case of arrested development, albeit rather charming in a pathetic
and oafish manner.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch perhaps found his own paternal solace in <i>The Catcher’s</i> ambiguous ending with this
summation: “Whatever the dreadful odds, the human spirit, though slain, refuses
to stay dead; it is forever hearing the cock crow, forever responding to the
Everlasting Yea….So the odds have not become too dreadful. If, as this reading interprets the book, the scales
tip in favor of the affirmation, it is so because the history of youth is
almost always hopeful.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps his understanding of rebellious youth helped
Dery “let go.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Widened Gap between Society and Self:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Silo Pruning Hooks - Helen Dery Strauch Woodson, Father Carl Kabat, Father John Kabat, and Lawrence Jacob Cloud- Morgan, with jack-hammer compressor as a backdrop, pictured here just before they entered the N5 nuclear missile silo area they would all be arrested for in November 1984. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helen Dery Strauch Woodson was jailed several times
prior to her breaking into a nuclear silo area N5 in November 1984.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It appears that the late summer of 1982 was a turning
point for Woodson. In early August her
and her friends in Madison Wisconsin staged a “die-in.” Actors pretended to succumb to a nuclear
blast. Dressed as the grim reaper, Helen
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helen Dery Strauch Woodson portrayed<br />
the grim-reaper in a mock "die-in" in<br />
Madison, Wisconsin in August 1982.<br />
This was only the beginning of<br />
increasingly bold demonstrations<br />
of her civil disobedient beliefs.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The sprinkling of blood would become a running thread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A month later, she was arrested by the Secret Service
for splashing a red substance somewhere in the State Floor area (which contains the
Blue Room, State Dining Room, and etc.) of the White House. The substance was flung onto the floor,
walls, and a set of flags. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch tried to hide his daughter’s peace activism
away from his family, especially from his sister Margaret who essentially became Dery’s second mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery’s first jail stint occurred from a civil
disobedience arrest in Washington D.C. in 1982.
According to Dery, Strauch didn’t think his sister would
understand. So he told her Dery was on a
‘religious retreat’ for several months and would be out of contact. Margaret accepted that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But after the White House incident and a six-month
sentence Strauch “over-reached.” He told
his sister she was on a six-month world speaking tour on nuclear
disarmament. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">September 1982</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Margaret wasn’t buying it, so she called Dery’s home
in Madison and spoke to her friends taking care of her children. According to Dery, to them she implored, “You
know where my favorite niece is and you’re going to tell me!” And they did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Margaret wrote to her and visited her once in her
Washington D.C. jail. “She offered me
$1,000 if I promised never to do “it” again,” Dery said. She wrote back and said, “I needed the $1,000
so I <i>could</i> afford to do it again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Months later, Dery’s co-defendant and long-time friend
Father Carl Kabat drove Dery home from D.C. back to Madison, making a foray
into the Lehigh Valley to visit Strauch as well as Margaret. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“We spent two days in Allentown and Bethlehem. Aunt Margaret took us and my dad out to
dinner. When we took her home after the
meal, Carl (Kabat) walked her to the door and was inside for a few minutes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As they drove away for the return leg to Madison, Dery
asked Kabat how they were fixed for cash.
To this he answered, “I don’t know about you, but I have a check for
$1,000 in my pocket!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lawrence Jacob Cloud-Morgan jackhammers silo lid for this publicity<br />
photo taken by Father Kabat's "holy spirit." The jackhammer broke down<br />
after only a few minutes work.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Father Carl Kabat and his brother John were both
ordained priests in the Missionary Oblates Mary Immaculate, a French order
based in Rome. They along with Lawrence
Jacob Cloud-Morgan a Native American leader of the Ojibway Nation formed a
group known as the <i>Silo Pruning Hooks. </i>The name they derived from Isaiah 2:4-
“…they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning
hooks.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On November 12, 1984 the four rented a 90-pound
jackhammer. With bolt-cutters, they cut through the minimum security fencing to
gain access to the open field of the government’s N5 missile silo. They also brought bread and wine, a book of
prayers, and a baby bottle filled with imitation blood, and a multi-colored quilt
inscribed with the words “Violence ends where love begins.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirxFrU9WFDyDu7QsA3OGjRA_TvC_TIG0PAGCcI5oWzGyw7ZgF6TlGWVxzqJl7Ds6QXaGqNrLzmkPgjBm1FARB8Fl9cSpaN4UO04TrkarQkFwDW0sH5_Ddi5ngfYK5Jpr4v_rFkaGG-47l_/s1600/St__Louis_Post_Dispatch_Wed__Nov_14__1984_+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1347" data-original-width="1600" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirxFrU9WFDyDu7QsA3OGjRA_TvC_TIG0PAGCcI5oWzGyw7ZgF6TlGWVxzqJl7Ds6QXaGqNrLzmkPgjBm1FARB8Fl9cSpaN4UO04TrkarQkFwDW0sH5_Ddi5ngfYK5Jpr4v_rFkaGG-47l_/s320/St__Louis_Post_Dispatch_Wed__Nov_14__1984_+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Silo Pruning Hooks with their quilt shortly before<br />
entering the missile silo area. The apprehension on Father<br />
John Kabat (left), and perhaps the others, is palpable.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Carl Kabat also arranged for a person known only as
his “holy spirit” to tag behind the four to snap pictures and to deliver the
copies of the film and their press release to the media outlets in Kansas
City. Their picture outside the fence
just before their action shows the glee on Carl’s face, while his brother
John’s shows the apprehension and reservation he had about the action as he
later disclosed during his long incarceration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Much has been written about their trail and their
highly unusual self-defense at their federal trial. However, instead of having the desired
deterring affect, Dery’s imprisonment for the silo incident only served to
harden her resolve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Each time a parole
date was set with the possibility of a commuted sentence, Woodson threatened
that they were only hastening to the day when she would once again strike out for peace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite her remonstrations, the court finally took a
chance on her. U</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">pon her release in 1993, she remained true to her words. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dery’s actions went beyond the approved methods of the sanctioning national groups to which she belonged. Even the <i>Nuclear
Resistor</i> and other groups decried her methods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">For Strauch’s final years, Dery couldn’t have been any
farther away from him. In the late
1980s, she was incarcerated in various California federal incarnation centers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Three days after her release in 1993, on parole from
the Whiteman AFB protest, Dery used an unloaded starter’s pistol to get $25,000
from an Illinois bank teller. She
proceeded to pile the money on the floor and set the pile on fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helen Dery Strauch Woodson's<br />
last protest: Robbing $25k from<br />
a bank only to burn the it,<br />
landed her back in jail from 2004<br />
to 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She told witnesses: “Money is evil. You don’t believe in God; you only worship
money.” She was convicted of bank
robbery and other violations and was sentenced to more than nine years in
prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">More about Helen Dery Strauch Woodson’s peace activism
career with subsequent arrests and releases can be found in the End Notes of
this story. She was eventually released
in September 2011. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Once out, she finally disavowed any further disobedience, exchanged to remain among her grandchildren.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And so far, she has been true to
those words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coda
for a Time-Traveler:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">While Dery served her time in California, Strauch began
to flounder at home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It was in those years that this author saw a different
man. The puff and the bluster remained
only in thin whiffles, his mind no longer entirely attached to certainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He had feathered his bed with many laurels over the
years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1962, Strauch received the Lindbeck Foundation
Award to “honor distinguished teaching performed during the college year by a
member of the Lehigh University faculty.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1970 he achieved Lehigh’s distinction of
“Distinguished Professor of English.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He was awarded the honorary doctor of humane letters
degree from Muhlenberg in 1973. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He was a life member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern
Language Association, and the Emerson Society.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">But in his last years of clarity, he enjoyed renewed
correspondence, for leisure, for family.
His brother-in-law, San Francisco writer and theater performer Charles F.
Dery, tried to keep Strauch’s best interests in mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In a November 1981 letter, Charles repeats Strauch’s
own words back to him. He quoted, “‘<i>Oh these sleepless nights, 3-4 hours of
nocturnal insomnia</i>,’ your description of growing old distresses me: ‘<i>Little by little, increasingly, by slow
degrees, mentally and physically, somewhat disconcerting and painful. We are not what we were.</i>’ Speak for yourself John Alden Strauch!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Charles F. Dery’s last known address was 834
Leavenworth St #305, San Francisco, CA 94109.
This author has sadly tried to locate any remnants of this branch of the
Dery family to no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In January, a protective Charles Dery wrote the
following: “I hope you had a happy Christmas dinner at your sister’s as I did
here…make it a best new year ever by moving away from the Lehigh Valley…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Dinners were only temporary interludes of familial
integration for Strauch and his sister Margaret who still lived in the family
rowhome at 716 N. Eleventh St, Allentown.
She ever implored the ever obstinate Strauch to adjoin with her there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Charles Dery’s postscript was heartfelt and paints a
sad picture of this socially viable man with few friends and family nearby: “P.S.
I have seen you toiling up High Street hill during a terrifically hot summer’s
day and my heart went out to you when I saw that look of pain on your face…Get
away from Bethlehem!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He died November 13, 1989. It was several days before anyone discovered
that his life had lapsed. His faithful
dog by his side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He was ever the Romantic, a seeker of eternal truth. Perhaps a man born in a different time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch once quoted Hermann Hesse: “Human life is
reduced to real suffering, to hell…only when two ages, two cultures and
religions overlap.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch’s lectures and analysis are stoked with the
study of time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He said, “In
the womb of the imagination an intellectual concept is clothed in literary
flesh.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He explained
how Hawthorne and Melville struggled with the overlap in time of two ages and
in how our European and American origins and conditions overlapped. “It was the overlapping that perplexed
Hawthorne to the point of exhaustion; it drove Melville nearly mad.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Emerson
said, “If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age
of Revolution? When the old and the new
stand side by side and admit of being compared…when the energies of all men are
searched by fear and hope…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He quoted Hawthorne on his character Dimmesdale: “It is the
unspeakable misery of a life so false as his that it steals the pith and
substance out of whatever realities there are around us…To the untrue man the
whole universe is false.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">So, Strauch concluded, “Time is, of course, the enemy that
must be transcended, though it should be apparent from the suggestions already
laid before the reader that the curse of time grows out of ourselves.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strauch found metaphysical doctrines in Emerson’s private
words. He quoted that “there is one mind
common to all individual men” which essentially nullifies time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Ah,” reads one of Emerson’s journal entries, “we must have
some gift of transcending time.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">In poetry, Emerson tells, how man allies himself with the
eternal, since “poetry was all written before time was.” (Hesse once wrote, “We had talked about the
creations of poetry being more vivid and real than the poets themselves,” <i>The Journey to the East</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He makes the point that all human progress goes in a circle
or rather on an ascending spiral curve “While we fancy ourselves going straight
forward, and attaining at every step, an entirely new positon of affairs, we do
actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now
find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">“The past is but a course and sensual prophesy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Strauch’s life bridged the lives of his mother and father
were from the Old Country. Certainly
Heinrich’s disposition could have been forged in the misery of the
Franco-Prussian War. Wurttemberg,
Alsace-Lorraine where the Strauchs were from was the focal point of that
conflict, a tossed about pawn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">He held parchment touched and perspired upon by
Emerson. He stood with figurative
shoulders to revolutionaries. He
straddle numerous epochs, transformed hundreds of students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He felt, in the end, only man’s love will
survive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He wrote, “In three areas may man escape and transcend
time - in love, religion, and art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">However he added a coda to this with regard to
religion and art. “Even though, in the
long run, time will deface these symbols of man’s striving.” Though a hardened and christened Lutheran,
time caused religion’s luster to fade for Strauch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">So for Strauch, only his love would survive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He has transcended time. Strauch loved his fate: Amor fati.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><u>Transcendence:</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1984, the Library of America contacted Strauch by
letter to ask for his help on its collection of Emerson poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">His reply was starkly Strauch: “I am long past such
endeavors…I have been out of touch even with my own work.” “I shall make no further attempt to place the
book, but shall return it to the top shelf from which I took it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Forever the critic and scholar, Uncle Carl Strauch annotated
until the end. One of the last articles he probably ever read, he underlined
this quote: “The great fact of human equality before God is not one to let the
heart remain cold.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vivacious Margaret Strauch, the second<br />
youngest child to Heinrich and Anna-Margaret<br />
Strauch. Besides my grandmother, the oldest Strauch,<br />
Great Aunt Margaret was my favorite. Though I<br />
do not remember her with any color in her hair as<br />
seen in this picture that captures her spirit, I do<br />
remember an incredibly kind and patient woman<br />
who guided me in my youth. Her perfect skin was only<br />
the surface to her beauty. I miss her dearly.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The word ‘cold’ was circled, to which he tagged with
his own words, “<i>Be warm</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After his May 1974 retirement, he grew in kinship with
his remaining siblings. He and his
sister Margaret, the youngest two, were closest of all. He had time to be warmly affectionate with
her and together they shared many memories of their youth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He shared this memory in a letter to Bob Cole, one of
the last he sent him. Surely, as he stared into his own last days, Carl was
waxing nostalgic. “Margaret and I became
attracted to crepe-marked homes after the funeral of an aunt…we would go into them
in mock mourning, even if they were strange to us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">His now almost brotherly relationship with Alex Liddie
grew more affectionate. He was best man
when Alex took his second wife in 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch was said about religion and on the changes of
the mind as age sweeps past: “In my old age I am now a rationalist without at
all abandoning respects, thanks, and curiosity for the forms of belief that I
have passed through, or that have passed through me. I continue to have a great devotion to the
nature poets.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch concluded with, “In a long lifetime a person
gradually grows out of one form of mind and character into another, and all
these possibilities were lodged in his genes.
Whitman was a master in expressing this secret, this torment, this
puzzle.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Questions were now being posed from his Strauch
persona to himself as <i>Carl</i>. <i>Be warm</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He began to write of doubt, the years immersed in Emerson,
was there something he missed along the way?
He enjoyed detective stories and ancient history. He and Helen collected and read over 1,000
detective stories, mostly English whodunits: Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, and of
course those of Sherlock Holmes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Carl’s life, his chosen path, of wading through the
middlemen of religion and philosophy, was reaching its terminus. Daily rapport of his colleagues, the buzz of
his students, a long fifteen years of retirement, of exile. His suffering saint Helen was long gone, her
memory…was she just a Muse? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helen Dery was miles away in prison. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helen Dery said, “A couple of years before his death,
he told me that I had lived out his ideals.
We remained very close throughout his life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Her last conversation occurred on his birthday a few
weeks before his death. Toward the end
of the conversation, he asked her if she’d “received his recent letter.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Concerned, I said ‘no,’ when did you mail it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He laughed then said, “I didn’t send you a letter…I
just wanted to see if <i>you</i> were still
on your toes.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Carl was living out the ravages of age and frigid
metaphors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He glossed over all of it with this: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“But it’s in the winter, when the cold is encamped
about my house and a blizzard is raging that I’ll take off the shelves one of
my great favorites, Dorothy Sayers’ <i>The
Nine Tailors</i>, with a Scotch or bourbon on the rocks within pleasant reach.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Cozy words to imagine.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">~ ~</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>So saith Goethe:</b></span></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"<i>Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. </i></span></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. </i></span></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Knowing is not enough; we must apply. </i></span></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Willing is not enough; we must do. </i></span></blockquote>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>~</i></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>~
~ ~ The End ~ ~ ~</b><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">~ ~ ~ End Notes: ~ ~ ~</span></u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Strauch’s death
was followed by his brother Edwin’s in 1991 and Leonard’s on Valentine’s Day
1993. This left Margaret alone in the
home that Heinrich and Anna Strauch started.
This author remembers a cold Christmas day with a few flurries. I drove my 1987 Volkswagon Golf down to
Allentown to retrieve Aunt Margaret for our Rabenold family Christmas
dinner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It was her first Christmas alone. Her usually pleasant demeanor was tinged with
darkness and her otherwise beautiful smile, a bit empty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She was the last of the Strauchs. Ruth (her niece from her sister Kate) and
Carleton Amey checked in on her. But it
wasn’t long before her once clear mind became too muddled to be on her own. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwBr7Z70JLdOVk8G70M-Qftuas8zaSadFXtQ2okUG4I4JW0NICzxE3O0AxkrPI7yLYQrA6xaN_ONVcV3UWyfbpkHgKdFUxdqAOKLxmPKmlVksJgnkfwMqGByJMExmMubeMd-q_nVqYUgzX/s1600/Aunt+Anna+Margaret+Strauch+1998+obit.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="462" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwBr7Z70JLdOVk8G70M-Qftuas8zaSadFXtQ2okUG4I4JW0NICzxE3O0AxkrPI7yLYQrA6xaN_ONVcV3UWyfbpkHgKdFUxdqAOKLxmPKmlVksJgnkfwMqGByJMExmMubeMd-q_nVqYUgzX/s320/Aunt+Anna+Margaret+Strauch+1998+obit.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Last of the Strauch's - My Great<br />
Aunt Margaret Strauch. Though she had<br />
serious engagement, she never married.<br />
She was a member of the charitable<br />
<i>Telephone Pioneers</i>, the largest corporate<br />
volunteer network in the world. Her<br />
fellow <i>Pioneers</i> served as attendants at<br />
her funeral.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She spent her last few years in the Phoebe Home in
Allentown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She was last of the great Strauchs. She died in June 1998. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Strauch Family Tree:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Though Heinrich was from Württemberg and Anna Margaret
Foesch was said to have come from the Badenhofen, near Alsace-Loraine, DNA
testing of this author’s father, the closest bloodline available to me to the
Strauchs, reveals the largest genetic ethnicity group to be forty-two percent
Scandinavian Peninsula. (This author’s
DNA report is practically a carbon copy of my father’s.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Aunt Margaret often liked to say, “They say we were
descended from Napoleon.” But she never
offered any other context except a little knowing smile. It is unclear if she was referring to her mother’s
Foesch side, or the Strauch side.
Something about her stories seemed to always favor her mother’s
side. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNb5MwckiVq8R2YEhfRjK-qjiH3l208UZbIlb9uk5q4p_1BocZg8yasZaC4SKXdQB5Pl6dJ331wUZFETA8H6Z0rwS8kFWlbzwovF3rv85T5XW_GOMKDn2LeSj09wVMek4s-ZHOVM3ZNus/s1600/Zach+Mary+Fred+Meder+Kate+Floyd+Gladys+PAuline+Arlene+Ruth+%25281024x615%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQNb5MwckiVq8R2YEhfRjK-qjiH3l208UZbIlb9uk5q4p_1BocZg8yasZaC4SKXdQB5Pl6dJ331wUZFETA8H6Z0rwS8kFWlbzwovF3rv85T5XW_GOMKDn2LeSj09wVMek4s-ZHOVM3ZNus/s400/Zach+Mary+Fred+Meder+Kate+Floyd+Gladys+PAuline+Arlene+Ruth+%25281024x615%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zacharias Rabenold, Mary Strauch Rabenold, Fred "Fritz" Meder, Katherine<br />
Strauch Harrier, and Floyd Harrier at the Rabenold homestead at 9th and<br />
Iron Sts, Lehighton. Meder was a neighbor to the Strauch's from<br />
Elm St Tamaqua. The girls are (L-R): Gladys Rabenold, Pauline, Arlene,<br />
and Ruth Harrier. Fritz Meder was a blood relative to the Kellner's as well. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Strauchs, a Great American Family:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Carl Ferdinand Strauch was born to Heinrich (b. 1858) and Anna
(Foesch) Strauch (b. 1864) in what is today the town of Lehighton, near Beaver Run Road
and Jamestown Drive. His father was a
butcher to the miners. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">John Strauch (b. 1818) immigrated from the state of Hesse in Germany, settling on Pitt Street in Tamaqua, around the curve of the railroad tracks near the open pit mines of Tamaqua. So Heinrich had a brother John (b. 1855, also a butcher) and a sister Katherine (b. 1853, who married a butcher).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">So it appears the Strauch's and the Kellners lived and worked together. A living descendent, Virginia Wetzel, describes how the family was still butchering family into her memory. Her grandmother prepared the meals for both the family and the employees. They all ate together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The original homestead still stands. And the dam created to harvest wintertime ice for summer meat preservation is still used for fishing contests. It continues to carry the Kellner name to this day.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiS-SuRjyosMq1iK1DO44LzyUp9WSw56bJjGlM5GnOtvvXCB4EQbB6XrQzWncl5hTY7mXyM9kyVXsKxIHCylinN_c4X2lxnOIeCL3WCVKWNRzNZbFt8I-XGzNeAADsraKeVWwiDgb7SZq/s1600/Kellner%2527s+Dam+Pitt+St+Elm+Strauch+Meder.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="1146" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiS-SuRjyosMq1iK1DO44LzyUp9WSw56bJjGlM5GnOtvvXCB4EQbB6XrQzWncl5hTY7mXyM9kyVXsKxIHCylinN_c4X2lxnOIeCL3WCVKWNRzNZbFt8I-XGzNeAADsraKeVWwiDgb7SZq/s320/Kellner%2527s+Dam+Pitt+St+Elm+Strauch+Meder.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Google satellite image shows the area of Tamaqua<br />
where the Strauchs and Kellners butchered steers and pigs<br />
delivered on rail cars. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LyaOXgU9FpxjsEpkRRV-VyQPCvy1gS6PXCWMLPwkXvqTyt66jhyphenhyphenn0S2TTapyPBKZL826-Q_hYYlxhwrZBo9ZEaqMQNa4CiZGTVC54vHgA5P76cJqe3TFOwSK8wAi9G8en5x5LpYxSKAg/s1600/Kellner%2527s+Dam+Pitt+St+Elm+Strauch+strip+mines.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1370" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LyaOXgU9FpxjsEpkRRV-VyQPCvy1gS6PXCWMLPwkXvqTyt66jhyphenhyphenn0S2TTapyPBKZL826-Q_hYYlxhwrZBo9ZEaqMQNa4CiZGTVC54vHgA5P76cJqe3TFOwSK8wAi9G8en5x5LpYxSKAg/s400/Kellner%2527s+Dam+Pitt+St+Elm+Strauch+strip+mines.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This farther out image shows Kellner's Dam in the lower right and the<br />
strip pits of Sharpe Mountain above. Family lore described how often<br />
money was scarce due to conflict between early unionism and the repeated<br />
strikes in the area.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">After John senior's death, Heinrich and his young family took his elderly mother along to the hamlet of Hacklebernie near
Mauch Chunk. Perhaps it was the continuous low-pay from the frequent
strikes of the miners, a falling out with the Kellners, or simply a desire to make it on his own, that spurred Carl's parents to move often.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">His parents both met and married in Tamaqua after
their separate arrivals in the 1870s.
His father Heinrich was in his twenties and still living with his mother
and father. Anna Margaret Foesch arrived
shortly after Heinrich. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Upon the death of his father, Heinrich and Anna, along
with Heinrich’s mother Katharina moved to Hacklebernie with their oldest child,
my grandmother, Maria (‘Mary’).
Katharina lived only two years beyond her husband. Heinrich arranged for her body to return to
Dutch Hill next to her husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Being the youngest affords one distance from the early
struggle. It also gives rise to a
certain degree of independence and both positive and negative examples of what
can be a possibility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Even though none of them aspired higher than silk
workers, a phone company operator supervisor (My dear Great Aunt Margaret), and
a custodian at a public library (Uncle Edwin), most of them were avid and
auto-didactical readers of literature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Of his five adult grown sisters, only the first two
ever married, the younger three never did.
Of his five adult brothers all married except the second youngest
Leonard. Henry was divorced. Prior to World War I, they used names typical
of their origins, in birth order: Maria (pronounced ‘mari-ah’), Katherine
(Kate), Carolina (‘Lena’), Wilhelm, Ludwig, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Heinrich,
Edwin, Anna-Margaret (‘Margaret’), and Carl.
But when America entered the war against Germany, the Strauchs, like
many German-American families wanted to draw less attention to their origins:
Maria became Mary, Wilhelm became Willie, Ludwig became Lewis or Louie, and
Heinrich became Henry. Interestingly,
the Strauch’s chose in 1908 to spell Carl with a “C” rather than the
traditional German “K.” At least one set
of twins died in infancy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This wooden box was burned and stained by Floyd Harrier<br />
to my grandmother Mary Strauch Rabenold. Floyd would<br />
marry her younger sister Kate. One of two boxes given<br />
to Mary in the months before she married Zach. Though<br />
not certain, it appears that Floyd and Kate were already<br />
dating or married when these gifts were given. Note Floyd's<br />
name inscribed at the top right.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Second eldest daughter Kate was married to Floyd
Harrier before the family relocated to Allentown from Lehighton in the
September of 1912. In fact, that was the
month first daughter Mary married Zach Rabenold of Lehighton. The timing of the move and this marriage
seems to have some connection, as Mary remained to live in Lehighton the rest
of her long life. So by 1912, all the
Strauchs but Mary were living in downtown Allentown. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Heinrich established a butcher shop on Second
Street. At first located at 403 N.
Second St, it eventually moved down to the 300 block (336) and by the 1920s to
the 200 (228 N. Second). In the first
years, most worked for the silk mills: Willie a “silk worker,” Lewis a “loom
fixer,” Henry a “salesman,” Edwin a “clerk,” and Margaret a “phone
operator.” By the 1930s and 40s, Henry
was a coal and ice deliveryman, Lewis a foreman for United Textile Corp on
North Tenth St, Margaret a Bell Telephone operator supervisor, Lizzie worked
for Swiss Textile Mills on Lumber St.
Leonard held his job as a quiller at the Catasauqua Silk Mill into the
1960s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Like her parents, Mary and Zach Rabenold never owned a
car. They walked everywhere. Zach walked over a mile each day to his job
at the Lehigh Valley Railroad repair facility known as Packerton Yard. They frequently used his railroad pass to
travel to Saturday evening dinners at the Strauch home. The Strauch siblings of Leonard, Elizabeth,
and Margaret also did not own a car. And
neither did any of them marry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Leonard was perhaps the least sociable, perhaps better
described as asocial. At the end of WWI
he served as seaman in the navy. And
then during WWII, while in his early forties, he was assigned to Lighthouse
duty along the New England coast. He
served from 1943 until January 1948. He
was discharged from Fort Meade in Maryland.
He also spent time in coastal protection in Venice Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Louie served overseas in WWI with Company A of the 49<sup>th</sup>
Engineers from May 1918 to July 1919. He
was known to be the sullenest of the siblings, known to give beatings to the
younger boys. Carl remembered only one
encounter that left lasting physical and emotional pain. However Willie and Henry received more
frequent torment. Willie also served in
WWI, in the medical corps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Heinrich died in 1939 followed by Anna in 1945. Lizzie, always the mother figure to the
younger siblings, continued to live communally with Leonard and Margaret. And so it was with the Strauchs. Each contributing what they could to the good
of the whole. Curiously none of them
appeared to work with their father at the family meat market. Perhaps as a function of Heinrich’s garrulous
nature or due to the need to bring in outside money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lena was said to be her father’s favorite and perhaps
the most attractive. She died of
tuberculosis in October 1917, the family portrait was done in the months before
she died. Willie’s daughter Dorothy also
died of TB in 1949. She had been engaged
during the war to an Army Pilot Arthur C. Weida. They never married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One of Strauch’s nephews, fourteen years younger than
Strauch, also became an English professor.
Richard Harrier, son of Kate and Floyd, went on to a distinguished
career at N.Y.U., specializing in Shakespeare.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floyd Harrier entered the Call-Chronicle photo<br />
contest in 1922 with this picture of his <br />
niece Gladys Rabenold (center) and his oldest <br />
daughters Pauline and Arlene seated in the<br />
swings. Floyd was married to Kate Strauch.</td></tr>
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silk mill weaver and who spent her years with her other unmarried siblings of
Leonard and Margaret, could hold her own against Strauch. Leonard also worked in a silk mill. Margaret worked as a Bell Telephone operator
and later as a supervisor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Their home at 225 ½ North Second St. Allentown was
directly across the street from her father Heinrich’s butcher shop. On July 2, 1924, while Kate was at the
movies. Pauline and Arlene, ages seven
and six, had their little brother, four-year-old Floyd Jr., at the corner
grocery store for penny candy. Neighbors
heard the squeal of tires and the thud.
Floyd had set out home by himself.
The collision caused his head to strike the road and fractured his
skull. He was pronounced dead at 4:30
pm. The papers said it happened “under
the watch of his father.” This incident
put a new dimension onto their martial strain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Though just a mill worker, Floyd Harrier seen here front, right in 1938, was involved as a union organizer and as part of Allentown's Keystone Athletic Association.</td></tr>
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Harrier was Richard. A bright young many
who would become an expert on Shakespeare and a professor at N.Y.U. He felt deserted by his father for running
off with his “socialist pals.” In a
letter to the editor in 1981, he thanked his recently deceased HS Principal Dr.
James W. Richardson for his guidance in forming him into the man he
became. He credited Richardson for
pushing him to take the exam for the Muhlenberg College scholarship at a time
when he “had no sense of direction.”</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Harrier had an exceedingly capable mind, shown<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Edward J. Fluck was a Renaissance man cut of the same cloth as Strauch. Winner of an archaeological fellowship, a master at Western languages, Fluck was also an accomplished violinist.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is unclear just who crossed out the word 'the' in Strauch's <i>Lost Illusion </i>poem in the edition given to Fluck. The edition given to Strauch's brother<br />
Edwin does not have the same mark. (Incidentally, the copy given to<br />
Strauch's Professor Simpson has been ordered by this author on eBay.<br />
I'm anxiously curious as to what that page 12 will look like.)</td></tr>
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his alma mater from 1937 to 1947. He
received top marks in his exams and was the sole person selected by the society
nationally. He had to turn down the
Vogeler fellowship at Johns Hopkins in favor of the Institute fellowship. He left in July 1932 to study at the
principal museums of France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, and finally
Greece. He returned home the following
spring. Eventually he would become
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languages of the Western World. Before
his early death at the age of 53 to a rheumatic heart, Fluck was responsible
for translating and publishing several books, including French novelist Gustave
Flaubert’s book Dictionary of Platitudes.
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neighbors growing up in Allentown.<br />
Morning Call - July 1932</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On March 16, 1988 Helen Woodson walked through the
main gate of Alderson Prison carrying a banner and statement protesting the
nuclear arms race, pollution of the environment and prison conditions for
women. She was apprehended outside the
prison by a patrol vehicle. She was
temporarily placed in solitary confinement and then transferred to Federal Correctional
Institution (Pleasanton) in Dublin, California.
Here, Dery carried out another resistance action. She chose the date, December 10, 1988, in
honor of Gaudete (Rejoice!) Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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athletic bag stuffed with sheets, towels and papers dosed with flammable nail
polish, set the bad next to the fence and ignited a “lovely Advent blaze.” Then she hung a banner reading: “There is no
security in the US government, nuclear weapons, chemical contaminants, prisons
and UNICOR- Military prison industries.
Fences make slaves. Tear Them
Down.” And then, with toenail clippers,
she snipped the “security” alarm wire, severing it in four places. She was sent to the hole and charged with
attempted escape, arson, destruction of government property and inciting a
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Correctional Center in San Diego, a downtown stone-tower skyscraper that houses
1,000 federal prisoners. Before leaving
Pleasanton she learned that the evidence for her action was destroyed and she
was not prosecuted. After a short stint
in San Diego, she was transferred to Marianna Prison in Florida. As a result of federal appeals court ruling,
Helen was released on parole on June 14, 1993.
During the spring of 1993 an appeals court overturned a lower court
ruling and affirmed the government’s positon that it could release Helen on
parole. Helen filed a civil suit asking
to be held in prison until the expiration of her sentence, and then be conditionally
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several controversial protests (which went outside the bounds of nonviolent
protest) focusing on the idolatry of money, corporate greed and destruction of
the earth. She was arrested and
convicted for these actions and was sentenced to 202 months in prison. She is not at the Marianna Prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she replied, “I will never abide by the terms of supervised release.” Her original lawyer and sympathetic friend
from her 1985 arrest, Henry Stoever, said Dery considered herself a “soldier of
peace.” Within hours of her freedom, she
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letters. Later that day she arrives at
the District Courthouse in Kansas City and pours a mixture of cranberry juice
and red paint onto the security desk and screening device. She is detained by deputy U.S. marshals and
placed under arrest. According to her
own testimony, Dery claimed to have phoned, “This is a warning. There is a weapon of mass destruction in your
building. Choose life.” Upon
questioning, Dery claimed to be referring to the housing of a copy of the U.S.
Constituion, which she considered a weapon.
She rationalized that our government willfully carried out actions that
caused the deaths of citizens throughout the world. The Constitution enabled the government to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“You have taken a whole life
from the seven children you adoplted and abandoned. You abandoned three developmentally disabled
children to be cared for by other persons and public institutions. You are a very selfish, self-centered person. That’s a disgrace.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stating her children were well-cared for by her friends after she went to
prison. Chief U.S. District Judge Dean
Whipple asked Dery where she considered her home to be. Dery said, “Right now, I live in this
courtroom. I live wherever God takes
me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">She invokes her father’s name in her final
sentencing. “I was literally a child of
war. My father, the late Carl Strauch,
was my mentor and he taught me reverence for life against the backdrop of WWII
and the Korean War. I came of age during
the Vietnam War, and my two oldest sons were born during the years that young
men of my generation were coming home maimed or in body bags. So I stand today in spirit with courageous
veterans like my friends George Vesey, Louie de Benedette, and Cal Robertson
who returned from Vietnam to oppose all war.”
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“Is there anyone who has not lost a loved one to cancer? Our nation’s pesticides are truly weapons of
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10, 2011. In her last letter to me from
prison, she vowed she would dedicate herself to understanding and getting to
know her grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 97-year-old Clara Brobst, mother of longtime Strauch and Lovecraft friend Dr. Harry K. Brobst, took her first airplane ride in 1984. Dr Brobst would out live Lovecraft by several decades and Strauch by two decades when he passed away at the age of 100 in January of 2010.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“It was increasingly assumed that Romanticism had
already passed into a well-deserved oblivion and that certain degraded,
sentimentalized remnants would quickly follow…D.H. Lawrence, from Goethe to
Thomas Mann…that far from dying, Romanticism has survived and survived
vigorously into the twentieth century…as in a rebirth, in such figures as
Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Mann, and Herman Hesse.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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metaphor is central to the entire discussion…The analogy of the growth of a
plant from the seed or germ dominated every other conception that the Romantics
held; and as a consequence, wherever they looked, at themselves, into their own
minds, at society and the natural order, at their own compositions, everywhere
they saw organic growth and relation, harmony. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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largely belletristic in his approach, based by his partial view of the Greeks,
“who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.”
Arnold’s yearning for classic calm and serenity betrayed his profounder
moods of despair, melancholy and alienation, “the dialogue of the mind with
itself,” which as in his own Empedocles on Etna, he summarily dismissed.” (The
plot centers on a man who can no longer feel joy) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handwritten notes of Carl F. Strauch "Romantic Harmony"-<br />
In the days before word-processors and Google<br />
it is a great wonder how men like Strauch were able to compile such thorough and concise<br />
research. This page marked "4b" indicates that Strauch needed to insert these key ideas<br />
between page four and five. His handwriting always a cross between cursive and print.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(How Strauch himself identified and lived his life
like this; summarily dismissing modern poetry, his demanding, short
temperedness, his attention to scholarly pursuits and basic routines, of living
outside himself.) “Arnold’s failure as a
thinker lies in his effort to transcend his own psychological dilemmas by
resorting to slogans of a rationalistic and moralistic generality. In this manner he could emulate the Greek
calm and serenity, persuade himself that he was coming vigorously to grips with
intellectual and social problems and finally at the same time, evade “the
dialogue of the mind with itself.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the same way Arnold’s insight into the Greeks
emphasizing calm and serenity, is only half an insight, and it will not stand
comparison with Nietzsche’s terrific vision of the Greeks as a profoundly
suffering people in The Birth of Tragedy.
Arnold’s modern spirit, the rationalistic battle against entrenched
smugness and complacency, is an important half, but only a half of the modern
activity, the other half, but only a half of modern activity, the other half
being the concept of the organic.
Metamorphosis, growth, pain and suffering, joy and delight are all part
of the organic unfolding both in personality and in epoch, and these
expressions of upward striving emerge from the dark substratum of the
unconscious. Calm and serenity cannot be
imposed from without, but must be achieved as the fruition of the spirit, the
harmonic expression of all human cultural resources. This Nietzsche saw with an amazing profundity
when he described Greek tragedy as maintaining a precarious balance between
Apollonian calm and serenity and Dionysian ecstasy.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Writers and readers, all reflective persons are in
this great modern period divided between mechanistic order and <i>vitalistic</i> striving, and occasionally we
all cross over from one view to the other.
If man is a living organism who may enter into a metaphysical freedom or
achieve psychological freedom, if he is not a mere thing or a dead object, if
“existence precedes essence,” then Romanticism may be Existentialist. But I am aware that such an equivalence
brings its train problems, complexities of its own, and I therefore happily
leave off at this point. (However, Strauch
wrote the following, then struck it out: “As I do, I become happier as I recall
Maurice Friedman’s statement in The Worlds of Existentialism, ‘Existentialism
is not a philosophy but a mood embracing a number of disparate philosophies…”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Other Notes: Thoreau: “The soil it appears, is suited
to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its
shoot upward also with confidence. Why
has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the
same proportion into the heavens above?”
Strauch noted, “Man, having died, should be reborn.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as Melville’s Moby Dick, a symbol of life; the sea journey is metaphor for
death and rebirth;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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death and rebirth is used to express revolt against static mechanism in favor
of dynamic <i>organicism</i>. The Romantics always showing man’s strident
steps toward self-actualization, a spiraling toward upward perfection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it
has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with
confidence. Why has man rooted himself
thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the
heavens above?” – Man, having died, should be reborn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rebirth as a structural pattern; Whitman is ‘fascinated <i>diversitarian.'</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“I have been a rebel against reports for the last
eight years.” “Paradox: In this course
there is a subtly of mind – Our great Eastern writers have not been appreciated
as a school…I think that in the next twenty years we should establish that they
are more subtle than the English Romantics, but not necessarily
greater…dubious.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“The thing that you don’t want, you rush toward it –
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“I doubt very much if you will like Emerson. After a lifetime devoted to Emerson research,
I can say, largely because he is hard.
And of course there is the modern resistance against anything except
novels and short stories.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lecture of the 1965 term: “It has got to be a habit among scholars to begin an
essay about Melville or Thoreau by pointing to that guy Emerson- I have toyed
with the idea of a course in Emerson, but I know that by the end of that time
students would be repulsed by him….I’ve found ample proof in documents I read
this summer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I’d point out that the Victorian period was full of “literary middlemen” who
interpreted religion or science for intelligent but perplexed readers who could
no longer accept the old faith or who needed a guide to advances in biology,
specifically Darwinism.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Emerson, like that of a good number of other authors, has made extraordinary
progress in the past thirty years- progress that, on the whole, is along the
lines I have just indicated. We owe to
Ralph L. Rusk a biography as complete and exact as we could wish and an almost
exhaustive edition of the letters. The
publication of the whole journal is in progress; a volume of hitherto
unpublished early lectures has appeared and two others are promised.” -these are the cut out words of Gonnaud’s
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The beginning of D. G. Dery's end - </b>In September 1922 Dery tried to support his failed holdings by guaranteeing bonds. The last sentence of the fine print tells it all: "We do not guarantee but believe it to be true."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By March of 1923 the paper tiger<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My speech
was meant as a peace offering from my generation back to theirs. That our generation, the one that grew up in
the shadow of their shaming, was here to try to understand them, that <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px; text-align: center;">at the least, we wish nothing less for them than their full atonement.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBjw7sBMot5BoCXfCtbd-54PISE7GF0RkvKXpTxAik4FvBZDtp_Rs4oiFFoLSf2jnwsiXAkMt4dG6_0NEL14B8ob9hQP-drkC2gUbvxziOPl1ZFNM26D3qMQ5xI0XKGTKQ7I1LaqTBm8tq/s1600/Ron+Christman+Ed+Hoats+Bruce+Geary+The_Morning_Call_Sun__Aug_2__1970_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1595" data-original-width="1600" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBjw7sBMot5BoCXfCtbd-54PISE7GF0RkvKXpTxAik4FvBZDtp_Rs4oiFFoLSf2jnwsiXAkMt4dG6_0NEL14B8ob9hQP-drkC2gUbvxziOPl1ZFNM26D3qMQ5xI0XKGTKQ7I1LaqTBm8tq/s400/Ron+Christman+Ed+Hoats+Bruce+Geary+The_Morning_Call_Sun__Aug_2__1970_.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Hoats was a founding leader of the club with his brother-in-law<br />
Bruce Geary. Ronald Christman worked for PP&L after his service<br />
time. He died of a heart attack at a fairly young age. He should not be<br />
confused with the other Vietnam-era of the same name, Marine Lance Cpl<br />
Ronald S. H. Christman who was killed in February 1968.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it was
not our battle. We were not the ones who
turned their back to their struggle. We
could not atone for that. Best we can
offer is to not forsake them now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To
promise them that we will remember, who they were and what they gave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vietnam. We were involved there before Korea. And still, we weren’t ready.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While they
were chasing ghosts in the jungle, our country was tearing itself apart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sitting down
at the 49<sup>th</sup> Annual Viet Nam Last Man’s Club dinner last night I was
struck by how things change and how they stay the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ronald Stewart Henry Christman -<br />
1 June 1948 to 28 February 1968<br />
Landed in southern Vietnam on January 3rd<br />
with the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadren<br />
262. In his last letter home dated 21 February,<br />
Christman stated how his was the only unit<br />
flying in and out of Khe Sanh with an estimated<br />
40,000 communist ranks of soldiers below.<br />
Perhaps unknowable is the strain on the parents<br />
in burying their children. Ronald's mother <br />
Lousie died five years later at the age of 47.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Obviously
these men that served fifty years ago have changed (aged) a good deal. But what was plainly abundant was their
commitment to the country they served and especially their commitment to each
other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had the
pleasure of sitting with VNLMC President Dale Nansteel and Sgt.-At-Arms
Mitchell Nace and his wife Linda. Also joining
us was former Lehighton teacher and Kutztown University professor Dr. Dale
Titus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Titus was a
navy veteran who served in Viet Nam from 1967 to 1968. He shared several keen
observations, including how welcomed he felt in the streets
of South Vietnam upon a return visit there.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Dale Titus, served in the navy <br />
in Vietnam and former Lehighton<br />
area teacher and professor emeritus<br />
at Kutztown University.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He found citizens
of his era walking up to him thanking him for his service and how they too
fought on the side of the South.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Which brings
me to the point of my message that evening: To measure what we have lost and
what we have gained and to gather a sense of atonement from it all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(This remainder of this article is both a paraphrase of my words as well as a record of this 49th banquet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The pictures of this post were presented to those in attendance via a PowerPoint presentation. My attempt to bridge my understanding of them to their service.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I can only
imagine that it hasn’t been easy for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Conflict was
a euphemism for the war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Specifically,
what your generation has lost and what it has given could easily be overlooked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Recently, the Legion sold the Franz Kline mural '<i>Lehighton</i>.' This has been a cause that has divided opinion among some. And Franz Kline too, in his short life, experience conflict as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Your
generation and Kline both share a common distinction: you both suffered through
loss and conflict. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">But we cannot go back. We should try not to live in regret. It is easy to allow nostalgia linger and feed those feelings.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Legion Menu from the early<br />
1950s.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The seafood platter served at the 49th annual club dinner was nearly<br />
identical to the platter routinely served at the Legion in the 1950s.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it is
also where the roots of your generation’s war were, the beginnings of Vietnam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Vietnam ‘<i>Conflict</i>.’ We all know those who were in the thick of it
knew it as war, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And you
gathered here know more than most, how war certainly is hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bill Kirkendall was a B-52 tail-gunner<br />
with 50 missions over Europe.<br />
Sons like David grew up in the shadow<br />
of their fahters' glories of WWII.<br />
For them, Vietnam was a bitter pill<br />
to swallow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihO_RH54EPMbrlDVkbCgaLAZsCl5rh1R5UJ6KmCRmcZcLHFLhc9U8-0-tkwk7d8mr-dquL4WQr_VYCh0l4lqSDmBTehqKM1dOaozQu5MpRSNHlZde1_XqCaCItgVV-mNusgDDmMjxEIsa2/s1600/David+Kirkendall+Vietnam+accident+death+The_Morning_Call_Mon__Aug_7__1972_+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="857" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihO_RH54EPMbrlDVkbCgaLAZsCl5rh1R5UJ6KmCRmcZcLHFLhc9U8-0-tkwk7d8mr-dquL4WQr_VYCh0l4lqSDmBTehqKM1dOaozQu5MpRSNHlZde1_XqCaCItgVV-mNusgDDmMjxEIsa2/s320/David+Kirkendall+Vietnam+accident+death+The_Morning_Call_Mon__Aug_7__1972_+%25283%2529.jpg" width="171" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Petty Officer David<br />
Kirkendall served<br />
September 1967 to<br />
November 1971. He was killed<br />
in a car accident back home in<br />
August 1972.<br />
His Japanese wife Sumi and son<br />
Frank were in Japan at the time.<br />
Frank grew up to join the navy.<br />
He died in 2007 at the age of<br />
46.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To add
insult to injury, you couldn’t even talk about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fellow
veterans didn’t even dare mention their prior service to strangers, and in some
cases, those strangers were veterans themselves, afraid to mention the war to
new acquaintances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Your
father’s fought a glorious war, you hung around in the shadows of their popular service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gene Semanoff - Served in the Air<br />
Force during Vietnam.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gene's father, Joe Semanoff served in the<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glen "Smokey" Troutman (VNLMC VP), Randy Rabenold (Korean Last Man's Club), Henry Long, Captain Pete Semanoff, and father Gene Semanoff at a 2014 Memorial Day Service at the Lehighton Area Middle School.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glenn "Smokey" Troutman from his Lehighton yearbook along with fellow Vietnam veteran classmate Gary Vanage. Gary's name was added to the list of the dead honored at each year's banquet in 2005.</td></tr>
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historian and fellow son of Lehighton, a son of a Korean War soldier, I want
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am proud to have grown up under the shadow of your great and self-less serving
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clearly the WWII veterans vanquished an evil and were<br />
victorious. The Korean Vets, though far from a complete<br />
victory, has had been granted many shows of gratitude<br />
from the South Korean government over the years.<br />
Though relations between Vietnam and the West<br />
have recently improved, our Vietnam veterans<br />
have not received the same regard as their fathers<br />
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toast to the dead with the red wine and the toast to the living with the white,
names of VNLMC members who died in the previous year were named: Al Buchignani,
Stewart Alboucq, Robert Emmert, and Gary Neifert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multiple generations of Lehighton soldiers could celebrate<br />
their service with pride. Here Marines from WWI to Korea join in celebrating<br />
the Marine Corps' 193rd birthday in 1968. Absent is a representative<br />
of that current war. Vietnam vets found it tougher to receive<br />
public recognition for their service. Shown here are (l-r): WWII Walter Metzger, Frank Wehr of Summit Hill, Korea Don Blauch, and WWI Charles Shutt (who was best known for firing the cannon at Lehighton home football games. Don Blauch's daughter was a member of the VNLMC.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twenty-one year old Merlin Hollenbach had visited<br />
back home to Lehighton between boot camp and<br />
landing in Vietnam. His good-byes are still<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newly married, arrived in Vietnam<br />
on his 21st birthday. He died 3 days<br />
before Christmas, 1968.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1971 Lehighton yearbook.<br />
Holland was a member of the Lehighton<br />
Fire Company, served on the school board,<br />
and a member of the VNLMC.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daughter of Korean war Veteran Donald Blauch, Donna Blauch<br />
enlisted out of Lehighton High in the early 1970s. She rose in the<br />
naval ranks and served President Carter's family as their personal<br />
dental hygienist working on them at Camp David. She died due to<br />
complications of M.S. at the Wilkes-Barre V.A. Hospital in 2007.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Major Laurence J. Law was<br />married to cousin Patsy Stegura<br />Law (her mother was my father's<br />sister). He volunteered for Vietnam<br />and received the Silver Star, the<br />military's third highest honor. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cousin Patricia Stegura Law of Nanticoke's husband.</td></tr>
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Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-12475871028952428892017-07-27T22:34:00.000-04:002017-07-27T22:50:15.903-04:00Lehighton's 1936 Borough Hall Cornerstone Time-Capsule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lehighton was a thriving town. Though it was at the height of the Great Depression, people in town had reason to be optimistic. Lehighton was innovating itself: Dr. Lentz got his first X-ray machine installed in his office. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contents of the 1936 time-capsule were first frozen for<br />
eight months. The freeze-dried process worked<br />
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The Police Department modernized with a teletype machine, a .45-caliber machine gun, and bullet-proof glass windshield on its patrol-car. This is in addition to the motor-cycle it purchased.<br />
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One newspaper article boasted that "Cupid laughed at the depression in Carbon County..." with 463 marriage licences issued in 1935. 1934 was equally a high year for weddings. Both 1934 and 1935 beat out 1933 by 77.<br />
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Lehighton High's gymnastic team was on a streak as seven-time gymnastic champions. <br />
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(THIS POST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - Please check back later in August for complete time-capsule contents and updated story content. Thank you for your patience.)<br />
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Two seventy-year-plus traditions were in their infancy: The Senior Class attended the Mountain Lake House for its outing and 221 members of Lehigh Fire Co #1 held their annual August clambake at he Fair Grounds.<br />
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And with Lehighton new and modern Borough Hall, it seemed like nothing could hold our town down.<br />
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It all started when the building that housed the former Borough Chambers and Lehigh Fire Company #1 was deemed unsafe. Built in 1893 and already showing signs of bulging walls by 1910, it was demolished by 1935 by a Works Progress Administration labor crew at a cost of $4,286.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By application to the Public Works Administration, another Depression-era recovery program, furnished 45% of the capital needed to build a new hall. Ground was broken on March 4 and quickly ready for a dedication ceremony on Sunday May 10, 1936.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The program was extensive. There was a concert by the Lehighton Band as well as the Boys’ Band followed by a prayer by Rev F. Theodore Miner.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speakers were Chairman and Borough Solicitor George E. Gray, Historian and Superintendent of Schools Bert David, and Dr. Clarence Weiss, a direct descendent of Lehighton’s benefactor Jacob Weiss. Chief Burgess (Mayor) William Zahn laid the cornerstone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A few weeks after the dedication however things went sour for Mayor Zahn. A farmer from Mahoning Valley, Wallace Drumheller, pinned Zahn's leg against a parked car and his as Drumheller swung his car into a parking spot in front of the new Borough Hall. Many were said to gap as they drove by the modern new building.<br />
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Mayor Zahn's condition was serious. He spent over two-weeks in the Palmerton Hospital. An ambulance had to deliver Zahn home when he continued weeks of bed-rest. Zahn was the owner of the Lehighton News Agency.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The American Legion announces Carbon County <br />
Beauty Queens at festivities at Graver's Pool in the Summer of 1936.</td></tr>
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As a result of searching for it, Sesquicentennial Committee member Autumn Abelovsky and others accidentally
discovered damage was occurring to the contents of the time-capsule in the Borough
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(State Police from Hazleton were called in to use an ultra-sound and fiber-optic camera to determine if there indeed was a time-capsule in 1936 cornerstone. <a href="http://www.tnonline.com/2016/nov/29/historic-items-found-time-capsule-missing?page=2" target="_blank"> Click here for times news story). </a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgydV627agI" target="_blank">(Click here for a video of Lehighton Borough Manager Nicole Beckett removing the wet materials on YouTube.)</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Due to the porous nature of the Foxchase marble and stone
used to build the Borough Hall, the lead sealed tin box had corroded causing
the contents to become saturated in water.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Preservation experts were consulted. It was determined that the best course of
action was to freeze the paper materials for eight months, thereby “freeze
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On June 16, 2017 the contents were removed by Ron
Rabenold and Autumn Abelovsky from the freezer and though substantially less
saturated, were still dripping wet.
Paper items were placed on drying lines over the weekend and carefully inventoried
and digitally scanned and photographed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Among the treasures found: 1936 coins donated by various
council members, a copy of the Lehighton Evening Leader and Lehighton Press, a
Leni Lenapian from 1934, list of Lehighton’s Board of Health, a hand card of
Lehighton Borough Council members, archives clarifying the spelling of Mahoning
Valley famer Philip Ginder’s name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was also a nine-page document chronicling the
efforts to construct the new building and a list of the Lehighton School faculty
and staff. There was an eight-page, hand-written list of all the members of the Lehigh Fire Co #1 and a synopsis of Lehighton’s post office by Postmaster Wilbur Warner
which included a list of all Lehighton’s postmasters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was also a King James Bible and a 1936 State of
Pennsylvania Borough Code book. Neither
of these books had any inscriptions or notes indicating any special significance.
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As a result, all the historical information was preserved. The pictures were still intact while
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room temperature. Effort was given to
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But as luck would have it, an exact copy of the picture of
the former hall was available through the Barry and Brad Haupt photo
collection. As for a photograph of the 1936
Councilman Edward Teets’ children, a digital copy was secured by a family
member, although it is not the exact same photo, it shows the Teets children at
roughly the same age.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sheet of 1936 stamps are in perfect shape. Water soaked the contents from the bottom
up. Luckily these were placed on the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture taken at the Lehighton Fair Grounds of the Lehigh Fire Co #1's Annual August Clambake with 221 firemen in<br />
attendance. Men in the center with aprons looked like they had a long day. Ticket prices for the all you can eat and drink event were $3.00 in those days. This annual event continues today at the Orioles Club and is still Lehigh Fire Co members only. Though there is plenty of a variety of other foods and is still all you can eat, you are guaranteed only two dozen clams.<br />
Today's ticket will cost you $30.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture from the Brad and Barry Haupt Photo Collection is near identical to the one placed in the cornerstone time-capsule of 1936. See further below for the original. Originally built in 1893 for Borough Chambers on the 2nd floor (and Knights of Malta on the 3rd floor) it had to be demolished in 1935. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the temporary quarters of the Lehigh Fire Co #1's social quarters around 1936 while they awaited their new (and current) building. The first building at this location was built in 1893. By 1910 the walls were bulging and support beams deteriorated. It is believed this location was in a garage to the rear of the current Fire House.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> 23August 1938 Morning Call</td></tr>
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<b>(THIS POST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS</b> - Please check back later in August for complete time-capsule contents and updated story content. Thank you for your patience.)</div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Listed below are the scans and pictures of the </span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">rest of the 1936 time capsule:</span></u></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water-damaged photo of the 1893-1935 Lehighton Borough Hall and Lehigh Fire Co #1<br />
on Third St, Lehighton.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Teet's children sitting outside on a lawn - MaryAnn and William appear as ghosts.</td></tr>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-40684536278520189982017-05-27T21:22:00.000-04:002017-05-29T20:08:15.579-04:00We Are Fortunate, We Are Blessed - Memorial Day 2017<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are fortunate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are blessed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But still, we lose our finest to war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A soldier's work is never done.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SPC Michael Wargo, right, with some of his buddies in Afghanistan. <br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.8px;">(With a name like "War Go," it seems like it was Michael's destiny</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.8px;">to go and serve his country.)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There will always be evil in the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">War will always be necessary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But we are not gathered here because of war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have come here, instead, to honor and remember those who served, who sacrificed their freedom for ours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(The following is a transcript of my speech delivered at the Lehighton Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday May 29th, 10:30 Lehighton Amphitheater, concluding at the Lehighton Cemetery.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robert Frost's poem, "November," sums up the waste of war:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"We saw leaves go to glory,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Then, almost migratory,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Go part way down the lane,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>And then to end the story,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Get beaten down and pasted</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>In one wild day of rain.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We heard "Tis over" roaring.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A year of leaves was wasted.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oh, we make a boast of storing,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Of saving and of keeping.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>But only by ignoring</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The waste of moments sleeping,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The waste of pleasure weeping,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>By denying and ignoring</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>The waste of nations warring."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since 9/11, America has been in a constant state of war, our longest in our history.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has been a necessary, but constant state of waste.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many green leaves have been wasted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the Revolution through today, war has scarred millions of Americans.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moses Rehrig's family plot in the Lehighton<br />
Cemetery. There is no visible marker for<br />
Moses other than his GAR placard and flag.<br />
Moses served nearly for the entire war,<br />
including the last two months as a POW<br />
at Andersonville, Georgia. He served from<br />
June 1861 to February 1863 with the 28th<br />
PA Volunteers. And then from March 1864<br />
to June 1865 with the 116th.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lehighton once had a fine gentleman named Moses Rehrig. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was a school teacher. He served nearly the entire Civil War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before the war, he was a strapping 200-pounds on a 6' 4" frame. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He returned home as a walking skeleton, enduring two months in the God-forsaken Andersonville POW Camp in Georgia where thousands of Union troops died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was one of Lehighton's favorite sons. He served on town council, he marched in parades, he went to Sunday School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But beneath his calm veneer, roiled the horrors that haunted his memory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the age of 71, Moses took his own life, hung himself from the rafters of his barn. (He is buried at his family plot, but there is no marker there. Either his family didn't provide a lasting marker or perhaps they were embarrassed by the stigma of his suicide.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another man, Marcus Maier, served in the 4th PA Cavalry.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Marcus Maier's grave at the Ss Peter and Paul Cemetery in Lehighton.<br />
The fact that he "run off" twenty years after the war, spending his time<br />
wandering from one old soldier's home to another, mostly in the South, is<br />
most likely a testament to his struggles with PTSD. What could he have been<br />
looking for? Was there some resolution he was seeking? Was there someone<br />
he was trying to find? Or was he simply finding solace with the only people<br />
who could understand what he was going through.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One day, twenty-years past his service, he up and wandered off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Though he left a wife and son in Weissport, he wandered from old soldier home to soldier home, mostly in the South. Most times registering as a "widower."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What ever could he have been looking for? What was going on in his mind? What resolution did he seek among his former enemy? Was he looking for absolution? Or perhaps he was looking for solace among the only people who could understand the war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We will never know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After hearing nothing for fifteen years, his wife and son received a wire from a Dayton Ohio soldier's home, informing them Marcus had died. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(His body was shipped home by rail. He is buried in Ss. Peter and Paul Cemetery in Lehighton.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is nothing new.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even today, it is little understood or appreciated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our reasons for war have not changed. But warfare has.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is leaving indelible marks on our soldiers heretofore unseen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lehighton new "Veteran's Park" along the Sgt. Stanley Hoffman Blvd will have a new soldier's monument dedicated to Specialist Michael Wargo, a 1994 graduate of Lehighton High.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Wargo - 1976~2013<br />
He was a 1994 graduate of Lehighton Area High School.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like Moses Rehrig, Michael was a teacher. The horror of 9/11 prompted Michael to answer his nation's call. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He went off to the rugged and unforgiving mountains of the Helmand Province, Afghanistan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like Moses and Marcus, Michael suffered from PTSD and didn't tell anyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They survived the war with the guilt only a survivor could know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Michael saw ten of his war buddies killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like so many other survivors, Michael lost his battle here at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The monument, depicting Michael's silhouette, is a "War at Home" memorial. It will be dedicated at a ceremony on Saturday June 17th at 1:00 pm, just days before he would have turned 41.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This larger than life, "War At Home," memorial of<br />
Michael Wargo will soon be installed along the<br />
Lehighton by-pass. On May 23, 2017 it was on display<br />
at the capitol in Harrisburg to highlight the struggles of<br />
our veterans returning from modern warfare. It will be<br />
dedicated at a ceremony in Lehihgton on Saturday <br />
June 17th at 1:00 pm.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Michael's parents, Michael and Sally, are here with us today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are tough months for them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sally last hugged her son on Mother's Day 2013. He died near Memorial Day. They buried him on his birthday in June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Men like Moses, Marcus, and Michael, and countless more, once walked here like you and me. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the photo chosen of Michael Wargo<br />that was cut into the steel for his "War at Home"<br />memorial, to be dedicated June 17th at 1:00.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They felt the dew on their feet and the sunshine on their faces.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Wargo with his daughter Brianna<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They once laughed and hugged...they once cried, they once caused tears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We owe an immeasurable debt to each man and woman who ever wore our nation's uniform.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We should all know this freedom is not free...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have seen these leaves go to glory. It is our freedom but it is their story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We cannot live by ignoring, rather we must remember this waste of warring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We lose our finest to war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A soldier's work is never done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are fortunate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">May God continue to bless us all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Other Veteran's stories on this blog:</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">~<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/walter-haydt-kia-on-hinchinbrook-island.html" target="_blank">Lehighton's Walter Haydt killed over Hinchinbrook, Australia during WWII </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/ezra-kreiss-kia-english-channel-28.html" target="_blank">~Ezra Kreiss, married to Lehighton's Madeline Haas, dies in the English Channel 1944</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/02/randy-rabenold-and-bulldogs-who-went-to.html" target="_blank">~Part 1: Randy Rabenold - And the Bulldogs Who Went to War/Korean Conflict</a></span><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2011/05/their-hearts-can-sense-our-presence.html" target="_blank">~2011 Memorial Day Address at Dinkey Memorial Church "Their Hearts Can Sense Our Presence"</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/05/memorial-day-2013-tribute-to-dad-and.html" target="_blank">~2013 Memorial Day Tribute to my Dad </a></span><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/05/think-love-and-remember-memorial-day.html" target="_blank">~2014 Memorial Day Ceremony at St. John's Church Mahoning Valley - "Think, Love, Remember"</a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/06/operation-never-forget-successfully.html" target="_blank">~2015 Operation Never Forget successfully launched</a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2010/03/ira-smith-not-your-typical-boy-loses.html" target="_blank">~Ira Smith - Farmboy from Kistler Valley to Battle of the Bulge to Stalag XIIA POW</a><br />
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Long Run's Harvey Ahner lost his father in a<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two months later Bitterling encountered his untimely death
at his favorite home hotel, Dotter’s Inn, just east of White Haven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leslie Run, Hickory Run and Mud Run that lasted days at a time, to catching
live bears to sell, to his marksmen’s precision, stories of John Bitterling
approached tall tale status.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u>Hunting in Carbon County Posts:</u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/03/hunting-in-carbon-county-scarce-and.html" target="_blank">Post #1: Scarcity to Resurgence</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> Post #3: Laws, Tall Tales, & Accidents (Not yet Published)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> Post #4: Hotel Jonas and other watering holes (Not yet Published)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/things-were-beginning-to-feel-normal.html" target="_blank"> The Fire and the Fury - Albrightsville and the Great Fire of Hickory Run</a></span><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/01/albrightsville-fire-and-fury-part-2-fury.html" target="_blank"> The Fire and the Fury 2 - Albrightsville - the Wilkinson-Henning Affair</a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-lost-stills-of-pine-swamps-of.html" target="_blank">Life on the Mountain: The Distilleries of the Pine Swamp</a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/03/ode-to-spring-common-wisdom-of-joyce.html" target="_blank"> Ode to Spring: Moonshine and Horseradish</a><br />
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(1902-1985) would appear in Lehighton, to stay at his sister, my grandmother. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Snyder, son of Jonas Snyder of "Snyders Hotel" in Jonas Pa, just<br />
over the Carbon County line from Meckesville in Monroe County. Built<br />
around 1850, Jonas was postmaster there at his hotel in the late 1800s.<br />
The village, originally known as "Sterners", was renamed after Jonas<br />
sometime around his death in 1905. Charles and his older brother<br />
John ran the hotel from around 1900 to 1950 when Paul and Lucille Held<br />
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Broad Mountain, Tank Hollow, the Pine Swamp, and the “Halfway Fields” of Spring
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He’d wait until late summer to pick his favorite for pies: dogberries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spots ablaze in order to take away the shade and encourage growth of the
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Uncle Henry and Uncle Keen were not only attached to the land, they belonged to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November 1953 - A young Tommy Held by the stop sign with Maurice<br />
"Mox" Getz's bear in front of the Hotel Jonas. Mox is in dark clothes<br />
over the bear's right shoulder, his brother Lawrence Getz is near the tree.<br />
Young Donald Zacharias is at left. At the bear's left is Clinton Bruch <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">holding the right paw is Charles Smith. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Tom Held's parents bought the hotel </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in 1950.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November 1904 - Bears killed all around the <br />
Albrightsville area hunting lodges - Huseman's<br />
American Hotel, Emery Getz's and Paul Danner's.<br />
Hunters: Eugene and John Hendricks, August Huseman,<br />
Harvey Strohl, Dr. W.L. Moyer, Alfred Taylor, W.G.<br />
Freyman, and Eugene O. Nothstein. Freyman and<br />
Nothstein were both attorneys originally from the<br />
Mahoning Valley. Freyman was first a surveyor until<br />
he passed the bar and was in his 60s when this hunt took<br />
place. August Huseman was an Albrightsville<br />
farmer in his 70s. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Allentown Leader)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall 1897 - Bear fights "desperate battle with the dogs" of Thomas<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lewis in Penn Forest's Pine Swamp. (Carbon game<br />news reached an Altoona-area newspaper.)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/03/hunting-in-carbon-county-scarce-and.html" target="_blank">See the paragraph on “last kills” in Post #1 ofHunting in Carbon County.</a> Also, see end
notes for more on Shoemaker’s animal stories.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the state in an April 1895 Harrisburg Telegraph news story. The article provided a county by county
rundown, citing each county’s own special “peculiarity” with the wild cat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the late 1800s, Pennsylvania was known to be home to two varieties of what
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numbers today, but in the early 1900s, there was also the “catamount” (Lynx
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like if all the young, love-struck men of Harrisburg suddenly found themselves “treed
on posts and awnings until dawn, soiling their Sunday clothes.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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People of the low, farmland regions of Carbon had to seek out the big
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before the days of Cabelas and other sport retailers, hotels like Jonas' Sndyers provided everything the modern sportsman of 1904 needed, including DuPont Smokeless gunpowder. The hamlet of Jonas was originally known as Sterners.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An early 1900s deer and propped rifle at Snyder's Hotel in Jonas.</td></tr>
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wilderness when deer, bear, and other wild game were as plentiful as domestic
animals now are, and he has been a hunter and a gunner all his life and is
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upcoming hunt to the Pine Swamp and how he had three stops in mind: Charles
Wernet’s “Wernet Hotel,” then Freeman Getz’s place in Albrightsville, ending in
western Monroe, at Jonas Snyder’s Hotel.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rough and Tumble Days - Jonas Snyder with dog on his lap and the rest of his family as they looked around the 1890. Looks like son Charlie's head is near the star in the flag. This is the original hotel first built in the 1850s by a Mr. Singmaster. Jonas took over in the late 1850s. The structure that stands today would be to the left of this frame. Jonas was postmaster and the eventual namesake of the hamlet first known as Sterners. In 1880 he also had George (27 years old) and Emma Bullinger living with his family as a laborer. The Bullinger children were Nathan and Irvin. So this picture is most likely a mix of the Snyder clan and Joans's farm and timbering help and their families.</td></tr>
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fact that a hunter in 1890 had to travel so far in the hopes of bagging one is
a testament to just how thin the herd was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mahoning Valley and the north woods, is worth noting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Albrightsville was traveling by team to catch a train in Mauch Chunk when the
harness broke and her team of two horses ran off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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caught the ground, and the sudden stop sent both her and her young passenger
Lillian Danner hurtling through the air.
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return to nature or to find relief from the hot summers of city life. Hotel life in northern Carbon County added
money to the mountain economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonas Snyder's Hotel, Sterners (Jonas) - Late 1890s, early 1900s<br />
Someone once asked one of the Snyders "What's that bell for?" To which the matter of fact answer was, "For ringing."<br />
Since John Sndyer was a Forest Fire Warden, besides calling folks in for dinner, it may have been used as a fire alarm. Given the property was around 460 acres, a high bell for ringing was probably needed. To the left, was the stream and water wheel. A drive shaft went under the road, into the wash house front left, through the hotel, and into the next barn. One story relates how one of the Snyder women, walking near the road, found her dress entangled in a part of the driveshaft that was exposed and it ripped her dress off. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those of the Pine Swamp were resourceful. Making a living there was tough <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/03/ode-to-spring-common-wisdom-of-joyce.html" target="_blank">(see "Moonshine and Horseradish" article)</a>
and many made ends meet as they could: from timbering to sawmill and stave
mills, to railroading, to trading in moonshine and apple jack, to selling
Canadian Christmas trees and <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-lost-stills-of-pine-swamps-of.html" target="_blank">distilling wintergreen (Carbon County provided over 80% of the world supply- See "Lost Stills of the Pine Swamp.") <o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some mountain men were hired guns and trappers who
could secure a bear or a catamount or deer for a price. On a stroll through Albrightsville a hundred
years ago, one could find any number of bears and deer, hanging from front
porch rafters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At $25 per bear, those folk could salt money away to
get through the harsh mountain winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While many like Franz Wernet, Jonas Snyder, and
Freeman “Harry” Berger ran hotels that catered to sportsman of the day, many
also found a source of “pin-money” by taking in hunters to their homes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hotels catered to bringing their clients in from the
train stations as far away as White Haven or even Mauch Chunk. In the early days, this of course would be by
horse team (see the 1912 American letterhead below compared to the 1920 shown here).
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A letter from Harry Berger to John Snyder<br />
asking him to loan five bags of the Snyder brothers<br />
"good pig feed." Of course Harry will gladly pay them<br />
tomorrow for pig feed today. Note the letterhead changing<br />
with the times: Prior letterheads said a "team" could be<br />
furnished, but by 1920 auto service was offered to<br />
travelers coming by rail to Mauch Chunk and White Haven.</td></tr>
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and Snyder</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Freeman Getz’s farm, catty corner from Berger’s American Hotel in Albrightsville, took in up to eighteen hunters each season. In the 1950s, the rate was $7 per day, room
and board included. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hunters received a hot breakfast and dinner after dark
as well as a cold lunch and coffee to carry into the woods for the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the 1960s. Claude’s son Charlie
remembers sleeping on the floor each deer season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The mountain families relied on this money. Charlie said his parents only brought in
about $2,000 in yearly income at that time.
The deer season money provided about one-fourth of their yearly income.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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huckleberry pickers: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis "Franz" Wernet's August 1911 obituary from the<br />
Altoona-Tribune.</td></tr>
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King” because of his 4,000 acres of prime timber and huckleberry lands. His holdings bridge the land between Albrightsville
and Meckesville today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wernet’s youngest two boys, Frank (1860-1921) and
Charles (1862-1907) had substantial hotels of their own. Frank ran the grand Effort Hotel and Charles
had the Jamestown Hotel in Lehighton, a favored spot for the men of the
Packerton Yard.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Jamestown Hotel in the 1960s - Wernet Family<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> It burned to the ground in the 1980s. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(North First St Lehighton - looking north)</span></td></tr>
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(1901-1970). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They robbed the well-known
White Haven peddlers on the road between White Haven and Meckesville in
1919. They tried to blame their deed on
the Van Horn boys of Mecksville. Fred
and Charles were found guilty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/01/albrightsville-fire-and-fury-part-2-fury.html" target="_blank">(More onthese stories can be found in “Fire and Fury” Part 2 by clicking here.)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Franz died in 1911 leaving the original Wernet hotel unattended. And since his son Charles had died in 1907 and Frank busy with his hotel, a young Allentown man came on to take over the Wernet House.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wernet House in 1912, run then by<br />
Fred Treichler, asking for a loan of beer<br />
and soft drinks. Treichler was low on funds<br />
due to his payment of a $121.75 lien. Notice it<br />
says they can furnish a "team" (horse and wagon)<br />
to pick up patrons at White Haven or Mauch<br />
Chunk Stations.</td></tr>
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or hotel and came to Albrightsville for only a short time. By 1918, he was living in Allentown working
at Bethlehem Steel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His lease or a loan from the Wernet boys to run the hotel
must have kept him in a constant money-pinch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1912, Treichler wrote John Snyder of the Jonas
Hotel asking for a loan of some soft drinks and beer, stating his funds were
low from recently paying his $121.74 lien.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, he did enclose $5 for a gallon of whiskey and
a gallon of gin the Snyder’s also sent him previous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When Treichler left the Wernet House, he didn’t leave
empty handed. He married the farmer’s
daughter Mollie, of Charles and Malinda Dotter.
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in June 1944. His sons, Xavier and Fred,
ran it until October 1948 when a fire reduced the hotel to its
foundations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Interestingly, the Wernet Hotel in Effort had
a similar but less damaging fire in May 1951.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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room, dining hall, and dance floor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Effort Village Inn from 1915 - Frank Wernet<br />
Follows a similar construction as the Jamestown Hotel with <br />
the same Mansard roof-line and turret</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The American House of Albrightsville as seen in the 1890s or early 1900s when Heinrich "Henry" L. Huseman ran it. Sometime before 1915, it was taken over by "F. H." Freeman Harrison Berger. Freeman passed away in 1946. Howard "Chubby" Berger (Jim Thorpe Class of 1945) took over full ownership on his mother Ella's death in 1963.</td></tr>
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“Harry” Berger’s “American Hotel.” Like
many of these hotel owners at that time, Harry Berger (1885-1946) was also a
farmer. The fall hunting and spring
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Thomas’s youngest brother Howard “Chubby” (1928-2004) ran it up to the 1970s. Chubby’s son Mark (1974-2016) still lived at
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time, maps show two wintergreen distilleries and several sawmills nearby. (<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-lost-stills-of-pine-swamps-of.html" target="_blank">See article on "Lost Stills of the Pine Swamp" on wintergreen distilling.</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he known to be related to those Huseman’s buried in the Old Albrightsville
Cemetery. There is a Henry “C.” Huseman
(1882-1914) buried there. Henry “L.” was
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back when hunters paraded their trophies<br />
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(1830-1905). He left West Penn Township,
not too far from Lynn, in the late 1850s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the area, becoming a Monroe County Commissioner (said to have given the impetus
for the building of the 1890 courthouse by hosting the other two commissioners
at his hotel for a weekend.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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turned the enterprise over to his oldest and youngest sons: John (1867-1948)
and Charles (1878-1958). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Snyder (1867-1948)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Besides the two boys, Jonas and Susanna Adams (1842-1919)
also had five girls: Emeline Bollinger (1863-1906) (she married George
Bollinger, parents to Jonas Bollinger, the great grandparents of my Haas
cousins), Ellen (1865-1869), Amanda (1870-1940), and Mary (1883-1958). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Snyder (1878-1958)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first picture ever of all ten children of John and Anna (Christman) Snyder - 1916:<br />
From left: Arlington (1916), Ralph (1910), Rolland (1908), Jonas (1904), William (1901), Susanna (1899), Lillian (1896), Mabel (1892), Emma (1891), and Beulah (1890).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1940 - The 50th Anniversary of John and Anna Snyder at Snyder's Grove behind the hotel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last picture of all ten John and Anna Snyder children on hotel porch 1967:<br />
Arlington, Ralph, Rolland, Jonas, William (l-r, back).<br />
Susan, Lillian, Mabel, Emma, & Beulah on the occasion of James and Emma Lobach's 50th anniversary. <br />
Within a few years, the first of the children would pass on, this being their last group picture.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Snyder brothers ran several enterprises from the
hotel: Timbering and wood products from the water-powered sawmill to slate shingles, grist-mill
for horse and other livestock feeds, to hunting guides and to farm implement
sales to beer, liquor and soft drink brokers, to having one of the finest
vineyards and wineries around. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many people relied on the Snyders as their "bank" of choice when needing a loan. Notes have been found among their papers with simple terms: "I promise to pay Jonas Snyder..." A testament to their business skill and respect in the area, few failed to repay them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Additionally, this is how the Snyders expanded their land holdings as well, picking up notes and taking over properties of those in need or want of selling. This is how Jonas was able to add onto his original 120-acre tract.</span></div>
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stone rows of their 460-plus acre farm. When the Held's owned it, the grounds were down to 60 acres.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Hooke's 1920 letter seeking a respite<br />
for his wife and daughter away from the<br />
city heat of Philadelphia. Given Hooke's title<br />
and the fact his secretary typed his letter, <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brothers Snyder - Charles in white and<br />
John with cigar around 1900. The two men<br />
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100 years of Snyder ownership:<br />
Jonas c. 1850-1900 & Boys 1900-1950.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comically wreckless - Successful and happy rabbit hunters at Snyder's Jonas Hotel around 1910. Notice a slightly<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The letter from Pineforest Concert Band<br />
treasurer Philip Kishpaugh setting up<br />
a concert date and dinner at Jonas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Philip Kishpaugh (1874-1948) with his<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not opposed to the outdoors and a beer - This 1920s<br />
Jonas Hotel customer looks at ease in an era when<br />
women like Amelia Earhart were carving new<br />
boundaries for women and women's rights.<br />
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women_wearing_pants_are_still_controversial.html" target="_blank">For a good, thought provoking look at the struggle</a><br />
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women_wearing_pants_are_still_controversial.html" target="_blank">women had to over come to wear pants is worth a </a><br />
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women_wearing_pants_are_still_controversial.html" target="_blank">look click here.</a></td></tr>
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tree farm grower has its roots with the men of northern part of the
county. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Roger Meckes and others, traveled to Canada and Maine each year in October to
oversee the cutting of wild pines. The
trees were then freighted back home to Carbon via railroad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with his winter earnings and looking for a place to flaunt it, stopped in at
the Jonas Hotel, now under the ownership of brothers John and Charlie
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1928 and 1934. They had Grover Cleveland
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of the Hotel Jonas. John Snyder’s clout
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This is thanks to the foresight of Tom and Ellen Held. Tom’s parents owned the hotel from 1950 to
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real estate holdings for people in need.
In October of that year, Pierce Meckes solicits John Snyder, to buy his
farm and every “sing” (I always knew the Dutch to say the word ‘sing’ for
‘thing’ but never saw it actually written before.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Snyder sits at his desk while Charles sees to the bar in this 1905 shot. Notice the Moxie signs. Moxie was outselling Coca-Cola at this time. Also note what the patron of the hotel wrote home on this postcard: "This is where you get good applejack." Tom Held still owns the clock today.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Among their many hats, the Snyder family timbered and cut lumber for various purposes from plaster lathe to house planking. Charles is shown here sporting their forest fire equipment.</td></tr>
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wine cellars in Monroe and Carbon Counties, as evidenced by this letter on the
eve of prohibition taking effect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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requested a few bottles or a quarter barrel of some of their premise made
wines, such as wild cherry, blackberry or grape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charlie wouldn’t mind doing some “jacking” for him. From an earlier visit and conversation with
Charlie, the patron was hoping they would let a barrel of cider out to ferment in
the winter elements and then “draw off” that which didn’t freeze. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a high-proof alcohol. This freeze
distillation is how early colonials produced their “apple jack.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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federal and state regulators buzzed local taverns like angry hornets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when it was discovered that his wife Darlene had signed for the hotel liquor
license renewal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trees when the application to renew arrived.
Agents served them notice in February 1935.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This 1900 fur price list was found<br />
among the papers of John Snyder.<br />
It was important for John to know<br />
the value of furs and skins as he was<br />
often times asked to provide them<br />
for his customers.</td></tr>
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mailing him the fox. See the 1900 fur
prices (this list, found among Snyder’s things, was important for him to know,
helping them to set prices for the animals they “caught” for their customers.) A fox fur was paid $1.25 in those days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of these transactions, he sent the fox but it never seems like he demands a
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if that was sufficient for the animal plus shipping. The man ends the letter stating how much he’d
like a “catamount” (bob cat) “if John ever catches one.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in 1924. His taxidermy bill was $10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ambrose Mertz's 1910 full mounted grey fox taxidermy<br />
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students at the University of Penn affectionately referred to as “Eddy” was
another loyal customer of the Snyders, though he also fished and hunted at a
few other Pocono mountain hotels and fisheries.
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hunts in the “wild woods,” but seemed to call into question who actually shot
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bottom of Dr. E. Stanton Muir's 1910 letter to John <br />
Snyder asking for "a pair of birds" for up to $1.50, <br />
"and no one will have to know about it."</td></tr>
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it” deeply implies that Dr. Muir might claim as his own, the things shot by
others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“2 birds” to be sent to him, saying he was willing to pay “up to $1.50” for the
pair. And surely if Snyder didn’t find
that price appealing, he wouldn’t reply.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the third generation Snyder men of Jonas Snyder Hotel in the 1930s.</td></tr>
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lived to tell of it. Allentown citizens,
James Ettinger and Ralph Butz had a tough time bringing in their 135-pound buck
shot in Albrightsville in early December 1912.
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a mile through snow drifts into the darkness, lucky to have found a road and even luckier to have found a team of passing horses by. But the team got
stuck in the snow, requiring the men to dig for two hours to get going again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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owner of Lehighton, (he was uncle and namesake of Carlos Teets, current
Lehighton resident) found both solace and camaraderie with his college friends
in 1934.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting Back to God's Country -14 Days<br />
"No women, no razor, no cares"<br />
Carlos Baer and friends 1934.</td></tr>
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Country: no women, no razor, no cares- Will you be with us?…Sign on the dotted
line!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The space was signed by Curtis Clark, Red Sondheim,
John Lauler, and Alvin Goethe. Each
person had the job of mailing it to the next person on the list (no chain
letter threats needed to be made, it was all implied).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Post #3 will present among other things some of the
“tall tales” of area hunting. However,
there are some accounts of mountain life in Carbon County that edge up to
qualifying as a tall tale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover of Carlos Baer's 14 day trip in 1934.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Certainly shooting a large buck in the north woods of
Carbon is a possibility. But even the
largest deer taken around the valley farmlands rarely exceed 200 pounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sixteen-year-old brother David took to the swamps of Albrightsville and each
came home with a deer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dr. Clarence bagged a 150-pound Y-buck while David landed
a deer topping 250-pounds (December of 1915.)
The elder DeLong said he saw five others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As mentioned at the start, John Bitterling was one who
relied on the hotels of the Hickory Run area, partial to the Dotter Inn.
He was one Allentown “city-slicker” who felt more at home in Carbon’s
north woods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In early April of 1910, amid the early spring thaw and
runoff, John Bitterling took his dog for a three day trek through the dense
thickets of Hickory Run, Mud Run, and Leslie Run on a 40-mile circuitous walk
from White Haven to Meckesville (the headwaters of Mud Run). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One doesn’t set out on this type of journey just to
scout trout, they do it because the land calls them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “<i>It
would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when
taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ‘till he returns
to them again.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> ~Dr.
Benjamin Rush, <i>signer of the Declaration of Independence and one who trained Merriwether
Lewis on medicine and science at the American Philosophical Society in
Philadelphia prior to his famous 1803 expedition. Rush's Society was the first think tank for science in the United States. He formed it with Ben Franklin and
others.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In August of 1897 (at the age of 40) Bitterling found
a 200-pound black bear in a trap along the Mud Run. Taking the bear alive in shackles and chains,
he walked the bear back to Albrightsville to be sold. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRg-EHHR1wFpM-l-r-7QIXzg7uUBYXNjg73CtHECnLDWWk48Xp1IxPqaVVQjfFsnOUFIijytx_rPCSBDr7iXrH59qTXMUaokpDCteY_3WuJnKEA9v5joEvvJqAvt13aAmEjEqUTx3LZGQ/s1600/Lawrence+Getz+middle+4+sons+Robert+on+R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRg-EHHR1wFpM-l-r-7QIXzg7uUBYXNjg73CtHECnLDWWk48Xp1IxPqaVVQjfFsnOUFIijytx_rPCSBDr7iXrH59qTXMUaokpDCteY_3WuJnKEA9v5joEvvJqAvt13aAmEjEqUTx3LZGQ/s400/Lawrence+Getz+middle+4+sons+Robert+on+R.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catching a live bear when it's trapped and tanquilized today had to be easier<br />
than it was in the Bitterling days. Here Lawrence Getz (son of<br />
Meckesville's "Potato King" Robert Getz) with his four sons<br />
with a bear the Game Commission was trapping and studying near their<br />
property in Jonas in the early 1990s. L-R: Sons: Barry, Glenn, Larry,<br />
and Bobby. Lawrence is behind the bear.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Game was often sold to hotels and inns for “hustle
matches,” the shooting contests of that time<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/03/hunting-in-carbon-county-scarce-and.html" target="_blank"> –See Post #1).</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November 1901 - Allentown Leader: <br />
Bittlering and the Desch brothers</td></tr>
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Morris Desch, brought home 18 pheasants, 2 quail, and 4 rabbits in late October
1901.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wilson and Morris had two other brothers and all four
were avid marksmen and members of the Allentown Rod and Gun Club. They were born on a Lehigh County farm of
their minister father Henry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One October morning in 1909, Morris Desch challenged
his friends to a squirrel shoot. They
met at the Lynnport Hotel and made a gentleman’s wager as to who
could fill their gunnysack with the daily limit of six. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morris Desch with a long barrel six-shooter.</td></tr>
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4:00. Landlord Brobst made the men a "fine
squirrel stew," the losers bought the drinks I’m sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hunting in the Poconos with other Allentown friends, the newspaper account
told.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tall tales, though nothing in his stories indicate any alternative truth
telling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bitterling was actually born in Jim Thorpe. His family apparently happy and intact prior
to his father’s service as 1<sup>st</sup> Lieutenant for Company F of the First
Pennsylvania Rifles, the famous “Bucktail Regiment” (the men wore bucktails on
their hats). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Bucktails were a well-known and respected
sharpshooting regiment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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competed far and wide in trapshooting competitions across the state, as far
away as Altoona.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">See the end notes for more of the John Bitterling and
1<sup>st</sup> Lieutenant J. Charles Bitterling’s story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of the fly-fisher from the letterhead of Brook<br />
Trout Company hatchery of Penn Forest from 1917.<br />
This is the picture I have of John Bitterling in<br />
his days of stalking Mud and Leslie Runs.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe you could say John Bitterling never had a
master, a confirmed bachelor (and so were the Desch men). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And maybe his true grit, his hearty and hale
lifestyle, was borne from a “bitter” angst, of his loss, of growing up in the
shadow of the hero’s battlefield death of his father when he was just a few
years old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it was Bitterling’s mother who braved a journey
into the war zone to retrieve her husband’s remains from the battlefield just
eight days later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe the determination of such a mother is what instilled
this truth into Bitterling’s soul. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Bitterlings, the Wernets, the Snyders, the Bergers,
the Getzs, the Dotters…the Uncle Keen's and Henry's…they are all gone to us. And like the last cries of the wolves,
wolverines, and panthers that once bounced off the hills of Carbon County,
their voices can still resonate within us, by taking the time to hear their
stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">History freely offers us these dream-like characters. There is an unquestionable loss that burns in
the living since the time of the Garden, from the days when the wilderness was
our primal home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And nothing can fulfill that need except the next
journey to the wild.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the lawyer going over the paperwork with John's son Ralph Snyder (1910-1991) and Paul Held in 1950 with Paul's wife Lucille looking on. Notice the empty chair. It belonged to Charlie Snyder who probably couldn't bring himself to be around to watch his family homestead about to be sold out. Charlie lived in a room of the hotel until his death in 1958. Post #5 will offer more information about the Sndyer's Jonas Hotel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A perhaps glum or pensive Charles Snyder in his favorite<br />
sitting spot at the hotel sometime after the Snyder's sold<br />
the place to the Held family in 1950. <br />
Charlie lived there another eight years.<br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>1.</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>John
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was staying at his favorite inn, the home hotel of Ella
Dotter. Her husband Melchoir died the
previous fall of Brights disease. (His father
Heinrich originally came from Dotter’s Eck, near Hotel Jonas.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 1, 1917 - Allentown Leader</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of dying breeds, Dotter was a cattle herder (probably
running cattle from the rails to White Haven butchers), winter green distiller,
and a small time inn operator. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-lost-stills-of-pine-swamps-of.html" target="_blank">(Wintergreen distilling post.</a>)</span></div>
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obituary said he was up for fishing (an avid fly fisher) and to provide an
estimate to run some pipes in the clubhouse of Colonel Trexler’s Hickory Run
game preserve, then the size of about 2,000 acres. This land of course became Hickory Run State
Park. (See Post #1 for more on that.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It seems like Bitterling's circle of friends was a
coterie of bachelors. With him at
Dotter’s Inn, was James Nonnemacher, a self-described “capitalist” and Allentown
coal dealer. (He lived with his unmarried
sister and brother, outliving them both as well as outliving two house
keepers.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> From Allentown to the White Haven's north woods - <br />
A Bitterling was either on a trip there or if not, certainly <br />
always planning his next one - Fall 1908. </td></tr>
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wooden stave barrel maker living at Barndt’s hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">About six months before his death, Bitterling
presented a mountain ash tree to the city of Allentown. Said to have bloomed “profusely” that spring,
the tree seemed to be as hale and hearty as John himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pennsylvania Bucktail Regiment reenactors at Gettysburg - July 3, 2000:<br />
This was the day the infamous 360 foot tower was imploded and removed <br />
from the sacred ground. Note the authentic bucktails on the hats of the men. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John Bittlering grew up without a father. J. Charles was second in command, First
Lieutenant of the First Pennsylvania Rifles, also known as the Pennsylvania
Bucktails.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Bucktails were drawn out of a defensive posture
around Washington DC in September 1862 as the Confederates were striking north
into Maryland in what would become the bloodiest two-day battle of the war,
Antietam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But as the men, under general command of Lancaster’s
John Reynolds, hero and martyr of Gettysburg, Company F was part of 300 men
asked to advance as skirmishers to force the Confederates left. The Bucktails came under enfilading artillery
and sharpshooter fire at South Mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to the regiment history, Bitterling cheered
on the men of his command with his last breath.
He was buried on the battle field as the army quickly advanced toward
Antietam Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Given this an almost rare foray into the north, meant
that thankfully Bitterling was buried on friendly ground. This allowed his young wife Celinda and her
father the ability to track down his body and return it to Mauch Chunk (Jim
Thorpe) to be buried with military honors.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Celinda’s father was Daniel Keiper originally from
Bowmanstown and a verteran of the War of 1812.
At the time of J. Charles’ death in September 1862, Daniel was 68 years
old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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original family of “Bowman’s Station,” Carbon County.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Celinda and her young family moved to Allentown to be
with her family. Harriet would grow to
become an Allentown Public School teacher and John became a plumber of his own
shop. He also had two other sisters Ella
and Eva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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followed her in July. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lived to adulthood. Charles Henry was
born in 1856 and died a year later as well as Gustavus Adolphus born in 1857
died in 1858. John had three sisters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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J. Charles Bitterling of the<br />
Pennsylvania Bucktails<br />
before he was killed at<br />
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entered a trade school for fatherless sons of veterans in Texas. He then set up his successful plumbing
business with a partner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was director of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmans’
Association, member of the Elks, treasurer for the Master Plumber’s
Association, Chamber of Commerce, director of the Hunter’s Range Association, Schwanewert
Recreation Association, North End Gun Club, Little Lehigh Strollers, and the
local Red Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Master Plumber Association held a surprise meal in
Bitterling’s honor in January 1907, presenting him with a gold watch fob and
gold seal. They said though he was
surprised, he was able to make comments suitable for the occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His remains were received the next day at his home he
shared with his sister, school teacher Miss Hattie Bitterling. He also had two other sisters, Mrs Ella
Jones, and Mrs. Eva Wenner, her husband John was the vice-president of the
Allentown National Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Stories of Pennsylvania Animals” circa 1915</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today’s deer harvests are much higher thanks to all of
the conservation and applied science to Pennsylvania’s wilderness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The habitat has stabilized from the impact of the wild
ravages man inflicted here. It could be
said that Carbon gave its first born son to America’s growth, its world
dominance today is rooted in the fuel our area gave, the subsidence of
anthracite coal mining and the deforestation of our old growth forest. So during Shoemaker’s time, our woods were
still reeling from the impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Concerning fur bearing animals: the fisher, otter,
beaver, and wolverine, Shoemaker said all four were once here in plentiful
numbers. And despite a healthy
resurgence of river otters today, the wolverine are all long gone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of fox, Shoemaker claimed the grey fox as the native
one to the state. The now more common
red fox was imported in the late 1700s from Europe by hunters who claimed it
gave better chase to the hounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of big game, buffalo and elk were once native
here. Now elk are back on the rise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of “stags,” it was said that the central part of the
state once had a larger variety deer than exists today. The northern Pennsylvania Mountains had a
breed larger than the current herd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our current herd descends from those stocked here from
Michigan by Dr. Kalbfus from around 1900-1920 and from a smaller Southern
Virginia deer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Meckesville school house as it looked in 1954 - Photo by Roy Getz.</td></tr>
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a large tract of it has become Mt. Pocahontas development. In fact, the current club house was the
former home of Roger Meckes (1880-1958). (His father was Samuel Meckes
(1834-1908), the youngest brother to Adam Meckes (1815-1897), brother to near
oldest brother of fourteen Philip Meckes (1819-1900.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of so many. One of Roger’s first cousins
was Adam’s son Pierce (1860-1916). By
1904, Pierce had given up on the farm life with his young family, having seen
too little reward for the effort he applied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Roger was a well-known potato farmer as well as
Christmas tree dealer (see “Fire and the Fury” Post #1 for more on him). Roger Meckes was land rich, but money poor
toward the end of his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And that is how Robert Getz, “the Potato King” came to
own his land. The many farms of that
area, Getz, Meckes, and Kibler, mainly grew potatoes there up until recent
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a late 1930s portrait of "Henry" and Anna Strauch<br />
still holding that "old world" look to them, Henry was<br />
a butcher and had a shop on Second St Allentown for many<br />
years, though at first was a "butcher to the miners" of<br />
Dutch Hill Tamaqua, Hacklebernie, and Jamestown.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Their parents, Heinrich Strauch and Anna Foesche, came
to America separately, both settling in Tamaqua’s “Dutch Hill” in the
1870s. Heinrich was a butcher, later
settling in Hacklebernie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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car. The Strauchs simply walked. Besides Henry, Edwin and Carl also owned
cars, but that didn’t stop Carl, a Lehigh Professor of Literature, from taking “grand
walks” of 12 or 15 miles or more.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Carl Strauch in 1939 - an enigmatic man.</td></tr>
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Anna Margaret, who was a telephone operator supervisor. Anna Margaret, Leonard, and Lizzy never
married. Kate’s husband was blacklisted for starting a union and “ran-off” to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Strauch Siblings - As I remember them, always <br />
surrounded by books, from the early 1970s. <br />
From Left: Carl, Anna "Margaret", Leonard, unknown, <br />
Henry, and Elizabeth "Lizzie."<br />
This is the younger end of the siblings: Carl (1908-89)<br />
the youngest, Margaret (1906-98), Leonard (1900-93),<br />
Henry (1902-85), and Lizzie (1896-1973). Neither Lizzie,<br />
Leonard, nor Margaret ever married, they lived together,<br />
Lizzie being the "matriarch" after their mother's death in<br />
1945. Carl widowed here, and Henry had married briefly.<br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2010/06/hacklebernie-hetchel-tooth.html" target="_blank">(More Strauch family info at this link.)</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My father's first cousin, Helen Strauch<br />
Woodson at her release in Kansas City<br />
10 September 2011 for nuclear<br />
protests and other actions. She was in prison<br />
for 27 years, according to some, <br />
the longest for any peace activist<br />
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Hacklebernie and then cross the Switchback Railroad to end on the other side of
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well maybe not dying breed after all - Childhood friends since birth 30 years ago, Nate Melber and Nate Rabenold hunt at a farm family's hunting ranch. The Melber family has been hunting with the same family, much like many did with the Getzs, Bergers, and Dotters of White Haven, for over thirty years. And like those local families of long ago, the West Virginia family relies on the hunting season trade to make ends meet. (November 2016)</td></tr>
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area deer dressed out at 115 pounds. And
John was just one month shy of his seventh birthday.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Escaped from Mr. Ash's Game preserve on the Mahoning Mountain: Lewis Steigerwalt, reclined front left was the owner of the hotel, post office, and farm implement business at the crossroads of Andreas, Schuylkill County, just over the Carbon County line from East Penn. This 1923 picture of 16 buck hunters proudly displaying this fine 8 or 9-point buck is a testament to the scarcity of deer in our area at this time. The back of the photo says "first deer shot in Andreas," certainly deer were so scarce that shooting one was a cause to take multiple poses with it. More about this story and the men in the picture can be found in the end notes of this post.<br />
<b>Were these men cursed? Many died through unfortunate circumstances, see End Notes for details.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> <b><u> Hunting in Carbon County Posts: </u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/03/hunting-in-carbon-county-dying-breeds.html" target="_blank">Post #2: Dying Breeds</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> Post #3: Laws, Tall Tales, & Accidents (Not yet Published)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> Post #4: Hotel Jonas and other watering holes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 17.12px;"> <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/things-were-beginning-to-feel-normal.html" target="_blank"> The Fire and the Fury - Albrightsville and the Great Fire of Hickory Run</a></span><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/01/albrightsville-fire-and-fury-part-2-fury.html" target="_blank"> The Fire and the Fury 2 - Albrightsville - the Wilkinson-Henning Affair</a></div>
<span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-lost-stills-of-pine-swamps-of.html" style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;" target="_blank">Life on the Mountain: The Distilleries of the Pine Swamp</a><b> </b></td></tr>
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when it's the only deer shot that year in camp. <br />
A son's first deer is a special type of pride for fathers. That buck <br />
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The most famous one in this area was perhaps Philip Ginter who
discovered coal in Summit Hill in 1791 while out hunting deer.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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early December and would promise to be home for Christmas. Thus our modern day season was set.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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"Jonas Hotel" speaks of his glum life back at work after</div>
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17 days hunting in Jonas, just over the Carbon County line. Many of the</div>
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patrons of these old hotels were doctors and professionals from the city.</div>
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in the next installment of "Hunting in Carbon County." (A link</div>
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will appear here once it is finished and posted.)</div>
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their land holdings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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winter, but also to gather as many deer skins as possible. Each skin garnered a price of $1. Hence the term “buck skin” came to be applied
and the male deer forever known as a “buck.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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$100. Some hunters were known to expand
their farms at 100-acre clips every few years mainly from money for buck skins.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the most famous of all area hunters, an almost
mythical man, was Jeremiah “Old Jerry” Greening of “Rattlesnake,” a hamlet of
Blooming Grove, Pike County. </span><br />
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was just northeast over Monroe County from Carbon and he was known to have
killed “upward of 500 deer” at a time when deer were much more scarce than they
are today.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Jerry farmed and had many sons who also hunted. Many of his exploits were told and retold all
over the country in syndicated newspaper stories in the 1870s and into the
1890s. More will be told of this man in
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With an old set of elk horns, this<br />
hunter keeping his venison high<br />
and dry. A Kresgeville area deer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uncle Jerry Greening and his son Case from Pike County<br />
captrued three deer alive -a buck, a doe, and her fawn.<br />
The Blooming Grove Park Association was negotiating a<br />
purchase price for their breeding "inclosure." - Dec 1873</td></tr>
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in Carbon with Josiah White. He was no
doubt the first to start a game preserve here in Carbon though he wasn’t the
last.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">White took up residence here in the winter of 1817/18
to build the “Stone Turnpike,” the origin of the Switchback Railroad. He was the progenitor of the “the Old
Company,” the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">By 1828, he built the first of the grand homes in what
is today Jim Thorpe. He called it
“Parkhurst” where Kemmerer Park is today.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Even before he retrieved his family from his home
outside Philadelphia, White brought his eighty-year old mother here. And before he called for his children and
wife, he built Carbon’s first game preserve for deer, elk, and peacocks to
entertain his soon to arrive children.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">He was not the last to do so. Asa Packer had one too. And so did T. A. Snyder, the builder of
Flagstaff Park, the inter-urban trolley line, and the incomparable Colonial
Court Mansion in Lehighton. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Descendants of Henry Melber still do two things as all<br />
the successive Mauch Chunk Melbers did: Work as undertakers<br />
and hunt, and not necessarily in that order. Those who know Tom<br />
and his son Nate Melber will attest there are no truer sportsmen<br />
than they are. For more on this story and how the Melbers<br />
were fully exonerated, see the End Notes of this post.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first evening of Doe Camp at Little Acres<br />
Farm, Kresgeville, 15 December 1959.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The men and boys of Little Acres Farm - Doe Season December 1959 - Dreaming of sugar plums and venison.</td></tr>
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we take for granted today, such as the game lands. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In July of 1914 Dr. Joseph Kalbfus and Dr. Penrose of
the State Game Commission visited Penn Forest township to select and declare a
site for a game preserve, to be stocked with deer from Michigan. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. Kalbfus not only visited Penn Forest to set up<br />
a deer preserve area, but also implemented the re-stocking<br />
of deer from Trexler's Preserve to counties <br />
in need of deer: Lehigh, Potter, Elk, Berks, <br />
Wyoming, and others in Jan 1917.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">The men concluded that “few places in the state afford such an excellent place for raising deer than in Penn Forest Township.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">People went to great effort to stock deer in this
area. In the fall of 1890, Henry O.
Hughes of Carbon Hill, Alabama, helped to restock deer here by shipping two
first-year fawns to his father-in-law William Evans in Slatington.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The article said the deer still had their spots, which
the newspaper account compared to the spots of a leopard. This evidence suggests that the average
citizen did not have first-hand knowledge of what a young deer looked like,
evidence of their rarity at that time. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1891, the “famous Alligator Club of Emmaus” sold their
three “handsome” deer to Jacob Reichard of Haymaker’s Island on the Lehigh,
near Allentown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“Two of the deer were
bred in captivity, and all of them are very fine, and as thoroughly
domesticated as house cats. That they
will prove a great attraction to visitors to the island cannot be doubted.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">These two articles provide a curious glimpse of life
around white-tail deer here and provides ample evidence that deer were
considered a rare animal indeed.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-47lclAG-CbdjnWSd8Ar1uSM33q8HDXCts6-U5Wm5Mz7XP3g6UTrhKgXVp2pUf1shG0sdRP6iEZ0RRlfSDL4yrZbPKBlHtI8rmWXoTIJNi_Wt4iLqZ7kU7gqGCG84ohrE02bRpifTZA/s1600/Marion+George+Buck+hunt+cropped.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-47lclAG-CbdjnWSd8Ar1uSM33q8HDXCts6-U5Wm5Mz7XP3g6UTrhKgXVp2pUf1shG0sdRP6iEZ0RRlfSDL4yrZbPKBlHtI8rmWXoTIJNi_Wt4iLqZ7kU7gqGCG84ohrE02bRpifTZA/s400/Marion+George+Buck+hunt+cropped.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This hearty buck was shot between Trachsville<br />
and Little Gap, where Russell Bollinger was known<br />
to hunt. Shown here is Russell's first wife<br />
Marian (George) who died of cancer <br />
in 1938 at the age of 28. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">No one embodies the era more than Colonel Harry
Trexler. A self-made millionaire of the
Lehigh Valley, Trexler made a fortune in the Portland cement business. But he was also a logger, purchasing
thousands of acres of timbering land.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The present day boundaries of Hickory Run State Park
were purchased by Trexler. He remodeled
the former Samuel Gould homestead and entertained guests with apple-jack punch
and fishing jaunts to nearby Sandy Spring.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Gould property is adjacent to the Hickory Run
cemetery where members of the Gould family are buried along with other logging
and sawmill families of the area. Among
them, those who drown in the flash flood caused by the breach of a 70-acre sawmill
dam in October of 1849.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trexler planned on donating the land for public
recreation. He said, “We live only a
short distance from the anthracite coal region where there is scarcely a blade
of grass growing…” The area lacked deer
habitat and Trexler was fixed on improving it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">He wanted men and their families to have a place for
outdoor recreation, “rather than have them loafing around pool rooms and
saloons fomenting anarchism, I would like to see Hickory Run developed into a
state park.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Several state agencies (the Game Commission, Fish Commission
and the Department of Forest to name a few) commenced campaigns to receive the
park from Trexler’s will and trust.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trexler passed away in a car accident in 1935, and
oddly, had taken the lands out of his will due to the bureaucratic wrangling. Eventually, trustees of his estate oversaw
the land transfer into the park and hunting lands we have today.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">One recipient of Trexler’s will was Joseph
Heimbach. The Heimbach farm is the last
large farmstead, on both sides of Route 534, after Hawk Falls and before the
camping area. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Heimbach or his surviving wife, would receive an
annual salary from the estate to the amount of $500 per year. Heimbach may have been some sort of caretaker
or overseer of Trexler’s land or perhaps payment for the right of way through
his farm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DUU5I9i2dInUxHTvCWXEZEuQr-c2AfBIUabkJrCINVyTCv9Jh1VMNXng1y0_tDjEcH3xLJg3DnouMRVqJcQ1eFsJg5j9CSuz5JorUsliYtVXx05iU0kDoMmFJDQdD_jh0bj-bi9wzMU/s1600/Russell+Bollinger+%25285%2529+cropped+buck+hunt.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DUU5I9i2dInUxHTvCWXEZEuQr-c2AfBIUabkJrCINVyTCv9Jh1VMNXng1y0_tDjEcH3xLJg3DnouMRVqJcQ1eFsJg5j9CSuz5JorUsliYtVXx05iU0kDoMmFJDQdD_jh0bj-bi9wzMU/s400/Russell+Bollinger+%25285%2529+cropped+buck+hunt.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The smallest 6-pointer ever? Another deer shot by Russell Bollinger<br />
of Trachsville sometime in the 1930s. His father was Jonas Bollinger who<br />
was a nephew of John and Charles Snyder of Jonas Hotel. The hotel<br />
was started by Jonas Snyder around 1850. He had two boys (John and Charles)<br />
who ran the hotel from 1900 until 1950. Russell's grandmother Emaline<br />
Bollinger was one of four of Jonas Snyder's daughters. More on the Jonas<br />
Hotel will be written in Post #2 and Post #4.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 1954 photo of Col. Trexler's Game Preserve - Lehigh County</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><u>The Bizarre and the Curious</u></b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Colonel Trexler also endowed a large game preserve just
south of Carbon in Lehigh County. In
March 1911, a trainload of wild game (forty does, ten bucks, and three
buffaloes) were unloaded at Colonel Trexler’s game preserve. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The three rail cars delivered the animals from a
preserve in New Hampshire as well as ones captured from the “Blue Mountain
Forest.”<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">January 1917 - How rare was wild game at<br />
this time? This Allentown Democrat article<br />
discusses released 8 deer, rabbits, and one<br />
wild turkey from the Philadelphia Zoo. One.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The train arrived in Coplay at 8:00 PM March 2<sup>nd</sup>. Two and sometimes three crated deer fit into
one wagon. However, each buffalo,
weighing about 1,500 pounds, would each take up their own wagon en route to the
preserve. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A total of forty wagons were used to haul them the
three miles from the station, the “menagerie of wagons resembling a circus
procession never seen in this county.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Lehighton also had a game preserve, created by William
Ash in 1910. Many are familiar with the
section of land west of Baer Memorial Park known as “Ashtown.” Ash’s home still stands there, a grand
example of the Sears & Roebuck catalog homes of that time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ash’s preserve was located on the Mahoning Mountain
near what is today known as “Graverville.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild Turkey:<br />
A rare 1950s sight on the Barlieb Farm <br />
in Kunkletown. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The first deer shot in the Andreas area in a
generation was actually a buck that escaped from Ash’s preserve. (Note the picture above.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> “Scarce and
Scattered” - 1880-1930 <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In this time period, lumber was king in Pennsylvania
and Trexler was only one of many Pennsylvanians who started their fortunes in lumber. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Williamsport was at one time the lumber capital of the
world. In 1899 Pennsylvania reached its
peak of annual lumber production with 2.3 billion board feet of lumber
harvested. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It made many in the state into “millionaires,” the
moniker for Williamsport High School today.
Today, Pennsylvania boasts of 59% or 16.7 million acres of forested
land.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">By 1900 there were only nine to 9-13 million acres of
forest in the state. Compare this number
to the estimated 28 million acres back to William Penn’s time in the
1680s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The squeeze on big game was on.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Great Pine Swamp of northern Carbon County was
filled with lumber operations. The
plentiful old growth hemlock trees were cleared, feeding the stave mills for
barrel making and the slab bark sent to the many leather tanneries, Lehigh
Tannery being one of the largest in the world.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Indeed the area economy revolved around timber and
hunting. Carbon’s place at the hub of
the world-wide distribution of anthracite coal placed its own pressures on the
woodlands. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Canal boat captains would work the waterways all
summer long. And once December brought
the first freeze-over to the slack water, the men would commence hauling logs
out of the Pine Swamp to be used in boat repair and boat building at the
Weissport boat yard. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">There is some conflicting evidence over just how rare
deer had become in the state. There is no
question that the number of deer and big game was extremely small compared to
today, through loss of habitat alone.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Six deer in Weissport - Most likely shot in Potter County, Reuben Small's favored spot in the 1930s. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/05/lehightons-sesquicentennial-pioneers.html" target="_blank">Reuben, from Massachusetts, met and married Lehighton's Esther Koch at business school, forming Lehighton's <br />"Small and Koch Dairy" in the 1920s. </a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/05/lehightons-sesquicentennial-pioneers.html" target="_blank">(Click here from more on this dairy and other early Lehighton businesses. <br />The Small and Koch segment is near the end of this hyperlink.)</a><br />
This Weissport scene is sometime in the early 1940s, as the McCall Bridge in the background was completed around 1938.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><u>Scarce and Scattered</u></b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Scarce they were indeed, making folks curious about
wild game in those days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Hotels owners used wild game as prizes and to grab
attention at this time with “old-fashioned hustling matches” that attracted
crowds and brought in money.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Fred Horlacher (before he brewed his famous Allentown
beer) was a tavern owner in “Bowmansville” (Bowmanstown). On February 1879 he held a match and social
hop. There were a variety of prizes, but
the one sure to draw a crowd was the top prize: a “tame bear.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Similarly, Moses Rabenold’s Hotel (near Emmaus) held a
“splendid year old buck deer, just now getting his first set of antlers” as a
prize at his hotel. Surely, wild animals
were of such scarcity and yet held in high esteem by the public to make such
offerings an attraction to the average citizen.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps the fact that a four-point buck found in
Albrightsville in 1892 best attests to just how rare deer were at this
time. An article in the local paper
stated how Mr. Dench discovered this buck skull and rack and how it was the
talk of the area. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, this was only a four-point deer. He didn’t shoot it. He found it.
Would this make news today?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Evidence that deer were curious to people and
therefore somewhat rare, can be found in Lehighton’s druggist T. D. Thomas.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WcPEICyYgtE8qegZW683hgtoine9zg0clU7xuOafyG-wRi-1Bg5p5cwwynCZzuVyfNK9mdAM4r1ZG_EfcNbqhOMFsHhHCvWsIOJjIR9Wc9MXh6S-8l45dNS2DAu_gGjpTs6J1Z8OOrE/s1600/Reuben+Small+-+Hunting+-+on+right.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-WcPEICyYgtE8qegZW683hgtoine9zg0clU7xuOafyG-wRi-1Bg5p5cwwynCZzuVyfNK9mdAM4r1ZG_EfcNbqhOMFsHhHCvWsIOJjIR9Wc9MXh6S-8l45dNS2DAu_gGjpTs6J1Z8OOrE/s640/Reuben+Small+-+Hunting+-+on+right.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four Buck at Lehighton Park -<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/05/lehightons-sesquicentennial-pioneers.html" target="_blank"> Reuben Small of "Small and Koch Dairy stands at the right.</a> Known to hunt<br />
in Potter County, more pictures from Small's Potter hunting camps will be posted in Post #2 of this Carbon Hunting Series.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Thomas mounted a deer head in his shop’s First Street
window that he purchased from a Towamensing hunter named Edward Graver
(February 1893).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">However some Carbon residents were successful hunters
despite historically low numbers of deer, as evidenced in two stories from Lehighton’s
Carbon Advocate in December 1877: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“Two Lehighton residents furnished the publisher of
the Carbon Advocate with fine venison roasts.”
Simon Walck and Alex Solt each furnished Editor Morthimer with deer meat.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The second story told of William Boyer of Big Creek “capturing”
“a very large deer one day last week.” It went on to say, “He started out again early
the next morning confident in capturing another, but always returning home with
an empty sack.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(“Capture” was a word
used in those times for slaying a deer.
However, there were also men in those days who trapped deer to be sold
to various preserves and sportsmen’s groups who were eager to purchase
white-tails.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">So how thin was the herd? John M. Philips, a noted conservationist and
highly esteemed Pennsylvania hunter, shot a deer in December of 1883. About which he reportedly wrote to a friend: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“I have killed the last
deer in Pennsylvania.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Philips would not have been the only person to make such claims. It appears many, seemed to relish the notoriety or distinction of being the last person to have shot a particular animal.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY4ZpKuouzbKgs0VP5Xgy1QHFf3oDoUip3jV1pNcGJFtYqId5WA4oXcGMkjD9kVn8F3rKEwywCj2D5J-SA9z5ZS_CDPpGiLSqA4Dskl0iUCb836troJfxTHthMN0KTTfZVULuneXR1FsY/s1600/Dan+Treaster+cabin+held+at+bay+by+wolves+Center+County.gif" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY4ZpKuouzbKgs0VP5Xgy1QHFf3oDoUip3jV1pNcGJFtYqId5WA4oXcGMkjD9kVn8F3rKEwywCj2D5J-SA9z5ZS_CDPpGiLSqA4Dskl0iUCb836troJfxTHthMN0KTTfZVULuneXR1FsY/s400/Dan+Treaster+cabin+held+at+bay+by+wolves+Center+County.gif" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the cabin of Dan Treaster in Centre County, PA. Treaster spoke of<br />
being held at bay for days in this cabin by packs of wolves.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Other famous "last kills" in the state: Revolutionary war hero Col. John Kelly allegedly killed the last Pennsylvania buffalo in 1801. Jim Jacobson last elk, George Hastings last authentic panther, Dan Treaster last wolf, George Schmenk last brown bear.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "famous" Emmaus Alligator Club expands their fold to five in May 1890- <br />
Allentown Democrat.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A contradiction to the deer’s scarcity can be found in
this Carbon Advocate article from two years prior:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A man named Uncle Joe Jones, at 65-years of age, claimed
to have shot 33 deer and five bear in the 1881 season hunting in McKean and
Potter Counties. Game laws be damned!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">His lifetime tallies: 3,527 deer, 321 bear, and 50
panthers. He allegedly didn’t keep
record for catamounts (lynx), wolves, or foxes.
These numbers are exceedingly high, even by “tall tale” standards. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every picture has a story. Every bloody 4-wheeler picture<br />
with a buck at night is an even better story. <br />
This story has been re-told several times since. <br />
Ryan's White Haven deer - 2011.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Apparently hunting and fishing have always lent themselves
to such exaggeration. More on men like
“Uncle Joe Jones” and “Uncle Jerry Greening” will be examined in Post #3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">High Demand and Limited Supply: Pressure to Boiling
Points<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Pressure and boiling points were met between
“necessity” and the law. One old Pennsylvania
law forbade hunting on Sundays, “unless in cases of necessity.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The mountain folk of northern Carbon County, the Great
Pine Swamp, relied plenty upon the herd to provide meals for their
families. The fact that the Game
Commission was working so diligently to guard the deer herd was on a collision
course with the needs of the many.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article about crop damage in Monroe County - Allentown Democrat July 1904</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The first game warden shot in Pennsylvania was in
1903. In 1904 three more wardens were
shot but 1905 had none. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Then 1907 made up for it, with seven officers shot in
performance of their duties (only three were fatal). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This entanglement between law and outlaws surfaced in
the Pine Swamp on Thanksgiving Day 1932.
The confrontation between Harry Wilksinson, a one-armed game warden and
his brother versus the family of Aquilla “Quilly” Henning in Albrightsville led
to murder.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Hennings were bent on revenge after Wilkinson had
arrested one of them over a game regulation and lured the Wilkinson’s into the
woods by killing one of Wilkinson’s hunting dogs. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/01/albrightsville-fire-and-fury-part-2-fury.html" target="_blank">For more on the Wilkinson-Henning affair, click here.</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">At the same time tensions were boiling over, the state
began its aggressive deer stocking program.
The first shipment of fifty deer arrived from Michigan in 1906. A total of 1,192 were stocked in the state
during the twenty years of the program.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But it was the lack of browse that was the main
problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This fact was ignored, and the commission went on a
new direction: holding doe as sacred. 1907
was the first year for a total ban on antlerless deer hunting. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Like so many of Pennsylvania’s hunting traditions,
this “buck only” sentiment still lingers heavily in the minds of many traditionalists
today. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The 1907 “buck only” season may have been a low point,
with only 200 buck taken state-wide.
(Along with 35 illegally shot does.) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">April 1917 article describes the forest growth<br />
as "slim and un-nutritive" causing "boldness"<br />
in the deer now grazing on Stroudsburg-area<br />
wheat and grains. The article implies that this was<br />
a new phenomenon.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And yet, in 1923, farmers were pleading for relief
from deer crop damage. The Game
Commission began providing deer-proof fencing and giving them authority to kill
deer for crop damage. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">There are places where my family hunts in White Haven
where this wire fence, affixed directly to beech and cherry trees, is embedded
into trees today.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">So the herd was scarce in some places and problematic
in others, and this renewed the debate over hunting does. A $10 per doe license was proposed in the
spring meeting of 1923 but was hotly protested.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Another solution at that time was to trap the doe in
the plentiful areas of the state and ship them to parts where they were
scarce. So a $25 per deer trapping
program was initiated by the Game Commission in Perry County in October 1923.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Allentown Democrat - March 1923</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Land owners would be paid the sum for each trapped and
crated deer, shipped by rail freight (pre-paid freight also paid by the state)
throughout the state. The law also
provided return pre-paid freight shipping of those crates back to their owners for
future use. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The 1923 season was a bust due to a lack of tracking
snow and that food was “scarce and scattered.”
In reporting on the season on January 16, 1925, the Harrisburg Telegraph
reported just two buck shot in the Harrisburg area. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But 1924 was a “banner year” with 7,778 shot (1,300
more than the previous year), a paltry sum compared to 1950s. However, in comparison to today’s 300,000+ seasonal
deer harvest, one can realize the impact this loss of habitat had on deer at
this time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioBkSyHTJsz5fHpC9iy2Hk4QW01qORiNNA14ikMwS4IjmE4kdzmG1Eisms-T74aKzeVhb3wggvDONFNYHtagOF58ZCtazC4Wwo1R2RMt981Tosi1FgANZ3VJ0YOW166geSCHDNcBlJEDA/s1600/THC0079S+Snyders+HOtel+Jonas+c+1915.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioBkSyHTJsz5fHpC9iy2Hk4QW01qORiNNA14ikMwS4IjmE4kdzmG1Eisms-T74aKzeVhb3wggvDONFNYHtagOF58ZCtazC4Wwo1R2RMt981Tosi1FgANZ3VJ0YOW166geSCHDNcBlJEDA/s640/THC0079S+Snyders+HOtel+Jonas+c+1915.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deer weren't the only animal jauntily displayed as our heroes return home from the mountains. Shown here is Jonas Snyder's Hotel and Post Office around 1915. Jonas was the original post master and like most post offices at that time, the area was named for the post master, thus we have the hamlet of "Jonas" today. Eventually the hotel went to his son John and through various hands over the years, including to the family of Tom Held in the 1960s. Though open as a restaurant until recent times, it has since closed and now serves as a shelter for homeless veterans. More will be written about this and other Pocono Mountain hotels in Post #2.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The State Game Commission won the right to have the
sole right to fix season bag limits and seasons for game in 1925, relieving the
state legislation from enacting laws in this regard. The additional power given to the Commission
allowed for decisions to be made based on science rather than on politics.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The forests were judged to have only a 250,000 deer
capacity. The woods had been kept at “brush stage” for longer than usual due to
fires, such as those set by huckleberry pickers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Pennsylvania’s decimated forests were incapable of
supporting the current herd, estimated at the time at 800,000. Game Commission Director Joseph Kalbfus tried
to convince the public of this. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a hard sell.
The public’s mind could not understand this. For them, deer were still a rare sight. How could the state be “over populated” when
places like Andreas hadn’t shot a buck in over a generation? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hunters' intuition at odds with Game Commission<br />
science - a never ending saga - March 1923.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Director Kalbfus, instrumental in setting up
preserves, had been trying to crusade for antlerless hunting in the state since
1917. He saw how the land simply could
not sustain the current numbers and that regular yearly doe and buck
seasons were a necessity. Regional doe regulations had yielded little in thinning out the overpopulation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But his proposed regulations were at odds with hunter
conventional wisdom. They saw the
killing of doe, at a time when they were carrying their young, was the root
cause. To their hunting intuition,
science had it all wrong.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The first state-wide antlerless season was proposed in
1928 and was greeted with strong protests, letters to editors, and petition
signing. The legislators promised to
stop it and de-authorize the Commission’s newly granted powers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But Kalbfus said there would be “hell to pay” if it
wasn’t controlled by open hunting on both genders. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">That winter, Clearfield County reported 1,000 dead
fawn. The deer were starving. The 1928 antlerless season netted 25,097
state-wide. Kalbfus was right, the
population needed an doe season and the herd started to become
manageable.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Deer food was still scarce. By 1931, the forest was nearing “pole
stage.” The mature trees were now too
large to provide food as well as providing too much shade. The shade of course inhibiting the growth of
the browse the herd depended on.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The 1950s saw a convergence of a healthy balance of
habitat and game population along with permanent changes to antlerless hunting
regulations. Finally, by the late 1950s,
the annual doe season took hold. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3Uz-LmVz3oxKgIhmIl71pfPEh9bgJORlCep6I1j7vt1T6Kmr9Txg03S_sKsVYV5l72Rg1tD7LJ8PFOHuQtk9HjKfnRj83Lig33JnYWD8ABl2cw4bjv3x_3_WlERj6Nb3R1KGeEuOzUs/s1600/KEen+Jeep+Beltzville+MArch+21+1971+old+cement+road+resz.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3Uz-LmVz3oxKgIhmIl71pfPEh9bgJORlCep6I1j7vt1T6Kmr9Txg03S_sKsVYV5l72Rg1tD7LJ8PFOHuQtk9HjKfnRj83Lig33JnYWD8ABl2cw4bjv3x_3_WlERj6Nb3R1KGeEuOzUs/s320/KEen+Jeep+Beltzville+MArch+21+1971+old+cement+road+resz.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keen Ahner was ever proud of his Jeeps, perhaps their<br />
most loyal customer anywhere. Here he is with the family<br />
on the old concrete roadway through Big Creek<br />
in 1971 as work on the Beltzville Dam was finalized.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet many hunters who bridged those years continued to
believe in the “sacred doe” philosophy.
A concept that still holds sway today.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGua0dSEebHxx32OXOrT_sbGXnLuYZM1yUTNRVFmTBpdFR5naEYxLvbKDwkLMgWb9caFNLSPRth8tdPTIJR_HQDSA-Q63kUBS00D8ta3Q12REycg8xJZSfNs14gACH8PquS16LehvQe4/s1600/Carp+caught+at+Delaware+Water+Gap+1960+Keen+Ahner+and+Larry+Solt+old+house+front+porch.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcGua0dSEebHxx32OXOrT_sbGXnLuYZM1yUTNRVFmTBpdFR5naEYxLvbKDwkLMgWb9caFNLSPRth8tdPTIJR_HQDSA-Q63kUBS00D8ta3Q12REycg8xJZSfNs14gACH8PquS16LehvQe4/s400/Carp+caught+at+Delaware+Water+Gap+1960+Keen+Ahner+and+Larry+Solt+old+house+front+porch.jpg" width="382" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keen Ahner and young Larry Solt on the front porch of the old<br />
Ahner homestead in Franklin Township with carp they caught<br />
in the Delaware around 1950.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Brothers Keen and Grover Ahner of Franklin Township,
both gone and sorely missed, were men who started their hunting life in the
early 1940s. Both men still preached the
importance of only shooting buck. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Though both men certainly shot their share of doe to
fill their own freezers, I can still hear the “buck only” logic that pervaded
the thoughts of most hunters from that era.
They’d say “if you shoot one, you shoot three.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">For those growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, deer were
still a rare sight.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Chester Mertz, recently deceased of the Mahoning
Valley was the last person alive who had a living memory of the high, wooden
planked fence in the woods near <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-gravers-bathing-casino-lehighton.html" target="_blank">Henry Graver’s property. (Click here for more on that.)</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“We’d climb around Henry Graver’s property and William
Ash’s deer preserve, an all wooden fence…it seemed too high, much higher than
any cow pen or horse corral we’d ever seen, and we’d sit and wonder what those
deer were like.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“I remember the day I saw my first deer. It was a big deal…I was about seven or eight
(1927)…and my father Amby and me were driving over the Mahoning Mountain…a
farmer was standing in the road and made us stop…he said, “Hirsch, hirsch”
pointing to one standing along the edge of the wood line.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPPUkPrK-27uCi_Ikqf6jUGMMUK4CuyiRQkMWh3c7Bfc0M3Tm2LRJQeZVJoJDL3stkN2H6TGfbxBnkP1kS2g5lvrJ4YViXCCojB15XpeQ7czJwIKByxHRrlkTGmKzZcpv11GQ0hlcB36c/s1600/Jon+WV+buck+NOv+2016.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPPUkPrK-27uCi_Ikqf6jUGMMUK4CuyiRQkMWh3c7Bfc0M3Tm2LRJQeZVJoJDL3stkN2H6TGfbxBnkP1kS2g5lvrJ4YViXCCojB15XpeQ7czJwIKByxHRrlkTGmKzZcpv11GQ0hlcB36c/s400/Jon+WV+buck+NOv+2016.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Son Jon's 2016 West Virginia buck.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The state-wide deer herd was certainly getting back on
track by the 1931 season. It was the
first season open for both buck and doe (spike buck were still the chosen
protected segment of the population) with 24,796 buck taken, along with 70,255 doe for a total
of 95,051. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">By 1938, they closed buck
hunting in the state and 171,662 antlerless deer were harvested. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Thanks to the timbering industry, our state forests were no longer a pole-stage forest, with </span>so much cleared land and with the lack of
“over-shadowing trees,” the timbering produced a young and brushy
forest of young oak, cherry, maple, birch, and beechnut, perfect habitat for the deer herd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">All these new seedling growing at once, not to mention
all the browse from huckleberry, elderberry, and dogberry shrubs and it is
little wonder why the 1920s was the beginning of a population boom that has
sustained hunters up until recently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Understanding this new science, the Game Commission decided to devote $1 from each doe license
to the “cutting and otherwise removing over-shadowing tree growth,” this promotion of "underbrush sprouts and saplings for deer food," became the essential food source, the payoff and reward to the Pennsylvania hunter of today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>~Much of the data cited here comes from PA Game
Commission Website and articles written by PGC Wildlife Biologist J. T. Fleegle</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">END NOTES: </span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Andreas First Buck Shot Picture - 1923</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The above picture of Andreas from the 1940s is courtesy of the Bill Schwab collection. The deer and men picture with the scale in it would have been just out of frame left of this picture. The hotel on the right is the backdrop of the other two pictures, note the columns. The Steigerwalt farm implements yard would be out of frame right, to the rear of the hotel. The Steigerwalt homestead is catty-corner from the present day and as seen here Andreas Post Office. Descendants of Steigerwalt still own the home today. Andreas started out as "Sittlers" when Civil War Sargent Tilghman Sittler was named postmaster in June 1883. But the Republican was ousted by his Democratic rival Wellington Weaver in 1885. Both men also competed against each other for customers, as they each owned a grocery store across the street from each other. Weaver renamed the post office "Andreas" after his wife Fianna's maiden name. But Sittler was won back in 1890 until 1892. Then switched back to Andreas from 1893 to 1897. It remained Sittlers until 1916 and then changed permanently back to Andreas there after.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Andreas Hotel, the backdrop of two of the pictures. Steigerwalt implements is in the <br />
background and the Steigerwalt home is out of frame right. <br />
The photographer of this picture would be standing near the L. W. Steigerwalt scale that is in the one picture. <br />
Those scales were quite near the roadway (Route 895) and were said to have been there up until the last 30 years.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a picture of the Andreas Hotel on the north west side of the intersection at Andreas. Steigerwalt's implement yard was to the rear of this building. The picture here above and one directly below were made into 8x10 pictures and it has been said that many if not all of the men pictured here received a copy of each from Bretney Studios in Lehighton. Surely these triumphant victory shots were taken to celebrate the first deer shot in Andreas in a lifetime. However, it was widely believed at the time the this buck was an escapee from Ash's Game Preserve from the other side of Mahoning Mountain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lewis Steigerwalt Jr. sold farm implements<br />
in Andreas and ran the hotel and post office<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The List - This list was scribbled down sometime ago<br />
by the Steigerwalt family in Andreas. This list is<br />
a big help in identifying the men pictured below.<br />
The several men in the picture have been positively<br />
identified by living descendants today.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The above list was written on the back of this 1923 picture is believed to be as correct as possible at this time. See Eckhart's History of Carbon County, v5, pg 162.<br />
ON THE GROUND: Lewis Steigerwalt Jr lies at deer's head. Over his right shoulder, Oliver Wertman (kneeling), LeRoy Everett (behind Lewis' head), and Charles Nothstein (behind the antlers). <br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Middle is James DeLong (head at the beginning of "Andreas), Russ Sinyard (to DeLong's left). </span><br />
Lying down at tail is Oliver Wertman and kneeling behind him is Stanley Arner. <br />
STANDING: L-R: Osville Ruch, Moses Steigerwalt, and Charles Gerber. Tailor Frank Rebrecht (all tailors wore ties when hunting), Lewis Steigerwalt Sr., Cal Ginder (tallest), and Pierce Kerscher. (One source said that Oliver Wertman was Henry DeLong. Perhaps DeLong is another person in this photo.)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Were these men cursed for shooting this deer? </b></span><br />
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(Ages given are age at time of the picture unless otherwise noted:)<br />
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Sadly, a few of the men pictured here had only lived a short time. Lewis Steigerwalt Sr. died just three years after this eventful day at the age of 73. His son, Lewis Jr., died of a stroke fifteen years later at the age of 56.<br />
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Osville Ruch was a widower who worked in the coal yards, Moses Steigerwalt was a clerk for Lewis, he died in 1936 at the age of 70. Charles Gerber was a 28-year-old farm hand and implement salesman for Lewis.<br />
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Calvin Ginder was killed on his way to work at the Palmerton Zinc in December 1963 when his sedan station wagon collided with a tractor-trailer in 1963. He was 29 when the picture was taken. The tailor of Andreas, Frank Rubrecht was 56 in the picture, he died in 1934.<br />
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Stanley Arner was 29 in the picture and was a farmer from East Penn. He died in 1961 at the age of 68. Charles Nothstein was 32 and Lewis Jr's borther-in-law. Also an East Penn farmer, he died one year after the picture was taken after developing a tetanus infection from a foot injury on the farm.<br />
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Russ Sinyard was 23 in the picture. He hauled timber in the 1930s and delivered stone and coal in the 1940s. In 1944 he slipped from his truck and fractured his skull on the concrete roadway, he was just 43. Pierce Kerscher killed himself with a 12-gauge shotgun, likely the one pictured here, in 1942 at the age of 48.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a picture of the Lewis Steigerwalt farm implement yard behind the north west corner at Andreas, to the rear of where the deer pictures were taken above.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>2. Melbers are Exonerated 1907</u></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "Outlaw Melbers" - (L to R) - Shown here are Henry Melber (born 1857) was the original undertaker of the Melber clan. Seated next to him is son Edward (born 1888), with Harry (knealing, born 1879) along with his son Nathan (born 1907). There is no finer tradition to pass down along family lines than hunting. Tom and his wife Mary, along with their son Nate continue their family's legacy. Note all the pups eating from the dish. The article describing their questioned day of hunting that December 1907 referred to the Melbers using dogs. Of course the Melbers were found innocent of all charges (see article below) and the Game Warden from Slatington had to bare the burden of all court costs. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/03/things-were-beginning-to-feel-normal.html" target="_blank">For more on hunting in the Pine Swamps click here.</a></td></tr>
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Killer of the last authentic <br />
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Killer of the last Pennsylvania Elk.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>4. Augusta Moore's complete "Lehigh" Poem from 1876-79</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">ND</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> this is Lehigh. Once again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">My wearied feet are taking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The well-known path along thy
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And memory is waking,—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sad harp of mine, awake, awake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And sing the pensive story,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That sighs and murmurs through
my head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beneath this forest hoary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oh! thou bright river, dost thou
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The pilgrim late returning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">To view once more the autumn fires<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Along thy valley burning?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">To view her father’s heritage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That father lowly sleeping,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Far from the green and lonely
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the old hemlock’s keeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thy mountain still is standing
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Its shadows o’er thee bending,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Its lofty pines, its laurel
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Their sweet enchantment lending.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Along thy banks the wandering
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Its purple fruit untasted,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Still casts upon thy careless
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Its clustered treasures, wasted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And still the timid deer come down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">To drink, at eve and morning;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And still the laurel blooms as
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As in my life’s glad dawning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thy gray rocks seem no older
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thy beauties fresh and tender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As when we came, a frolic band,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our childhood’s praise to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">For Lehigh was our joy and
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our glad, beloved river;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And all around was charmed
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our home! delightful ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our nightingale the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The water-elves our cronies,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Their camp-fire smoke of mist we
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our game the trout and conies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lehigh, I dream that in thy
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I catch a tone of gladness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That yearning love is in thy
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That thou wouldst soothe my
sadness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Only in dreams for thirty years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have I beheld thee flowing,—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whither away so fast, dear
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why dost thou moan in going?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I see the unforgotten grave!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Moan on, O faithful river!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where all the lights of home
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Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-26168519388138360842017-02-12T19:34:00.001-05:002021-01-11T17:19:34.370-05:00Kline<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Franz Kline: A Study in Conflict</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We are fortunate to have his mural ‘<i>Lehighton’, </i>as tangible </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">evidence of his
energy and talent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting all day...1950s: Kline was known for his storytelling to all hours of the <br />
night at the home base of many 'New York School' artists in the 1950s and 1960s,<br />
Greenwich Village's Cedar Bar, o<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">f his favorite topics to discuss: his hometown.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The recent successful unveiling of '<i>Lehighton</i>' in its new home is a
testament to its worth, as valued by both Lehightonians and as well as those who love and
respect the art of Franz Kline.</span></div>
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<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/11/strauch.html" target="_blank">~Also visit the Carl Strauch post - Lehighton's contribution to the Romantics and Transcendentalists</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Local Kline authority and writer of ‘<i>Carbon County’</i>, a postcard history and
contributor to Ebbert and Ripkey’s ‘<i>Lehighton</i>’,
Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel writes this about the mural in her forthcoming book: ‘<i>Kline in Coal Country</i>,’ co-written with
her son Joel Finsel:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Kline’s Lehighton mural
is more than a painting; it is a confession, an unabashed and richly colored
ode to this place he had called home. In the mural, Kline as alchemist
transforms an ordinary small town to a rolling dreamscape of places seen and
unseen. Among the dark hues and myriad of densely painted areas, secrets, only
known to the artist, are hidden. In the center foreground of the work is a
white house behind the entrance gate to the fair, a dark heart painted at the
top of this house, gray-black on black, and adeptly camouflaged. His childhood
home...<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a picture commissioned by Kline authority Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel for her forth coming book 'Kline Coal Country.' The photo by area photographer Josh Finsel was used by the Allentown Art Museum for its 2012 Kline exhibit. It is the best<br />
photo taken of the mural prior to its removal from the Legion Post in November 2016. <br />
<a href="http://www.jfabphotography.com/" target="_blank">Click here to be taken to the JFAB Photography website.</a></td></tr>
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<i style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>"I paint the white as well as the black, and the white is just as important."</b></span></i><i style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Franz Kline</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/picture-of-the-regions-past-now-forever-preserved/302765072" target="_blank">See the WFMZ special segment on the Kline restoration, including interviews </a></b><a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/picture-of-the-regions-past-now-forever-preserved/302765072" target="_blank"><b>with </b></a></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/picture-of-the-regions-past-now-forever-preserved/302765072" target="_blank">Professor Bob Mattison and Lehighton historian Ronald Rabenold.</a></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbA8dR8LkE" target="_blank">Watch Allentown Art Museum's careful restoration of Kline's <i>Lehighton</i> mural</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The art world was just beginning to figure him out, this new form of expression that he and the 'New York School' had developed and offered to the world during his short life-time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But Kline was a living dichotomy. Just like his famous black and white
abstracts, he found constant push between opposing forces. He packed energy into his brush strokes,
often adding texture with the edge of his hand or the base of his thumb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><i>“The nature of anguish is translated into different
forms.” Franz Kline</i></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Up until the age of eight, Kline had a typical life. According
to Rabenold-Finsel, Kline as a young boy, first sketched trains on the sidewalks
of his West River Street Wilkes-Barre home, using a stick of rhubarb from the
family garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But his father’s suicide, tears the family apart, and
begins a heart-wrenching chain of events. The death of Anthony Kline forces his mother Anna into some tough decisions: She must send her kids away so that she could support them with a nursing degree. (See “Endnotes”
for more on this.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Franz’s siblings (Frederick, Louise, and Jack) are sent to an Episcopalian home, while Franz was sent to the Girard College Home for Fatherless
Boys, a place Kline would for the rest of his life refer to as “the orphanage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Girard was said to be a cold place both in environment
and in its severe military-like discipline.
Boys marched everywhere in two-by-two rank and files. Kline arrived when he was just eight years
old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The mission of the place was to prepare young men to
be productive workers. Here is where
Kline took his first drawing classes, preparatory courses for industrial
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhjxqGQ3FctrOW_m99mam3TNVPX-2pugq1KTgaIUhAPmZoiniUfBLEa2pLCVhLUUFA3FkkXSRIMEzGOD-zOTjkuZVQp8J4baZFVBOe5GfMCI5N75Eyv4xjyXS8ZAXWV4Nvt2iU1gEpBxk/s1600/02KLINE-PA+Landscape+2013+Franz+Kline+Estate+ARS.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhjxqGQ3FctrOW_m99mam3TNVPX-2pugq1KTgaIUhAPmZoiniUfBLEa2pLCVhLUUFA3FkkXSRIMEzGOD-zOTjkuZVQp8J4baZFVBOe5GfMCI5N75Eyv4xjyXS8ZAXWV4Nvt2iU1gEpBxk/s640/02KLINE-PA+Landscape+2013+Franz+Kline+Estate+ARS.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Franz Kline used Lehighton as his source of inspiration for his "Pennsylvania Landscape" (c 1947-49). <br />
The houses to <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the left were once on Bankway and Bridge Streets, burned in the 1970s. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The bridge is the Lehighton-Weissport </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">overhead trestle bridge that was torn down and replaced </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in the early 1970s. These girders uplifted and viewed in the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">sky are resplendent and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">tangible residual manifestations seen in Kline's work.</span><br />
Copyright Franz Kline Family Estate, Artist Rights Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">During this time, his mother met and later married a Packerton
Yard shop foreman from Lehighton. Three years
later, Ambrose Snyder, a recent widower himself, set up house with Anna Kline
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhaI9fWkIl0Bj_P_GTLxTHUvL8WvB-4g89mFNn8Agsg7KYBhkrQFjF04Gsu7VzFCP9IPsWhuXr0qbtZnPuIWJSK0LhmjI2JJfJ7lC7UB6VguDYUDRgebGk__BYDKsNUaEh7KjMRx-KCw/s1600/Weissport+Lehighton+trestle+bridge+1940s.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwhaI9fWkIl0Bj_P_GTLxTHUvL8WvB-4g89mFNn8Agsg7KYBhkrQFjF04Gsu7VzFCP9IPsWhuXr0qbtZnPuIWJSK0LhmjI2JJfJ7lC7UB6VguDYUDRgebGk__BYDKsNUaEh7KjMRx-KCw/s400/Weissport+Lehighton+trestle+bridge+1940s.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Weissport bridge as it looked to Kline in the 1940s. One can<br />
see "Union Hill" looming in the backdrop of both pictures.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Anna tried her best to gather up her family and Kline’s
other siblings were soon returned.
However, at the tender age of ten, Kline was caught in a confluence of
opposing forces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Girard had a limited visitation policy, so Kline
seldom came home. It also had an equally
strict contract that said once enrolled, the child remained there until he was
eighteen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It took five years of letter writing and
remonstrations from Anna to finally bring Franz back home to her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3qc3-RzAbQkjh7F1COhISLSFA4goD70RLzaTyx18adKnzGlE8YBiXYScZlYtUSHklSJJJhpxmlylESVt_Vw5sWAWUaMNzIqxp9I1FCngxKzy4m_oKsRiQtGNyKS3iSYalB9bswyJtyE/s1600/self-portrait-Orr-1946-Franz+Kline.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3qc3-RzAbQkjh7F1COhISLSFA4goD70RLzaTyx18adKnzGlE8YBiXYScZlYtUSHklSJJJhpxmlylESVt_Vw5sWAWUaMNzIqxp9I1FCngxKzy4m_oKsRiQtGNyKS3iSYalB9bswyJtyE/s320/self-portrait-Orr-1946-Franz+Kline.jpg" width="231" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1946 Self -Portrait - Painted the same year<br />
as his <i>'Lehighton</i>' mural. Copyright 2017<br />
The Franz Kline Estate, Artist Rights<br />
Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“If
you’re a painter, you’re not alone.
There’s no way to be alone.”</span></i></b></div>
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<b> Franz Kline</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Fearing her son had been academically stilted at
Girard, she enrolled her fifteen year old son in seventh grade the
following September.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Kline was born in May 1910 and entered Lehighton schools by the seventh grade in September 1925 at the age of 15, graduating in 1931 at the age of twenty-one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Given his dashing good looks, athleticism, and his advanced age among his peers, Franz made a quick impression on his classmates. It has been said that he played varsity football for six years. He was the halfback in football and the catcher for baseball. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">He also loved exploring the outdoors and went hunting
in the hills. And with his step-father’s
railroad pass, he had free access to all the points along the rails, taking in
the rugged coal-country landscape that would seep through his consciousness and
onto the canvas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 107%;">Kline
acknowledged this residual imagery that entered his art: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This sketch of Kline's from the Lehighton High<br />
yearbook of 1931 (turned upside down here for<br />
effect) shows striking similarity to his later<br />
abstracts that in a short word showed the conflict<br />
Kline liked to imbue into his work. (One of my favorite<br />
things to do with these cropped sketches is to rotate<br />
them around in a picture viewer, noting how the symmetry<br />
holds together no matter the orientation.)</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 107%;">He
said, "There are forms that are figurative to me, and if they develop into
a figurative image … it's all right if they do. I don't have the feeling that
something has to be completely non-associative as far as figure form is
concerned."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgUtf4SLnO_5R9TWnXEPvBxZpRuUgwu24GUhZKhgOq0VXsKHdsWjmqq2qn0Zgy-I70RJ0iozv7oQjjGCkLmBlvGcneBXb7ZjPBrn_fnq0phLMoK5fxBWEwLuEtChMNOn1p3BCfj2miWk/s1600/Kline+LHS+1931+pg+97+%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgUtf4SLnO_5R9TWnXEPvBxZpRuUgwu24GUhZKhgOq0VXsKHdsWjmqq2qn0Zgy-I70RJ0iozv7oQjjGCkLmBlvGcneBXb7ZjPBrn_fnq0phLMoK5fxBWEwLuEtChMNOn1p3BCfj2miWk/s320/Kline+LHS+1931+pg+97+%25282%2529.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the Lehighton High school yearbook of<br />
1931. It is easy to see Kline's theme of<br />
conflict in his early works. A theme that<br />
carried into his black and white abstract<br />
days, of painting white up against black,<br />
black up against white.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black and White No. 1 c. 1952 - Compare the energy and emotion of his 1931 yearbook sketches to this circa 1952 painting. Copyright 2011 The Franz Kline Estate, Artists Rights Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Personal Favorite - From Kline's 1931 LHS Sketches -This one refers to his buddy, my father's cousin Harold Rabenold, and Curt Blank playing hooky for a "nature study." The <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">PA Dutch dialect is another good example of Kline's playful humor.</span></td></tr>
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Frank Bretney, and Ralph Beisel to name a few.
He was good friends with his Rabenold neighbors too: my Aunt Gladys, and
my father’s cousins Harold “Spunt” and Donald. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Allentown Art Museum, through the efforts of guest
curator and Lafayette College Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History, Dr.
Robert S. Mattison, arranged for a three month exhibit, ‘<i>Kline: Coal and Steel,</i>’ the first and largest major Kline exhibit ever held in the Lehigh Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This, in conjunction with the museum’s acquisition of
Kline’s 1938 <i>Lower East Side Market Scene,
</i>set the wheels in motion for the museum to acquire the mural of<i> Lehighton </i>from the American Legion Post
#314 in Lehighton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moved for a well-received run in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robert S. Mattison presents his life and art of Franz Kline lecture<br />
to the intimate Saturday 28 January 2017 gathering <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Mattison dispelled the belief by some in the
art world, both during Kline’s time as well as today, that a parcel of his inspiration
came from the Japanese art of calligraphy.
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wanted his viewers to be “unhindered by suggestions” and refused to give
meanings to his work. He avoided comment
of the meanings of his works, conveying only emotional, non-symbolic
discussions of his painting experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kline’s scenes "depicting the intersection of nature and industry (Such as <i>‘Palmerton’</i>) were not the bucolic
representations some have asserted," said Mattison. But
rather most of his art is a gesture of conflict, of the pushing back and forth,
the ebb and flow, the rise and decline of various forces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kline's '<i>Palmerton</i>' is as equally compressed and geometrically contorted<br />
as '<i>Lehighton</i>.' Note the Palmerton train station that still stands today as<br />
well as the two Orthodox churches in the background. A few of the piers<br />
from the "high bridge" still remain in the Lehigh Gap. Copyright 2017<br />
The Frantz Kline Family Estate, Artists Rights Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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would have renewed reason to regale his fellow artists of stories of his
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">From the titles of many
of his abstract works such as Mahoning;
Harleman; Diamond and
others––we believe that some of what went into producing his most significant
works of the late 1950's, early 1960's included conjured memories of this home
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early work and the influences from the anthracite and railroad region of
Wilkes-Barre and Lehighton. One cannot
look at the overhead trestle of the Jersey Central trestle at the top left of
the '<i>Lehighton'</i> mural and not see forms
from his later black and white murals. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Jersey Central iron trestle passes over the Lehigh Valley rail lines at the southern extreme of the Packerton Yard, Lehighton in the 1960s. This trestle plays a prominent role in Kline's <i>Lehighton</i>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This close up crop from <i>'Lehighton' </i>of the overhead Jersey Central trestle <br />
(torn down in the early 1980s to make wayfor the Lehighton Route 209 by-pass) <br />
is another example of residual area images that seem to reappear in Kline's later works.<br />
Copyright 2013 Franz Kline Family Estate, Artist Rights Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has
to do with giving.” Franz Kline</i></b></span></blockquote>
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personality and his relentless story telling (to all hours of the evening in
the Village’s Cedar Bar). To his friends, he was always most generous in his time. Kline’s favorite topic was discussing the
love for the area he came from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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off-Broadway show, 'Red Eye of Love' <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">was </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">sponsored, in part, by </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a painting donated by Kline. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> From the Jefferson </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">City Post Tribune 23 Aug 1961.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(One story goes that Jackson Pollock, known for his intemperance, once
unhinged the bathroom door and threw it at the easy-going Kline. The act earned Pollock what amounted to a
lifetime ban from the bar.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mural Comes to Be – 1938 to 1946:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Kline’s affinity for Great Britain begins with his
mother, Anna Rowe Kline who was born in England in 1880. She emigrated here around 1908 and shortly
after married Anthony Kline who was fourteen years older than she. He was a hotel keeper in Wilkes-Barre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decision to study abroad in London’s Heatherley School of Fine Art. Here, Kline met the ballet dancer Elizabeth
Vincent Parsons, who sometimes sat in to model at the school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year and a half before Hitler’s lightning war over Britain began. Soon after,
America entered the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As they fought along the muddy roads of battle, many
of our fighting men sought refuge within the churches and cathedrals of Europe. The last thing they saw each night, as they
released their dream mind toward thoughts of home, were the vaulted ceilings of
these churches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">With Hitler defeated and with the return of her sons,
the Lehighton’s Shoemaker-Haydt Legion post expanded the old Lewis Graver
Homestead into a cavernous banquet hall in the style of those open-beamed ceilings they saw in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The American Legion Post #314 banquet hall as it<br />
appears today, it's large open beams were designed<br />
to resemble the churches of Europe where many of<br />
Lehighton's sons slept during WWII. The beams were<br />
said to have been cut by <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2011/01/born-along-tow-path-life-of-herman.html" target="_blank">Herman Ahner's small sawmill</a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2011/01/born-along-tow-path-life-of-herman.html" target="_blank">in Franklin Township. </a> Note the vacated space below the<br />
American flag where the Kline mural hung for 70 years:<br />
from1946 until November of 2016. The dark beams against<br />
the white spaces of the ceiling could have had a visual impact on <br />
Kline as he worked on his mural. (The space seemed<br />
to loom there, still glowing with the pride of '<i>Lehighton</i>'.)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This large hall also had some wall space to fill. Through a stroke of good fortune, the Legion leadership
decided to fill the large space behind the bar with art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Lehighton’s veterans, fresh from battle, would get to view their home town in mural-form, a view they dreamed of during
those long nights away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Legion was lucky to land their native son, the
struggling artist who was just beginning to gain a good reputation in the
informal ‘New York School’ of artists.
This commission was made in late 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Kline was too poor to afford quality paints in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">his
everyday work.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, much of his
preliminary stretches were done on paper from the New York phone books.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Many of his early and famous black and white canvas abstracts
were done with relatively cheap hardware store house paints. Holders of these pieces today refrain
from loaning them out due to their fragile nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Fortunately, the Legion paid Kline a fair $600 for his
mural. This afforded him to use what has
been deemed high-quality oil paints.
A fortunate circumstance indeed for without it, the removal and
relocation would have greatly compromised the work’s integrity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Many who first viewed it, perhaps expecting a more
literally representation, failed to distinguish between their ideal of how
Lehighton appeared versus Kline’s burgeoning abstract contortion of Lehighton’s
reality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Some chided him for its departure from reality at the
unveiling in December 1945. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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period in his career, eventually placing his stamp on a global scale, for he
would be an instrumental force in America’s first major contribution to a
world-wide art movement, a founder in Abstract Expressionism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Elizabeth at Table' - <br />
Elizabeth Parsons Kline, like her mother-in-law Anna,<br />
was born in England. Anna's health suffered in the late 1950s.<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Her well-being certainly weighed on Kline in his last</span><br />
few remaining years. Franz Kline died in 1962. <br />
Copyright 2017 The Franz Kline Family Estate, <br />
Artist Rights Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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timing of the mural commission was fortuitous for Elizabeth’s health.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">With Kline’s struggle to provide and with Elizabeth’s struggles with schizophrenia, their time together in Lehighton while he painted the mural allowed
them to have a stable home life with regular meals under the nurturing care of
Kline’s nurse mother Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Mural: A New Life – October 2016 to January 2017<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This past January 29<sup>th</sup>, the public was
re-introduced to the piece at its new home in Allentown. Lines formed outside the museum at noon in
anticipation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Dr. Mattison’s one-hour life and influences on Kline’s
life in the auditorium was packed, leaving many standing in the aisles, along
the walls, and out the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Mattison guided the audience through Kline’s life as
seen through his work. Early examples of
Kline illustrating conflict and the pressure between two opposing forces is
keenly captured in his 1931 Lehighton High year book illustrations, as seen earlier in this post. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The football player comically portrayed in a severely
impossible pose, one forced upon it from an overpowering external force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The same whimsy can be seen in his big band vignettes
he painted at Graver’s Skating Rink, for his good high school friend
Reuben Graver, whose family owned the rink and swimming pool in town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These three vignettes represent the five big band theme paintings Kline did directly onto the yellow-pine, <br />
tongue and groove paneling at Graver's Skating Rink in Lehighton, probably around 1928 or early 1930s. These were among the paintings exhibited as The Jazz Murals at Bucknell University in 1986, then Baruch College Gallery in New York and onward to other locations as well. This and more information will be published from Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel's <i>Kline in Coal Country</i> available soon.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The collision of two events led <i>‘Lehighton’</i> to be transferred to the Allentown Art Museum. The first, sadly, came as a result of the
steep decline in living WWII Veterans.
As a result the Legion Post had to make some tough financial decisions
to ensure a future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Likewise, though the Legion still maintains a
beautiful and functional banquet hall available for receptions and reunions,
they knew they could not provide the museum quality climate control the mural
needed, a mural already showing steady signs of degradation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A painful confrontation with reality led the trustees
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXmBbeXjze1w8eKaGXn5tYNtev58UbLIa8cQlm0FBxGXuk0D76KXlPdy0vJz2e7kia6U9vxnteSSdkbWamVwPIXZDwhGQt1g49g7wd3FS04mwAJ-pbda8apoj5Dok4t37bpMLpP0opC88/s1600/Luca+Bonetti+Beth+Nunan+Allentown+Jan+2017+IMG_4914.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXmBbeXjze1w8eKaGXn5tYNtev58UbLIa8cQlm0FBxGXuk0D76KXlPdy0vJz2e7kia6U9vxnteSSdkbWamVwPIXZDwhGQt1g49g7wd3FS04mwAJ-pbda8apoj5Dok4t37bpMLpP0opC88/s400/Luca+Bonetti+Beth+Nunan+Allentown+Jan+2017+IMG_4914.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luca Bonetti and Beth Nunan, art conservators on the Kline project<br />
field questions at a small reception on Saturday 28 January 2017.</td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“Keeping
art around as long as possible and allowing other people to be inspired by it
is essential and valuable to the world,” Beth Nunan, Kline mural conservator, Luca Bonetti group.</span></i></b></blockquote>
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Luca Bonetti art conservation team began to roll the mural off the wall and
onto the painstaking task of scraping away plaster and glue off the back of the
canvas. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bonetti and Nunan continued their restorations efforts into and beyond the unveiling date of 29 January 2017. <br />
(Photo courtesy of Amber Breiner of JFAB Photography of Jim Thorpe, taken on iPhone.)<br />
<a href="http://www.jfabphotography.com/" style="font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">Click here to be taken to the JFAB Photography website.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The first step was to cover the entire face in a
protective layer of Japanese tissue paper.
Next the team loosened the edges of the canvas enough to work small
amounts of water behind the canvas to release the glue holing it to the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A nylon border was added to the backside edge of the
canvas to be able to stretch the work over a wooden frame so it could be
attached to the museum wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Allentown Art Museum unveiled the mural in a
reception for invited guests, including Lehighton town officials, donors,
Legion members, and others who provided in kind support on Saturday January 28<sup>th</sup>,
2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Beside’s Mattison’s Kline presentation, the museum also
showed the video they produced on the restoration which showed clips of the town
along with people sharing Kline anecdotes.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here Dr. Mattison looks on as benefactor Dr. James Kintzel talks with<br />
Amber Breiner. Dr. Kintzel was a pleasure to talk to at the reception<br />
and had plenty of Lehighton anecdotes to share. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A full-length video including more interviews of
people who knew Kline will be made available by the museum soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">James H. Armbruster Sr.
and family, Attorney William G. Schwab, Paula J. Wilson, the Allentown Art
Museum Auxiliary, David and Barbara DeAngelo, Dr. James E. and Kay Kintzel,
Kline family and friends, Jamie Musselman and Jim Edwards, Phyllis Brown,
Sylvia Betz Gardner, Gordon and Joan Ripkey, and A. Cynthia Weber. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Of those listed benefactors, I noticed Mr. Schwab, Mr.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As mentioned before, there was a standing room only crowd that gathered on Sunday January 29 </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">in the museum’s auditorium
for Mattison’s presentation, which numbered around 350 people. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lehighton historian Ron Rabenold and art conservator Beth Nunan <br />
were on hand to speak to the crowd during the first hour of the mural <br />
unveiling on 29 January 2017. By all accounts of those involved,<br />
the event was a well-staged success. The enthusiasm and excitement<br />
was evident by the myriad of comments and questions fielded by Rabenold<br />
and Nunan. <a href="http://www.tnonline.com/2017/jan/30/%E2%80%98lehighton%E2%80%99-restored-famous-franz-kline-painting-goes-bar-art-museum" target="_blank">See the article by Jarrad Hedes by clicking here. Photo <br />courtesy of Jarrad Hedes and the Times News.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">By show of hands, about one in four people were from
Lehighton, providing testament of those who attended out of hometown pride and
interest. But the large amount of non-Lehighton attendants
proves there is far-reaching excitement and interest in a man who last painted more than half a
century ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Many with connections to Kline were on hand: a Mr.
Arner from Allentown who was a God-son of Anna Kline Snyder, the daughter of
Bill and Jan Peters, who owned the Keystone Restaurant on First St, Michael
Hopstock who could see his home and his father’s Army Navy Store in the mural,
and Mrs. Janey Snyder Graver, Kline’s step-niece, who was raised by her
grandfather Ambrose Snyder in their home, who spoke of Kline’s mother insisting
on being called “Mumsy.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Many have felt varying degrees of affinity to this
piece over its seventy-year life span. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And even though it isn’t the truest of
representations, it includes all the icons of a town that many will always call
home. Things and places that mean so much
to us, also meant so much to Kline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">With Elizabeth’s mental state deteriorating, she required commitment to a mental hospital in northern
New Jersey by the late 1950s. She died in New York in 1965. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Kansas City Times ran this Kline quote posthumously in November of 1962</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>“Half the world wants to be like
Thoreau at Walden worrying about noise of the traffic on the way to Boston; <b>the
other half use up their lives being part of that noise. </b>I like the second half.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New York School artists Joan Mitchell and Franz Kline <br />
at the Cedar Bar, late 1950s/early 1960s.</td></tr>
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Greenwich Village and a driving influence on the world stage, Kline lived at the confluence of many opposing forces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Despite his own awareness of his declining health,
Kline used up his life in a noisy swirl of cigarettes, alcohol, and late-night painting sessions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">He had a portrait of Jim Thorpe, the one who
had his own troubles and fame, that Kline so identified with, setting among his
things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Excerpt from Rebecca
Rabenold-Finsel and Joel Finsel’s forthcoming book <i>‘Franz Kline in Coal Country’</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">It is ironic, as Franz Kline’s health began to decline in 1961 and
the final chapter of his life was coming to a close, abstract expressionism,
too, was slowing. His sister Louise recalled:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">“The day he died I was</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> talking to mother on the pay phone down the hall at the hospital
and then to Elizabeth (his wife) and then I went back to his room. And I said,
‘Here, let me boost you a little.’ So I opened the oxygen tent and put my arms
underneath him and he said to me, ‘Hold me tight.’ I said, ‘I can’t give you
the boost you need.’ And then Franz was gone.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Kline once said, "The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other is: Does the painter's emotion come across?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Though Lehighton has said goodbye to its namesake mural, the living who still feel his presence here give Kline's emotions a lasting resting place.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Anna
and Ambrose -<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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Kline met Packerton Yard foreman Ambrose Snyder, it most certainly had something to do with the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">With railroading the dangerous industry that it was,
the Lehigh Valley Railroad started St. Luke’s hospital for the service of its
workers. The LVRR had a special train
and doctors on call in Lehighton ready to whisk men for emergency help. Many of these injuries were of the most
life-threatening kind, with amputations of limbs a common accident on a near
daily occurrence in the Packerton Yard alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Almost daily, the special train car pulled out of
Lehighton and dispatched to St. Luke’s in Bethlehem with a yard worker who in
some form was mangled by a train on the job.
Also, the LVRR had one of its main headquarters located a few blocks
from the hospital where Anna Kline was studying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Bretney Brothers and Franz’s Dead Dog- <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This undated anecdote is one I’ve heard repeated since
I was a young boy who enjoyed people watching at Henry Bretney’s gas station at
Seventh and Mahoning Sts in Lehighton. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Though Henry was the same age as Kline, Henry’s
younger brother by five years, Frank, was a 1931 classmate of Kline. As the story goes, the two Bretney brothers
paid a visit with Kline in his Greenwich Village apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The visit left such an impression with Henry that upon
arriving back home in Lehighton, he mailed Franz $5 to buy some food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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proper return, mailed a small painting back to Henry as a thank
you. It hung in the Bretney’s home at
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Henry and Dorothy Bretney.</td></tr>
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Dorothy’s death in 1999, Dorothy donated the painting to the Lehighton Library.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his adult life. He moved often, mostly
for failing to pay the rent, and often lived without heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time when Kline agreed to care for a friend’s dog for a time and the subsequent
death of that dog while in Kline’s apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his fellow Village artist friends, Kline would comment that “they live in
places unfit for dogs.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Anthony’s suicide in August, must have been heart wrenching for
Anna and her children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anna, had come to the point in his life that he was ready to sell the family
hotel business and retire on the $40,000 sale.
However, he seemed to have immediately regretted the decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to buy back the property from the real estate developer, Anna went to the
office of Hyman Stakulsky. During her
discussion, Stakulsky assaulted her with a phone. As a result the Klines filed suit against
Stakulsky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back his former property. On August 21,
1917, out of grief for this new financial burden, it is said that Anthony Kline
took his life by the use of a pistol to his head. He was fifty-one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Anna Kline's assault<br />
May 1917.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wilkes-Barre news account of Anthony Kline's suicide - August 1917.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">An often repeated apocryphal story of the work
contends that Kline dabbed his paint brush into a glass of beer while working
with the oil paints of his palette.
A fact deemed chemically improbable, unless of course Kline used a
mixture of beer to paint a clear glaze over, an idea debunked recently by Luca Bonetti’s group. However,
it is highly likely that Kline availed himself to such libations while he
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kline's c. 1960 <i>'Harleman</i>' certainly named after his Lehighton friends, the Harlemans. <br />
2017 The Franz Kline Family Estate, Artist Rights Society [ARS].</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Besides the paintings from Graver’s Roller Skating
rink, others pieces of his art have been lost over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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father and her Harleman uncles being acquaintances of Kline. She still remembers the New Year’s card Kline
hand drew and sent to her dad and how it disappeared from their kitchen one
day. Other people in town share similar
memories of personal Kline works that have since been lost. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Luckily, she still has the 1950s era Christmas card sent to her father (below). Kline was a friend and customer of Johnny Koch's Third St barber shop on his frequent visits home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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how he remembered watching Kline make his initial studies in charcoal in the
Legion, and how he would ball up and cast them aside as he worked at the wall,
regretting years later for not picking any of them up.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These wood or lino cut prints were sent to <br />
Lehighton barber and Kline friend Johnny Koch<br />
whose shop was near Third and Iron Sts.<br />
(Appear here courtesy of Donna<br />
Koch Gower of Norristown.)</td></tr>
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Another Kline sketch was discovered in the attic of the Bisbing family. Loren Bisbing, a few years older than Kline lived a few houses down the street. By the 1930s he was a cashier at the Weissport branch of the Hazletown National Bank. Around 1938, Franz Kline paid the family a visit and sketched Loren and Kathryn Bisbing's four-year-old son Henry sitting on a chair. The sketch sat in the attic for about thirty years until his daughter found it one day. It included a sketch by Henry on the back.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kline's 1938 pencil sketch of his friend Loren Bisbing's son Henry.<br />
<a href="http://www.tnonline.com/2010/oct/02/weissport-man-was-boy-chair" target="_blank">See Times News story on this sketch by clicking here.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These last three pictures here are pages 126-128 in the LHS 1931 yearbook.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a card Franz Kline sent out December of 1936 to his<br />
high school friend Robert Blank. Robert Blank Jr, born in 1934, was<br />
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<b><u>More Kline:</u></b><br />
~<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCHooBl0OgM" target="_blank">See Kline historian Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel's 1980s Kline documentary here. </a><br />
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<b>~<a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/picture-of-the-regions-past-now-forever-preserved/302765072" target="_blank">See the WFMZ special segment on the Kline restoration, including interviews </a></b><a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/picture-of-the-regions-past-now-forever-preserved/302765072" target="_blank"><b>with </b></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/picture-of-the-regions-past-now-forever-preserved/302765072" target="_blank"><b>Professor Bob Mattison and Lehighton historian Ronald Rabenold.</b></a></div>
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~<a href="http://art-now-and-then.blogspot.com/2014/09/franz-kline.html" target="_blank">See Kline art analysis "Then and Now" from Jim Lane at his blog here.</a><br />
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~<a href="http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kline-franz.htm" target="_blank">Some key concepts of Kline's work were described from The Art Story website here on this link.</a>Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-21414522049489744672016-11-20T12:05:00.001-05:002017-01-11T11:11:41.014-05:00You Are Splendid...Lehighton's 2016 National Honor Society Induction CeremonyOn Thursday, November 17th, the Daniel I. Farren Chapter of the National Honor Society inducted its newest members. <br />
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Congratulations to these new members: Aubrey Blasiak, Caine Carpenter, Piper DeMatte, Jennifer Dobrowski, Julia Frey, Patrick Lawler, Matthew Pettit-Clair, Maura Phelan, Brandon Schnell, Ty Sharrow, Nolan Wentz, Grant Wetzel, and Mary Wilhelm.<br />
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They join Julia Banning, Tia Brownmiller, Tyler Dietz, Andrew Ebbert, Matthew Eckhart, Bethany Evans, Kaitlin Higgins, Elise Johnston (President), Brianna Keiser, McKEnna Knappenberger, and Morgan Yurasits.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You are vibrant. You are splendid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And yet you will be forgotten. And you will
forget. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, your brain will filter and
prioritize these memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, days like these come together
and form the jigsaw puzzle of your life…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">These random days, these random pieces…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Once strewn about and separate, are now coming
together to form the image of what your life is….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Today is one of those days when all your puzzle pieces seem to fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It's been a long time since you were in my 5th grade class. Can you remember those days? You've assembled many new pieces since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And like those days have faded to you, so too will the memory of this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Oddly, it seems like just as you begin to lose the memory of your individual pieces…is the time when your life begins to make sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Here's some good advice, simple advice: 'Over' & 'Next.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Learn to know when things are over. Learn
to know when to deal with what comes next.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">When one part of your life is over, it’s
over. Time to move on to the next
thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Among my best hopes for you, is for you to
have a place to rest somewhere between what’s ‘Over’ and what’s ‘Next’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Maybe you could string up a hammock, and
lay there in the sweet in-between time of what's ‘Over’ and what comes ‘Next.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">However, "Life is very long." (T.S. Eliot) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It is too long to simply lie in a
hammock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">After all, you have a puzzle to finish!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You want to move, you want to connect
things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You have dreams to fulfill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">You are made of </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">positive</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> light...it's time to shine!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And yet…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sometimes in life, we do some pretty
foolish things, things we hope will be forgotten, will be forgiven…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sometimes running is useless, sometimes
fighting is foolish, sometimes we spend too much time thinking of ways not to
lose…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">All can be forgotten. All can be forgiven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, your dreams will fade to
twilight, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one …flowers fade in your garden, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one…the leaves fall from the trees,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And so too, one by one, the hair of your head will fall, it will fade, and it will turn gray...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, your sweetest days will slip behind
you…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, stars will brighten, and stars
will fade…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And even though this day, this day of ceremony,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">...will most likely
fade and be forgotten,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It remains part of the whole, the ‘Over’
and ‘Next’… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">There is much to come, in this day, in
future days…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">There is a premonition that lurks inside
you like a match of hidden potential,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">A match that can spark, it can flame, it
can ignite, it can engulf, it can consume…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">In all of it, lays life’s goal: to shine, to be
incandescent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Can we possibly ask for anything more?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You the new inductees and current members of our National Honor Society chapter certainly possess nothing less…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May your hands always be busy, may your
heart always be joyful, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you always see the truth…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you live to see the virtue of your own
actions…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you never seek the virtue of your own
actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you make dust and not eat it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you treat others, not as you wish to be treated, but rather how they need to be treated...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you sparkle, may you pulse, may you shine...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May you be
like the match and burn on, and burn on, burn on...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">May your potential shine down like the stars up in the
sky…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And no matter how bumpy your road becomes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">...No matter how twisty your life’s roads turn, …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Learn to rest between what is ‘Over’ and
what is ‘Next’… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You may forget a lot of things, but always remember...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">How honorable you were this day…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You are vibrant…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You are splendid…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Now Go Forth! (Whitman)...Go Forth and Shine!...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">...thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"><u>Sources:</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">~Arthur Sze's poem "The Ginkgo Light"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">~Bob Dylan's "Forever Young"</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Nick Hoster, Piper DeMatte, and Maura Phelan in June of 2011. They do grow so fast, don't they? A little story behind the shot: The girls, unbeknownst to me, had referred to me in this shirt as "Forrest Gump." Sometime before the last day of school that year, they asked me to wear it, it was their favorite shirt I wore.</td></tr>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-36895935983227470742016-11-20T12:05:00.000-05:002016-11-20T12:10:40.428-05:00You Are Splendid...Lehighton's 2016 National Honor Society Induction CeremonyOn Thursday, November 17th, the Daniel I. Farren Chapter of the National Honor Society inducted its newest members. <br />
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Congratulations to these new members: Aubrey Blasiak, Caine Carpenter, Piper DeMatte, Jennifer Dobrowski, Julia Frey, Patrick Lawler, Matthew Pettit-Clair, Maura Phelan, Brandon Schnell, Ty Sharrow, Nolan Wentz, Grant Wetzel, and Mary Wilhelm.<br />
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They join Julia Banning, Tia Brownmiller, Tyler Dietz, Andrew Ebbert, Matthew Eckhart, Bethany Evans, Kaitlin Higgins, Elise Johnston (President), Brianna Keiser, McKEnna Knappenberger, and Morgan Yurasits.<br />
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Many members are former students of mine and some of them asked if I would deliver a few words at the ceremony. <br />
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Here are those remarks:<br />
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– Check!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Things are now 'Over.' Time to get onto what's 'Next'…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"> What I have to say to you tonight might not </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">make sense…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">This won't be so much of a good speech, as it will be more like a bad poem...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">You have entered into a society of
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Honor is a heavy responsibility, though it
does not have to be difficult…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">You are vibrant. You are splendid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And yet you will be forgotten. And you will
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, your brain will filter and
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">One by one, days like these come together
and form the jigsaw puzzle of your life…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">These random days, these random pieces…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Once strewn about and separate, are now coming
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Today is one of those days when all your puzzle pieces seem to fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It's been a long time since you were in my 5th grade class. Can you remember those days? You've assembled many new pieces since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">And like those days have faded to you, so too will the memory of this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Oddly, it seems like just as you begin to lose the memory of your individual pieces…is the time when your life begins to make sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Learn to know when things are over. Learn
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">When one part of your life is over, it’s
over. Time to move on to the next
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Maybe you could string up a hammock, and
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It is too long to simply lie in a
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">You are made of </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">positive</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> light...it's time to shine!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sometimes in life, we do some pretty
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fighting is foolish, sometimes we spend too much time thinking of ways not to
lose…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">It remains part of the whole, the ‘Over’
and ‘Next’… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">There is much to come, in this day, in
future days…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">There is a premonition that lurks inside
you like a match of hidden potential,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">A match that can spark, it can flame, it
can ignite, it can engulf, it can consume…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">In all of it, lays life’s goal: to shine, to be
incandescent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-27476713472028466142016-07-04T17:22:00.001-04:002016-08-03T06:36:57.299-04:00Answers from Trivia Night at the SesquicentennialNow that you've had a day to think about the questions, I now freely give you the answers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Lehighton's first chief of police, William Swartz.<br />
He was killed by a rowdy and drunk youth of twenty-<br />
two at the Carbon House that sat at the corner of<br />
North and First Sts. He left eight children when he was<br />
shot in 1917.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/07/trivia-night-from-sesquicentennial_4.html" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/07/trivia-night-from-sesquicentennial_4.html" target="_blank">~QUESTIONS POST: Here is the link back to the questions. You could have a tab open with each post to go back and forth to.</a><br />
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<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/05/lehightons-sesquicentennial-pioneers.html" target="_blank">~BACKGROUND STORY: From the twenty-five stop "Trolley Tour" to accompany the commemorative 150th book sold at the event. If you missed out, the Lehighton Memorial Library will continue to sell these.</a><br />
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1. "C": Mayor Thomas Mase<br />
2. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">D: Friday</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">3. D: 6 Parks. The consensus was that the "Upper and Lower" parks count as one. Baer Memorial, Skyline, and The Grove were definitely thought of as parks. However, the new Rails-to-Trails Bike path trail-head was overlooked. Also, included here is "Sixth and Coal Sts" athletic field.</span></span></span><br />
4. A: $5 for a moving permit.<br />
5. A: Basketball<br />
6. B: Dr. Marvin Snyder<br />
7. C: The Excelsior Marines was not a Lehighton Organization. The Germania Saegerbund was located next to the "Academy" Building on southern First St. The Loyal Order of Buffalo (L.O.O.B), Lehighton Herd #17 started in April of 1913 with Lehighton Press's David McCormick's father William, the Civil War Veteran, was the first chair. Applicants for membership had to "be of the Caucasian race and not less than eighteen years of age and more than fifty years of age." Admission fee for the herd was $10 for 18 to 40 year olds and $15 for 41 to 50 year olds. Fifty cents a month paid in a advance were the yearly dues. Though they stated they were not an "insurance organization," payments were made to sick and disabled "brothers." "No sick or death benefits shall be paid for illness or death resulting from immoral or intemperate habits of any Brother." Along with the International Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) there were a total of nine secret societies in Lehighton as of 1890.<br />
8. C: Field Hockey<br />
9. B: the Lions<br />
10. C: Miss Carbon County Pageant<br />
11. A: Packerton Yard (Some thought this choice was wrong because it was technically out of the Borough limits. The Baer Silk Mill at it's peak employed about 400 around 1915. Scotty's Fashion was third and Blue Ridge Pressure Castings had a Lehighton payroll of less than 100.<br />
12. A: ice cream<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jess Ripkey, Livi Frendt, Izzy Baka, and Sam Banning work the registration table from the LAHS Student Council.</td></tr>
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13. C: Lehighton Hardware started in 1925. Zimmerman's Dairy, though a long-time family farm in the Mahoning area, did not establish itself in Lehighton until after Gerstaluer's Dairy in the 1950s. Gerstlauer's took over Small and Koch at the present day location of Zimmmerman's around 1934. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings started in a warehouse on the Fair Grounds in the 1940s before moving to its present location after a fire. Lehighton Hardware started by Mahlon Kistler Sr and William F. Hamilton started on First St and moved to Second St after a 1963 fire.<br />
14. D: Count Zinzendorf himself oversaw the selection of the site at the mouth of the Mahoning Creek for his group of hard-working Moravian missionaries.<br />
15. D: Kleintop's Diner was located at the bottom of Ninth St where the "fotune teller" single-wide is today. One of the Kleintop boys was the recently deceased Paul Kleintop that ran Normal Square Inn in the 1990s and early 2000s before retiring to become a Carbon County Community Transit bus driver. His specialty and my favorite: Vienna Onion Roast. Melted in one's mouth!<br />
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Parting gift Question: Lehighton has about 155 fire hydrants in the Borough limits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brights Department Store credit card. Brights put<br />
Lehighton's Cohen Department Store out of business<br />
partly by providing free bus transportation to its Lansford<br />
Store in the 1950s. Later, Brights bought out Cohen's less<br />
than a year after starting this program. Brights also<br />
provided a free Mother's Day luncheon for all its female<br />
shoppers. As for how they procured the finest items? <br />
Lehighton purchasing agents were often flown to<br />
Newark New Jersey for buyers meetings sometimes<br />
up to two to three times a week, employing local pilots<br />
like Mr. Walp from South Street to fly out of Lehighton's<br />
own airstrip off Ninth St at the Fairgrounds.</td></tr>
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<b><u>Round #2:</u></b><br />
16. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings, is still a leader in the manufacture of specialty parts for the automotive industry. Knepper Airplane Parts building is now a hospital auxiliary building, the Hersh Iron Foundry closed many years ago while Blue Mountain Machine has recently become a leading producer of mobility chairs.<br />
17. A: An escalator and an elevator. Bright's had style. Once it moved to the Carbon Plaza Mall in 1976 (it occupied the Mahoning Valley Cinema down to and including Big Lots) it also opened their own "Hess Brother's"-styled restaurant. They also provided their own store credit card like the large stores like Macy's and JC Penny's.<br />
18. C: W. Melvin "Mush" Moyer and Earl Haupt formed "Moyer and Haupt" in 1945. They sold their dealership to the Bennett group in 1986. Mush Moyer formed a orchestra known as the Lehightonians from 1928 to 1942. They started their American Motors dealership in 1957.<br />
19. D. Serfas Motors (used just one final 's') was located on Iron St at the alley behind the former Classic Theater/Times News Building. The fire occurred in May of 1918. The current building was built sometime after this date and was once occupied by Moyer and Haupt before they moved to First St.<br />
20. B: Dave Warner, son of Dave "Pap" Warner from North Eighth Street was a three year letter winner at Syracuse and tried out for the Eagles before getting cut.<br />
21. D: Colonial Court reviled Asa Packer's mansion as the grandest of Carbon County homes. It burned to the ground in 1916 and was catty-corner from the Grove.<br />
22. A: 1940.<br />
23. B: about 6,500.<br />
24. C: about 40 degrees north latitude.<br />
25. D: Lewis Dunbar. It was later taken over by Mel Gilham who moved it from Fourth St to the bypass in the 1980s. It continues today under the ownership of Craig and Jennifer Gilham, Mel's son. Lewis enlisted in Ohio and that is where he married his wife who was from that state. By 1930, his mother-in-law moved here to Lehighton and lived with Lewis and his wife.<br />
26. C: Moravians first came here to live in 1746. Therefore our birth as a town goes to 1866, but our founding was in 1746.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These placards were used in the southern section of town<br />
during Lehighton's 1903 outbreak. This one was from 1916<br />
Lehighton Board of Health.</td></tr>
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27. D: Baer went home to New Jersey to visit his parents and siblings. It wasn't apparent until he reached home that their unknown malady they were starting with was smallpox. This was part of a larger outbreak in many major northeastern cities at that time.<br />
28. A: Orville Shoemaker was from Lehighton, made a go of this business first in Allentown before resettling back here and making Lehighton "Grandma's Chips" permanent home, north and opposite of the Legion Home, next to the home of James and Shirley Wentz.<br />
29. C: Semanoff's grocery store was on the corner of Fourth and Iron Sts, most recently well-known as Marshall's Meat Market. This iconic Lehighton building is the last of many that once had a porch overhang roof over the sidewalks in front. This is an ideal bus stop location for kids bused to the western end of town today.<br />
30. A: Denny Semmel. Made it to the NCAA championship round in the national wrestling tournament for West Point. He is currently a fifth grade math teacher at Lehighton.<br />
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Parting Gift Question: The first bridge between Weissport and Lehighton was built in 1804. <br />
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<b><u>SPORTS:</u></b><br />
<u>1. </u>Jim Thorpe - Lehighton was led by point guard Randy Rabenold while his father Randolph Rabenold was Jim Thorpe's assistant coach. Lehighton went on to win twenty-one games in a row to earn an undefeated season in the inaugural Centennial League of 1976.<br />
2. Thomas Kresge, brother to Steve and Greg who themselves also fine Lehighton players. Son of Russell and Donna Kresge.<br />
3. Betty Mullen Brey - Her son is the current Notre Dame Men's Basketball coach, their winningest coach in their history.<br />
4. Hughie Jennings played here before going off on a Hall of Fame career as a major league player and coach. He was from Pittston and a lawyer by trade.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture of an unidentified wreck at the Lehighton Fair certainly matches what is known of the two fatalities from September 6, 1958. It was said that there was only a light wooden picket fence. According to newspaper accounts these wrecks occurred about an hour apart. However, according to the death certificates of Shirley George of Trachsville and of Dennis Mertz of Bankway, the time of injury was listed for both at 3:30 PM. Mertz died of "severe shock" and internal injuries ("mutilated left leg and thigh") while the George died of a "fractured neck" along with internal injuries ("compound fracture of the left hip"). This picture confirms the lore of what I heard in my youth, inevitably came up anytime an adult was nearby whenever we were climbing the trees near the chicken house near the horse stables. Thanks to Roy Mertz who helped with these details.<br />
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5. Stock-car racing. There were two fatalities in two separate accidents. Eleven year old Dennis Mertz of Mahoing Valley was in a tree and seventeen year old Shirley George of Palmerton was pinned to a tree on September 6, 1958 at the Lehighton Fair. <br />
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<b><u>FAMOUS:</u></b><br />
1. Franz Kline. His works are in most every major museum in the world. He was known to come home, especially for fair week, in his grey Ferrari. He came to Lehighton with his mother, after his father killed himself over a sour real estate deal on the family hotel prorperty he first sold and then tried to reclaim. Franz was a handsome young man who excelled in sports too. He was known to punt the football bare-footed.<br />
2. The Lehighton Fair was first located in the vicinity of First Ward school at Fourth and Alum Sts in the 1870s to the 1890s.<br />
3. Boston. Moxie executives wanted to 'modernize' the recipe to the resistance of the Lehighton bottlers. The coporation closed the Lehighton bottler as a result of this disagreement.<br />
4. Fred Horlacher ran a bottling works at First and Bridge Sts. After he moved to Allentown, Horlacher Beer had a large and loyal customer base in the Northeast, especially after son George took it over.<br />
5. Dennis "Denny" Seiwell is a brother to Darryl Seiwell of the locally popular "Becky and the Beasts."<br />
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<b><u>BOROUGH:</u></b><br />
1. Three: Gnaden Hutten, Lehighton, and the Ss Peter and Paul Cemetery at the end of North Fourth St.<br />
2. There were fourteen people employed in cigar making in Lehighton in 1880. Two of which were women who were "tobacco strippers" the one facet of the industry reserved for women. Painters was the next group with eleven, followed by five ministers, four doctors and three barbers.<br />
3. Constitution Avenue is the short block in front of the Municipal Building.<br />
4. Armando Gallasso.<br />
5. Lonnie Armbruster.<br />
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<b><u>CORNER "STORES":</u></b><br />
1. "Ev-Ko" was formed from Mel Everett and Paul Koch's last names. Their partnership dissolved after a fire with Mel keeping the furniture line of the business and Koch continuing with the appliance line of their business on Coal St, eventually expanding to Palmerton and Bowmanstown.<br />
2. Hammel's Store. Prior to becoming a merchant, Hammel worked at the New Jersey Zinc and later in the Packerton Shops while working part-time as a vaudeville magician. A fact that attests to his carrying of small magic tricks.<br />
3. Owned and operated both the Lehighton Hotel (at the corner of Main Lane and First St) and the Hotel Carbon (at the corner of North and First Sts). The Mandours owned the Hotel Lehighton until it was demolished to become the Lehighton Elderly Hi-Rise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture was taken just south of the intersection of Fourth and Iron Sts. Though he ran bread for George A. Strohl's Lehighton Bakery, Cal with his currently hip 'man-purse' shows his comical side with his outward turned foot, on a truck bearing his name. His hard work eventually manifested itself in "Haas' Store" at Fifth and Coal Sts, Lehighton's longest running family run corner grocery store.</td></tr>
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4. Cal Haas opened the store in the early 1930s. His son Robert took it over in the 1960s until 1998. TV-13 used a picture of Cal on his George Strohl Bakery Truck in their promotional introduction to the parade. Cal ran at least three bakery routes, selling five cent loaves of bread, to earn enough money to start his own store. He was my grandfather and Robert was my uncle.<br />
5. Henry Bretney. Son of the Dine Bank Cashier and related to the Bretney Photography studio, Henry Bretney's character lives on in the many who knew him. He was a close friend of Franz Kline. A painting Kline gave Bretney can be viewed at the Lehighton Memorial Library. <br />
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<b><u>CURRENT EVENTS:</u></b><br />
1. Mary Strohl, who along with her sister Karen Reichard, the borough police secretary paired up to compete in Trivia Night. Both Mary and her son Steven were "150 Club" members.<br />
2. Lehighton Area Pool Pals, who was headed up by Citizen of the Century and Shade Tree Committee member Mark Hoffman among many others.<br />
3. Patrick Mriss, brother of assistant chief Michael Mriss.<br />
4. Henry Long, who's Perseverance Jazz Band played immediately following Trivia Night.<br />
5. Frank Kuhn. A former Laneco Store Manager, Frank fulfilled a dream of one day owning his own store.<br />
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<b><u>FINAL JEOPARDY:</u></b><br />
The final contestants were given a choice between an open-ended question and a question that was more "cut and dry." They unanimously decided to go the shorter route. It was "Name the streets and alleys that were named after people. The team of Mriss and Young had the most at eight of the twelve. <br />
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They had Dunbar Alley ,Grant Alley, Hamilton St, Sgt Stanely Hoffman Blvd, Blakslee Blvd, Lentz Ave, Stedman Ave, and Graver St. They missed Ebbert's Park, Willard St, Lentz Alley, and Penn Ave.<br />
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The open-ended response was going to involve judging from the audience. Contestants would have been given ninety seconds to explain why they loved their hometown.<br />
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<b><u>BATTLE QUESTIONS:</u></b><br />
There were sixteen "Battle Questions" developed for this game that went unused. Some of them are presented here for information purposes.<br />
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#1. Borough Council: Had a contestant felt knowledgeable of the seven current council member names, they could have selected this question and chosen another competitor to 'battle' against. The person who gives the last correct answer wins. Given that there are seven names, the person initiating this question should have chosen to go first. They then should have said the most familiar of the names, such as "Grant Hunsicker." The other person would then given another valid name such as Sesquicentennial Committer person "Helen Torok." This would continue back and forth until all the names were used or someone couldn't give another name. Remaining members are: Scott Rehrig, Lehighton firefighter Joe Flickinger, Lisa Perry, Darryl Arner, and Jared McEvoy.<br />
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#2. "Women": There have only ever been four women to serve on Borough Council. Two of them are currently serving. The others were Melissa Ebbert Wagner and longtime councilperson and mayor's wife Bessie Bauchspies.<br />
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#3. "Homes": This one was tricky. Working backward, name the current to the previous owners of the Funeral Home at Third and Alum Sts: Corey and Rebecca Schaeffer, Ken Phifer (1988-1998), William Garrett (1947-1988), Wendell Swartz (1944 to 1947), and John S. Lentz. All but Lentz used the home as a funeral home. Lentz was yardmaster at the Packerton Shops.<br />
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#4. "Papers": Name all the newspapers that once operated in Lehighton. I wont give you the answer here, but there were at least five of them.<br />
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#5. "Streets": Name all the streets and alleys named after people. This question was used in lieu of the open-ended essay question discussed earlier.<br />
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#6. "Streets": Name the streets and alleys named after trees. All but two are alleys. However the two that are named 'streets' are actually nothing more than the width of an alley: Birch Alley, Cedar St, Cherry Alley, Cypress St, Maple Alley, Peach Alley, and Poplar alley.<br />
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#7. "Chiefs": Name the last twelve (and most likely only) police chiefs of Lehighton. Our first known police chief, William Swartz was also our only patrolman lost in the line of duty in 1917. He left eight children. Next came Mark Blank who would later become a U.S. Marshall in Scranton. Then Harry Yenser who died of a heart-attack at the wheel of his squad car in front of the Municipal Building in 1947. Then it was Lee Walsh, Bill Kunkle (contestant and public works supervisor Kris Kunkle's father), Lionel Cote, Edward Hutto (who killed himself outside his wife's church because of his concern with her apparent close relationship with its minister), Frederick Scott, Dennis Wentz, Matt Bender, Neil Ebbert and currently Brian Biechy.<br />
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#8. "Streets": This one was discussed at the beginning of the 'question' post. If I could have done it again, I would have chosen this question as the Final Jeopardy questions: Name the streets and alleys that are named after industrial elements: Carbon Alley, Carbon St, Ochre St, Coal St, Iron St, and Alum St.<br />
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The remaining categories will simply be listed here in an effort to save them for another Trivia Night in the future.<br />
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#9. Name the original first four numbered streets in Lehighton (they obviously weren't always just numbers).<br />
#10. Sports: Name the members of the 1975 to 1977 (two-years) of Lehighton boys basketball team. The 1976 team won the Centennial League and the 1977 matched that but also won the District 11 title.<br />
#11. Name Lehighton's Furniture Stores, including appliances.<br />
#12. Clothiers and Department Stores<br />
#13. Family named restaurants.<br />
#14. Gas Stations: Must give the owners name, not simply "Exxon."<br />
#15. Pharmacy: Again must give the owners name.<br />
#16. Garment/Silk Mills.<br />
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What's Next for Lehighton History Here? For the remainder of this year, this blog will feature mainly Lehighton stories. There will be one more post on trivia questions as well as at least one post focusing on Lehighton's mayors and police chiefs.<br />
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Thanks for visiting!<br />
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-46165333413863778012016-07-04T00:06:00.004-04:002016-07-04T17:35:14.709-04:00Questions from Trivia Night at the Sesquicentennial<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Top Five Teams sweat out the last "Jeopardy" question: Name all the streets and alleys named after people? From the Left: Deb and Kris Kunkle, Steve "Hogan" Ebbert, Mike Mriss and Jimmy Young, and Justin Markell and Scott Nothstein. Off frame to the left was Nancy Shaffer. Contestants could compete alone or in pairs. The Lehighton Fire Department Brothers of the Brush were well represented. Scorekeeper was Nate Rabenold. (A full list of contestants are listed at the end of this post.) <a href="http://www.hopstockphoto.com/about.html" target="_blank">Trivia Night photos are courtesy of Lisa Hopstock photography. Click here for her website.</a></td></tr>
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Lehighton was the world's gateway to the industrial revolution. As one step from the coal transport hub of Mauch Chunk, many saw the town's industrial potential.<br />
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Parryville had Carbon Iron Works. The Beaver Meadow Railroad was the first rail-line in Carbon County, originating in 1830. Not to mention the paint pigments mined in the Bowmanstown area in the 1800s. The Lehigh Valley Railroad sourced through town in 1855 and Lehighton's Packerton Yard became its main repair facility.<br />
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<u>For other Lehighton posts:</u><br />
<u><i><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/07/answers-from-trivia-night-at.html" target="_blank">~CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWERS TO THE TRIVIA IN THIS POST</a></i></u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A testament to the area's industrial past comes from this 1851 article<br />
about a powder mill in Mahoning Township owned by the Dormetzger<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/05/lehightons-sesquicentennial-pioneers.html" target="_blank">~Lehighton Sesquicentennial: The Pioneers and the Promise</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/06/lehighton-sesquicentennial-trivia-night.html" target="_blank">~Lehighton Sesquicentennial Trivia Night Introduction and sample questions</a></span></i><br />
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So it is little wonder with America's industrial apotheosis can be directly connected to the coal and iron that came through town. Evidence of the promise of our town is shown in the naming of five of our streets: Carbon Street, Ochre Street, Coal Street, Iron Street, and Alum Street.<br />
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On the second last night of the eight-day Sesquicentennial Celebration this week, eighteen teams squared off in a trivia contest that answered questions about our town and our proud history. <br />
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Over 100 questions were developed, however only about forty-five were used. This will be the first of two posts written on this trivia. Following here will be the questions as posed Friday night. However the answers to them will appear in the next post, giving the reader a chance to test themselves.<br />
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Besides the committee members like Autumn Abelovsky and Duane Dellecker, the Trivia Night would not have been possible without the volunteer help of many individuals: Rosanne Klotz Hoats, Nate Rabenold, Lori Stubits, Rachel Quinn, Kim Rabenold, Kathy Rhoads Long, Angela Tobash, Olivia Frendt, Izabella Baka, Samantha Banning, Jess Ripkey, Dane Frantz, Nate Petit-Clair, Nathan Kemmerer, Jake Petit-Clair, Alyssa Stubits and Kennedy Quinn.<br />
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The focus of the second post will be to cover the information contained within the questions that were not used. All 100 questions (with answers) as well as competitor names will be sealed into the time-capsule bench in front of borough hall to be opened in 2066. I'll be ninety-nine, and judging from the current state of my mind, I am certain all this material will be fairly absent from my mind by then.<br />
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1. Who is the current mayor of Lehighton?<br />
A. Scott Rehrig, B. Grant Hunsicker, C. Thomas Mase, D. Cap Bauchspies<br />
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2. What day is garbage day in Lehighton? A. Tuesday, B. Wednesday, C. Thursday, D. Friday<br />
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3. How many parks does Lehighton have? <br />
A. 3, B. 4, C. 5, D. 6 - (This question was thrown out due to a discrepancy on what a 'park' is...I didn't count "Sixth and Coal" but I can see how many disagreed.)<br />
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4. How much does a moving permit cost in Lehighton? A. $5, B. $10, C. $15, D. $25<br />
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5. What Lehighton sports team won the 1977 and 1987 District 11 Title?<br />
A. Basketball, B. football,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>C. Cross Country, D. wrestling<br />
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6. Nominated for “Citizen of the Century,” this man was one of the last doctors to still make house calls:<br />
A. Dr. Owen Snyder, B. Dr. Marvin Snyder, C. Dr. Alvin Reber, D. Dr. R. Scholl<br />
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7. Which one of the following is <b><i>NOT</i></b> an actual benevolent Lehighton organization?<br />
A. International Order of Odd Fellows, B. Loyal Order of Buffalo,<br />
C. The Excelsior Marines,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>D. Germania Saengerbund ("<i>Zanger-bund</i>")<br />
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8. What Lehighton sports team is the only one to win a state championship?<br />
A. Cross Country, B. Tennis, C. Field Hockey, D. Wrestling<br />
(Though the gymanstic team led by teachers Lewis Ginder and Mildred Obert won regionally at least four years in a row which included a trip to Pittsburgh and competed in a national invitational in 1935. Mildred was the granddaughter of town meat-packer Joe Obert and Lewis Ginder was a respected teacher, football coach and along with his wife, ran the popular "Camp Chickawaukee" summer program.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obert married George Fritzinger of Mauch Chunk in 1936.<br />
He graduated from Bucknell with an engineering degree<br />
and worked for PP & L. Obert attended LHS and Sargent<br />
School of Physical Education in Cambridge Mass as well<br />
as doctoral studies at Columbia Universtiy. She was well<br />
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9. In the 1950s, this civic group started a fundraising campaign to fund the Lehighton Memorial Library:<br />
A. the Masons, B. the Elks, C. the Lions, D. Loyal Order of Buffalo (Remember the gumball machines with Ford gum? That was the original fundraiser...one of these gumball machines is still in use at the Lehighton Boulevard Drive-in.)<br />
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10. The Lehighton Lions also sponsored what annual event starting back as far back as 1949. It continued at the Lehighton Fair into the 1980s.<br />
A. Bicycle races, B. Demolition derby, C. Miss Carbon County pageant, D. pie-eating contest<br />
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11. Which of these Lehighton businesses was known to employ the most people:<br />
A. The Packerton Yard, B. Scotty’s Fashions, C. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings, D. Baer Silk Mill<br />
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12. Which of the following could you purchase at Kirkendall’s on South Second Street?<br />
A. ice cream, B. bicycles, C. shoe repair, D. tombstones<br />
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13. Which of these current Lehighton businesses has operated the longest:<br />
A. Zimmerman’s Dairy, B. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings, C. Lehighton Hardware, D. Dunbar Bottling (Hint: This question may also be open for discussion as the Zimmerman's Dairy first started in Mahoning Valley, those years were not included in this logic, so this question too should have been thrown out. Of "B," "C," and "D," the correct business was started in 1925.)<br />
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14. Though this is the 150th year of its incorporation as a borough, Lehighton was actually founded prior to the Revolutionary War, over 250 years ago. Who founded this first settlement?<br />
A. Col. Jacob Weiss, B. Ben Franklin, C. George Whitfield of Nazareth, D. Moravian Missionaries<br />
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15. Who made the tastiest chicken in all of Lehighton, known as “chicken in the rough?”<br />
A. Your mother, B. the Boulevard, C. Getz’s, D. Kleintops<br />
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This ended round one and we had to say goodbye to our lowest scoring teams. Before they left the were given the chance at a “parting gift” question:<br />
Approximately, how many fire hydrants does the borough of Lehighton have?<br />
A. Less than 50, B. 50-100, C. 100-150, D. More than 150 (Contestants did not get choices to pick from. The winner of a Sesquicentennial mug was Tanner Eckman.)<br />
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The top 15 teams advanced to the next round.<br />
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16. Which Lehighton business once produced the iconic and highly sought after '<i>Hurst</i>' shifter handle:</div>
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A. Hersh Iron Foundry (down on the 'flats')<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>B. Knepper Airplane Manufacturer (Iron St)</div>
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C. Blue Mountain Machine(originally started at Graver’s Pool)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>D. Blue Ridge Pressure Castings</div>
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17. What store in downtown Lehighton was the first and only business in Carbon County to have both an elevator and escalator:</div>
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A. Brights’ Dept Store, B. Cohen’s, C. Greenberger’s, D. G.C. Murphy</div>
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18. This auto dealer was first on Iron St, then moved to First St, and lastly on Route 443:</div>
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A. Hahn & Son, B. Kovatch, C. Moyer and Haupt, D. Serfas Motors</div>
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19. This early auto dealer suffered a devastating fire in May of 1918:</div>
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A. Hahn & Son, B. Otto Kropf Studebaker, C. Moyer and Haupt, D. Serfas Motors</div>
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20. This Lehighton man had a stand-out football and basketball career at Lehighton, became the quarterback at Syracuse University and is presently offensive coordinator at Michigan State University.</div>
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A. Pete Barclay, B. Dave Warner, C. Tom Kresge, D. John Armbruster</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not only did T. A. Snyder buy the Michigan State building, but other<br />
buildings from the Pan-Am Expostiion in Buffalo New York were brought<br />
here to create a resort area of the Flgstaff Mountain in an effort to build<br />
ridership on his trolley line. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-buffalo-to-lehighton-snyders.html" target="_blank">Click here for more on Snyder.</a></td></tr>
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21. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-buffalo-to-lehighton-snyders.html" target="_blank">Theodore A. Snyder bought a mansion at the Pan American Exposition </a>and had it reassembled near the Grove and was considered our grandest home until it burned. The home was called:</div>
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A. Windmere, B. Builtmore, C. Mahoning Court, D. Colonial Court</div>
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22. Which of the following year was Lehighton said to have reached its peak population:</div>
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A. 1940, B. 1960, C. 1970, D. None of these</div>
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23. What was Lehighton’s peak population:</div>
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A. 5,500, B. over 6,500, C. Over 7,000, D. Over 8,000</div>
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24. Lehighton lies on this line of north latitude of the equator:</div>
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A. About 25, B. 35, C. About 40, D. 55</div>
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25. This Lehighton bottler died in 1945. He was overweight and one inch too short to be enlisted in WWI. But after hanging around the recruiting station for over a month, his “mirthful spirit” caught the eye of a major and they took him overseas. </div>
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A. Mahlon Kistler, B. Eugene Baer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>, C. Eugene Small, D. Lewis Dunbar</div>
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(Lewis Dunbar was a wagon driver a confections business in the 1920s and up to the 1930s. He wanted to enlist in WWI, but was an inch short (5'3") and was about 100 pounds overweight. He didn't take 'no' for an answer. Living in Ohio and married to a local girl there at that time, he hung around the recruiting station for a month until finally a major couldn't resist his “mirth” and humor. He attended a 1935 national Legionaries' convention and made the papers as the nations heaviest veteran at 285 pounds, with a 65 inch waist (at 63 tall!). Naturally plagued with illness including diabetes, he died of a coronary in 1945 at the age of 56.)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1931 LHS yearbook.</td></tr>
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26. What was the year of Lehighton’s first founding by the Moravians?</div>
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A. 1707, B. 1737 (year of Thomas Penn’s Walking Purchase), C. 1746, D. 1755 </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Semanoff was a veteran of WWII in<br />
the 101st Airborne and was Carbon's <br />
state representative to the General Assemply.<br />
His son Gene served in the Air Force and<br />
Gene's son Peter is a Captain<br />
in the Army today. Gene's daughter <br />
Major Alison serves as an Army doctor. <br />
Another son of Joe Semanoff, Greg, did<br />
two tours in Vietnam with the combat<br />
engineers. Greg's son, Mike Semanoff, was <br />
in the 82nd Airborne in the 1990s.</td></tr>
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27. This Lehighton business man was said to have accidentally brought smallpox into the community in 1903 causing a general quarantine of southern Lehighton:</div>
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A. James Blakslee, B. Moses Heilman, C. Theodore Snyder, D. Eugene Baer</div>
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28. Who made Lehighton’s famous “Grandma’s Potato Chips” on Bridge St:</div>
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A. Orville Shoemaker, B. Gordon Bennett, C. George Freeby, D. Mel Gilham</div>
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29. Prior to representing Carbon County as our state representative in the 1970s, what was the profession of Lehighton’s Joseph Semanoff?</div>
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A. mechanic, B. teacher, C. grocery store owner, D. hotel owner</div>
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30. Who was a state qualifier in wrestling and went onto West Point and finished as a NCAA National Runner-up in college. He is currently a teacher in Lehighton: </div>
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A. Denny Semmel, B. Rick Long, C. Charlie Bachert, D. Dave Warner</div>
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After this question, only the top five teams remained to play a round of "Jeopardy." All five of these teams scored at least twenty points, the highest advancing team had twenty-five points. The topics were: "Sports," "Famous," "Borough," "Corner 'Stores'," and "Current Events." </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even though it was a "Jeopardy" board, Alyssa and Kennedy worked as "Vanna White's" removing category markers during game play. <a href="http://www.hopstockphoto.com/about.html" target="_blank">Courtesy of Hopstock Photo.</a></td></tr>
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There were five questions in each category numbered in graduated difficulty from one to five. These points were added to previously earned points. Not all the questions were selected, but all of them are listed here. Questions that were not used in competition will be marked with an '*.'</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guided by Mildred Obert and Lewis Ginder, the Lehighton Gymnastics teams of the early 1930s went unbeaten in<br />
regional competition and even went onto compete nationally.</td></tr>
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<b><i><u>SPORTS:</u></i></b></div>
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*#1. The 1976 Boys Basketball team went undefeated in the inaugural Centennial League, winning 21 games before losing in Districts. However, they lost their season-opener to whom? </div>
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*#2. What Lehighton athlete sits in the Top 70 scorers of all time in Pennsylvania Basketball history with 2,234 points, this was in a 1980s career without the 3-point line. (#63 on the list is Wilt Chamberlain!)</div>
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#3. This Olympic athlete from Weissport held the world-record in the butterfly and trained at Graver’s Swimming pool.</div>
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#4. This man once played for Lehighton’s semi-pro baseball teams in the late 1890s for $5 a game eventually made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. (He was a lawyer by trade from Pittston and was known to have entered to words into our lexicon: "Atta-boy" when someone does a good thing as well as "Ee-yah!" He was known as an incessant picker of grass from his first base coaching post. Made the Hall for his managing, coaching, and playing.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A family of fair-goers in the early 1960s.<br />
The photo, from the Morning Call archives<br />
of Ralph Kreamer lists "Mr and Mrs<br />
Thomas German with daughter<br />
Brenda Dianne.</td></tr>
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#5. What sport came to an end in the borough with the two fatalities in two separate incidents at the Carbon Fair?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Franz Kline had a little fun drawing this sketch in the 1931 LHS yearbook describing a day in November when he and Harold Rabenold took a day off for "nature study." Using some Pennsylvania Dutch humor of <i>"I vonder vare dot rabbit vent to."</i></td></tr>
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<b><u><i>FAMOUS:</i></u></b></div>
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#1. Arguably the most famous person to come out of Lehighton, he was best known for his abstract art, he painted the Legion mural.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In addition to Dunbar Bottling, there<br />
was also Ripkey's "Carbon Bottling <br />
Works" in the alley<br />
of South Ninth between Iron and<br />
Mahoning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ripkey carried Horlacher's that<br />
got it start with father and son<br />
Fred and George at Bridge<br />
and First Sts Lehighton before<br />
moving to Allentown.</td></tr>
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#2. Lehighton’s Fair was well-known state-wide. Where was it in the 1870s-1890s?</div>
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#3. Lehighton Moxie outsold Coca-cola in the early 1900s. In the 1930s and 1940s Lehighton was one of two places this soda was produced. Name the other city. </div>
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*#4. This regionally famous beer got its start at Lehighton’s First and Bridge Streets in the late 1800s/early 1900s with father and son Fred and George.</div>
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#5. Most widely known for playing drums with Paul McCartney’s “Wings,” this Lehighton native also played for Janis Joplin, James Brown, Art Garfunkel, and Billy Joel.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In what only can be described as<br />
a bizarre piece of news, William<br />
Hammel was threatened by a lynch<br />
mob for his refusal to buy a war<br />
bond even though the drive was<br />
over. It is unknown if his decision<br />
was based on economics or some<br />
other objection.</td></tr>
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<b><i><u>BOROUGH:</u></i></b></div>
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#1. How many cemeteries are there in the borough?</div>
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#2. In 1880, which occupation was claimed by the most Lehighton residents? Doctors, barbers, cigar makers, ministers, or painters?</div>
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#4. Who is the current supervisor of the Lehighton Water Authority?</div>
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#5. Who is the current supervisor of the Power Dept?</div>
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#3. The Mandour family (Joe, Ed, George) ran what two well-known Lehighton businesses on two different downtown corners. </div>
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*#4. Larry Markley’s Nationwide Insurance agency is the current site of a corner grocery store, Lehighton’s longest family run grocery store, into 1998.</div>
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#5. Who ran an Atlantic gas station on the corner of 7th and Mahoning from the 1930s to the 1980s?</div>
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#2. Name the organization that saved the Lehighton Baer Memorial Pool?</div>
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#3. Who is Lehighton’s Fire Chief?</div>
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#4. Who is the longtime bugler for the UVO, cemetery care-taker, and well-known for his Perseverance jazz band? (His band played in the amphitheater following Trivia Night.)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Son of a silk mill owner in New Jersey,<br />
Baer's son Carlos married Florence Teets.<br />
It was Carlos who arranged for the lands of<br />
southwest Lehighton to be made into a<br />
recreational area. Carlos and Florence were<br />
uncle and aunt to current town resident<br />
Carlos Teets.</td></tr>
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*#5. Who is the current owner of Mallard Markets?</div>
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The Contestants: (Occupations were listed for purposes of the historical records to be entered into the Time Capusle.)</div>
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#1 - Danny Stubits – Retired</div>
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#3 Olivia Frendt and Jess Ripkey - Students</div>
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#5 Steve Ebbert - <b>THIRD PLACE FINISHER</b></div>
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#6 Tanner Eckman</div>
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#15 Suzy and Lyle Cordes – Teacher and child/student (daughter of Lehighton Electronics Austin Blew)</div>
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#20 – James Young/Michael Mriss – HVAC Technician/OPS Mgr & Asst Fire Chief - <b>FIRST PLACE FINISHERS</b></div>
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#22 Susan Cook/Jordan Cook – Wilkes College & LAHS Student</div>
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#24 – Justin E Markell & Scott Nothstein – Senior 911 Dispatcher/Equipment operator - <b>TOP FIVE FINISHER</b></div>
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#27 – Mary Strohl & Karen Reichard (Snyder sisters) – Lehighton Tax collector and Borough police secretary</div>
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#29 – Nathan Kemmerer & Jake Pettit-Clair - LAHS Students (They marked “Hoodlums” as their occupation!)</div>
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#32 – Nancy L. Shaffer – retired - <b>TOP FIVE FINISHER</b></div>
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#44 – Sam Banning and Isabella Baka – Students LAHS</div>
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#69 – Duane and Barb Dellecker</div>
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#46 – Nick and Logan Yaro – Students</div>
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#50 – Nicole Beckett – Borough Manager</div>
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#55- Jean Everett – Retired bank teller</div>
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#57 – Kris&Deb Kunkle/Superintendent of Public Works - <b>SECOND PLACE FINISHERS</b></div>
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#60 Dane Frantz and Matt Pettit-Clair – Students<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of the Top 5 contestants can be seen in this photo: Nancy Shaffer, Deb and Kris Kunkle, Steve Ebbert, Michael and Jim Young, and Justin Markell and Scott Nothstein. Mriss & Young finished first followed by the Kunkles and Ebbert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture was used by TV-13 for their parade coverage intro and is my favorite picture of my grandfather who founded Haas' Store in the early 1930s. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cal Haas' son Robert at the meat counter in the middle 1970s. Bobboy took over the store in the 1960s and ran it until 1998.</td></tr>
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Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-85722217547320233112016-06-27T18:33:00.000-04:002016-07-01T13:25:20.889-04:00Lehighton Sesquicentennial Trivia Night Trying to enjoy all the intriguing events of this week is tough to do. The Trolley Tour on Saturday, the Cemetery Tour last night and the parade and fireworks coming up Saturday are among the many highlights, not to mention the talent show, various contests, and of course the variety of musical performances each night.<br />
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<i><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/05/lehightons-sesquicentennial-pioneers.html" target="_blank">~Be sure to read my other Lehighton Sesquicentennial articles found from this link~</a></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite Lehighton pictures: <br />
Chief of Police (most likely Harry Yenser) and<br />
then Mayor William J Zahn chat in our business district.<br />
Zahn served as Chief Burgess from 1934 to 1941. Chief Yenser<br />
modernized the department by adding new technology necessary to combat<br />
the "gangster" 1930s: a teletype machine, a .45 cal machine gun, and<br />
bulletproof glass in the windshield of the patrol car. Most work<br />
was still done on foot and even horseback into the 1930s.<br />
The department also owned a motorcycle as early as 1929.</td></tr>
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I have a two fold reason for sharing this post to those interested in the Trivia Night this Friday, July 1st from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the Amphitheater: To give a sampling of some of the questions and also to give a rundown of how the contest will work.</div>
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No matter what your level of Lehighton knowledge is, you will be rewarded by attending this event. Not only will you learn tidbits you never knew existed, but by competing you will achieve a shred of immortality: All competitor's names will be placed in the Time Capsule at week's end along with all the questions and answers.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the Lehighton Airport dedication day, on July 20 and 21, 1929 (photographer is facing the homes on Ninth Street). Pictured here is Mahlon Kistler Sr (4th from left). It is unclear if Jensen is in this picture. Other dignitaries attending the event were Governor Fisher and National Labor Secretary Davis. Jensen was born in Kansas but also<br />
lived in Harrisburg in the 1930s. One article stated that he was a former resident of our town.</td></tr>
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So let's start with a few sample questions that didn't make the cut.</div>
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<b><u>Sample #1:</u></b> Martin Jensen was the second person in the world to fly from California to where? (Answers will appear at the end of this article. Jensen took his $10,000 of prize money from the Dole fruit company to invest it in Lehighton's airfield. At least 15 other crews attempted this feat, most of those ended fatally.)</div>
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Now that could be hard for some folks? Well first of all, this one is so tough I threw it out. Also, the first three rounds are all multiple choice. So is it: A. Jamaica, B. Spain, C. Iwo Jima, D. Hawaii?</div>
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An attempt was made to make the questions begin with some relative ease. Given freely here are some hints at a few of them: "What day does this certain weekly event take place in Lehighton?" "What is the fee the town charges for someone applying for a ______ permit?" etc.</div>
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Sample question #2: Although this is Lehighton's 150th anniversary of its incorporation as a borough, what group originally founded here many years before? </div>
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#3: Give the year of Lehighton's founding by this group. (Again this is multiple choice in the first three rounds.)</div>
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#4: Name one thing you could buy at Karl Shaeffer's store on First St?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karl "Smotz" Schaeffer ran a novelty<br />
store in downtown Lehighton for years,<br />
here in World War II.</td></tr>
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There will be questions about the lives of some of the people nominated for "Citizen of the Century." #5: He was among the last doctors to still make house calls? #6: Who are the current owners of the Eugene Baer Silk Mill on Bridge St? etc, etc.</div>
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<b><u>Here's How it will Work:</u></b></div>
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You can go it alone or pair up with a partner to become a dynamic duo.</div>
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Let's say we have 50 teams competing. You will have a 50% chance of advancing based on how well you do on the first fifteen questions of Round One. At the end of Round One, only the top 25 teams will advance. <br />
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There are lucky-guess tie-breaker questions to help sort out ties if needed. Here's one: Name (guess) the year Ben Franklin came to Weissport to build a fort. Or how about guess the number of fire hydrants there are in town. Person's getting it on the nose will advance. If no one answers it correctly, the closest without going over will advance. </div>
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Here's an interesting question that was eliminated because it was too hard: Name the Lehighton Chief of Police who died of natural causes at the wheel of his patrol car in 1947? (See sample answer #6 below).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Blank was Chief of Police prior to<br />
Harry Yenser in the 1930s. He later became a<br />
US Marshall in Scranton. In 1929 he was<br />
seriously wounded in a head-on collision on<br />
a motorcycle on the "Mahoning Trail."<br />
The force did have a motorcycle in its livery<br />
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Round Two and another fifteen questions (they are getting harder now) will have the top fifteen teams advancing to Round Three. After Round Three, we will have just the top five teams left.</div>
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Now it gets interesting. Multiple choice is gone. Contestants will then enter the "Jeopardy"-style of play, except for one twist: when in control of the board, they can choose "Battle Questions."</div>
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Here's an example. Suppose this were "State Trivia." A Battle question could be "Name all the states beginning with the letter "N." Each question has the number of correct answers available. In this case there are 8 correct answers. </div>
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The player in control of the board may choose one of these Battle Questions as their turn. They also get the option of answering first or second. The player/team that gives the last correct answer gets 5 points. The losing competitor loses 5 points. So if you believe the competitor you are playing against knows all their states, you can have them go first, allowing you to give the last correct answer and winning.</div>
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Here are some of the Battle Question categories: "Streets (7)," "Streets (11)," "Players (10+)", "Restaurants (10+)," "Service Stations (10+)," and etc. </div>
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There are parameters, such as "Name the streets, including alleys, named after people." There are eleven of them. Make sense? Good. "Players (10+)" asks contestants to name the players of the 1977 District 11 championship basketball team. There are more than ten correct names that could be given. You wont have to know them all, you just need to know one more than the person you choose to "battle" with.</div>
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As for the "Jeopardy" side of the game, the categories are: "Sports," "Famous," "Borough," "Corner Stores," and "Current Events."</div>
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Questions could be something like: Where could you buy ice cream on South Second Street? Who was the Olympic Swimmer who trained at Graver's Pool? Who is our current Chief of Police? etc etc.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is one tough looking dude. He was William Swartz<br />
and he was Lehighton's police chief in 1917. He tried to<br />
calm down a rowdy 22-year old punk in a Lehighton hotel<br />
and was shot and killed. The only Lehighton officer killed<br />
in the line of duty. He left 8 children.</td></tr>
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Then of course there is the "Final Jeopardy" question where the five finalists will wager an amount of their score before they answer. I can tell you the topic now: "Lehighton."</div>
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These questions were designed to challenge yes, to inform, certainly. But my ultimate hope is for all of us present to be enriched by our shared knowledge and love of this great town of ours.</div>
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Looking forward to seeing you there!</div>
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Enjoy!</div>
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PS: After the event is over, a complete post of all the questions and answers will be posted, accompanied of course with current and historical pictures.</div>
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#1: D. Hawaii</div>
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#2: The Moravians</div>
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#3: 1746</div>
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#4: Novelties, trophies, fireworks, small games of chance supplies</div>
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#5: Dr. Marvin Snyder</div>
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#6: Woody and Robin Frey</div>
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Only three of these questions are actually in the game, however they are seen here in a modified form. The other three questions will not appear at all.</div>
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Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3804997536005419946.post-24081990962286250022016-05-31T08:48:00.001-04:002022-06-29T10:15:57.353-04:00Lehighton's Sesquicentennial: The Pioneers and the PromiseAlthough this is Lehighton’s 150th year as a borough, its original founding reaches back to 1746.<br />
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Currently, a group of dedicated individuals is wrapping up several years of work to showcase the essence of Lehighton: a trolley tour, a talent show, a cemetery walk, revival of the Brothers of the Brush and Sister of the Swish, etc.<br />
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There will be all kinds of contests such as corn on the cob eating, trivia night, and the Coaster Races. The Coaster Races are said to have originated in Lehighton in 1923 and have been revived from time to time over the years. (See pictures of the 1950 & 1951 races at the end of this article.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Leuckel Building, most recently known as "White's Trading," in the 1980s it was Rea and Derrick Drugs seen here around 1942 with the opening of the Windsor Clothing Store. There for the promotional first night was the then Lehighton Boys Band, roughly 40 years before they changed to the Lehighton Boys and Girls Band. The Leuckel Building was completed in 1899 by Frederick and John Leuckel and once housed the post office and two banks. The expressions on the faces of the citizens in their hats and band members in their capes as well as the young girl looking down from the window gives this photo a classic Americana feel. This never before published photo appears here courtesy of Paula Kistler Ewaniuk, a descendant of the T.D. Clauss and Mahlon Kistler, both key Lehighton businessmen from the glory days of Lehighton's downtown.</td></tr>
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There will be an opening ceremony of the burying of men’s razors and women’s makeup as well as the uncovering of them on the last day. The park will have music each night with it all culminating with a fireworks display that will be seen from anywhere in Lehighton. <br />
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It could be easy to develop a romanticized version of life in those days. Often times the “good old days” are remembered as blissful times without strife. <br />
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Lehighton’s early days had a “wild west” mystique. There were saloons and cigar shops, and unsolved murders in our muddy streets. We had constables, horse thieves, and posses, but we had no jail. Once in 1870, a trio of banks robbers was caught here and was held captive in Mantz’s Hotel over night (see 1940s picture of First St below for the Mantz Hotel). <br />
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Constable John Weston formed a posse and cornered the desperate outlaws amid a fierce February snowstorm. The outlaws had swum the icy Lehigh to a hiding place in the woods across the river. This robbery also led to an unsolved murder of an unidentified man here in town over thirty years later (See footnotes for more).<br />
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Another story tells how the southern end of town was quarantined and several citizens died due to smallpox that Lehighton silk mill owner and town benefactor Eugene Baer accidentally brought to town from New Jersey in 1902. (See footnotes for more <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/03/post-two-lehightons-vibrant-business.html" target="_blank">& click here for more on Baer's Mill and family.)</a><br />
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You name it, we had it: Rowdy council meetings with political backbiting, scandalous behavior at the fair including illegal gambling and drinking, as well as fraud and other crimes of all sorts, from the salacious sort to the comical and accidental.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u> </u></b><i><b><u> Other Lehighton articles on this blog:</u></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/07/trivia-night-from-sesquicentennial_4.html" target="_blank">~Questions from the Lehighton Trivia Night</a><br />
<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2016/07/answers-from-trivia-night-at.html" target="_blank">~Answers from the Lehighton Trivia Night</a><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/03/connecting-dots-of-lehighton-business.html" target="_blank">Lehighton Business of the Past Post #1: Maria Culton</a></span></i><i><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/03/post-two-lehightons-vibrant-business.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lehighton Business Post #2: </span></a></i><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/06/work-work-work-lehightons-baking-past.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lehighton Business Post #3: Young's Bakery</span></a><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2015/08/i-think-of-cal-everydaypeople-must.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Haas' Store: Cal Haas</span></a><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lehighton-gravers-alvena-and-adaline.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lewis & Henry Graver articles</span></a><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/04/lehighton-students-investigate-moravian.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Moravian & Massacre Article</span></a><a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-mystery-of-recluse-of-gnadenhutten.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Recluse of Lehighton: Frederica Misca</span></a></blockquote>
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Two men who clashed in the 1890s were Burgess (mayor) Benjamin J. Kuntz and newspaperman George W. Morthimer. Kuntz, who succeeded Dan Olewine at his Seventh and Bridge Sts tannery, summoned Chief of Police Raworth to town council meeting to “settle down the rowdies.” <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lehighton Press of North First Street - David McCormick, son of locally famous Civil War veteran William Carpenter<br />
McCormick in the press room with his longtime pressman Harry Miner. The two women are likely other longtime employees typist Alice Heintzleman and McCormick's sister, columnists Mary (McCormick) Ray. This picture and other valuable McCormick family primary sources provided by Bill and Kathy White of Lehighton. </td></tr>
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Morthimer was a member at that council and among other things, didn’t appreciate Kuntz’s allegations. However Morthimer’s power of the press (the “Fourth Estate” as they say) led to Kuntz’s undoing. Kuntz was mayor in 1879 and later again from 1891-92. However, his fourth run (as mayors seemed to serve only one year terms in those days) as mayor ended in November 1892 amid attacks from Morthimer’s “Carbon Advocate.” <br />
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Morthimer later served as mayor from 1903 to 1913. McCormick served from 1918 to 1921. By this time, it seems like the three-year terms had begun.<br />
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A March 1890 snipett in the Carbon Advocate announced B.J. Kuntz as "big, tall, tanner and Republican politician was a familiar figure on our streets on Wednesday." Morthimer was a Democrat. One of Morthimer's complaints about Kuntz was that not until after he lost the election did he complain about the illegal gambling at the fair grounds.<br />
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As of June 1910 Lehighton had three newspapers. <br />
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By 1902, Morthimer sold his "Carbon Advocate" to Attorney Philip M. Graul. One long-time employee of Graul was future Lehighton mayor William F. Hummel (1942 to 1953). But Morthimer would continue a South First St paper under the name of Lehighton’s “Evening Leader." His other competitor, David McCormick, ran the weekly “Lehighton Press” on North First. Both of these men were themselves involved in public office. (See footnotes for more on Morthimer and McCormick).<br />
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Graul's weekly "Carbon Advocate" raised its rate from $1.00 to $1.50 for its annual subscription. This was announced in February 1917, taking effect for 1918. Gaul was the first in the county to raise the rate, thought the other county papers soon followed. The Advocate burned in the early 1920s. Graul was appointed postmaster when President Wilson took office in 1913.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Williams Morthimer as<br />
he appears in Brenckman's Carbon History of 1913<br />
Morthimer ran the Lehighton Evening Leader. <br />
Born 1866 - Died 1918. Buried in the Lehighton<br />
Mausoleum.</td></tr>
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The Carbon Advocate had some advice for improving our town back in 1890: “Consider…Electric illumination, widening of the thoroughfares leading from Fourth St to the Fair Grounds, and from Alum Street to Kuntz’s tannery, a town hall and hose house and the beautifying of the two Parks. Cut this out and paste it in your hats.”<br />
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After several months of pleas using such phrases as "let there be light" and trying to shame the town for still using coal-oil because Lansford, Mauch Chunk, and Weatherly already had electiric street lights, The Carbon Advocate was pleased to announce in June 1891 that the town had secured a contract with the electric company to "illuminate the town."<br />
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Lehighton was of course founded by the Moravian settlers on the banks of the Mahoning Creek in 1746. It was part of what was known as the Moravian “Economy,” various industrious pursuits to make money for the mother organization to further its missionary work among the Indians. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This letterhead among the papers discovered inside Guy Morthimer's copy of <br />
Brenckman's Carbon County History from 1913. G. W. (George Williams) Morthimer took over the Carbon<br />
Advocate from his father Harry V. Morthimer. And in turn Guy Morthimer took full control of the Leader<br />
when his father passed in 1918.</td></tr>
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Lehighton was just one town of the many founded by the Moravians. Bethlehem and Nazareth were their first two settlements in the area as well as Emmaus in 1759. The Moravians also made settlements elsewhere, as far away as Georgia.<br />
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Lehighton was formed as an important stepping stone to the harder to reach native groups of the Wyoming and Susquehanna valleys. They lived in peace here but many colonial leaders had viewed these missionaries with at least some suspicion and perhaps a bit of contempt. <br />
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As the French and Indian War approached, laws were passed in New York barring Christians from spending the night among the native groups. This was aimed at the French Jesuit priests who lived among and ministered to the Indian souls they were trying to win over. Many felt the Moravians were simply French Catholics in disguise and were trying to infiltrate the English speaking lands<br />
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Fear of Indians led to an overall distrust of anyone who aided the natives. The Lehigh Valley then became a refuge for these exiled New York Moravians and their Indian cohorts when they were forced out of New York. <br />
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Another sticking point came from the Moravian blacksmiths. Though it was colonial policy not to provide the Indians with firearms, the Gnadenhutten blacksmiths were eager to help repair the flintlocks of any Indian who passed through here, and many did.<br />
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With British General Braddock’s western Pennsylvania defeat in July of 1755 came fear of further Indian reprisals would move eastward. <br />
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They of course were right. Attacks were made on many area settlements, but the peace and good relations the Moravians established here made them feel impervious to any hostility. And as the story goes, on the evening of November 24th it all came to an end here. Many of those attacked here had only been in this country for a few weeks.<br />
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Not all were killed. One husband and wife became separated: she spent the night in the hollow of a tree and he ran to Bethlehem and back through the night, to get help. They were reunited in the morning, each fearing the other had died. <br />
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And had the 16-year-old lad Joseph Sturgis not jumped from the burning attic and lived, we may not have the pretzel today. He went to live at another Moravian settlement in Lititz and was a successful potter. <br />
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His grandson Julius Sturgis developed the first commercial pretzel bakery in the country. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/04/lehighton-students-investigate-moravian.html" target="_blank">(More of this including information of those lost and those who survived can be read here.)</a><br />
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Few people realize that one somewhat mysterious woman came to live on these grounds. Here purpose was to venerate the martyred souls lost here. Her name was Fredericka Misca. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-mystery-of-recluse-of-gnadenhutten.html" target="_blank">(More of her can be read here: )</a><br />
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Jacob Weiss of course bought some of the Moravian lands on both sides of the river. And another highly industrious man named William Henry partnered with him. Henry learned the gunsmith trade in the Moravian settlement of Lititz before moving to Nazareth. When the mission here faded, the Moravians found an eager buyer in Henry and Weiss.<br />
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The timing of this venture was enhanced with Josiah White’s successful launch of the coal trade, first on the river with his “bear trap locks” and later in 1828 with the Lehigh Canal, leaving the lands of Weiss and Henry open to the future promise of the industrial settlement of Lehighton. (More on Josiah White can be found here.)<br />
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Speculative minds and hard working hands soon followed.<br />
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Of the first industries here were grist mills and leather tanning. There was a mill sluice and run that ran parallel and along today’s Route 209 bypass, behind today’s Lehighton Hi-Rise. <br />
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Later Moses Heilman had a grist mill on the Mahoning Creek and a large dam behind what is today’s Boulevard Restaurant. He also had a feed mill on First Street. He last lived at the corner of Third and Alum Sts.<br />
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In 1915, the Burd brothers well-diggers found three human skulls near Heilman’s dam, which was just downstream from where Henry Graver would build his ice dam and pond. The skulls were thought to be from the colonial days of the Moravians. Some speculated these were Indian skulls. <br />
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However, another theory that should be considered would be those of the six men Ben Franklin hastily buried along the banks of the Lehigh when he came to build the fort in Weissport in January 1756. About six colonial militiamen were lured into an attack on New Year’s Day that year.<br />
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Heilman was just one of many of our town’s “pioneer” residents. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/12/lehighton-gravers-lewis-and-son-henry.html" target="_blank">Another was Lewis Graver, father of Henry, the patriarch of the many Graver enterprises here.</a> Lewis came to timber the Moravian lands as a youngster of twelve with his father and was an early boat builder with his brother Andrew. They had a boatyard at the canal and were also leather tanners.<br />
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Building, destroyed by fire in 1934, is refurbished here with the A&P Store in residence. Also, G.C. Murphy, Hotel Lehighton (now the Hi-Rise) and further down the "Mantz Building" with its ornate top (most recently Renee's Beauty Shop).</td></tr>
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Lewis Graver’s son Henry later ran a brickworks, ice house, and skating rink. He also built two of Pennsylvania’s largest cement swimming pools. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/12/lehighton-gravers-lewis-and-son-henry.html" target="_blank">First here and another in Lebanon PA in the 1920s (Read more about this family here:).</a> Lewis also had two daughters with business sense. <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lehighton-gravers-alvena-and-adaline.html" target="_blank">Alvenia and Adaline were milliners in town (Read more here):</a><br />
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Eastern Pennsylvania, but especially northern Carbon County in the Pine Swamp and Hickory Run area, held plentiful reserves of hemlock pine trees. <br />
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Hemlock (and oak to a slightly lesser degree) bark was preferred for the tanning of hides into malleable leather because of its high tannic acid content. So the fact that Lehighton had no less than two well-established tanneries should come as no surprise. <br />
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The first tannery in town is believed to be started by David Heller in the area behind First Street in 1820. It was in the vicinity of where G.C. Murphy was operated a department store, across the narrow street of today’s Hi-Rise. <br />
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This tannery property was eventually developed into what was known as the “Linderman Block, so named for Asa Packer’s son-in-law, <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/10/mauch-chunks-plague-year-and-linderman.html" target="_blank">Dr. Garrett B. Linderman.</a> <br />
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Dr. Linderman came to Mauch Chunk in the great cholera epidemic in 1854, <a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2013/10/mauch-chunks-plague-year-and-linderman.html" target="_blank">falling in love with Packer’s daughter Lucy. (Read more here: )</a><br />
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It is unclear whether Heller sold his interests directly to Stephen Kistler (<a href="http://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2014/03/post-two-lehightons-vibrant-business.html" target="_blank">no direct relation to Lehighton’s Daniel "Jacob" or "Jake" Kistler</a>). After Stephen left to develop his Tannersville properties, he left the Lehighton tannery in the hands of his brother William. However one newspaper article mentioned a tanner and animal fertilizer business owned by a Benjamin J. Kistler (not to be confused with Lehighton tanner Benjamin J. Kuntz.)<br />
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Kistler came from Kistler Valley to start his first one of the four tanneries he would eventually own. At his death, it was said that he was the wealthiest tanner in the state and perhaps the nation. <br />
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He lived and operated a larger one in Monroe County’s “Tannersville” as well as two in Susquehanna County.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Owen W. Snyder once owned this fine Victorian-era home on the corner of Second and Alum Sts. Snyder was a horse surgeon born in the Kistler Valley, Lynnport in 1860. He died of heart failure in 1922. He and his wife Amanda did not have children, though they did raise her nephew Arnold Rusell (born 1912). Snyder lived first in the Mansion House Hotel when he arrived here in the spring of 1887. By 1890 he was living near Kistler's Livery at the Carbon House. Since this is most likely Snyder and his nephew Arnold who looks to be as young as maybe 5 or so, this picture is probably taken around 1917 or so. The house was later owned by widowed physician John Hammel, father of two well-known Hammels: William and Andrew. Currently Gregory Duschak is refurbishing the home and it will be for sale. (Picture courtesy of the Brad Haupt collection.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a modern view of the three Queen Anne sashes in the attic tower of the Snyder home, currently being refurbished by Gregory Duschak.</td></tr>
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Owen W. Snyder lived in a handsome Victorian-era home on the corner of South Second and Alum Sts (currently being refurbished by Gregory Dsuchak). He was a veterinarian surgeon, specializing in the many horses that kept Lehighton running in the early days. <br />
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Born in the Kistler Valley, he attended the "celebrated" Ontario Veterinary College. Snyder made the papers frequently, known for his cure for tetanus in horses, he performed hernia operations, and removed tumors. He was also always prepared to put a horse or cow down if he had to. Dead animals were then taken to B.J. Kistler's animal fertilizer plant in Jamestown.<br />
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The gambling in town most definitely centered on the Fair's horse racing. Purses of $100 or more were often touted in the papers. Horses from places like Stroudsburg and Allentown would come here to race our local mares. Snyder was known for always having the nicest, newest and fastest mares as the Carbon Advocate would often announce. He and Jonathan Kistler were known to trade gray mares with each other as well as Snyder buying from horse trader Knaus and others in Allentown.<br />
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Snyder encountered a run of some bad luck starting in the fall of 1902. In September, a half-drunk horse thief entered town and made off with one of Snyder's thoroughbreds and one owned by William Walters of town. Unknowingly, the Rev G. G. Kunkle of Mauch Chunk accepted a ride from a "half-drunken" man who drove him from Packerton down the Mansion House hill.<br />
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Rev Kunkle said the man drove so recklessly that he tried several times to have the man stop and let him off. However he drove the horse so hard and into the wall that the horse died. Kunkle walked home, thinking little of it until he heard of the horse thefts. The next morning the dead horse of the Mauch Chunk mountain road was found to be Snyder's valuable track horse.<br />
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It is believed the horse thief went back to Lehighton and then stole the Walters' horse. That horse was found dead a few days after on the Blue Mountain.<br />
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Then in early June 1903, Snyder's stables were struck by lightning and two of his horses were killed. It did not mention the specific location of these stables. One article in 1893 implied he owned stables on Seventh St and was trying to get council to open up Alum Street through to his property there. His stolen horse was valued at $750, a vast sum in those days.<br />
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Following Snyder in this home was Dr. John Hammel, father of Hammel's Store owner William Hammel. William was a magician in the old vaudeville days before opening the store at First and Coal Sts. <br />
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His brother Andrew was a projectionist at theaters in town before opening Hammel's Gas Station near today's Mahoning Elementary school (the small white shed on the opposite side of the road was the station and is still there.) He was also the projectionist at the Mahoning Valley Drive-in for years.<br />
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Lehighton the Borough was only six months old when the famous Dan Rice Circus came to town in June. A one “mile-long” parade was sent down First St to try to lure townsfolk into the show at fifty-cents a head.<br />
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However, as one team of Rice’s horses approached the lower park, the team became “spooked,” supposedly due to the severe from Kistler’s tannery. <br />
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The team made a deadly trot toward one of Lehighton’s earliest hotels, the “Carbon House,” which sat on the corner of First and North Streets (below today’s library). Some reports say it was a Mauch Chunk man, others that it was a man from the Mahoning Valley, who was killed (or so severely injured he wasn’t expected to live) trying to arrest the team.<br />
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<a href="http://www.davidcarlyon.net/" target="_blank">(Read David Carlyon’s book “Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You Never Heard of.”)</a> Rice was once considered for candidacy for president. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Carbon House, from North and First Sts,<br />
at the corner below the library ~ Circa 1900.</td></tr>
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Another Lehighton tanner and pioneer resident was Daniel Olewine. He and his wife Esther (Zoll) originated from Towamensing Township. Olewine first journeyed to Mauch Chunk as a tanner. But by 1856 he built his own enterprise at Seventh and Bridge Streets in Lehighton in 1856.<br />
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Today the former Penn Lace building stands where the tannery once operated.<br />
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Olewine was a founding president of First National Bank in Lehighton in 1875. This bank was first housed in a portion of Joseph Obert’s First St residence in the 1880s. <br />
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The bank later became the Hazleton National Bank that opened for business in its once thoroughly modern stone-façade building. Though now vacant, it is still an impressive downtown building that first opened in 1910.<br />
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Olewine’s tannery burned down in 1873. At that point he retired to his spacious brick home next door that still stands at 600 Bridge St. As mentioned earlier, the tannery was then rebuilt by B. J. Kuntz who operated it into the 1890s. <br />
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Daniel Olewine was father-in-law to two well known Lehighton residents: Chief clerk of the LVRR Car Dept Franklin Pierce Lentz (Clara Olewine) and William S. Koch (Susan Esther Olewine) of the well-known Koch farm in southwest Lehighton. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isborn Koch and his brother William S. once ran a cigar<br />
factory in downtown Lehighton. Their partnership<br />
dissolved in 1882. I.S. continued on while W.S.<br />
went full-time into farming.</td></tr>
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William was just one of the first three Koch brothers to live in Lehighton, all sons of Daniel and Mary Ann Koch of Northampton County. Besides, William there was Isborn S. and Milton. Until 1882, Isborn and William were in the cigar manufacturing business together in downtown Lehighton. <br />
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Isborn continued in cigars while William furthered himself in his large 200-acre farm in the southwest corner of town. (One of several unsolved Lehighton deaths was once solved by I.S. Koch, search this story for more on that).<br />
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A portion of this farm became the Small and Koch Dairy Farm with William’s son and son-in-law Reuben Koch running the dairy until the mid 1930s. It later became Geurstlaurer’s and still operates today as Zimmerman’s Dairy. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the horse drawn days of Small and Koch Dairy. Originally started on William S. Koch's farm by his son William "Daniel" Koch and son-in-law Reuben Small, they first called it Orchard Poultry and Truck Farm. Reuben Small<br />
arrived in the Lehigh Valley for business school and met and married 'the farmers' daughter' Esther Koch<br />
in 1905. Small and Koch operated the farm until the mid-Depression. (Small & Koch photos are courtesy of Lois Small).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reuben Small (left) and William "Daniel" Koch left in the early 1900s at the Small and Koch Dairy in the southwest corner of Lehighton.</td></tr>
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Small and Koch Dairy was the first Carbon County dairy to pasteurize milk. It was also the only diary of the over 268 in the county to receive a state department of health satisfactory rating in 1916. (See footnotes for more on Reuben Small).<br />
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Lehighton was also home to two of the three Lentz brothers from Colonel John Lentz. Col Lentz was a soldier in the War of 1812 and later, though advanced in age, led a defense of Harrisburg when Lee’s army advanced there in the summer of 1863. <br />
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One of these sons, Lafayette of Mauch Chunk, made a fortune in the coal fields. Lentz Trail along Mauch Chunk lake and creek is named for him. <br />
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Lafayette’s son, Horace DeYoung Lentz, graduated Harvard Law in 1891. He in turn endowed a scholarship there that still provides full tuition to any Carbon resident who attends Harvard Law. Current resident Neil Makhija of Lehighton is the only living person who has benefitted from this trust.<br />
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Here in Lehighton, John S. Lentz lived at Third and Alum Streets, today’s “Schaeffer Funeral Home.” He was superintendent of the Packerton shops.<br />
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Franklin Pierce Lentz lived at the former brick home of his father-in-law Daniel Olewine. He held various positions with the LVRR including chief clerk of the car department at the Packerton Yard as well as Justice of the Peace in Lehighton. He was educated at Lehighton’s “Academy” school.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The crowning achievement Frederick Leuckel's </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">life of work in Lehighton, his 1899 building </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">still stands today. Neither Frederick and his </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">son John who completed the building would </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">live long to enjoy it. <br />Both men were dead </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">by October 1899. (Most photos without photo credit are from the Haupt family collection).</span></td></tr>
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Another pioneer immigrant of Lehighton was Frederick Leuckel, his building is still prominent in the downtown. Born in Germany in 1807, Frederick Leuckel came to America by way of Amsterdam with $40 to his name. <br />
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He apprenticed there for seven years as a butcher. He then made a 130-day voyage to New York City at the age of twenty-three. He worked in the sugar factory in Easton and started a meat shop there before moving to Lehighton. He married another German émigré Lecetta Lenzler. <br />
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Leuckel rose to financial prominence from the hard-work of his butcher shop, to investing in real estate, banks, and other businesses. He was a major shareholder in at least four banks: two in Mauch Chunk, one bank in Catasauqua, as well as in Lehighton’s First National. <br />
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By the time of his 1875 “retirement,” he was one of our town’s wealthiest self-made men. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This circa 1908 fire next to the Leuckel building led the way for<br />
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The ‘Leuckel Building,’ completed in 1899, was the former home of Lehighton’s post office and was home to Leuckel’s and Olewine’s “First National Bank.” It later housed the “Citizen’s National Bank.”<br />
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A fire next door around 1908 led the way for “Citizen’s” to build its prominent stone-façade modern bank building next door. First Federal, the last and most recent bank that occupied this building, added a more modern metal face to it in the 1970s.<br />
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Lehighton has had its shares of fires. Many of these will be detailed in 25 stop trolley tour guide book being published by the Sesquicentennial Committee. But many businesses have been relocated or otherwise affected by the many downtown fires over the years. The tour book will chronicle the major ones from the 1930s Elks fire, to the 1950s North First St and the 1960s South First St fires.<br />
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of the new Citizen's National Bank<br />
building with the Leuckel<br />
Building to the left. The building<br />
still stands today, however the last<br />
bank, First Federal, covered it with<br />
a more modern looking metal facade.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Serfas Motors before May 1918 fire - Looking north on Iron St,<br />
with the former Trinity Lutheran Church tower at Third and Iron<br />
in the distance. (This Serfas family spelled their name with one 's'.)</td></tr>
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Serfas Motors burned to the ground in May of 1918 and a three-story brown brick building went in its place. (It is currently a Blue Ridge Cable office behind the former Times News building.) <br />
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Within the personal collection of dairyman Reuben Small are pictures of burned out cars from a "Lehighton garage fire." Though no one is certain these are of the Serfas Motors, it is certainly a possibility. These photos will appear at the end. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Serfas fire from May 1918, taken from the south side of<br />
Iron St, looking toward the alley behind what would one day by the<br />
the Opera House/Bayer Building/Times News Building. The long<br />
building in the background was the original band hall and still stands. Look at the end of this story for fire pictures from the Reuben Small personal collection from this time period. </td></tr>
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Eventually, sometime before 1946, Moyer and Haupt had their first garage there. By 1946 they took over the former Acme building at 200 to 206 North First St and began moving their Ford dealership there, this being another currently building housing BRC offices today. <br />
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Later, Moyer and Haupt moved out to Route 443 with an Edsel dealership, this dealership now trades as "Lehighton Ford." They also operated a service station at the corner of Eighth and Mahoning Sts, today it is a medical center in the 1940s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moyer and Haupt on Iron St pre-1946. Not the brick ornaments<br />
above the row of windows. Those can still be seen today on<br />
this building currently housing some Blue Ridge Cable offices<br />
at the alley behind the former Times News Building.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture shows Moyer and Haupt converting the old Acme<br />
back into a garage. Prior to it being Acme, it housed Otto Kropp's<br />
First St garage. Today it is the main Lehighton BRC office.</td></tr>
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Prior to the Acme occupying 200 North First, Otto Kropp had a garage there. He also had a Studebaker and Hudson dealership in the area of our current library. Otto must have been quite a character. It has been said that he once made a late-night car-swap deal with gangster "Legs" Diamond, a bootlegger who operated between New York and Philadelphia. <br />
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In 1937, Otto and his wife hosted Dr. J. Lavarowitz who was president of the "Rambling Hobos of America." Otto was the grandfather who raised the well-known Lehighton geography teacher Michael "Corky" Kordilla.<br />
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Another well-known Lehighton business that grew, burned, and moved to another street was Kistler's Hardware. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is Mahlon Kistler (left) and business parnter William F. Hamilton in his mid-1920s First St Hardware Store.<br />
It transferred to his son Mahlon "Jake" in 1957 and later to his<br />
step-son George Griffith. The store continues today on <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Second St as "Lehighton Hardware." Hamilton was born in Scranton and was a boilermaker for the LVRR in 1910. He died of a stroke in 1935 at the age of 50.</span><br />
(Kistler pictures appear courtesy of Paula Kistler Ewaniuk.)</td></tr>
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Kistler’s Lehighton Hardware would later move to Second Street, its current location. Kistler started his hardware store in 1925 and ran a progressive business model, taking pride in decorating his front window. In 1957 he handed the reins over to his son Mahlon Jr. In 1963 they were burned out and moved to its current location on Second St. The business went from Mahlon Jr's step-brother George Griffith.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The show window of Kistler's first hardware store included shotguns, shells and stuffed raccoons. See the end of this story for the new store front further up First St that later burned in a 1963 fire, sending the store to Second St.</td></tr>
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Curiously, Kistler's Hardware was located at 237 North First St, in what would be in today's Rite Aid parking lot. After the fire, the A&P, which was then located in today's Lehighton Hardware's Second St building, built the 14,000 square foot building Rite Aid uses today. The A&P left the current Rite Aid building back in the 1980s.<br />
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One of the longest tenured corner grocery stores in Lehighton was Cal Haas' store at the corner of Fifth and Coal. It served their neighborhood with credit for groceries from 1930 to 1996. The last thirty years it was ron by Cal's son Robert "Bobby" Haas, who was known for his regimented scheduled coffee breaks at the Beacon 443 Diner. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are some of the Haas family from the 1955 celebration of<br />
the 200 year anniversary of the Gnadenhutten Massacre. From Left:<br />
Robert Haas, his wife Geri Haas, Cal Haas, and daughter<br />
Madeline (Haas) Kreiss Folweiler. (Madeline's first husband<br />
Ezra Kreiss was lost in Operation Tiger in WWII. She re-married<br />
Chester Folweiler, another WWII veteran.</td></tr>
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The Trainer family had a corner store on Third and Cypress Sts. It was taken over by Mel Everett and Dick Koch as "Ev-Ko" furniture and home appliances in 1966. A fire destroyed the business in 1968 and the pair split in 1974. Everett continued there in furniture and Koch established himself on Coal St where they remain today. <br />
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Mel's brother Arlington "A.W." Everett's furniture frame business in Franklin Township is also still running today, though now they specialize in frames for lift chairs. <br />
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Like Leuckel, Joseph Obert was another German immigrant butcher who prospered here. He opened a dry goods business in Lehighton in the 1870s to which he parlayed into farm land speculation. <br />
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He eventually built one of the largest pork and cattle processing and packing plants in the east. His sons continued the business into the 1930s. <br />
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Livestock would arrive on the LVRR and enter Obert’s stockyard on the east side of First St. Pigs and cattle (but mostly pigs) were then marched across the street and up the alley between what is today Alfie’s Pizza and the former Hinkle’s Downtown Grille (a building first built by Obert and once held “Malta Hall” on the second floor. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This building still stands across the alley from<br />
Obert's (today's "Alfies") and was built by Obert<br />
after the "Lyric Theater" was torn down. It was<br />
home to Losos and Sondheim clothiers (who<br />
once occupied part of the Obert building).<br />
The second floor once housed the Knights of<br />
Malta and a portion of Obert's slaughter<br />
house can be seen rear left. Look for interior<br />
pictures of this building at the end of this<br />
article. Most will also remember the most<br />
recent owner of this building was<br />
Hinkle's Downtown Grille.</td></tr>
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The large slaughter house was located on what is today a municipal parking lot behind Alfies. The block across from this alley, once was known as the Obert block.<br />
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The Obert’s lived at both his sprawling building in front of his slaughter house on First Street as well as another home he built later on South Second near Trinity Lutheran Church (now owned by Barrett Ravenhurst and Rick Brong). <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beautiful Victorian-era home was first built by Joseph and Catherine Obert in the 1880s or 1890s at <br />
212 South Second, catty-corner from Trinity Lutheran Church and is one of the 25 stops of the Sesquicentennial <br />
Trolley tour. Seen here in this photo is Joseph and Catherine's son William and their grandson Horace<br />
Obert Sr. William's wife was Florence. Horace Obert Jr was the long time chiropractor in Lehighton up until<br />
is recent retirement a few years ago. The new and only third owners of the home are currently Barrett Ravenhurst<br />
and Rick Brong.</td></tr>
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The three Gaston brothers (Carson, Wayne, and LeRoy who run the pizza shop), are the current owners of Obert’s First St property and have done well maintaining the building’s former glory. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture gives quite a glimpse at the classes of society of early 1900 Lehighton. The Victorian-era garbed<br />
ladies and gentlemen on the yard versus the blood-stained work clothes of the man in the street. You can<br />
also see Loso's and Sondheim's former location before moving across the alley.</td></tr>
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It is here where we can see the meeting point today.<br />
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By studying the many buildings in Lehighton and by getting to know our history, we can see where our past meets our future. The Obert and Leuckel buildings are a good place to start.<br />
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The once ornate dental work and finials are gone. The large rectangular sign that proudly touted the “Leuckel Building 1899” now says “White’s Trading.” <br />
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Just like the once powerful anthracite and transportation industries are likely never to return, the works and fortunes of our pioneer residents are also mostly long gone.<br />
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But we are here today because of them. And their legacy to us is to live in a town where their dreams once prospered. It is for us to fulfill that potential as we are fit to do.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Footnotes:</u></b></span><br />
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<b><u>Lehighton Deaths of the 1890s:</u></b><br />
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The 1890s were hard on many of Lehighton’s most prominent pioneer citizens. Lewis Graver died in January 1892 (just weeks after his and Leah’s 50th wedding anniversary).<br />
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Joseph Obert died in June of 1897 at the age of 76. He once donated the land at the corner of Second and Iron to build Zion’s United Church of Christ.<br />
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Moses Heilman died in May of 1898. <br />
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Also, two sons of two early Lehighton tanners died prematurely in 1898. Daniel Olewine Sr died at seventy-nine in March of 1895. But his son Daniel Irwin Olewine died of typhoid fever in Philadelphia in January 1898 at the age of forty-two. <br />
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Another Lehighton connected tragedy occurred in May of 1898 when Burgess B. J. Kuntz’s son Edward was seriously injured from an exploding gasoline tank at a Missouri steel company. He had just begun working there as a chemist. <br />
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Upon receiving the news via telegram, Postmaster and former tanner and mayor Kuntz immediately left for Missouri. However he was unable to reach his son before he passed. His remains were shipped back to Lehighton for burial. Edward J. Kuntz was only twenty-five.<br />
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Ironically, in 1899, in the same year that their building was completed, both Frederick and John Leuckel died. Frederick in June and his son John died unexpectedly in October from stomach difficulties.<br />
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Incidentally, John Leuckel’s mother-in-law, who was also the mother of Lehighton’s well-known planning mill owner Henry Miller died in an unfortunate accident just months after John’s death. Mrs George Miller died at the age of 79 from a fractured her skull after falling into the family well at their Franklin home.<br />
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<b><u>The Wilkes-Barre Bank Heist in 1870 leads to arrests and a murder:</u></b><br />
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My favorite story involves a pair of bank robbers who hit a bank in Wilkes-Barre in 1870 who came to Lehighton to lay low. The four suspicious men were “loafing about” Mantz’s Hotel (in the block south of the Hi-Rise today) and rumors quickly spread around town about the character and deeds of these men.<br />
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Forty year old Constable John “J. T.” Weston took the gossip seriously. The robbers instantly drew their guns on the constable’s approach, making their escape out the back of the hotel. And though it was February, they crossed the LVRR tracks and went into the river, all the while during a “raging snowstorm.”<br />
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Weston gathered a posse of men, all armed, and made their way to Weissport, to the vicinity of old bottling works (behind Hofford’s red-brick mill at the end of the bridge owned today by Tom McEvilly) where the crooks were said to leave the river.<br />
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The men were captured later, but not without resistance. Their attempts to fire at the posse were in vain as their weapons were too wet from their mid-winter swim. Rumors quickly spread that the $30,000 in cash, bonds, and securities were stashed on the mountainside somewhere opposite of Packerton dip, in the Long Run section of East Weissport.<br />
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The robbers were sentenced to 20 years in the Eastern State penitentiary and were said to have died there. However by 1906, it was speculated that they communicated the whereabouts to other prisoners who upon their release came to town to claim the treasure.<br />
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In May 1906 three strangers arrived in town, at least one of them was well-dressed and seemed to be carrying a large sum of money. He and a friend got into fisticuffs in a Lehighton “saloon” in the afternoon, the friend threatening to have the other arrested.<br />
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Later, word spread through town that these men, along with another man, were seen digging in the area of the missing bank loot. That night, three shots rang out in a yard of a home on the outer edge of town. <br />
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They found the well dressed man with three bullets in his lungs, with the muzzle blast burned into his clothes, shot at close range.<br />
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Suicide was ruled out. He had a watch and about $35 on him. Authorities suspected the clever perpetrator left a small portion to give the appearance of suicide over robbery.<br />
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Constable J. T. Weston was born in Carbon’s “frontier” logging settlement of Sandy Run. He died in Allentown in 1914.<br />
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<b><u>Lehighton's Three Stone-facade Banks:</u></b><br />
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At about the same time Citizen's Bank was going in, the Hazleton National Bank arrived in town and likewise wanted to build an impressive structure to lure Lehighton's abundant cash flows. Hazleton took over the former First National Bank. <br />
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First St was once known as “Bank St," most likely referring to the street closest to the bank of the river.<br />
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The Hazelton Bank building was opened in December of 1911, and for the convenience of a parking lot and modern drive-up window, moved to the corner of First and North Sts in 1963. The original stone face of Citizens Bank has long been obscured by metal-work meant to give the old bank a “modern” look. It was most recently known as First Federal Bank. Another bank, on South First, was once known as Dine Bank in 1916, then later Bank of Lehighton, then People’s Bank, and most recently PNC Bank.<br />
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Next to the former PNC Bank building was once the regal looking hotel owned by Alvin Hausman, which was later run by his son Howard Hausman. Howard's son Willard graduated from Lehighton High School Class of 1927. <br />
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Alvin's hotel was torn down by People's Bank to make way for a parking lot. This picture shows Alvin standing at post, with his son Howard at the wheel of the car along with grandson Willard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Alvin Hausman hotel as it appeared on First St around 1920 (Willard, the boy in the car was born in 1909). This was torn down to make room for People's/PNC Bank's side parking lot. Note two things: You can still see the steep gables of the building to the left in today's green-painted "14-Acre Farm" Deli (formerly Lehighton Bakery). Also note the edge of the building on the right has balcony woodwork that matches Owen W. Snyder's balcony woodwork. The fact that both this hotel and the Snyder property picture show their respective buildings festooned with our flag leads me to believe it was an important anniversary year. The 150th Centennial of our nation would have been 1926, however that would make the boy Willard in the passenger seat to be 15 or 16 and he is certainly younger than that. Perhaps it was the 50th year of our town, which would have been 1916.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The woodwork of the railing of Dr. Owen Snyder home today being <br />
readied to be remounted to the balcony is the same pattern as the First<br />
Street building next to the Hausman Hotel pictured above. </td></tr>
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<b><u>The McCormicks of the Lehighton Press:</u></b><br />
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Publisher David McCormick was the grandson of Mary Mockler. In her obituary of 1900, Mockler was described as a longtime resident of Lehighton with an ever clear mind. She was well versed in world and local affairs due to her extensive reading. Her first husband David McCormick was born in Ireland in 1804 and died here in 1854.<br />
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But when the Civil War broke out, her new husband, Dr. William Mockler (also of Ireland) enlisted along with her three of her sons, including William Carpenter McCormick. Mockler was fatally killed at Fredericksburg and the twice widowed mother lived out her years with her son W.C.<br />
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William Carpenter McCormick, father of publisher David owned a bit of Civil War celebrity. After the war, McCormick was known to be among the people to personally guard ex-Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The two grew in friendship and mutual admiration for each other.<br />
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A current Lehighton-area resident, Larry E. Ahner of Long Run had a similar experience. Ahner was given command and control of guarding Saddam Hussein after his capture during the Iraq war. Ahner had daily, personal, one-on-one contact with the reviled dictator. Ahner is hoping to one day write a book of this experience. <br />
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After the war, the McCormicks first lived at Hickory Run, working for the logging families there, which is where David and his siblings were born. Two of those siblings died as toddlers and are buried in the peaceful little cemetery near the park office, surrounded by majestic 200-plus-year old hemlocks.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The quote on James and Thomas McCormick's grave at<br />
Hickory Run reads: "Suffer them to come unto me and<br />
forbid them not."</td></tr>
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Prior to the McCormick family arrival in Hickory Run, there was a devastating flood there in October of 1849. Due to the over timbering of land and the steep and narrow terrain, flash flood waters rushed unabated into three dams, one of which owned by logger J. S. Gould (it was a 70-plus-acre dam) and two owned by Mahlon Taylor, gave way. <br />
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Most of the family homesteads were wiped out, children, fathers and mothers were lost. One well-respected blacksmith of that area lost his wife and four children that night. He survived them by forty years and was one of the last people buried in this nearly forgotten cemetery.<br />
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<b><u>The Morthimer & McCormick Rivalry:</u></b><br />
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Not only did the business and political rivaly spill into their respective papers from time to time, but I have in my possession G.W. Morthimer’s copy of Brenckman’s 1913 “History of Carbon County.” Based on his handwriting and notes in the margins, Morthimer apparently regularly consulted this copy when preparing articles such as obituaries of Lehighton’s leading people. <br />
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Brenckman’s book of course was written in rather flattering language. However, when David McCromick died at the age of 60 of a heartattack in 1933, allowed Morthimer to write his rival’s obituary. <br />
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The Evening Leader’s copy is fairly true to Brenckman’s biography with a few edits. Morthimer’s pencil crossed out words like “well-known” and striking out phrases like “The Lehighton Press faithfully mirrors the important happenings” with “No” written in the margin.<br />
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McCormick had also been postmaster of Lehighton several years after Morthimer’s tenure. McCormick was also treasurer of Lehigh Fire Company and was the first person of the newly formed “Loyal Order of Buffalo” lodge in Lehighton in 1912. <br />
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The “Lehighton Press’s” David McCormick was also involved in politics, running for some of the same offices held by Morthimer. McCormick was the son of the locally famous Civil War veteran W.C. McCormick.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of David McCormick's palm cards from his <br />
mayoral run in the early 1900s.</td></tr>
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Given the prominence of his father’s veteran status, gives little wonder in his chairman’s role in the Sons of Veterans organization. This group held a large encampment at the Lehighton Fair grounds in the summer of 1916. <br />
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Members from all over the county and beyond came to parade, drill, and wake to reveille each morning in a week long camp out during the first week of July. They even fired guns on the grounds of the fair. Lehighton won the right to host this annual event over Weatherly’s application due to McCormick’s persistence. Several letters of correspondence for this event still exist and are included here.<br />
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The final edition of the “Lehighton Press” ran on Christmas Day 1947. With David’s passing in 1933, the paper was published by son Robert David McCormick. In the end, the final three employees were: linotypist Alice Heintzelman, Robert’s sister and columnist Mary (McCormick) Ray, as well as Harry Miner who was a 54-year employee who worked as typesetter and printer for most of his career but also as reporter. <br />
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Miner was of the old Weissport Miner’s. This family was deeply involved in Weissport’s past from postmasters to the Fort Allen Iron Works.)<br />
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George W. Morthimer took over the Evening Leader from his father, an immigrant from Scotland. He was county auditor in 1893, a member of Borough Council and the board of education in town. He himself became burgess as it was then known in 1903 and ran again in 1909 unopposed. He was also Assistant Postmaster of Lehighton during Grover Cleveland’s first term in the late 1880s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handwritten notes of Guy Morthimer from the<br />
news of the day, August 1, 1924.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A typed letter from David McCormick of the<br />
Lehighton Press 1918.</td></tr>
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<b><u>Reuben Small of Small and Koch Dairy:</u></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Employees of Small and Koch in 1926. The very front and center gentleman is Reuben Koch. On his right is<br />
his father-in-law William S. Koch and to Reuben's left is William Daniel Koch. The man to the right of William S. looks like one of William S.'s brothers. Isborn Koch who was formerly in business with his brother died in 1930. <br />
The taller woman left of the post is book-keeper Rachel Strang who one day pronounced to all that she would one day marry Reuben. And they did.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odd Happenstance - Researching for the 1918 Influeza outbreak, I came<br />across this article under Lehighton News in Allentown Morning Call -<br />2 Aug 1918 - When I saw a young woman resigning, I wondered right away<br />if it was the same woman who is mentioned above, I wondered if it were<br />her, disgruntled, spurned perhaps. And yes it was her, about eight years <br />before the picture above was taken (Added 20 March 2020).</td></tr>
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Reuben Small came to the Lehigh Valley from Massachusetts to attend business school. Along with his education, he married Mary “Esther” Koch 1905 and created one of Carbon County’s best early dairies. William S. and Susan (Daniel Olewine’s daughter) Koch owned the southwest 200 acres of Lehighton next door to the Olewine homestead. <br />
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The first enterprise of Small and his brother in law, William “Daniel” Koch on the Koch land was to form the Orchard Poultry and Truck Farm. Soon after it became the business traded as Small and Koch Dairy. <br />
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But then it appears that Reuben had a few missteps in the early years of the Great Depression. He built a large brick home (the home directly behind the PennDOT building on Ninth St today) and apparently misapplied money from the dairy for its construction. <br />
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His marriage to Esther also ended and Reuben married the dairy’s bookkeeper Rachel Strang. Strang once grandly pronounced to Esther that she would one day steal Reuben away from her. <br />
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Eventually bought out by Gerstlauer Dairy, Small moved back home to Massachusetts with his second wife Rachel. The well-known and recently departed WWII veteran of Mahoning Valley, Chester Mertz, was a relation to the Smalls and visited them often, helping out on their Westport dairy farm. <br />
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Gerstlauer’s operated well into the 1950s until it was taken over by the Zimmerman family of New Mahoning. Zimmerman’s of course is home to the champagne of Lehighton, Zimmerman’s Dairy ice tea.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reuben Small and his family and friends loved hunting in Potter County. The more well known picture of them at the Lehighton Park appeared in Ebbert and Ripkey's Lehighton book. These photos all appear courtesy of Lois Small<br />
of Westport, Massachusetts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's Reuben Small on the right. Photo taken 1/2 block from Bretney's Photo Studio above the Jacob Weiss Park in 1920s.</td></tr>
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<b><u>Isborn Koch Solves a Death:</u></b><br />
I. S. Koch was involved in helping to solve a local suicide mystery in an odd occurrence of happenstance. In September of 1900, the body of a man was discovered in the Packerton Yard. It was determined that the man had purchased a bottle of carbolic acid from a drugstore in Mauch Chunk and swallowed the deadly dose in a freight car. The man’s age was estimated at thirty-three years of age and he was buried in the “common ground” of the Lehighton Cemetery.<br />
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While talking to customers on a routine business sweep through the lower Lehigh Valley, Koch was able to connect the unidentified man to a missing butcher from Richlandtown near Quakertown. His name was George J. Jones and he had a wife and two children. It was fully expected that his family would reinter his body closer to his home.<br />
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<b><u>Moses Heilman and the construction of his Ice House:</u></b><br />
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Tragedy befell the Heilman’s when in 1891 he contracted Thomas Arner of Franklin Township to expand his ice house to a 60 by 160 foot building. Not only was this building to be 30 feet wider, it was also 30 feet higher than the previous one.<br />
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Arner had a 30 foot platform built for his workers to set the heavy timbers for the rafters of this mammoth building. The then aging Moses Heilman was there supervising when he saw the great weight cause the platform to fail. When the timber smashed down, several workers were thrown into the air. Oscar Heilman, a son of Nathan Heilman, was among two of the young men killed that day. Arner received a broken jaw. <br />
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<b><u>Eugene Baer- Silk and Smallpox:</u></b><br />
Of course Baer and his expansive silk mill at Seventh and Bridge Sts was an asset to our community. Baer had bestowed land to the borough on which the community pool was built along with our booster club football field. Baer even sponsored one of our local semi-professional baseball teams.<br />
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His parents were the ones who got their start in silk mills and still lived in and operated one in New Jersey. Upon visiting his family in Paterson in February 1902, Eugene came home to Lehighton with the dreaded disease and his home was quarantined.<br />
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This was not an isolated outbreak. Many cases were reported in the larger cities in the northeast at that time. By May however, it was more widespread in Lehighton with at least eight more people in this vicinity became ill, including Nathan Ebert, Carrie Bachman and her father William, the and the Robert Drumbore family.<br />
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Most of the cases were near Baer's Third and Alums Sts home and along Bridge St in the upper vicinity of his silk mill. The Lehighton Board of Health took the extreme measure of quarantining this portion of town and southward on Bridge St with rope, with monitors to ensure no one would enter or leave. <br />
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Railroader and grocery store owner William Bachman of Bridge St died in June. His adult daughter Carrie followed him two weeks later. His widow Sarah continued running their Bridge St grocery store with their daughter Gertrude. <br />
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<b><u>Benjamin J. Kuntz – Tanner & Mayor:</u></b><br />
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Kuntz, as mentioned earlier, was a three-term mayor of town and lived in a small home at the corner of Second and Alum, across the street from the O. W. Snyder residence.<br />
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Kuntz spent his last years as a fire insurance agent in Philadelphia, but made arrangements to be buried in his hometown, alongside that of his son Edgar and wife Ellen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At first glance, this almost looks like the former G.C. Murphy building that once operated across the lane from today's Hi-Rise. However this building burned in a 1963 fire in what is today the parking lot of Rite Aid on North First St Lehighton.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above is the inverted cross painted on the ceiling of the Knights of Malta Hall, on the second floor of the former "Hinkle's Downtown Grille." Also pictured here are the wardrobe closets. Each door was labeled for the costumes contained: "Blueman Master Builder," "White...Goliath's," "Knight of the Green," and "Priestly Pass."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Moyer and Haupt Edsel dealership did not last long before the entire Ford Garage located there when<br />
the Edsel line of cars was discontinued. Lehighton Ford trades in this Route 443 building today.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside of the Elks August 12, 1950 Coaster Races Program in Lehighton.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The above three fire pictures are from Reuben Small's collection of that time simply labeled "Lehighton Garage fire." The problem with this being Serfas is there doesnt appear to be brick walls in the known Serfas Motor fire pictures. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This picture is from the Haupt family collection of the Serfas Motor fire in May 1918. Note the distinct roof profile of today's Dr. Bruce Hartman's dental office building, next to today's Mallard Market (not seen here), in the background. This is the current location of a three story brown brick building directly behind the former Times News Building on Iron St.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Ronald Rabenoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14527709656760280300noreply@blogger.com0