Thanks Tom for this submission.
This is a great way that everyone can contribute to this list. Not everone
is an expert on genealogy -- most of us aren't. But we all have memories of
our chidhood!
Most of us have memories of relatives now gone, that many subscribers never
met. Or as Tom also did, we can write about bits of Americana taht will be
of interest to a number of subsribers, including the ones who are not
Campbell desc. In a 1923 letter in Vol. 1 of the Campbell Cousins
Correspondence, my great-aunt, Inez Hoyt Boller, wrote about her husband
getting a Reo truck for his twice a day milk route. He waould drop off
empty milk cans and pick up full milk cans the farmers had placed on
road-side platforms and take the milk to the creamery in Elkland. Cousin
Ross Van Dusen mangaged that plant for Pet Milk until his untimely death.
Anyway, I road on that truck (or it's replacement). It was a red, stake
body, Reo truck. I remember riding it with Inez' husband, "Billy" Boller.
It seemed very dark when we would get up to make the morning run, even in
summer.
When there on winter vacations, the morning run was even more memorable
because the house had no indoor plumbing, central heat, nor electricity.
The water in the wash stand would be pretty cold by morning - and the early
morning trips to the outhouse on a cold winter morning were unforgetable.
By the 1940s, the truck was pretty tempermental about starting on cold
winter mornings, but he had a solution -- a few good whacks from a horse
whip and lots of cuss words. Eventually the truck would start. It was very
noisy with the cans rattling around in the back. Especially coming back
from the creamery with a load of empty cans on rutted, dirt roads. Before
we'd leave Elkland, he'd get me an ice cream cone, then stop in the hotel
for a quick beer.
See, it's easy.
Are you going to be a bunch of "takers" who want to let others do all the
work while you sit back and reap the benefits, or are you going to make some
contributions to the success of this list? Reading old letters makes it
very clear that our ancesters were proud that they were not "shirkers".
They knew that what you get out of something (like membership on this list)
is a function of what you put into it.
EVERRYONE has some memories they can share of a person, a place, or an
anctivity. Please follow Tom's example and send them to
CAMPBELL-PA-NELSON-L(a)rootsweb.com. You will help others and derive
satisfaction from knowing you are not a "freeloader."
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From: "Tom Campbell" <tcampbel(a)rochester.rr.com>
To: CAMPBELL-PA-NELSON-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Schornstheimer farm
Date: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 8:47 AM
I remember my Schornstheimer grandparents farm on Wall Street in
Elmira
quite well. They had sold off land around as time went on. I remember they
had sold the cows and still had the milk bottling building and equipment.
The big walk in cooler for storage they would put large blocks of ice,
bought from the ice house, in to keep everything cold. They still had some
horse drawn wagons and sleds left for delivering the milk. Although they
never used it as such when I was around, one barn was a tobacco barn. In
their kitchen was a big cast iron stove that was a combination gas and coal
that also furnished most of the heat for the house.
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