This is where genealogy begins! Bob lefler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Martin" <jbmart51@earthlink.net> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] (some) Westchester (and allotherlocationsalso)booksavailabl... > HI! When we first moved out to the 'boonies' of Hunterdon County from > Atlantic City, NJ, we weren't here one month when we had a whopper of a > snowstorm (1965), and our gas stove 'saved us'. We lit the top burners > with > a match, cooked and got heat from them for 2 days. Played Monopoly and > other > board games. Kept our sanity by reading in the daylight and playing games > at > night.( with the help of candles!) We'd rented an old farmhouse with a > huge > kitchen so we essentially lived in that kitchen > The kids had made friends with the girls down the road so they had > company. > My mother told me I had better get in LOTS of groceries and canned goods > being so far out in the countrry. Best advice she ever gave me. I don't > think we had an electric can opener then, either. (Were they invented back > then?) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara de Mare" <barbarademare@yahoo.com > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:03 PM > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] (some) Westchester (and all > otherlocationsalso)booksavailabl... > > >> Hi Maureen, >> >> If you don't mind answering, where in Dutchess did you live, what was >> your >> maiden name, and did you ever show at the Rhinebeck fair? I grew up on a >> farm in Columbia County and found the 5 days without electric amusing, as >> did you too , obviously. It was a way of life. The best was when my >> father decided to get a gas stove so at least we could eat when the >> electric was out--only to discover it had an electric starter. >> >> My grandparents and then my uncle had a large Guernsey farm in Salt >> Point. >> My uncle, Louis Fish, Jr., was very involved with the fair. We had >> Jerseys but always showed in Dutchess rather than Columbia as Dutchess >> had >> better facilities for 4-H kids (my grandmother Ivy Fish ran the dorms), >> my >> cousins were there, and my mother had grown up showing there. Chatham >> Fair was rinky-dink. >> >> Barbara >> >> Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. >> Historian, genealogist and attorney >> 155 Polifly Road >> Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 >> (201) 567-9440 office >> BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com (home) >> http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/ >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: quillpen1 <quillpen1@optonline.net> >> To: nywestch@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:35:56 PM >> Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] (some) Westchester (and all other >> locationsalso)booksavailabl... >> >> I grew up on a dairy farm way out in the boonies of Dutchess County. >> Things >> like that happened all the time.....of course that was after we got >> electric >> power and running water in the first place. LOL. >> >> Dad had 92 head and had to milk them all by hand when we had power >> outages. >> He was used to it from the days when there was no electric power in the >> barns but it was no fun, believe me!! >> >> Maureen >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <GonyaJL@aol.com> >> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] (some) Westchester (and all other >> locationsalso)booksavailabl... >> >> >>>I lived a good part of my life out at Glass Lake, Averill Park. We once >>>had >>> an ice storm that took down all the power lines and the entire area was >>> without power for FIVE days! Water pipes froze -- Miserable mess! Be >>> glad >>> you're not there! >>> >>> Jean >>> <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers >>> free >>> email to everyone. 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