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. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ *************************************** ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
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. Find out more about what's free from AOL at >> http://www.aol.com. >> *************************************** >> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ >> *************************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.4/702 - Release Date: 2/25/2007 > 3:16 PM >