Hello - I've just started going through my mother's old photos. Tucked in an album was a tiny photo of a parade float. I think it's intended to depict a chicken and says "Hollenbecks" on it prominently. My mother grew up in Van Etten in the 1920s and stayed in the Chemung and Tioga (NY) county areas most of her life. Based on this and the old car in the below photo, I make a very uneducated guess of before 1950 for the date of the photo, and I'm wondering if it might be the Spencer Picnic parade. Please see scan here: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~shortstuff/hollenbecks.jpg A verse on the side of the float says (the best we can tell): "For me there is no rest My master takes my eggs __________ are best." It looks like two words in the blank. Can anyone make a good guess about the words? Is anyone familiar with this business? My sister who is still local says there's a Hollenbeck's feed store in the area. Trudy -- Trudi RAUTIO Short genealogy@shortstuff.com