WOW!! Thanks for sharing those memories! That is interesting. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: [VASHENAN] Re: VASHENAN-D Digest V03 #181 Date: 10/6/2003 10:22:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:lhzirkle@bcpl.net">lhzirkle@bcpl.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com">VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com">VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Regarding the Shenandoah Community Workers at Bird Haven: In 1940 I worked there for about six months. My work was secretarial for Mr. Clark and I ran the Bird Haven Post Office. I took dictation and typed the outgoing letters for Mr. Clark. In the post office most of my work was sending money orders for farmers to such companies as Jim Brown, Wards and Sears. Someone killed one of the wild goats on the mountain and sent away the hide to be tanned. When it came back c.o.d. the recipient thought it was for too much money and wouldn't accept it. I had to return it to the tanner. Each month I prepared the financial report for the post office. The work was easy for me as I had had a 12-month secretarial course at Strayer College on the 1936 scholarship for Shenandoah County. My salary was $10 per week. The Workers made beautiful solid maple furniture, salad bowls and lazy susans. In my spare time I made a salad bowl which I still have. I think there were less than a dozen workers in the factory. I don't remember their names. Mr. Clark bought a new radio-phonograph console and had the finish stripped off and refinished it in maple. At first I stayed with a nearby Moomaw family where room and board cost me $0.50 per day. I went home to New Market on weekends. The Moomaws had no running water. Later, in the spring, I began boarding at a Mrs. Funkhouser's at Bayse. I became good friends with her oldest son, Harold, who was later killed in the Battle of the Bulge. (At that time I was in the Navy at Bliss Electrical School at Takoma Park, MD where everyone donated blood for the casualties.) Another man who boarded there, Gilbert Barb, killed one of wild goats and I remember taking a goat sandwich in my lunch. Lewis Harold Zirkle lhzirkle@bcpl.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <VASHENAN-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:02 AM Subject: VASHENAN-D Digest V03 #181 ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe.