This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: stonepegger Surnames: Lernard Rustin Sabin Townsend Conley Stafford Kelley Ballou Moon Brennan Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.vermont.counties.rutland/5001/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Fair Haven Era February 22, 1882 Your correspondent was agreeably surprised to note in last week's Era, the reunion of former residents of Wallingford, who have it seems pitched their tent in your growing town. In 1849-50 we passed in Wallingford two of the happiest years of a somewhat uneventful life, never since over and above adorned with hollyhocks and sunflowers. During the changing vicissitudes of more than thirty years, we had lost trace of most of the good fellows we knew and esteemed in those far away days, but whose memory yet lingers pleasantly and now and again returns to us as musically as came back to Father Prout the mellow notes of "The Bells of Shandon" Jolly Jone(?) Lernard, Gib and Charley Rustin, the Sabin boys, Norm Townsend, Steve, Joe and Tom Conley, Alfon and Steve Stafford, Harry Kelley and Bill Ballou, Honest John Moon and his brother Martin across the creek and others we might enumerate. Some no doubt have long since crossed to the other shore; others perhaps are yet lingering by the old hearth stones and many probably fighting life's battles on distant and busier fields, but good fellows all wherever their tents may be pitched. Wallingford was noted in those days for the friendliness and sociability of its people, and it is not surprising that her absent children, wherever the billows of destiny may cast them together should combine to perpetutate the inherited qualities of that good old burgh. We congratulate the Wallingford colony in Fair Haven on their numbers and respectability, and wish them many pleasant reunions. (This article was written by James Brennan Castleton correspondent for the Fair Haven Era) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.