In the fifth installment of our Greatest Stories Never Told series, Mary Lou Walker recounts how she got to the bottom of the unusual inscription on her 4th great grandmother’s grave marker in the Old Carrying Place Cemetery. Who was the mystery man who placed it?
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Featured: Brickman Family Collection
The Brickman Family Collection provides some interesting insights into the activities of the Brickman family and in particular Audra Brickman, who was a very active community member and volunteer. The collection is also notable for the dozens of beautiful photographs it included. Sadly, we estimate that over 60% of the photos are unidentified. Anyone with a good (visual) knowledge of the Brickmans and affiliated families is welcome to visit and help us put names to these forgotten faces.
Other items in the collection include:
- Records of various social and community organizations
- Wartime memorabilia (War bond canvassing materials, emergency war committee meeting minutes)
- Letters home from WWII airman Joe Foley, who was posted overseas
- Letters to Audra Brickman from many correspondants.
- Business papers – covering the Brickman’s agricultural, canning and other endeavors.
The collection also includes items related to a number of well-known County families: Adams, Bonter, Foley, and Sherry, just to name a few.
Recollections of Rednersville
Watch this fourth episode of our series The Greatest Stories Never Told. Beverly Sprague chats with Evelyn Peck about growing up on a farm and the kinds of things youngsters got up to when the grown-ups weren’t around.
Produced by Seventh Town Historical Society thanks to a grant from The County Foundation.