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I had bread bags too!!  Weren't those the good old days?!

Remember when girls wore snow pants to school?  We had to wear dresses and when it was cold we were allowed to wear snow pants under our skirts but had to take them off when we got to school.  Times have really changed!

I had bread bags too!!  Weren't those the good old days?!

Remember when girls wore snow pants to school?  We had to wear dresses and when it was cold we were allowed to wear snow pants under our skirts but had to take them off when we got to school.  Times have really changed!

Thinking about them All this time of year...but for those of you who truly know me...I'm just being me...May they never be forgotten...
 
Dear Ancestor
 
"Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
 
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own
 
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so
I wonder how you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you."
 
-Walter Butler Amanda Palmer?

Thank you so much to the Penn State students who came to help at the cemetery on August 23, 2013. From left to right: Kyle Gordon, Mikaela Smith, Kassondra Coulter, Codie Miller, Dale Kopchik, Steve Terwilliger, Rob DeNoon, Amanda Horner, Austin Swanson, Paul Hetrick and Andrew Hannah.
 

The reason the Rumbarger Cemetery looks so nice is due to the hard work of our summer help.   Alex Welch, Dom Kriner, Blaine Curley, Lauren Sedor and Jackie Brosky.  What a fantastic group!  Thank you!