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Wondering if anyone...knows who bought the old scrapbooks at the auction earlier this year...hoping :-)

My dad said that's them lol I thought so but wasn't sure.. Great picture by the way

They were my Great Aunt and Uncle....so you live in the trailer by the house

I'm a duttry. My great grandparents lived in the big white house at the end of hungry hollow road. Seems to me if our from sabula ur relatated hahaha

Do you mean these Duttry's 

The DuBois Area Historical Society has scheduled their Fifth Annual Spring Walk for May 18, 2013, at 10 AM.  It will be in Helvetia and led by Bill Allenbaugh.  No reservations needed.

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William (Bus), George and Clair Harvey taken about 1927

More from Gelnett...

 

Your family should have restored it then and enjoyed it.

Yes it would have been nice...but it wasn't supposed to be...we tried

Keen's and a little part of my Gramma's scrapbook

The school was built by my Husbands Great Grand Father "Thomas Edward Keen"and his wife  "Susan Jane (Pass) Keen"....his Grand Father went there and so did my Grand  Mother .... and many many more.....

 

We contacted the sisters who owned the Gelnett school house repeately with offers to buy only the building and tear it down, removing all of the debris.  They didn't want it to come down but eventually it would have or someone could have set it on fire.  It's always sad when these old buildings can't be renovated and used.

Who are "WE" and why would you want to tear it down...it was a brick building...and Could have been restored if you cared about it like my family did

 

No good reason??  Good grief.... I'm glad someone finally tore it down...Unlike the Wilson Building where they reduced a two story building down to a pile of rubble, and walked away... that was the end of the demolition. Come back in a hundred years, and i'd bet the pile of debris will still be there, maybe minus the wood which may have rotted into the ground by then...Get rid of these old eyesores, unless they are put to some valid use....Now we have the biggest rat hatchery in Sandy Twp. Here's an idea.... start a snake colony to control the rats...What's this pile of rubble doing to the property values of the area. I guess that isn't even a consideration...

It was not like the Wilson Building...It was a one room school house with a slate roof....very small and no water damage or anything else...my aunt wanted to buy it and restore it...but like everything else in this area with any kind of History it was tore down for NO GOOD REASON !!!

 

Isn't the building still there?

No...someone tore it down for NO good reason

I will have my dad look at this today he went to school there in fact I live right down the road from where it was in my family homestead a lot of my family went there.

Gelnett school was on what they now call home camp road....just a few miles out side of Du Bois..

where was gelnet school?

here are some from old research I had

Do you know anything about the first picture?

There are about 9 pictures at this website.

 

http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/category/towns/helvetia-pa

 

Thanks...I had found these years ago also...Looking for new ones...I know there out there...but Thank You Again

My mom has some but I have to take pics of them and then download them here.  What kind are you looking for?

any and all...I wish this town was still here...Thank you so much

Wondering if anyone has any pictures of Helvetia

sorry forgot to make the pictures larger

Yes we need them bigger...lol...and do you have info of who what where and when ?

New one...

 

I don't think this is what you mean?

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/hummingbird_moth.htm

 

Can you describe what is actually chewing on your plants?

Hummingbird Moth's....I watch them All the time

I have had what they call a"Humming Bird Moth" eating the flowers off mine ...they come out at night an only seem to eat the flowers...if you check them out on line it won't say they eat the flowers....but....I have watched them do it for the last two years...they also like my petunias.

Story Tellers

The Story Tellers

We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family

there is one who seems called to find the ancestors.

To put flesh on their bones and make them live

again, to tell the family story and to feel that

somehow they know and approve. To me, doing

geneology is not a cold gathering of facts but,

instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.

We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have

one. We have been called as it were by our genes.

Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell

our story. So, we do.

In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.

How many graves have I stood before now and

cried? I have lost count. How many times have I

told the ancestors you have a wonderful family

you would be proud of us?

How many times have I walked up to a grave and

felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot

say.

It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to

who am I and why do I do the things I do? It

goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever

to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let

this happen.

The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh

of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it.

It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able

to accomplish. How they contributed to what we

are today. It goes to respecting their hardships

and losses, their never giving in or giving up,

their resoluteness to go on and build a life for

their family.

It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and

keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense

understanding that they were doing it for us.

That we might be born who we are. That we might

remember them. So we do. With love and caring

and scribing each fact of their existence, because

we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called,

I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one

called in the next generation to answer the call

and take their place in the long line of family storytellers.

That, is why I do my family geneology, and that

is what calls those young and old to step up and

put flesh on the bones.

Unknown Author

The back part of the cemetery all mowed and trimmed.

The DuBois Area Historical Society is having their annual walk on Saturday May 5th.  Paul Sprague, the president of the Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society will be conducting the tour at Rumbarger Cemetery on Main St at 10AM. Paul will give the history of the cemetery and the "famous" founding fathers of the City of DuBois (formerly call Rumbarger before DuBois) that are buried there. The walk is free too! Come out for a while, enjoy the beautiful weather and learn some history of our town.

Hope to be there !