Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice This Month's Library Additions at Tri-Counties Site 01 April 2006 TO 30 April  2006 - Month 116  Bradford County PA Chemung County NY Tioga County PA

What's NEW at Tri-Counties Tri Counties Home Page Warnings & Disclaimer How to Use This Site Say Hello to Joyce Statement of Purpose Volunteer Help Wanted What's New Previous Months .  Joyce's New Garden Room, with seedlings growing everywhere - In honor of National Garden Month, Earth Day and Arbor Day. Send in a photo of your garden - last year or this - no matter how big or small. (Some of you in warmer climates have gardens already this year. Flower pot on a windowsill is big enough to count if that's all you have.) Include your first and last  name and state. I'll try to remember to change this picture during the month as the seedlings grow. Gardens of our Site Guests

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Subjects	April 2006 Tri-Counties Month 116	Townships
Articles 1900 Museum Bibles Biography Books Business Celebrations Cemeteries Census 127 Centenarians Churches Clippings Communities Crime Deeds Diaries Directories Donations Emigrants Entertainment Events Families Flagholders Hotels Houses Immigrants Legal Papers Let's Visit Letters Libraries Our Library Maps Marriages Migration Military Museums Newspapers Obituaries Obits by  Cemetery Organizations Pensions Photographers Places Poetry (Local) Politics Postcards Purpose Queries Reference Books Research Services Research Tips Reunions Schools Scrapbooks Search Sponsors Sports Submit (How to) Success Tax Theaters Then-Now Time Tourist Places Towns Trains Travel Vital Records Volunteer Wills Women	Date New Page or Event 01 APR 2006 April Fool's Day  (Don't tell Barnum I did this to him) National Gardening Month Set your clocks FORWARD before you go to bed tonight Partitioned Search Engine just for the What's New Users Two Versions - If you have not used this new tool yet, you'll be pleased Seven sub categories in first version and SIXTEEN in the second. If you get TOO MANY hits with the regular search engine, this will let you narrow it down to the manageable Have you seen the New CRIME category in the left sidebar - added last month. Some hilarious stories and some heartbreakers.  Exhibition Coming up about Floyd Woodhull and his Old Time Masters April 1917 - News of Recruitment - World War One - Elmira Newspapers Search Engine reindexed with 14259 pages - Both the older search engine and the new partitioned search engine at bottom of page. 02 APR 2006 1954 - Queen Mab and Caspar Weis married 48 Years Norton's Hotel in New Albany 03 APR 2006 Poray & Howell Auto Service Stations, Elmira More Lake Street Presbyterian Church Records Added Howland Cemetery 2006 (Deerfield) Wyalusing Postcards and Photos 1958-59 St. Agnes Basketball Season Mitchell - Sheardown family Letters 1849-1851 1913 Monroeton School Photo 1885 Wellsboro Agitator Extracted articles -  January and February added Remembering Myra Kingsbury; “but half expressing it.” You can tell from today's output that I'll do ANYTHING to keep from working on my taxes!!! 05 APR 2006 At two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. Same thing will happen in the PM if you are not on military time. 06 APR 2006 Bradford County Library at Burlington - April 6   2 p.m.   Suzanne Elder, Associate Professor, Penn State University,  identifies time period, locale, economic status of old photographs.  Register   570-297-2436 More Information It's Computer File Backup Day for all Tri-Counties guests. See why on the latest entry in our Garden Photo page. Read the sad story and then do your backups. I will do my backup FIRST thing then get back to taxes. 1880 Floyd Whitney Kills Warren Stafford in Chatham 07 APR 2006 Opening of Junior Curators Display at Chemung Valley History Museum - Details Below 08 APR 2006 Dr. Bird of New Albany Honored (Undated) 09 APR 2006 Kathy's March installment of Potterville photos have been added. Four terrific photos, with full captions are at bottom of the other Potterville photo page.  16 APR 2006 Report on Erin's 2006 Irish Festival Dr. Mahlon Ballard of Troy 17 APR 2006 You have 'til midnight to MAIL YOUR TAX RETURN !!! 18 APR 2006 One Hundred Years Ago Today - The Great San Francisco Earthquake 19 APR 2006 Elizabeth Morris -Oliver Nelson Family of Granville History of Undertaking in Troy, History of Vickery Funeral Home and the Building in whichi it is located 1975 Troy Fair Celebrates 100th Year More Tales of Troy STILL MORE house  photos added to the Troy Houses page. WHY do we not get as many wonderful photos of houses from other villages in our area as we do from Troy? Come on Folks, clean out your attics and send more area house photos  in.  21 APR 2006 Potterville School by Sarah Edsell - Includes class lists 1898-1905 Kathy MANCHESTER Jones' April Submission - 4th installment on her 2006 New Year's Resoluton to send something every month.  Potterville School Booklets - 1912-1922 John SHAFER & Charity COE Descendants 1900 Elmira and Elmira Heights Directory - Special commendation to Debbie JUDGE Spencer and Donna WALKER Judge who typed ALL 700 plus pages for us including the house by house street directory. Want to know who lived next door to your ancestor. Now you can do it.  Roster of 149th Regiment, Company A - Civil War - Recruited in Tioga County PA Ingalls Brothers and Some Related Civil War Soldiers from Tioga, PA 22 APR 2006 Earth Day Our Earth Day rain made the garden grow a week's worth overnight.  23 APR 2006 St. John's Church. Troy Wellsboro Shoe Hospital (1990) AND our 127th Centenarian Tribute to Thalia C. Wilson. Nurse of Troy 27 APR 2006 PICO Search Engine reindexed with 14362 pages. We have added many hundreds of obituaries this month since the PICO last indexed, so be sure to check the obit partitions in search engine below.  R. E. Decker of Troy - No Fumigating Needed 28 APR 2006 Arbor Day (Undated article) Restoration of the Keystone Theater Remembering the Day Sousa Came to Town (1914 event - 1988 article) Yoshi & Barnum share a spot of morning sun on the porch. Move over, You're hogging all the sunshine. Laquin, The Ghost Town That Lives Once  a Year (1987 Article - Towanda Review) Granville Summitt Creamery Company Cora CASE - Allen WALBORN Family Brill Cemetery (1985) Hammond Cemetery (2005) Merryall Cemetery Record Book 29 APR 2006 A Middlebury Photo Page - Simonds Family, Hammond Baseball In My Merrie Oldsmobile 30 APR 2006 Tioga County Historical Society meeting - Robinson House, Wellsboro - 2 PM This Month's Spring Fever Special Feature - Gardens of our Site Guests Seventeen of our Tri-County "Regulars" participated in this feature and two even came in on this our final day of the month. We're going to have another fun plant feature for May as soon as I get it ready, linking history to our gardens.  A special treat for April - the first Rose Breasted Grosbeak has arrived. Everything is very early this year since we had no winter.	Albany Armenia Ashland Asylum Athens Baldwin Barclay Big Flats Bloss Brookfield Burlington Canton Catlin Charleston Chatham Chemung Clymer Columbia Covington Deerfield Delmar Duncan Durell Elk Elkland Elmira Erin Farmington Franklin Gaines Granville Hamilton Herrick Horseheads Jackson Knoxville Lawrence LeRoy Liberty Litchfield Mansfield Middlebury Monroe Morris N. Towanda Nelson Orwell Osceola Overton Pike Putnam Richmond Ridgebury Rome Roseville Rutland S. Waverly Sayre Sheshequin Shippen Smithfield South Creek Southport Springfield Standing Stone Stevens Sullivan Sylvania Terry Tioga Towanda Troy Tuscarora Ulster Union VanEtten Veteran W. Burlington Ward Warren Wells Wellsboro Westfield Wilmot Windham Wyalusing Wysox

Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice This Month's Library Additions at Tri-Counties Site 01 May 2006 TO 31 May  2006 - Month 117  Bradford County PA Chemung County NY Tioga County PA

Remember that the site is arranged PRIMARILY around the Eighty Township Pages, and they all link from the sidebar at the right of the page. Subject areas link both from the sidebar at the left and from the icons below. My mail tells me that many long time site guests are very unaware of many of its special features. Open every window so you don't miss any.

August  2005 Statistics
Site Statistics - 13,392 Pages on site at month beginning. One year ago we had 11,690 pages on site as of August 1. That's 1702 new pages in one year.

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Use the Drop Down Window to search selected areas of site for Obituaries

This first version allows searches just for burials and obituaries

If you do not take the time to press the drop down list, you will not have a clue how this works. Here is the gift. It is up to you to use it. Don't assume this is just the same old PICO we have had for several years. The number of Thank you notes I have received incdicates that fewer than 1% of my guests have even looked at this or recognized its value.

COSTUME EXPERT TO SPEAK AT COUNTY LIBRARY
     Suzanne Elder, Commonwealth speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Associate Professor of Costume Technology and Design, Penn State University, will speak at the Bradford County Library at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 6th.  The public is invited to challenge Ms. Elder’s expertise by bringing old photographs and items from a bygone relative’s old trunk, suitcase, or dresser drawer.  “Historic and antique clothing can reveal occupations, social and economic status, morals, religious affiliation and personalities,” said Professor Elder.  Her comments will explore the social and regional ramifications of what life was like historically in Pennsylvania communities.
      Suzanne Elder has had a career in the field of theatrical costuming spanning over 30 years.  She has worked in a variety of venues including educational theatre and professional theatre on regional and national levels; as a costumer collaborating with Walt Disney Theatrical Productions on the mounting of “The Lion King” on Broadway, with Macy’s Department Stores on the Thanksgiving Day Parade, and with Hershey Park Entertainment.
       The Pennsylvania Humanities Council inspires individuals to enjoy and share a life of learning enriched by human experience.   Commonwealth Speakers programs increase public understanding and appreciation of the arts, our history and the ideas that have shaped the United States as a nation.
To register for this presentation at the Bradford County Library, call 297-2436 during library hours: Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.  The County Library is located on Route 6, midway between Troy and Towanda.

For the past five months, a group of 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students at George Washington Elementary have been working after school as "Junior Curators" -- part of a new educational project led by the Chemung Valley History Museum.
Junior Curators is an inter-disciplinary educational experience that allows students to take on the roles of museum staff in creating their own history-based exhibition.  During this project, students have been actively engaged in the planning, designing, and building of their own exhibition - bring the "behind the scenes" museum experience to their school  Student responsibilities have included: research using primary and secondary sources, writing exhibit text and object labels, developing publicity materials, exhibit design and construction, and coordinating an opening reception.
This program offers children the unique opportunity to tour our museum to gain an understanding of what a museum does, and then create exhibitions in the school about subjects that are important to them. By allowing and encouraging students to think about history as something more than what they read in a textbook, our hope is that they will become more aware of their place in history.
All their hard work has paid off.  The Chemung Valley History Museum is proud to present the 5th and final Junior Curators Exhibit entitled: "The History of George Washington Elementary", which officially opens April 7, 2006 in the Frances Brayton Education Room.
Attached please find a copy of the press release written by the Junior Curators.  Please stop by to see what our future museum professionals have accomplished!
For more information, please contact:
Kimberly Richards, Interim Education Coordinator, Chemung County Historical Society, 415 East Water Street, Elmira, NY 14901, (T) 607-734-4167, ext. 207, (F) 607-734-1565, archivist@chemungvalleymuseum.org
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Karen Lesky, Principal, George Washington Elementary School, 422 West Washington Avenue, Elmira, NY 14905, (T) 607-735-3900, (F) (607) 735-3909.

 The movie is based on the 1862 Andrews Raid, in which Northern raiders commandeered a train (The General) in Georgia for the purpose of sabotaging Southern supply lines. In Keaton’s movie, the Northerners capture not only the train but the engineer’s girlfriend (acted by Marion Mack). The General’s engineer, Johnnie Gray (acted by Keaton), commandeers another train and chases The General. The movie includes many events of the read Raid, and, at Keaton’s insistence, used authentic reproductions of cavalry, artillery, uniforms, and gear. Filmed in Oregon (where Civil War-era track and locomotives still existed) the Oregon National Guard re-enacted both the Northern and Southern cavalry and troops in maneuvers and a battle.

 Tickets are from $21 - $34, children $10, and there are group rates. I think your members will enjoy this show very much.

You have a very impressive website!

Best wishes,
Anne Dawson
Outreach Coordinator
International Buster Keaton Society
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