I stopped by Buzbys today since Marilyn was out of stock on my CD and needed some more. We got to talking for a while and she told me she had been saving something for me because she thought I might be interested. She had copies of the Batsto gazette from 1966 to the early ninties that she no longer wanted and she offered them to me. That was nice of her.
It is quite a stack. I've gone through some of it and there is alot of interesting content. I will post particuarly interesting content I come across. The older papers have yellowed with age. Bud Wilson was a frequent contributor and there are photos of his excavations.
Guy, Ben, can I scan articles from the gazette to the site with out infringement?
Marilyn had been speaking with Karen Riley and was suggesting some topics for her new book. She relayed some of the info to me, that she had suggested to her.
Apparently the Schiess family had owned much of the land around AppleJack road. It was named so because (as you might expect) applejack was made there. the road used to be lined abundantly with apple trees. During prohibition the feds came in and made them cut every tree down
Something else. Hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't mention this on the forum....I'll keep it vague. somewhat recently agents from alcohol, tobacco, and firearms where unable to contact a local piney by phone so they went to his house and were chased off by "a pack of wild dogs". They asked Marilyn what they could do to contact him and she said, "well, I wouldn't go back to his house again" :rofl:They agreed.
Jeff
It is quite a stack. I've gone through some of it and there is alot of interesting content. I will post particuarly interesting content I come across. The older papers have yellowed with age. Bud Wilson was a frequent contributor and there are photos of his excavations.
Guy, Ben, can I scan articles from the gazette to the site with out infringement?
Marilyn had been speaking with Karen Riley and was suggesting some topics for her new book. She relayed some of the info to me, that she had suggested to her.
Apparently the Schiess family had owned much of the land around AppleJack road. It was named so because (as you might expect) applejack was made there. the road used to be lined abundantly with apple trees. During prohibition the feds came in and made them cut every tree down
Something else. Hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't mention this on the forum....I'll keep it vague. somewhat recently agents from alcohol, tobacco, and firearms where unable to contact a local piney by phone so they went to his house and were chased off by "a pack of wild dogs". They asked Marilyn what they could do to contact him and she said, "well, I wouldn't go back to his house again" :rofl:They agreed.
Jeff
