Memorial Day Monday marks opening of the Old Town of Eaton Museum for this year. The day will highlight a special display in the yellow Museum Building next to the museum.
The display will be compliments of Doug Chilson and his wife Diane who collect interesting items from Eaton’s past. The Chilsons are founding members of the Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum and did a display for an event 3 years ago that was a success.
The main Eaton Museum Building will be open with its extensive Eaton history and there will be books on Eaton’s history for sale by Backstreet Mary.
The group is kicking off the little museums 25th year. The museum started in the Wood House on Brooklyn Street for the Bicentennial in 1995, moving to the ancient stone building on River Road in 1998.
The stone museum building is one of the few early rubble buildings built just after the 1790’s. The building was an early tannery building which became the shoemakers house. The Sprague family kept it in the family for much of its life of service to the community. The museum has a special display that honors Mr. Sprague who was a shoemaker, no doubt his father was as well since we have records dating to 1802 for William Sprague who was also a shoemaker..
So come out to Historic Eaton and visit for the day, enjoy the parade and history display on Rt. 26 and enjoy the rural quiet of Eaton. The hours are from 9 am until 1 pm.
Still standing in Eaton on Route 26 is the old O & W Depot Building.
This unique structure has remained in place and in use, with a short exception, since its original occupancy.
The building was erected on a piece of property considered one of the hamlet’s first farms, settled in 1794 by Levi Bonney. Bonney needs to be celebrated in a new NYS Historic Marker to replace the old stating that he was the first to come to this valley and stay. Some say he was Eaton’s first founding father and he claimed that he was Eaton's first abolitionist.
The depot is situated near the first road, “the Indian trail,” and by what became in the first decade of the 1800’s the plank road known as the Georgetown Turnpike and a stones throw from the Skaneateles Turnpike. These roads were built by the Morses and the businessmen of the area and used to transport the early products of the area.
The Georgetown turnpike was used to link Eaton with the Chenango Canal. The hamlet itself boasted Madison County’s first creamery, cheese factory, and the county’s first distillery, which became the very successful Empire Bottling Works. It was also home to the nation’s 3rd steam engine company, then A. N. Wood, later renamed the Wood, Taber & Morse Steam Engine Works.
As these businesses, with others, grew in importance, the necessity for better transportation brought about the need for the community to have its own stop on the railroad circuit.
The Midland Railroad (New York, Ontario and Western) was an important part of the Hamlet of Eaton’s business for freight as well as for passenger transport. Nobody pushed harder for its building than Wood, Taber & Morse. The company was swelling as a business and became what is considered the largest traction engine company in America by the 1880’s with it’s introduction of the first 4-wheel drive steam traction engine.
On January 11th, 1866, the New York, Ontario and Western was chartered, after much political pressure in the legislature to secure funding, on August 29th—the first passenger train was run on the main line for the purpose of transporting hop pickers. It was drawn by Engine #4, with Edwin Williams the Engineer.
By October 20th, the last rail was placed in Eaton, and on that Wednesday evening the last spike was driven. Mr. Ezra Leland, one of the first settlers of Eaton still alive, was allowed to fire
the first cannon blast to celebrate its completion.
Eventually, this site became the home of one of the largest milling companies in this part of the state, Moses and Cronk.
In 1957, the last piece of freight on the railway arrived; a ladder from Sears and Roebuck for Huber Cramphin. When the train left so did the O & W service to Eaton. It is said that the rail rise in Eaton was the steepest railroad grade this side of the Rockies. The small rail station building is standing today.
I thought I would put this up as an addition to last weeks story on the women of the Morse family. This is on Locust Hill and a spot that was located on Lebnon Hill Road just above Mill Street that was once the Skaneateles Turnpike. It from a biography on her after her death.
Ann Eliza Morse, daughter of Calvin and Belinda (Gardiner) Morse, was born in Eaton, N.Y.
Two favorite names of her early home, Locust Grove and The Vinery, bear witness to her healthy and happy surrounds, with her companionship of trees, birds and flowers.
Economy and industry, intelligence and piety, strength and intelligence pervaded by deep affection, were the molding influences of her young life. Her education was conducted at home, in private schools, and in Hamilton Academy until 1848, when at the age of seventeen, she became a pupil of Troy Seminary, in whose stimulating intellectual atmosphere she was an eager and responsive student, graduating in 1850.
In the autumn of the same year she went as a teacher to Chestnut Street Seminary, where she continued eight years. Carrying the enthusiasm of her school life into her new duties, her success in teaching was assured from the first. Definite and clear in the classroom, her own interest awakened that of her pupils.
At the opening of Vassar College, President Raymond, who had known her from childhood, (she being a favorite cousin of Mrs. Raymond), invited her to become a member of his family, as his assistant.
She had an official connection with the College until the second year, when she was appointed assistant to Miss Lyman, the Lady Principal. She retained this position during fourteen years, until her impaired health compelled her retirement in 1880. Her subsequent life was that of an invalid, but her fortitude and Christian submission glorified even these years of discipline and suffering.
Although the brief intervals she was literally “a shut in,” she was not inactive. Aided by her niece and constant companion, Miss Jessica Cone, editor of “Scenes from the Life of Christ,” (the fruit of their united labors), there was scarcely an interruption in their study of history, biography, literature, art, and current events. A glimpse of their work may be found in the paragraph we quote from a letter written in 1892:
“We have a very busy winter planned, one item of which is a ‘Ladies’ Reading Circle,’ for which careful preparation is indicated by program. Our first month was devoted to Lowell, the second to George W. Curtis, to be followed by Whittier and Tennyson. There is no monotony or dullness in our quiet, country-home lives. These weekly readings are full of earnest interest, and when we hear the constant testimony, ‘How elevating they are,’ we are more than satisfied.”
Of this torch of knowledge, kindled and kept burning in this little inland village, one can but say, “how far that little candle throws his beams.”
Interwoven with all other reading and study was that of the Book of Books. She rarely alluded to excluded enjoyments, but in one letter her full heart finds the following utterance: “I fear I must give up a Bible Class of young men, in which I am more interested than in any other work I am doing.” Notwithstanding her physical limitations, the quiet home of Miss Morse was a cheerful one.
In her pretty vine-covered cottage, the house in which her parents lived and died, she with her happy memories was an inspiration and benediction to others.
The schools in Eaton date back to its earliest days. The Morse, Pratt and Leland families immediately started schooling and Dr. James Pratt acted as the teacher. The original school rotated from the Morse House to the Leland House to Dr. Pratt’s house with students staying at each house during the winter weather.
From there a small schoolhouse was built in the area now known as the Eaton Village Cemetery, which, was located on the old Indian Trail. That path is still the entrance to the cemetery today.
During the Bicentennial of Eaton the tie capsule was buried there. This is the school that Charles Grandson Finney attend as a young boy when he stayed with his aunt and Uncle the Sylvester Finneys.
Another structure was eventually built at the foot of the hill across from the Cramphin farm on Landon Road as Mrs. Cramphin {Anna Cleveland} was the schoolteacher. Mr. Cramphin later moved the building onto the Cramphin farm to use.
Eventually the Union School system was formed and a proper school was built on the site of a private school on Brooklyn Street during the 1850’s, that school was in use until the brick school on Morrisville Eaton Road was built. The house next door was also used for schooling. Today of course the school system has centralized.
The Brooklyn Street school was eventually purchased and turned into a home with the windows from the Drugstore that was torn down installed on the first floor living room..
The Old Town of Eaton Museum has probably more memorabilia of the different schools than any other thing and has a great collection of pictures, books and even schoolbooks. One photo of its last graduating class is available to purchase at the museum.
The Bicentennial Cake was set infront of the school that was then Pauline Brown's House and if you view the video below you will see so many people enjoying its grounds once again including many members in the picture above that were still alive in 1995.
The story starts in the Town of Eaton and a small dot on a NYS map today called Pecksport, near Lower Leland Pond. The pond was named for one of Eaton's first settlers Joshua Leland... and the area named for Josiah Peck who came from Rhode Island... the spot is now a fishing paradise that was once the busiest port on the Chenango Canal. His son Alonzo and Josiah built a large warehouse on the Chenango and the Lower Leland Pond. Alonzo was also a very important person in Hamilton and ran a canalboat line.
Alonzo Peck
Located at the actual summit of the canal... which, started a quarter mile to the north at a stake in Johnson’s Swamp in Eaton... Josiah and his son Alonzo dug out an area that would allow boats to unload and board their cargo headed or coming from the then industrial and business giant of Eaton Village located just over the hill. This port was needed for the delivery of coal and iron ore for the early Eaton foundries, and grain for the famous Morse Distillery.
The Georgetown Plank Road also started there in the early days and maning the first tollgate on this road was Sawen Morse, first child born in Eaton and keeper of that gate. His father Benjamin was a Revolutionary War soldier who came with Joshua Leland.
Pecksport was also the home of one of baseball’s early greats, George “Hooks” Wiltse. The Wilste family lived near Burchard farms and the numerous Wiltse children attended the one-room schoolhouse located in Pecksport. Living just a stone’s throw from Bouckville, in the Town of Madison, “Hooks” and his brother Lewis “Snake” Wiltse grew up playing with the Bouckville boys and this progressed to playing with the famous Bouckville Summits (so called because Bouckville was at the Summit level of the canal along with Pecksport).
Wiltse later went on to play for the Giants as a pitcher of note and a player under the infamous John J. McGraw. Wiltse also played on the team that was immortalized in the film Field of Dreams...playing with the famous Shoeless Joe Jackson.
In those early days... as the movie pointed out, boys dreamed of become professional players and would play anywhere USA in any of the small leagues to get a leg up and also to be paid. As a matter of fact Wiltse, like the others, would jump a bus or train to get somewhere to play in a small local game for MONEY! Yes money, many times a team paid a player or two to beef up their lineup...
The story of the local rivalries and the times when baseball was a truly American pass-time and was the local entertainment of pride, is well documented in a book by local historian and author Jim Ford. Titled “The Pride of Cidertown”, Ford tells the story of local lore in one of central New York’s baseball hot spots.
The Eaton Church was founded on June 6th, 1833 and is the sight I see each morning while writing this blog.
At that time it was the Congregational Church, its founding members included two of the original incorporators of the Baptist Theological Seminary that became Madison University and today's Colgate University.
In 1848 the church hosted the Congregational Society’s yearly northeast meeting at which time the Congregational Society officially adopted an anti-slavery stand. Some information on this is in the Cornell College Library.
The church had many noteworthy pastors including its first installed minister the Reverend E D Willis. I became interested in Willis because he lived in my house, a house that Allen Nelson Wood and his wife would buy on their return to Eaton.
The church’s members at that time included Allen Nelson Wood founder of the Wood, Taber & Morse Steam Engine Works and both his partners Loyal Clark Taber and Walter Morse.
Other famous Eatonites who attended services were Melville Delancey Landon and his family. Landon became a well known as both a writer and as a lecturer. Many rich and famous people attended the church during the Victorian era during what time Grover Cleveland’s brother; the Reverend William Cleveland was its pastor.
The church still today houses a historic Meneely Clock and Bell, and the churches windows which bear the names of some of Eaton’s greats... still grace its interior; an interior that sports hand turned pillars turned by Allen Wood himself.
During the Civil War the Eaton Churches banded together and held services attended by each other patrons during the week to pray for the wars end. Prayers were also read during the Wars that followed.
Eventually, the Congregational Church became part of the Federated Churches of Eaton and then later became a Community Church under the Pastor Thomas Clark who improved not only the building, and but helped institute a fabulous AWANA program. During the time he was pastor the congregation also built a large activities build that is used today for youths to play basketball and games and to host special functions. The Church located on Brooklyn Street is the focal point of a new display at the Eaton Museum.
Emily was born in Eaton, New York, and lived as a child in a cabin (Underhill Cottage) built by her grandfather Simeon Chubbuck a Revolutionary War soldier. The rustic cabin was located just off today's route 26 and the spot now sports a historic marker, though the cabin is long gone.
Emily's father never had much money and worked at a number of jobs including being a postman. Her mother came from a fine family that most likely thought she had married beneath her. So to help the family finances Emily was sent to work at a young age working for a woolen business, a silk thread business, and through need had to educate her self.
At 16 she walked to Nelson seeking the man who could hire her as a teacher, something that she did well, though in reality she made far less money as a teacher than as a worker.
Emily managed to start writing little books of a religious nature. Her mother, father & sister became stayed members of the Eaton 2nd Baptist Church thats pastor was Nathaniel Kendrick who became head of Madison University, today's Colgate. It is interesting to note however, that Emily did not join a church until later and she was chided by the locals who asked her, "When are you going to be saved?"
She eventually got a job at the Utica Seminary for woman where she bartered her education for teaching and made friends with the owners. Taking a trip to New York with a friend she was struck by the difference and glamorousness of the city and wrote a tongue and check letter to N P Willis, editor of the New York Mirror - asking if he would hire her. The letter was signed "Fanny Forester", which became a sensation for its day. Willis never paid her for her writings, but he did make her famous, and her many articles about her hometown and life on the Eatonbrook became a book entitled Alderbrook Tales. or Musings and Trippings in Authorland. These and her humorous pieces for the Mirror made Fanny Forester a well known name.
Fame did go to her head a bit, and she started enjoying spending time with friends in Philadelphia. It is there that she was introduced to a man 30 years her senior who was looking for someone to write a biography of his dead wife. The gentleman's name was Adoniram Judson, one of America's first Baptist Missionaries to Burma - a man who became a star in the Baptist circles that supported him. Emily ends up marrying him.
After the marriage she went back to Burma with Judson and becomes the missionary Emily C. Judson. Emily bore Judson two children, a girl who lived and a boy that died at the same time as her husband. After his death Emily returned to America and started writing poetry and pieces for the missions.
Sick with Tuberculous, Emily died a short time later - after having been three famous people... teacher Emily Chubbuck, writer Fanny Forester, and the missionary Emily C. Judson.
Her age at her death was only 37 years old... an interesting hometown woman that had been around the world and was an early woman writer of note!
This week we are holding our annual can drive. If you can drop off cans to benefit our museum... they would be more than welcome. They can be dropped at my house in the back or call one of our can drive members... Barb Keogh, Michele Kelly, or Jen Caloia. This year we could not get our annual pie sale together for Thanksgiving and we need to make up for that monetary loss.
My health played a big part of that decision, which was wise considering that my Cancer has returned and I am on Chemo again. As a Society, I believe the biggest issue facing us now is "healthcare cost." Even with insurance and Medicaid… as a very poor person, I cannot really cover the costs of driving to get my treatment (which is life saving). Roswell Park in Buffalo is where I go, as I am part of a special section of the science center there, and get the most advanced care. My life is important to me, as important as yours is to you I am sure.
The past two trips with cost of gas and thruway, it was much... and with the blizzard conditions it would have been great to spend the night in a motel…but that is expensive…so simply put I can no longer support the museum for"special things anymore".
So if you can help drop off cans or make a donation to Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum, which is a 5013c, it would greatly help our petty cash fund that funds these events... Any checks can be sent in care of Messere at Friends of the old Town of Eaton Museum, 5823 Brooklyn Street, Eaton, NY 13334.
This year is my 25 year of struggling to get this museum in place… and with our new mini Ag Museum, it has become a destination for people interested in not only local history, but research on family past... not to mention our continuing preservation of local artifacts.
Up coming this year is our 25 Anniversary on this Memorial Day Monday. The group hopes to put on a celebration to celebrate the original day it all started with the parade and festivities for the Eaton Bicentennial on Memorial Day Monday 1995. What a day that was! (See video of the parade below) We hope to have pies, history, raffles, and a white elephant sale and more!
On health, the flu season is here and the new movie 1917 reminded me of the flu that ensued the following year. It was tagged as “The Spanish Flu”, but it turned into a pandemic that spread around the world and killed more people than any of our wars. So next week we will go on to that history... considering even the Madison County Home in Eaton would have been effected by that horrible event!
As some of you might have noticed I was missing from blogging for a while.Some of the reason due to illness, some of it due to not feeling like thinking about the crazy world we live in and the horror of our times.
Missing from our society is the rational day-to-day mundane parts of life.We have media blasting us on all sides about politics, wars, fundraising, sports, supposed star personalities, new products to buy and things that really do not matter to a vast majority of the world’s people. To them, the day is made up of getting up…trying to feed, cloth, and shelter their families and themselves.
It is sort of disgusting to watch our modern entertainments such as music, videos and TV revolve around sex, nudity, absurd fashion, video games and media hype. Storage businesses are booming because we feel compelled to go out and buy items many of us cannot use or do not need,,, because we feel good to be able to buy things.
We no longer repair things we just throw them away and companies make items to be tossed or make things too cheaply or too complicated to repair.
So I settled back and tried not to think about anything…it worked for a while…but only a while.So for a look back I decided to put history aside and post one of my latest poems. It is not very good or great… but in a way, it is the history of how I feel about today, the world I am in and the people I have met, ... and those who have passed before.
So I will post this poem for Dianne Lodor, a dear friend and a tireless worker for Eaton and the Community, as well as one of original members of our history group. I miss those who have gone before very much, and I am sure you have those you miss as well.... so this is for them and for you also...
I hope you enjoy! View the video and note all of the missing people and perhaps yourself when you were younger in 1995.
The Fall is coming on us quickly, and while getting ready stacking wood and thinking of our next museum event, " Fall Festival History Weekend" followed by our November Pie Sale...I dug this up and thought you might enjoy reading it again! Many of our original settlers in Eaton date back to the Mayflower and the settlers of Natick especially the Morse, Leland, Kent and Stowe families. Eaton followed much of the tradition of Natick so I thought I would include some wonderful history on Thanksgiving and Governor Bradford who Grandma Clark was a direct relative of.
The first Thanksgiving was truly different from what we see portrayed today on TV and in the movies.In actuality, the Pilgrims who had invited the Indians over to thank them for their help in cultivating corn, in fishing and in hunting, and for basically keeping them alive for the first year, were stunned when the Indians arrived for the feast in numbers far beyond what the Pilgrim’s could feed.So, the Indians left and hunted for deer and fowl and returned with the food necessary for the feast to last three days…yes, three days.
This occasion was unusually frivolous for the stern Pilgrims and comprised of continuous eating, the marching of Myles Standish’s little band of soldiers, bow and arrow competition etc…The feast meanwhile was tended to by five of the eighteen women who survived the first terrible winter.Imagine trying to fix a feast for 140-150 people over an open fire, and then stretch it to three days.
The great Governor Bradford delivered this prayer on the first Thanksgiving and I thought I would include it for us:
Oh give thanks unto the Lord; sing unto him; sing praises unto him, for the precious things of heaven for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth from the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills, and for the precious things of the earth and its fullness.Let everything that has breath praise the Lord, Praise ye the Lord.
Of interest, I think, are a number of passages from “Of Plimouth Plantation” by Governor Bradford, which mention the colony’s success only by acts of what he referred to as “God’s divine providence”.
Bradford mentions windfalls of corn from unexpected quarters, a mysterious voice that warned the colonials of a store-house fire, showers that came just in time to save the crops, even the turning back of a ship that would foreclose on the colony.These quotes show the success of the colony having been squarely laid on the cornerstone of faith.
This faith led Bradford to guide the colony through all of its terrible trials and gave him the moral capacity to do what was right for all without wish for personal gain.From his first election in 1622 until 1639, he received nothing for dining the court during their monthly sessions.One comment I received after the piece on the “Common Good” read “too bad things could not be like that today!”To this I say, “Amen!”The word “altruism” is too seldom used to describe our modern leaders.
The key word in our pursuit of the history of the Pilgrim’s is DEMOCRACY.Democracy, is the basis for the Pilgrim’s government, carried through both the church and the state, something we need to concentrate on today I think. Fall Festival will be the first weekend in October and will close for the season at the end of the month.
The history of settlement in many of our early
communities formed around lush rich soil, water bodies or old transportation
routes, in some cases around something as simple as mineral deposits like
“salt”.
In early times a salt source or spring was sought and early
settlers flocked to it to boil off water to gain a cup of the needed
mineral.Salt in colonial times was as
valuable as gold as a source of money or for trade. Salt as a trade-ware is
traced as early as 6050 BC. Salt is a
need mineral for man or animal…needed to dry meat and preserve fish, it was also needed to make many other components of life. From the history of salt in America we find
from “SALT WORKS”– History of Salt…..
“Salt motivated the American pioneers. The American Revolution had heroes
who were salt makers and part of the British strategy was to deny the American
rebels access to salt. Salt was on the mind of William Clark in the
groundbreaking Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest. The first
patent issued by the British crown to an American settler gave Samuel Winslow
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony the exclusive right for ten years to make salt
by his particular method. The Land Act of 1795 included a provision for salt
reservations (to prevent monopolies), as did an earlier treaty between the
Iroquois' Onondaga tribe and the state of New York. New York has always been
important in salt production.”
Yes the settlement of Central New York...our area… and so I decided to
give a presentation on June 20th at 7pm, at the Old Auction Barn in
Eaton, It will be a discussion of our early settlement and the importance of the salt
industry… something that in part created the need for Fort Stanwix to guard the
area known as the “Oneida Carry”.
History is in some ways is a road sign to the future. It seems
that as a historian you are continually seeing the current happenings in a
context of what has transpired in the past and then predicting what will happen
in the future.In every small town in
rural America we can see that past disappearing before our eyes.Sitting here at night writing I wonder if
perhaps there might be a rebirth of the rural small communities as more and more
people do business from home and seek out peaceful setting to escape to.
Here in Eaton we have the reservoirs and small lakes that in
the past filled with only summer people…but more and more of these “camps” are
becoming year round homes.As the
suburbs inch closer and our electric & Internet improve… I wonder if some
of these areas like Eaton might again revitalize again.It’s a wonderful thought isn’t it.!
Video of Memorial Day Monday at the Potters Field honoring our Veterans please view and enjoy!.
Michele Kelly and Barb Keough Have been workg on the apples for our sale.
The Annual Pie
& Bake Good & Gift Sale is set for the Saturday before Thanksgiving…November
18th from 10 until 2 pm or so and gives the museum an opportunity raise funds to keep it going.
The little
museum has been striving for 19 years to preserve the history of this historic
town. Eaton has its roots stepped in New England and the Mayflower and so I
thought I would include a bit of history in our publicity to try and entice
everyone to visit us or to support us on Facebook.
Few people realize
The ties between the Stowe family, Harriet Beecher Stowe... and Eaton’s
founders.The museum helps preserve
these links with displays and remembrances of the traditions from Natick … “Old
Town” and Eaton.From the book Old Town
Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe….
On holiday food: “The pie is an English institution, which, planted on
American soil, forthwith ran rampant and burst forth into an untold variety of
species.Not merely the old traditional
mince pie, but a thousand strictly American seedlings from those main
institutions to new uses.Pumpkin pies,
cranberry pies, peach pies, huckleberry pies, cherry pies, green-currant pies,
pear pies, plum and custard pies, apple pies, Marlborough-pudding pies, pies of
fanciful flutings and architectural strips laid across and around and otherwise
varied, assisted the boundless fertility of the mind, when once let loose in a
given direction.”
The piece goes on to describe hundreds of pies put into an open back
room that allowed them to freeze an be bought out throughout the holiday season
and sometimes up until April.”
Sure enough we
have tons of pie recipes here in Eaton and the museum put out a cookbook with
tons of pie recipes and pictures from Eaton’s past that will be on sale from our
Thanksgiving Pie Sale... along with pies of every variety that you can bring home
and freeze today… in a modern freezer.To give you a sample of old fashioned pies I thought I would include a recipe
here….
PORK APPLE PIE
8
to 10 tart apples, peeled, cored and sliced
20
pieces of fat salt pork, cut the size of pies
3/4
cups sugar (maple sugar preferably)
½
teaspoon cinnamon
¼
teaspoon nutmeg
¼
teaspoon salt
Fill a deep dish with apples.Mix salt pork, sugar, spices and salt and
sprinkle the mixture over the apples.Cover with pie crust.Cut slits
for steam to escape.Bake in a hot oven
(450 degrees F.) for 10 minutes; then reduce heat to moderate (350 degrees F.)
and bake 30 or 35 minutes longer.If
crust becomes brown, cover with foil so that it will remain a golden
brown.While pie is baking blend a
package of cream cheese with 1 tablespoon thick cream and allow to become firm
in refrigerator. Serve pie warm with
slice of cheese.
Seems
Old-time New Englanders used salt pork from soup to dessert.This recipe is said to have made first by an
old fisherman who used dried apples, salt pork and molasses.His wife improved upon it, using fresh apples
and maple sugar.It became a popular
dish, often served in Vermont homes for the Sunday evening meal.Calvin Coolidge, in the White House, extolled
its goodness. Pork pie has a more succulent flavor than ordinary apple pie. So
we may not have Pork Apple Pies but we do have local pies made with local apples
calling them rightfully... “Heirloom Apple Pies”. So come down and buy one!!!
