July 2010 #117 by Punxsutawney Hometown Magazine

Garden Club Welcomes Public to Tour 5 Area Gardens on July 11 By Dr. Gloria Kerr, Garden Club Member for Hometown magazine

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he public is invited to the Punxsutawney Garden Club’s biennial Garden Tour featuring five area home gardens on Sunday, July 11, from 1 to 5 p.m. The Garden Club’s main mission is to beautify the town, but the club’s forty-plus members can’t do it alone. Residents who take pride in beautifying their own property contribute significantly to that mission. Garden Club is recognizing five of them on Sunday afternoon at the end of Groundhog Festival week. Tickets can be purchased in advance from Garden Club members and at several locations in Punxsutawney. However, tickets can also be purchased the day of the tour at any of the five homes. Two of the homes are within the Punxsutawney borough, while the other three are within a four-mile radius. Tour-goers will be treated to a fine variety of plantings created by homeowners whose yards and gardens offer delights of color, harmony, and their own unique vision of nature shaped by their hands. Homeowners welcoming visitors on July 11 include Janet and Robert Anthony at 260 Sunny Acres Lane on the Big Run-Airport

Janet and Robert Anthony’s garden. (Submitted photo)

Road, Hilary DeMane and Richard Peirce at 6 Carlton Ave., Kim and Joel Fugate at 202 Jenks Ave., Barbara and Steve Means at 150 Aspen Road, and Kay and Rick Nesbitt at 1379 Graffius Ave. Extension. People who love to garden participate in the miracle of creation. The hard work they put into planting, tending, and growing is a labor of love. Each garden on the tour this

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year is a unique expression of the gardeners who created them; their plant choices, arrangements, and outdoor décor are reflections of the gardeners’ values, their artistry, their green thumbs, and their connection to the earth. Robert and Janet Anthony At Robert and Janet Anthony’s home, visitors will discover a garden like those our great grandparents grew: one that provides both produce to eat and beauty. Bob Anthony, a retired sporting goods manager at a K-Mart in Maryland, says the deer are his biggest gardening challenge. An avid gardener, Bob did two years of soil research at the University of Maryland, and he assiduously gathers his grass clippings for mulch. Anthony plants several well-maintained, fenced-in plots to discourage deer snacking, a problem that plagues many growers in the area. He takes the fences down each fall to mulch and till the soil for spring planting of onions, potatoes, corn, peas, beans, tomatoes, and strawberries. With plenty of produce, he stores some, while he and Janet can more. The beans he plants late after the early peas are harvested, for he says that “the second crop, growing later, seems to resist diseases and insects

Hilary DeMane & Richard Peirce’s garden. (Submitted photo)

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Continued from previous page better in the later, cooler temperatures.” Wife Janet works at DRMC as a medical chart analyst, so Bob is the main gardener. Asked about the rewards of gardening, Bob Anthony replied, “Watching the miracle of things growing and having plenty to give away and share.” He buys few plants, starting petunias, portulaca, small zinnias, and marigolds from seed in a cold frame, a real money saver since he plants and displays about 36 ornamental flower baskets.

Hilary DeMane and Richard Peirce At 6 Carlton Ave., visitors will forget they are “in town” as they walk through Hilary DeMane’s and husband Richard Peirce’s garden paths designed to screen the property on all sides with shrubs, interesting trees, and bushes. Daisies, herbs, iris, lilacs, lupines, and a litany of other familiar plants bloom in a landscape that has two lovely ponds with fish, as well as another water feature with mini-catkins and water plants. The couple’s other-world garden has been created over the past 15 years since they purchased the property, when Hilary took a position as a teaching pastry chef at Punxsutawney’s IUP Culinary School. Officially, she is the Pastry and Baking Art Coordinator. Richard is a retired technician with the Laurel Eye Clinic. A devoted plant lover, Hilary says, “Working in the garden is my vacation, my peace, a place where I can’t be concerned about matters of this world.” Her attitude is a testament to the adage, “You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.” Originally from Connecticut, Hilary DeMane comes from a family of gardeners; she shares plants with her sister and mother. From a spacious deck designed like an amphitheater at the back of the Carlton Ave. home, gazers are treated to a changing kaleidoscope of contrasting shapes, colors, and textures of growing plants and trees over the seasons. At the front of the property, visitors will get some good ideas to beautify the curb space in front of their homes in town with creative placement of stones and shrubs. Kim and Joel Fugate At the Jenks Ave. home of Kim and Joel Fugate, tour goers will see what someone like Kim, who has considerable artistic talent, can do with the earth and her yard as her palette.

Kim is the visionary who has a master plan for the family’s work in progress—the color and sizes— while Joel is the horticulturalist and researcher who finds plants, chooses texture, sticks the plants in the ground, and finds ways to realize Kim’s vision on their property. The Fugate garden is a real family affair, for the couple’s four boys take pride in working there, too. Nathaniel, 18, Isaac, 17, Caleb, 16, and Luke, 14, weed and mulch. Kim is a full-time obstetric nurse at the Punxsutawney Area Hospital, while Joel is a school psychologist with the Clearfield School District. The Fugates’ yard reveals one delightful surprise after another that reflects the creativity and time invested there. In the spring, Kim says they spend at least 20 hours a week joyfully working there together. She says that she and her husband consciously chose gardening as an activity that would give the family an activity they could do together and “keep the marriage together.” The Fugates, who have lived at the Jenks address for only seven years, thank Kim’s mom Cookie Michaels for a lot of the antiques visitors will find cleverly incorporated in plantings and beds. Look for an iron bedstead walk railing, an old sink planter, a variety of dinner plates edging a cutting flower garden, an old pump, an old door inviting you “in” to the garden, antique blue and gold bottles “blooming” atop plants beside the garage, and more. The garage, full of plants, antiques, and artifacts with possible futures as yard accessories, is itself a canvas for clever plantings around it. Quirky and whimsical, Kim and Joel Fugate’s property, featuring veronica, creeping thyme, peonies, herbs, sedum, various grasses, and much more, truly is a garden of delights. New this year are a pergola that will feature an old multi-pained window frame created once upon a time by neighbor “Mr. Mike” and a water garden. Visionary Kim didn’t have a pond dug for this feature; instead, the couple located an old canoe, filled it with water, tucked it under the branches of a big lilac bush, and put in it papyrus plant, wild ginger, and other water plants. Both Kim and Joel delight in the way their garden evolves. This year, Joel claims, “I already have plants I want to move,” ones he just recently planted. On Kim’s master plan of the garden, which she may share with visitors on tour day, she has mapped out future plans for a patio off the back door and

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Continued from previous page a cooking space with an outdoor fire place, as well as a small waterfall or spill way. This ambitious family also grows produce to eat—lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, and more. Kim says the family loves her home-canned tomato sauce. But what do they enjoy most about their creation? Their favorite part “is sitting there together in the evening enjoying the flowers.” They value the satisfaction of working together to make their house a real home where every member happily contributes.

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Barbara and Steve Means At 150 Aspen Road, Barbara and Steve Means have created a natural paradise around their home in a cul-de-sac that borders the Punxsutawney Country Club property. A planner like most serious gardeners, Barbara has been guided by a consciously philosophical vision to create peace and serenity with carefully designed walls, terraces, steps, a stream, and other “hardscape features that complement the softscape plants.” Influenced by landscape designers Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden, Barbara has striven to create a garden space in the “New American Garden” style, one that reflects the year-round beauty of the natural landscape that results in layered masses of foliage that welcome change seasonally and require less maintenance. Barbara says that she and Steve “aim to garden smarter and choose plants that require low maintenance.” Plants chosen with the New American Garden philosophy in mind, especially perennials and ornamental grasses, require less maintenance, no deadheading or pesticides, and only limited water and fertilizer. Thus, a gorgeously peaceful area off the back deck of the light brick home has the serene feel of a national park setting. The vigorous stream running over rocks and falling shortly over a stone ledge feeds the eye and the ear with varied burbling sounds. Steve helped excavate this layered area that has some of the 250 day lilies on the property, one of his favorites. The pond, with no fish or plants, features clever stepping-stones across it and other clever stone work. The water feeding the stream and pond recycles and the water feature is virtually maintenance free. Steve says his grandfather was a great gardener. However, Steve’s goal is to help Barbara realize her vision in the garden, hauling

Means’ sons and their friends is projected to become a vegetable plot. Shade plants abound throughout the garden, and visitors will spy ferns, astilbe, heuchera, sweet woodruff, and pachysandra that thrive in shade, all planted to create a natural setting. Assorted miscanthus grasses and hakonechloa (Japanese forest grass with yellow variegated blades) add subtle color and layers throughout the garden. A large rock in the front yard is the focal point for a bed with miscanthus morning light, vibernum, an Alaskan weeping cedar, and impatiens. It’s been a favorite spot for taking pictures of all the young people in the neighborhood for years. Subtle up-lighting of several trees and ground features makes this area inviting long after darkness falls. Nearby a teakwood arbor overlooks the 12th hole of the Country Club golf course. It is framed with a healthy wisteria vine. Carpet roses grow along the rustic fence bordering the garden along with salvia, nepeta or catmint, and one of two climbing hydrangeas on the property. The other one Barbara planted near the house to mask some utility boxes. Close to the house, visitors will see a feathery Japanese maple that provides brilliant orange color in the fall, boxwood that Barbara will not prune into boxes as she prefers to keep it natural, variegated spirea, a Korean lilac, and a pink dogwood tree that Steve’s mother planted. It blooms faithfully on Mother’s Day. Barbara and Steve Means agree that the greatest joy of their garden is watching the changing blooms and textures throughout the seasons. Likewise, this private couple cherishes the naturally serene environment they’ve created. Kay and Rick Nesbitt At 1379 Graffius Ave. Extension, Kay and Rick Nesbitt have turned the neglected - Continued on page 6

July 9 — Italian Heritage Day — Fun for All By Marty Armstrong of Hometown magazine

perfect storm of activities is gathering. It’s predicted for July 9 and will move in by 1 o’clock from the west at the Historical Society’s Lattimer House on 400 West Mahoning, travel to Findley Street just south of Mahoning, pick up momentum while circling the down-

town and build to a high back on South Findley before leaving the area in the early evening. The forecast is sunny smiles and happy times for all areas affected. 1 -3 p.m. The Punxsutawney Area Historical & Genealogical Society will present an adult version of the workshop, “From the Kitchen: Italian Heritage,” which was so successful with younger folks in May. Director Jeanne Curtis headed a team of volunteers to produce one special moment after another detailing a few of the great things we can all learn about the backgrounds of our neighbors with Italian heritage. From stories and music, to vintage clothing, to making pasta from scratch, to bocce ball, participants then had a great experience. Many adults have suggested we should share the fun with them. Registration forms will be available at 401 W. Mahoning Street; call 938.2555 for details. It’s as simple as uno, due, tre! 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. The downtown merchants have gotten together to bring a team of international pizzatossing champions to Punxsutawney. These folks put on a great show, combining skill, coordination and just plain entertainment. Anyone wanting a preview can check out video clips of this activity on the internet. Use of keywords such as “extreme pizza tossing” and “championship pizza twirling” will help you find them. To heighten the entertainment, several teams have jumped in to provide demonstrations of local talent after the 3:30 performance. The Hometown History team will include Mike Vancheri and Ben Raybuck. We all thought you would rather see them than the Hometown writers and staff. WPXZ will be represented by Dave Kane and Josh Widdowson. Usually we only get to hear their voices; this will be a bonus. Spirit tossers include Larry McGuire, Matt Steffy, and Frank Foreman. To prepare for this event, Scott Anthony sent for training kits for everyone—yes, there are actually training kits for pizza tossing—and everyone should be well practiced by July 9. Between Shows There will lots to do between shows. Sidewalk sales with free treats in an Italian Day theme will be taking place on the surrounding streets. You may see someone in costume.

Also, a “meet and greet” with Punxsy Phil and photo opportunities will be available. The History of Pizza—from Wikipedia. The origin of the word "pizza" is unclear, but by 997 it had appeared in Medieval Latin, and in 16th century Naples a Galette flatbread was referred to as a pizza. The pizza was a baker's tool: a dough used to verify the temperature of the oven. A dish of the poor people, it was sold in the street and was not considered a kitchen recipe for a long time. Before the 17th century, the pizza was covered with white sauce. This was later replaced by oil, cheese, tomatoes or fish… In June 1889, to honor the Queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan

chef, Raphaele Esposito created the "Pizza Margherita," a pizza garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and basil, to represent the colors of the Italian flag. He was the first to add cheese. The innovation that gave us the flat bread we call pizza was the use of tomato as a topping. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous (as are some other fruits of the nightshade family). However, by the late 18th century it was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flatbread, and so the pizza was born. •••

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Continued from page 4 house and 25 acres of property they bought 22 years ago into a most charming country cottage with abundant surrounding gardens. The couple loves working outside; Kay says, “It’s built-in exercise.” The Nesbitts say, “The house was an old dairy farm—it was scary! —when we saw it and immediately fell in love with the land and decided we’d do as much as we could each year and make it livable. We kept getting new ideas and expanding the garden, but we both love working outside.” Their biggest challenge now is getting the yard under control in early spring, weeding, mulching, and then keeping the area mowed and trimmed. Kay says their former homes were always in the woods, so they take delight in the sun where they grow lots of lilies, one of Rick’s favorite plants, while Kay often chooses plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. Driving up the short lane, visitors will spy Kay’s creative treatment of her wrap-around front porch. Hanging swag drapes from the ceiling, she’s created a charming seraglio space furnished with rustic furniture and plants. Kay has a knack for clever arrangements and design. She worked for Roseman’s downtown for 18 years before retiring to help her daughter and son-in-law with their personal home care business in Clearfield. Now she spends more time gardening and loving her grandchildren, though she still helps out Roseman’s with window decorating when they need her. The Nesbitts have four adult children, two boys and two girls. Rick Nesbitt is an owner of Production Abrasives in Hamilton, PA, and he is the retired president of the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce, as well as a current Rotary Club member. His favorite hobby used to be golf, Kay says, but now he professes to enjoy gardening just as much. Since they are both bird lovers, the Nesbitts have put out a number of birdhouses and enjoy watching them fill up in the spring. Visitors will discover old favorites planted along a bank beside the kitchen door, while beds off the deck feature lush hosta, lilies, daisies, and more that create a harmonious backyard “room” where the Nesbitts enjoy planting, weeding, and working together.

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$4 for children. They are available from any Garden Club member, or at these four locations: Punxsutawney Memorial Library, Chamber of Commerce, Caterina’s, and Roseman’s downtown. All proceeds are used to buy plants and maintain Garden Club projects about town. In addition to the lovely gardens, tour goers can expect special activities at each of the five homes. At Anthonys’ home, Garden Club member Lynn Duncan will demonstrate natural remedies for garden pests and problems. At Hilary DeMane’s home on Carlton Ave., several experienced and knowledgeable Garden Club members will be on deck at an “Ask the Expert” panel. At the Means’ home on Aspen Road, Tara Heckler will have her “Touch of Nature” products and “Linda Juliette Hand-Painted Gourds.” At Nesbitts’ home on Graffius Ave. Extension, tour goers can shop for perennials and houseplants grown by Garden Club members for their annual plant sale that day. Shoppers set their own prices with a donation to Garden Club. Gardeners who annually relish the bargains on plants grown by Garden Club members have only this tour day opportunity to buy them. With the ambitious garden tour this year, the Club chose not to have a tent to sell their plants in the park during Groundhog Festival Week. Finally, at the Fugate home on Jenks Ave., Garden Club members will serve cookies and punch, and visitors can look over the array of raffle items they can possibly win by purchasing a $2 raffle ticket. These include plants, books, gardening tools, planters, and a lovely planted classic urn. Prize-winning tickets will be drawn at 5 p.m. on July 11, and winners will be called immediately. Co-chairs of the tour event are Maresa Miller and Kerri Stebbins. Miller says, “The gardens on this year’s tour are really special. They are all so wonderfully well maintained and so different.” Stebbins adds, “We have lots of great gifts from local businesses for our raffle winners, as well as a beautiful European classic urn planted by a Garden Club member.” Raffle tickets are $2 each. Garden Club members are selling raffle tickets before the tour; raffle tickets will also be sold the day of the tour at the Fugate home on Jenks Ave. where all the raffle items will be on display. Plan on taking the Garden Tour on July 11 to enjoy these five area gardens’ beauty and pick up some inspiration or ideas you can use in your own back yard. •••

Finding Desirable spaces in Punx’y Historic residential Developments

By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine eturning visitors to Punxsutawney in the early 20th century were impressed with the progress the town had made in twenty years. Punx’y had grown in space and size from its original concept of a town laid out in a plan by Rev.

The iron furnace workers would make their homes in the Middletown section of town (between Clayville and Punxsutawney). In one news story about the “building boom” going on in the early 1890s, it was reported “...Houses may not be going up quite as rapidly as they did when the first railroad was built here and the town was in the throes of its first real boom. But the place continues to grow and prosper, and those towns that wish to keep pace with Punxsutawney’s development will have to hustle. At the present time there are at least fifty new houses under course of construction within the borough limits, and fully half that many more are being built in our neighboring town, Clayville.” From the U. S. census office in September 1891, it was reported that Punxsutawney had become the largest town in Jefferson County. With a population claimed at 2,792, Punxsutawney led the list of the four largest towns in the county, followed by Rev. David Barclay’s original Plan for Punxsutawney in 1821 laid out the Reynoldsville (2,780), town in eight squares with building lots around the Town Square. As the town grew in the 19th century, many plans for building lots developed in Brookville (2,478), and Clayville (1,402). areas near the “original eight.” Over the years, many David Barclay years earlier. There had been new industries within Punx’y’s incorporated a positive change that had occurred by the development of coal mining districts, in addition to the two railroads, the iron furnace, foundries, electricity, the streetcar line, and new business buildings in the downtown. Dr. William McKnight, in his “Pioneer History of Jefferson County” (1898) would record that in 1832 Punxsutawney “contained 15 dwellings, two taverns and a store.” Sherman Day, in his “Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania” (1843) would describe “Punxatawny” in Jefferson County as “a small village of 15 or 20 dwellings, on a branch of Mahoning Cr.” When the railroads set up headquarters in Punxsutawney in the early An 1895 Drawing (top) of an area near present Indiana Street, and west 1880s and began operation, of Liberty Street was known as “The Island.” The land was filled in and housing was necessary and developed in 1902 as a “choice residential site” where is now Cypress sections of town were de- St. and Alder St. as seen in an aerial view of the section near the downveloped, such as in the Elk town (bottom). Run section and East End for railroaders. limits brought new workers who would need Parts of West End (Clayville until 1907) homes. Enterprising young business people would find their neighborhoods made up of would need homes, too, preferably near the miners who worked in Horatio or Walston.

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downtown. Sections of town would soon be developed as areas for housing in attractive residential neighborhoods. Advertisements by realtors and builders would entice residents, new and old, to seek homes “in the suburbs” out in the more open spaces within the borough limits “between the city and the country.” The quiet, peaceful new neighborhoods beyond “the shrieking of whistles and the thousand noises of city industry” were heavily promoted. In 1891, the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company surveyed and laid out town lots on land in what was Clayville, on a hill above where it had its coal operacirca 1915 post card view of a section of Punxsutawney shows the extended tions near Horatio. A South Gilpin St. area that developed from “The Island” of the past and created CyThe coal company press and Alder Streets, and West Liberty St. advertised “A RARE CHANCE FOR THE POOR MAN” located near the Mahoning Creek on Race to buy a lot at a low, affordable price. The Street (now Indiana Street), was water pow100 lots on twenty acres in “a very pretty ered, borrowing water from the creek via the part of town” were laid out in streets and al“mill race.” The little stream had created a leys on the level land that would become unique portion of land between the creek known as the Eureka Addition to Clayville. and where Punxsutawney was developing It was claimed the view from that point north of Mahoning Street. The land was looking over the countryside was excepoften referred to as “The Island.” As early as tional for a new homeowner. Another ad1894, some developers had offered the idea vantage was the fact the street car line from of filling in that section as “a pretty place for Punxsutawney would be extended to a point residences.” near the site. The lots were also available to The Punxsutawney Land and Improvement the “rich man” as an investment. Company would fulfill that vision. After Within a few years, in the late 1890s, Capt. purchasing the property, its workers filled in R. W. Dinsmore, a Civil War veteran who the area of “The Island,” cleared and graded sections and laid out town lots. The company opened streets, put in cement sidewalks, placed sewers and planted “over 200 choice sugar maple shade trees” to make the development a choice place for “home seekers whose occupation requires them to be in close proximity to their places of busiThis row of houses on Cherry Street, west of Mitchell Avenue and south of the ness.” That section old Fairgrounds was built as a part of the Bellevue Plan in 1913 with 82 lots - Continued on next page along new streets of Logan Street, Myrtle Avenue and Locust Street.

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Coal Brings Hospital Care By PRIDE jury, the company sent the miner to hosfor Hometown magazine pitals in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. This care, though necessary, was n a recent visit to the Punxcostly to the company. sutawney Area Hospital, we The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Coal were reminded of the history of and Iron Company (B., R. & P.) took nohospital care in the area and the tice of the new legislation and began planconnection to the coal industry. On June ning which would lead to the construction 14, 1887, the Pennsylvania State Legislaof the first hospital in the area at Adrian ture passed a special act creating the first (DeLancey Post Office). Adrian Iselin, a State Hospital for injured persons, which was to be located near Hazleton in Luzerne County. The hospital was named the State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Middle Coal Field, and was to receive state appropriations for operating expenses. The act set in motion the process which would eventually create State and Miner’s Hospitals across the Commonwealth. State aid for hospitals soon followed. At the same time, there was a movement among the miners toward unionization. One of the demands of the workers was for The first nurses of the Adrian Hospital were graduates of the Long Island School better health of Nursing in Brooklyn, New York. The demand for nurses as the hospital grew necare. Many min- cessitated the training of local women in the profession. These local nurses, identified as Miss Dorn, Jane L. Davis, Bella Laughlin and Effie Doverspike, were ers were immi- among the early graduates of the Adrian Hospital Nurses Training Program. grants, who were major stockholder in the company, prohere without their families.When they vided the initial capital for the construcwere injured or fell sick, they had no one tion of the building and donated the land to provide care or to help them in their recovery. In cases of serious illness or in- Continued on next page

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Hospital Care Continued from previous page upon which it was built. Dr. Thornton R. Williams, a physician who served at Dagus and Beechtree mines before coming to Adrian in 1887, played a key role in developing the original Adrian Hospital, as did Dr. Free and Dr. Hubbard, company physicians and surgeons from other mines operated by the B., R. & P. A reporter for the Punxsutawney News wrote on January 2, 1889 about a visit to Adrian and gave this description of the progress on the hospital building which was designed similar to the cottage hospitals of England: “We found Dr. Williams in his neat, comfortable little office, and as our main object to Adrian was to see the new hospital, the Dr. kindly took us over. The building is 70 or 80 feet long and a story and a half high with a basement. It stands on the brow of a hill overlooking a beautiful valley, while the view from the western veranda is one that is likely to please the eyes of the convalescents; the view of the neighboring and distant hills, the sight of the great round sun as air that is wafted to you at that height is just what the inmates of the hospital want to help bring them back to life and health. Placed where it is the hospital is away from the noise and smoke of the mines and ovens. The hospital is divided into two wards and will accommodate about twenty patients. Trained nurses will be in attendance, and one of them is expected to arrive from Brooklyn this week. It will take five or six cooks to run the culinary department. “Drs. Williams, of Adrian, Frees, of

Beechtreee, and Hubbard of Walston compose the medical staff, and it is possible that an assistant physician will be necessary at the hospital. It was the intention to open the institution about the first of the new year, but some necessary work will delay it until about the middle of this month. The hospital complete and furnished will cost $3,000 or $4,000. The monthly expense of running it will be between $250 and $300. The employees of the company at their three mines will each pay into a general fund ten cents per month, which will go to pay the expense of running the hospital, and should any get sick or are injured they are admitted free. The injured on the B., R. & P. railroad will also be admitted….The building is heated from the basement by a large furnace and hot and cold baths are on the same floor with the sick rooms. The plan upon which the hospital is to be run is experimental, but the project was put forward and finally consummated is a grand one for the company and speaks well for the interest they are taking in the welfare of their men.” The Adrian Hospital was formally opened February 11, 1889. Receptions were held that evening and the following evening so the public could see and inspect the new and innovative facility. The reporter from the Punxsutawney News visited the Adrian Hospital again on April 24, 1889 in the company of D.A. Lowe, a photographer, who went to take pictures of the new facility. This report gave additional information about the facility. “The Hospital is nicely arranged in all the latest designs of cots, mattresses, baths, steam heaters and all fix-

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“State Hospital, Punxsutawney, Pa.” is the title of this postcard from the collection of Shirley J. Sharp, which shows an early view of the new Adrian Hospital, located at Jenks and Park Avenues in Punxsutawney. This hospital replaced the services originally provided at the Adrian Hospital located at Adrian Mines, (DeLancey Post Office) beginning in 1898.

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tures and modern appliances. The mattresses are of hair on woven wire springs and they have an excellent supply of blankets, linens and spreads of all kinds. The company deserves credit for the manner in which they have provided the care of their men who may become sick or injured. Better care can be received there than can be given at the homes of the majority of the people. The lady in charge is a model for her position and makes those who come under her charge to respect and honor her. The assistants are all well qualified for their service stations and the physicians are second to none. There are but two patients in the wards at present and they seem cheerful and well contented. The location of the building places it away from noise of any kind and the smoke from the ovens never reaches it. Sunlight and pure are bountiful and the scenery is grand; so that even as invalid cannot but enjoy the surroundings. There is more room in the hospital that will likely be needed for some time and we understand that the Hospital Association will take charge of any cases needing hospital care and will give proper treatment at $5 per week except where cases need special attention, when a small additional fee will be charged. Anyone desiring to send a patient should inform J. A. Haskell, General Manager Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron Co., Walston, Pa., and arrangements will be made at once for the transportation to the hospital” The hospital was under the supervision of a graduated trained nurse, referred to as the lady-in-charge by the News reporter

and called the matron, Elizabeth L. Raifslanger. She was born in England and had come to the United States as a young girl. She was a graduate of the Long Island School of Nursing, Brooklyn, NY. In 1893 she became the wife of Dr. Thornton R. Williams. Other women who served as matrons of this hospital included Nellie Russell, of Auburn, N.Y., a graduate of the Nurses Training School at the Long Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, who later married Dr. Walter Stilson Blaisdell, the B., R. & P. Company physician who succeeded Dr. Hubbard at Walston, and Harriet G. Doran, who married Dr. Albert W. Clark, resident physician at Adrian Hospital, who moved to the B., R. & P. Company mine at Ernest, Indiana County. At first, the miners were hesitant about being treated at a hospital, however this was soon overcome, and the applications for admission increased from year-to-year until they finally reached the full capacity of the building. During the first year of operation, the hospital admitted sixty patients, of whom only seven died. Although originally designed to serve the needs of men injured in the mines, the demand from the population made it a “general” hospital. The hospital began receiving a state subsidy of $1,500 per year to assist with operations. The subsidy was increased to $2,500 in 1891 and $5,000 in 1893. In 1893 and 1894, the hospital received an additional $3,000 subsidy for building improvements. Within five years, the hospital was no longer able to keep up with the demand for nursing care. In 1892, discussions were undertaken to determine the future of the Adrian Hospital. In 1897, one hun- Continued on page 16

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ONK! is an internationally acclaimed musical adaptation of the classic tale of "The Ugly Duckling." With music by George Stiles and book and lyrics by Anthony Drewe, the two act show is the Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild, Inc.'s summer presentation that overflows with fun for audiences of all ages. Having opened last week, the fun-filled production will continue at 7:30 July 1, 2, and 3 at the Punxsutawney Area Middle School auditorium. Tickets are available at the door. Next, the busy troupe moves to Cook Forest for four additional shows at the Verna Leith Sawmill Theatre. The performances begin at 8 p.m. on July 7, 8, 9, and 10. Tickets and reservation information are available by calling the theater box office at (814) 927-6655. Veteran Guild director Jef Dinsmore says, "HONK! is so much more than a little play for children. It has witty dialogue and powerful music that any adult will enjoy. It is a story about the meaning of family love, the tolerance of others who are different, and it even sheds a light upon the 'fowl' life." The main setting for the presentation is a farmyard pond which is home to the all-animal cast. Humans appear only as off-stage voices since the entire tale is seen through the experiences and reactions of the ducks, chickens, geese, swans, the turkey, fish, frogs, and cats. The show's heart-felt message creates a rewarding time for the cast, crew, and audience. As Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale goes, the Ugly Duckling hatches into a family that ridicules him for not being "quite right." When the whole gaggle of barnyard fowl tease him, he runs away. Only his devoted mother decides to try to find her lost child. Wandering far from home, Ugly encounters a world of wonders and finds himself being accepted by the Cat that has mealtime on his mind. HONK! overflows with snappy and bouncy songs, as well as dramatic musical moments. Vocal director Kathy S. Dinsmore has stated that "the cast is rising to the occasion and working hard to blend all the sounds together. They make a jazz score that pops and sparkles with a 9 piece orchestra that makes the music come alive."

Jef Dinsmore concluded, "With the great combination of colorful characters, smart dialogue, and an emotional score, this show is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. HONK! is offering the Guild a chance to create a stylized and unique setting. Plus, all of the special effects will certainly complete the theatrical experience. This truly is a musical you will laugh with, cry with, and talk about after it ends. "PTAG's 35th anniversary season's production is one of the best efforts we have to offer. Go to our website: www.punxsutawneyphil.com/ptag or our Facebook page to see more details." The show's cast is a unique blend of talented veterans and newcomers. The performers include Michael DeppHutchinson (Ugly); Nicole Williams (Mother Ida); Doug Fye (Drake, the father); John Henry Steelman (Cat); and Debra Dinsmore (Moorhen Maureen/Snowy/ Mother Swan). Portraying the duckling siblings are Lexi Zanaglio (Billy); Elissa Hill (Beaky); Mollie Smith (Downy); and Sierra Dinger (Fluff). Laura Chelgren portrays Penny and Pinkfoot. Alice S. Morris appears as Grace and Lowbutt, while Stephanie Wenner is Henrietta, Queenie, and a member of the Goose Squad. Brenda Cooper is Dot and the Solo Voice. S. Thomas Curry is Greylag and one of the Barnyard Fowl; Tim Cooper is Jaybird, Barnacles and Father Swan. Jef Dinsmore is the Bullfrog and a member of the Goose Squad. Terry A. Fye rounds out the cast as Turkey and the Human Voices. Members of the orchestra are Greg Dinger (pianist and rehearsal accompanist); Mallory Croasman (flute); Dani Klebacha (clarinet); Brenda Cooper (oboe, baritone saxophone); Mason Stiver (trumpet); Shannon Shaffer (trumpet); Alexa Valkosky (guitar, alto saxophone); Abby Brauer (French horn); and Tyler Efrid (percussion). Matt Dinsmore is stage manager, and Terry Studebaker is the technician. Additional information about the show is available by calling (814) 938-6928. HONK!is presented through special arrangements with Music Theatre International, 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY. •••

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rom the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here is a list of events and happenings coming up in our area. n Mayor's Drug Task Force invites concerned area citizens to attend its monthly meetings, which are the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. The mission of the Drug Task Force is to abolish drugs in Punxsutawney. Be proactive! The meetings are held in council chambers at the Mahoning East Civic Complex. n Groundhog Festival 2010 will be held in Barclay Square, Sunday, July 4 - Saturday, July 10 beginning at 10 a.m. each day. Great food, children's events, arts and crafts, and free entertainment every night. Find out everything that's going on at Groundhogfestival.com n The Wednesday Club will be held at the Jefferson County History Center each Wednesday during July and August. Beginning at 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. each Wednesday. Participants will have fun playing Indian games, preparing and eating a miner’s lunch, hunting for artifacts, or visiting some special places in and about Brookville. For girls and boys entering grades 3 through 6. The cost is $10 per Wednesday for children of JCHC members and $15 for children of non-members, with payment for the selected July Clubs due June 15th, and payment for selected August Clubs due July 15th. The Jefferson County History Center is located at 172-176 Main Street in Brookville. Each Wednesday Club meeting is planned as an independent five-hour experience. Boys and girls may choose to come for one, two, or as many as they like. n Friends of the Library Book Sale will be Wednesday, July 7, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Thursday, July 8, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Carriage House behind the Pantall Hotel. All proceeds benefit the Punxsutawney Memorial Library. Donations of gently used paperbacks, books, cookbooks, puzzles/games, videos/DVDs and audio books are being accepted now at the Carriage House. n Downtown Punxsutawney will celebrate Italian Day on Friday, July 9 to welcome the World Pizza Champions, who will perform two acrobatic shows that day. Shops and eateries in the downtown will have promo-

tions and sales leading up to the performances at 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. on South Findley Street in the downtown. There is no charge to see the shows. The World Pizza Champions perform acrobatic pizza throwing routines to music. Audience members are also brought on stage to try and learn how to toss a pizza. Team members have appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, The Ellen Show and many other national television shows. n A Garden Tour hosted by the Punxsutawney Garden Club will be held Sunday, July 11 from 1 - 5 p.m. The tour will feature the gardens at five local homes. At each stop, Garden Club will have a special presentation, including their annual Plant Sale. Tickets are $7 for adults, $4 for children. For information and tickets, stop at the Chamber of Commerce, Punxsutawney Memorial Library, Roseman's Florist, Caterina's Dolce Cucina or talk to any Garden Club member. Proceed from tickets sales benefit the beautification of Punxsutawney. n Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society event, will take place in Punxsutawney on July 17, 2010. Opening ceremonies begin at 12 noon. Call Donna Lellock at 938-3030, the ACS office at 938-6463, or lellock@msn.com www.relayforlife.org/papunxsutawney. n Jefferson County Fair, Monday, July 19th through Saturday, July 24th. Admission is $8.00 which includes Parking, Carnival and admission to all fair activities. Gates Open at 2 p.m. Monday - Friday; 11 a.m. Saturday. Carnival Opens at 5 p.m. Monday Friday; 1 p.m. Saturday. There are different events scheduled for each night. For more information Phone 814-265-0640; jimgrant@penn.com or check out the website at www.jeffcofair.com. Any area business or organization is invited to become a member of the Chamber of Commerce for as little as $65/year, visit Punxsutawney.com/chamber or call 9387700. •••

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(Editor’s Note: ‘From Our Past,’ researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.) June 6, 1888 — Aubrey J. Beck and his crew of workmen have built for the coal company at Adrian since February 7th, 1887, thirty-nine double houses, 160 water closets, 156 coal houses, 144 feet of trestle work, five railroad bridges, one engine house and two ice houses, besides doing a large amount of repair work. (Punxsutawney Spirit) June 8, 1892 — Our streets are in a bad condition at present owing to the construction of the street railway, but when it is completed the sides will be nicely planked. A notice is published for proposals to furnish lumber to plank the streets. (Punxsutawney News) June 14, 1907 — The evening of June 25th, the new lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men will be instituted in the K. of P. hall. Preparatory to the work of the evening the prospective members will form in line and headed by the Big Run Military Band will march up Main street to Irvin’s sawmill, then countermarch to the K. of P. hall where the institution will take place at 8:30 o’clock. (Big Run Tribune) June 16, 1870 — ROWDYISM . Last Saturday there was considerable “tangle foot” consumed in our borough, the consequence of which was an amount of rowdyism and pugilistic demonstrations in the evening. One of the noisy participants was taken before one of our magistrates and fined for his disorderly conduct. It is time something was done to suppress this rowdyism in our town. We will again suggest a lock-up as an effective remedy and hope our citizens will see the necessity of having one of the conveniences. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) June 19, 1889 — Why is it that that delicious and harmless beverage known to the trade as buttermilk, is not kept on ice and on sale at the cafes? Buttermilk is a better drink than beer, twice over, and if kept on sale in an attractive and appetizing form, would supplant beer, just as beer is supplanting whiskey. (Punxsutawney Spirit) •••

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Continued from page 12 dred and seventy four patients were admitted, with only thirteen deaths. The average daily number of patients-was fourteen, and the average length of time for each patient was twenty-eight days, with a cost per patient being $31.90, including all expenses. The decision was made to move the facility to the corner of Jenks and Park Avenues in Punxsutawney. A state allocation of $20,000, which was the result of hard work by local citizens and the medical community, made this possible. W.O Smith, editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit and the Representative to the State Legislature, obtained an appropriation of $100,000 to construct the new Adrian Hospital which was completed in 1898. Old postcards identify this building as “The State Hospital, Punxsutawney, Pa.” The building was expanded several times with the addition of a women’s wing and used as the hospital until 1975. The Punxsutawney Area Hospital, made possible by the Hill-Burton Act and the generous contributions of local individuals and businesses, is the successor to the original Adrian Hospital. These physicians and nurses were part of the coal industry. Who will honor them at the Punxsutawney Area Coal Memorial and Welcome Center? (Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available the Punxsutawney Memorial Library and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization which brings together residents, business people, community leaders and civic organizations, to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. PRIDE is working to develop a Coal Memorial and Welcome Center for the Punxsutawney Area. Comments on this article may be directed to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767) •••

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