This picture is of the Hendershot House as it was in 1950. This was the house that the Crosby Hendershot family lived in until his health failed and he moved to live with Laura, his daughter and her husband Jim, in roughly 2005. Crosby died in 2009. According to a conversation Crosby had with Laura
Here’s a rendition of the Stevensville Cider Mill as I, more or less, remember it. This image was produced by ChatGPT after many edits and modifications. In another post I comment on the difficulty of coaxing an AI program to give you just what you want. For example, the Creek directly behind the Mill was
As you can see from other posts on this blog I have been studying and commenting on the history of Stevensville, my home town. Among other things this involves looking at old documents collected and saved by friends and family members. In some cases this can be tedious and time consuming. The type of documents
I just happen to be one of the last kids to go through good old SS#9 on Airline St. Back then, in the 50’s, we started Grade 1 in the little one room school house on the north corner of the school property (out by the road). Both grades 1 and 2 were handled in
One of the things I’ve always found interesting is how various stretches of land in the Stevensville area have been used, developed, and re-organized over the years, and especially since my childhood. From my pre-1970 perspective these areas include: The Creek (Black Creek) The Grove (which is now known as the “United Empire Loyalist Park”)
Memories of the Village I Knew Whenever I return to Stevensville – the small town where I grew up – I am struck by the changes. My memories of the town are of people and places as they were in the 1960s. I moved away after getting married in 1968 and left most of those
We’ve decided to visit some small towns in our area of Ontario this summer. The first one was a week or so ago – a visit to Floradale, just a few km outside of Elmira. This has been a small community with many Mennonite families, but as one long time resident told me, it is
