Our Up Coming Meetings ~
April 15 at 2:00 PM Bull Run School
election of officers
We also plan other meetings and presentations and walks to historic sites - watch for more details.
Good Ole Days will be Sept. 15,2012
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A very special thanks goes out to the Clinton County Community Foundation for their support through two grants totaling $13,000.00 for our new building.
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The Sugar Valley Concerned Citizens
presenting a check for $1,000.00 to the
Sugar Valley Historical Society for the building fund.
Shown here are: L to R
Amber Morris, secretary for SVHS,Yvonne Weaver , Treasurer for SVHS , Peggy Barner , President of SVCC and Carla McElwain treasurer for SVCC
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Old Fashioned Christmas
Our annual Old Fashioned Christmas was a warm and relaxing enening. Thanks to all who helped make it a success.
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We had several visitors to our S.V. Historical Society lately. Larry and Cathy Cole were in from California. His mother was Mary Heggenstaller. I had the pleasure of meeting them and giving them a brief tour of Sugar Valley.He got to see his ancestor's farm ( near Carroll) and also the final resting place of several of his relatives (Eastville Cemetary). They both enjoyed seeing the covered bridge, the old mill and the old Sugar Valley High School.
Just after Christmas Jim Kemmerer came in from OK. and met with about 15 of his Kemmerer relatives at the Bull Run School. He has much information on his family that he shared with us. We all enjoyed hearing his stories and seeing the old photos he brought.
We hope these fine folks continue to visit us as we are soon to complete our new building.
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see our membership page for more photos.
Thanks to Bob G., Charlie M., Daniel Kauffman, Levi Stoltzfus,Isaac Esh, Samuel Esh, Jacob King, Ike, Nathan Miller, Ron Meyer, Tom LaRosa, Steve Weaver, Yvonne Weaver, and Verna Carey and of course our building committee John Carey and Jerry Miller. We could not do this project with out wonderful people like you ! THANKS !!!
See more pictures on membership page
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Prince and the Paupers
By Guy Graybill
This is a second book about Prince Farrington with more pictures.
It sells for $14.95
It sells for $15.00 Contact Yvonne Weaver for more info yweaver@tds.net 725-3438
We also have the first book Phrohibition's Prince for sale $21.99 and ........
SUGAR VALLEY VILLAGES for $21.99
by David I. Kagan and John Harbach, Sr.
( to mail in the U.S. add $4.95)
We have 5 signed copies left
For more info contact Yvonne Weaver, (570) 725-3438 or yweaver@tds.net
128 pages and 200 captioned pictures of Sugar Valley and its people. Watch for more details !
Gloria, Jack and Dave
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Sugar Grove/ Bull Run School 1756 Bull Run Road, Loganton, PA
Here Steve Weaver, Jerry Miller, John Carey, and Hal Weaver put down and leveled the concrete footer on June 6th.
Many thanks, guys !
We are pleased to announce the beginning of our new building.
We give a huge thank you to Lucien Snook of L.M.Snook Excavating and his crew for volunteering their time and services on that rainy day in May to dig our foundation. As we all stood around watching our dream begin to come true we were filled with excitement for the future.
We thank Grady Leiter, Bill Becker, Mike Leiter and his son , Owen, Austin Tressler, Hal Weaver, Steve Weaver , and Jeff Brungard for all the hours they gave us volunteering !!!
We thank the building committee - John Carey and Jerry Miller for all their hard work and all of you for supporting us ......
* To see more pictures and make donations to the building fund go to the Memberships Page.We give special thanks to all the wonderful volunteers we have
throught out the year. You folks are awesome ! !
Thanks also to Bruce Sheats and his wife, Barbara, for doing all the lawn mowing
and grounds care at the Bull Run School, to John Carey and wifeVerna
for always being there to do the handy work and odd jobs, and to
Jerry Miller for always being ready and willing to help on all the projects.
To Amber Morris for doing our publicity and writing the Newsletter.
The SVHS could not maintain the building and grounds without great
people like these !
We also thank Jack and Gloria Harbach for their diligent work in researching
and documenting our area history. This is such important work !
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We do NOT have an ornament for this year.However we
do have several of the older ornaments to sell at a
reduced price.
Contact: Yvonne Weaver
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On July 30 Jerry Miller gave a presentation about the Colby murders of 1887. Here is some things we learned - Isaiah Colby was the son of John and Anna Colby . They also adopted Nora Jodun, who was the daughter of Flavious "Flavel" and Frances Clair Jodun of Flemington.They lived on 40 acres of land that was owned by John Colby and was reported to be in terrible condition and close to being worth nothing.
Nora was shot several times, Isaiah laying next to her, was shot in the right eye.
Their toddler, Augustus, was home at the time of the murders, but was inside of the house.
Congratulations, Miller !!
Here Yvonne Weaver , from the Sugar Valley Historical Society, presents 102 year old Miller Stamm with a plaque that names him an Honorary Trustee of the organization, due to his extensive historical knowledge of the Sugar Valley community. photo by Amber Morris
Good Ole Days
We had ...Fun and good food all day !
With all the worries of the rainy weather it turned out to be wonderful weather and we all had an enjoyable day !
The Keystone Little League Team arrive for the ceremony by horse drawn wagon driven by Lee Keck.
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PIE CONTEST INFO ~
We had a whopping 22 pies entered by adults, all from the valley. They were submitted by 14 awesome valley bakers.
We had 6 pies in the Jr. division from five little chefs. Two of them are only 5 years old.
Best of Show Melanie Duck for her Strawberry/Peach pie with cut out pie dough flowers
Fruit 1st. Amber Morris for her Grandma's Apple Pie
2nd Jamie Reidell for her Sour Cream Apple Pie
3rd Leona Kemmerer for her Apple Pie
Non Fruit
1st Amber Morris for her Strawberry Cream Pie
2nd Gloria Spotts for her Shoo-Fly Pie
3rd Billie Weaver for her beautiful Coconut Cream Pie
Jr. 1st Corbin Homan for his Apple Pie
2nd Thea Homan for her Pumpkin Pie
3rd Gavin Morris for his Cookies and Cream Pie
honorable mention to Ewan Morris for his Caramel Apple Pie
honorable mention to Ryland Reidell for his Smores Pie, and Choco chip cookie pie
We thank Vivian Gentzel, Kim Bohartz, Abby Heggenstaller, Carie Peters and our wonderful pie judges Grant Miller, Kels Lominson, and Lois Imes and mostly our fantastic Pie Committee chairperson , Beth Duck.
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We thank each and every volunteer and contributor who help us make this a successful and memorable day ! We could not have done this event without great pepole like you !!! Many, many thanks .... from the Sugar Valley Historical Society