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Summer seems to be the time
for reunions. Some are big and
some are small. Our family
started to have a gathering of
about IS people SO years ago.
This number has now grown to
be nearer 70, but only a small
number still attend our annual
picnic. They are simply too scat
tered and reach from California
to Vermont.
Our first celebrations were in
THERE’S SOMETHING
ABOUT ICE CREAM^
Streams and Lakes
The STREAM MAP OF PENN
SYLVANIA was completed in 1965
after a thirty-year effort by Howard
Higbee, a former Penn State
Professor.
The map is also known as the
LOST STREAM MAP to some
anglers.
Professor Higbee succeeded in
creating a map of the highest
detail possible...a map that shows
every stream and lake. He
painstakingly plotted by hand, the
location of 45,000 miles of
streams onto a 3 x 5 foot map.
The map sold extremely well -
until it was lost several years later.
Incredibly, the printer entrusted
with the original drawing and
printing plates declared bank
ruptcy, then carelessly hauled
Higbee's 30 years of work to a
landfill.
The few remaining dog-eared
copies became a prized fisher
man's possession. Professor
Higbee was offered $4OO for one
of his last maps. And state
agencies were forced to keep their
copies under lock and key.
Experts told Professor Higbee
that reprints were impossible,
because the maps were printed in
non-photographic blue.
Then, in 1991, at the age of 91,
Howard Higbee's dream came
true. Computers made it possible
to reprint the map. Holding an
updated map, Howard said, i
never thought I'd live to see this
day."
honor of birthdays and took
place each year in our meadow
along the Conestoga River. At
that time, there were many trees
along the banks and the sheep
kept the grass quite short. Now
the floods of recent years have
washed the big trees away and
the banks are muddy. We chil
dren always enjoyed the fire that
our father made in the fireplace.
These days we meet in a public
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Professor llighee's Stream Maps are the first
and onlv highlv detailed maps of their hind...
showing virtual!) all of the streams, rivers
and lakes in caeh state.
RAVE
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■lt is amazingly detailed and
names some creeks In the
Mohawk Valley that can't even
be found on topographic
maps.'
John Pitarres
OBSERVER-DISPATCH-Utica
"If you're looking (or the most
definitive maps ever created
depicting every single creek,
river, stream, pond and lake
....then "Professor Higbee's
Stream Maps" are without
question the finest
Howard Brant
THE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
"It is in showing where to find
out-of-the-way trout streams
that makes the map such a
treasure to the fisherman.
Joe Gordon
TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT-
Johnstown
"The map is the most
comprehensive charting of
waterways we've ever run
across."
Dave Henderson
THE ITHACA JOURNAL
park and have many conven
iences.
My husband's family recently
had a big reunion with several
hundred in a school. He and
three other people spent months
preparing for the event. One of
the members even had a book on
the genealogy of the “Kraybill”
family printed after many, many
hours of work.
Mugs were sold that had the
family crest printed on them and
many old pictures were dis
played. Long ago a picture was
taken of a family reunion and an
aunt put a number on each of the
hundred some people shown and
then named each one on the back
of the picture.
I really doubt that today any
one could identify each of the
hundreds pictured at a reunion.
It seems that we are so busy with
our own immediate families that
we lose touch with the larger
family unless someone takes the
trouble to organize a reunion.
Stem IPS
«f Pennsylvania
New Yoii New Jersey
Maiyland/Ddaware
Why every fisherman needs these maps
A guidebook is included FREE with each state map.
It will pinpoint the “select waters" for specific species
of fish in each state. Locate STREAMS and LAKES
both alphabetically and geographically.
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(MHS) elementary school students took an up-close look
at some honeybees at work in the campus bee yard. The
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dent interns Joe Toole and Al-Zahraa Hbaiu, and Honey
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extracted honey from the hive and processed it for
human consumption. The camp was made available to
students through the School’s Summer of Opportunities
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week-long camps to students, providing them with per
tonal enrichment, recreational fun, academic prepared
ess, and career awareness.
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