ed ea a el - a 2 oa ee (DD (DC ® oD hat qb an ipal inct ing. vad, ack ~ for ton. ters and Rev. bra- ries th a Pp. associates as "I rented this beautiful old struc- THE DALLAS POST, DEC. 23, 1969 12-14 View of dining room and living room in barn at Pound Ridge, N.Y. ‘a barn for all seasons’ exciting by WILLIAM PAHLMANN For the past year I have been Lil experiencing the ‘pleasures of weekending in a 19th century barn, converted into a dwelling, described by one of my young “mind-blowing.” ture from my friends, Mr. and {® Mrs. Miguel de Braganca, quite adequately furnished with chairs, tables and big squashy sofas and lounge chairs, covered in bright orange linen, and a fine, many-branched wrought- tin chandelier in suitable scale. Needless to say, the enormous sweep of the rough old wood walls, which vault to the ridge- pole, have challenged me with the kind of space I have rarely had at my command, an irre- sistible challenge! I spent most of the summer clinging perilously to an elon- gated extension ladder, hanging things I had in storage. These ‘things’ include a couple of dozen paintings, both modern and traditional, and my collec- tion of old porcelain platters and chargers—about 60 in all. The effect of the fine por- celains and paintings against the rough weathered wood was so stunning that I immediately began to brood about the mas- sive chimney breast of rosy old brick, above the fireplace that burns a full-size tree trurk. Here 1 hung a truly vast his- torical painting (it’s about 12 feet high) at a rakish slant, and © from the chimney breast be- neath I posed an old figurehead from a ship—a curly-haired lady dressed in blue—attached to the chimney breast by sturdy black chains and leaning outward into the room just as she would be ~ attached to the prow of a ship. Having run out of space on the walls, I turned my attention to the floor space. I used a hand- braided area rug before the fireplace, and this seemed to call for a large, round antique Chinese table between the sofas, surrounded by stools, which pro- vided a place for magazines, scrabble games and breakfast. The Chinese table looked fine and this persuaded me to bring out eight Chinese chairs to go around my English 17th century refectory table and two modern rosewood cabinets to hold plates and cutlery. About that time, I ran across eight over-scaled, chunky brass Russian candlesticks that burn big, fat white candles, and I couldn’t resist them for the din- ing table. I hung a pair of scar- let Chinese banners on a bam- boo pole from the rafters before the two-story window opposite the fireplace, and laid a brilliant modern V’Soske rug down the center of the enormous room under the tin chandelier, posing two Italian blackamoors on each vside of the doorway leading to the bedroom ‘area. I then turned my attention to the large loft room reached by a double stairway from the liv- ing room. Along the open balus- trades of the balcony I hung curtains in a bamboo design against an orange-red back- ground, to give the area a feel- ing of privacy. Here I placed the television set, a country X table for home work, which I never seem to get around to, two rattan sofas, variegated chairs, a big coffee table and two huge fanciful floor poufs ‘made from a pair of Oriental rugs. This interior, which evades new class for square dancers The Circle Eighters Square Dance Club has announced a new class in Western modern square dancing starting Jan. 6. This beginners’ class will be held every Tuesday evening in the Wilkes-Barre YMCA audi- torium. The intermediate group will meet Fridays and there will be a club dance every Satur- day. Couples of every age are wel- come. The youngest now parti- cipating are 10 and 12 years old and the oldest are retired couples. Cost per lesson is one dollar. Everyone is invited to attend and join the fun. Carl and Betty Hanks are the callers for this active group. Members of the group have appreared several times on tele- vision and have performed at the Sweet Valley Festival on Memorial Day, the Fiesta on Public Square and at the Harveys Lake Yacht Club. Sev- eral of the more advanced dance couples have appeared in Bing- hamton, Philadelphia and Allen- town. Harmony Club holds dinner The Harmony Club held its annual Christmas dinner party at the home of Mrs. Emmax Hoover Dec. 18 at 1 pm. The group had met earlier at the home of Nora Dymond to discuss plans for the dinner. Fannie Berbew was cohostess. my own poor powers of descrip-. tion,- is either a triumph of eclecticism or the interior de- signer run amuck, depending on your point of view. I love it and that’s what matters when it comes to interiors. It is com- fortable, amusing and invites conversation and even good talk. I was so pleased with the whole thing that I decided to honor my landlords with a party to express my gratitude. I banked the living area with shaggy yellow chrysanthemums and, as an extra fillip, I con- verted the three-car garage under the barn into a disco- theque, with a canopy of color- ful printed sheets by Pucci and wall decorations of posters and wallpaper samples. I put in a small platform for dancing, sur- rounded by tables. for four with colorful table linens, and a long Purely Personal bar. . Cocktails were served in the garage, a buffet supper in the barn living room and eventually guests filtered up to the loft for liquers and coffee. There was a general movement between the three levels and the bright coun- try evening clothes, principally pants ensembles, added a final note of charm to the barn pre- cincts. 1f there is any application to be drawn from my ‘‘barn- storming’ it is that a basic at- tention to scale and proportion and comfort are about the only rules you have to follow in plan- ning interiors that work. Rigid rules are apt to produce rigid rooms and flexibility is not only more effective but more in keep- ing with the times. It’s correct if you like it, so let yourself go and live a little. Mr. Glendon Prynn, Joliet, |ll., and formerly of Bunker Hill, is a surgical patient in Silver Cross Hospital, Joliet. He will re- main there six weeks, then be confined to his home for six months. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Glahn, Bunker Hill, and Marjorie, Lancaster, will spend the holidays with the Rev. and Mrs. David’ Glahn and son Gregory, Great Barrington, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Christy Austin of Meriden, Conn., visited several days with Mr. Austin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Austin, Main Street, Shavertown. Doris R. Mallin, Pinecrest Avenue, Dallas, is home after being a surgical patient at the General Hospital. Leighton R. Scott is spending the holidays with his aunt, Mrs. Howard Risley. A student at Cambridge, England, Mr. Scott is writing for The Post while on vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Holman, David and Don, Gibsonia, Pa., will spend the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith and Donna, West Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Farrari, North Carolina, are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Welton Farrar, Maplewood Ave., Dallas. Scott Fry, Annapolis Naval Academy, will be home for the holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fry, Elmcrest, Dallas. George Searfoss is recuperating after a fall from a tree at his home at Harveys Lake. Jean Moledor, school nurse in the Lake-Lehman School District, is a patient in the General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Jones and family and Dr. and Mrs. Durelle Scott Jr., are holiday guests of Mrs. Durelle Scott, Hunts- ville Road, Dallas. Book Review by BETTY SCHECHTER WHO TOOK THE GOLD AWAY This book is bound to have a special appeal for the saddle shoes and white bucks genera- tion. It celebrates the era when they were young, and it presents people whose, aspirations were once their aspirations, and whose values are the ones they were encouraged, for better or worse, to respect. And it does it all very well. John Leggett’s characters are believable, the problems they struggle with are real, and what they do with their lives has the ring of truth. Although, as newly arrived freshmen at Yale, Pierce Jay Goulds celebrate 30th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Milford H. Gould of Trucksville have cele- brated their 30th wedding an- niversary. Mr. Gould is the owner of Antique and Classic Cars, Trucksville. The couple was married in Wilkes-Barre by the late Rev. Llewellyn Thomas. Mrs. Gould is the former Peggy Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas of Newport Street, Ashley. Mr. Gould is the son of Mrs. Vida Gibbons, 172 South Wash- ington St., Wilkes-Barre. Attendants for the couple were Mrs. Gould’s sister, Ruth Thomas, and Donald Hoffman. carollers entertain Brown Manor Residents of Brown Manor were entertained with Christ- mas carols sung by neighbor- hood youngsters Sunday after- noon. Following the singing the group was treated to hot chocolate and cookies at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parente. : The carollers included: Scott and Eric Davidson, Loretta Donnelly, Brian Parente, Lenny Falcone, Cathy and Colleen Campbell, Ellie and Charles Falcone, Philip and Ellen Rowe, and. Kimmi Hood. Mrs. Alfred Donnelly was director of the young minstrels. Many of the neighbors ex- pressed the hope that Christmas carolling would become an an- nual holiday event in their neighborhood. party given for debutantes Idetown and Huntsville cou- ples hosted a ‘‘coming in’’ party Monday, Dec. 22, for five debutantes. The parties were given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Schellenberg of Idetown and Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Casper of Huntsville. The parties were at the Castle Inn. ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Ep- stein Jr. of Forty Fort also were hosts. The five debutantes who were the guests of honor were Burrell E. Montz, Linda Ann Troup, Sara Bell Parkhurst, Margaret L. Townend and Marcy Scott Robinson. Harveys Lake Yacht Club ball set The annual Commodore’s Ball sponsored by the Har- veys Lake Yacht Club will be held Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Irem Temple Country Club, dance chairmen Atty. and Mrs. B. Todd Maguire have an- nounced. Ballroom decorations will be carried out in the traditional ‘nautical Christmas’ theme. A cocktail hour will begin at 8 p.m., followed by dancing to the music of Lee Vincent and his orchestra. A highlight of the evening will be the passing of the black- plumed admiral’s hat to each of the Club’s past commodores. The hat will come to rest this year on the head of Robert Casselberry, Hilldonia Ave., Dallas, who will begin his second term of service as com- modore of the Yacht Club. Other committee chairmen for the ball include Mr. and Mrs. John Peipon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Casselberry, Mr. and Mrs. William Futch, Mr. and Mrs. John Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sgarlat, Mr. and Mrs. William Dantona Jr., Mr. and Mrs. John Bourke and Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Bunn. and Ben Moseley are assigned to the same dormitory, it seems highly unlikely at first that they will ever have more than a nodding acquaintance. The brashly charming scion of a wealthy family, Pierce moves among his peers with the easy assurance of one accustomed to seeing doors open at his ap- proach. Ben, painfully con- scious of his public school back- ground and his need to earn part of his tuition, hovers un- certainly on the fringe of Yale’s rigidly stratified society. But, as it turns out, each has some- thing to offer that the other covets, and soon the two boys are locked in an enduring but always tension-filled friendship. Against a background of the Second World War and the un- easy peace that follows, Pierce and Ben jockey for position in a milieu that judges a man less on what he is than on what he appears to be. The women they meet complicate and sour their relationship. When Pierce takes Ben's Angela, Ben suspects that it is only because she was his. And, later, the lovely Lily, pulled first toward one and then toward the other, delicately drives a wedge deeper and deeper between them. Finally, it is Lily who pushes the story to its inevitably harsh climax. Tired of non-novels, of char- acters with bizarre pleasures and motives that are difficult to understand? Do you yearn for a well-written, conventionally structured story? Then ‘Who Took the Gold Away’ is your meat, no matter what your age. It’s not a great novel, but it’s a good one, and it’s recommended as a pleasant companion on a snowy evening. It is available at the Back Mountain, Osterhout and Abington libraries. library fails on state standards Definitions of minimum ade- quate public library service have been established for the first time in Pennsylvania's history, and it has been noted that the Back Mountain Me- morial Library falls short of these standards. Calling the standards ‘‘rock- bottom minimums,’ Thomson, chairman of the Ad- visory Council on Library De- velopment, stated that they ‘‘actually identify the poorest quality of public library ser- vice.” The standards deal primarily with hours of service and size of collections based upon the number of people served. According to the Advisory Council’s figures, the Back Trucksville. Mr. Gabel works for Valley Vending Co. Richard. f PAGE FIVE] Mr. and Mrs. James Hablett moved to 28 Meadowcresf] Trucksville. They moved from York, Pa. Mr. Hablett works fo Flair Footwear Co. ; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edwards moved to 27 Orchard st. Trucksville. They moved from Greenbelt, Md. Mr. Edward works for Drake Bakery Co. : Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Luksig moved to 106 E. Franklin St., Shavertown. They moved from Luzerne. Mr. /Luksig works for State Farm Insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tamanini moved to 102 Carverton Road, Trucksville. They moved from Luzerne. Mr. Tamanini is in the heavy equipment business. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farber moved to 17 Division St., Shavertown, from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. Mr. Farber is a heating contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Thomas moved to Loyalville;, RD 2, Dallas. Mr. Thomas works for Northeastern National Bank. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yeager moved to 78 Meadowcrest St., | Trucksville. He works for Back Mountain Lumber. Mr. and Mrs. John Konopki moved to 245 Meadowcrest St., Trucksville. Mr: Konopki works for Arlan’s Department Store. Mr. and Mrs. William Gabel moved to 208 Meadowcrest St., Mr. and Mrs. Allen Williams moved to 69 Perrin Ave., Shaver- town, from Kingston. Mr. Williams is with the Stegmaier Brewing Co. Mr. and Mrs. John Skursky moved to Ellen Drive, Brown Manor, from Wyoming. Mr. Skursky works for United Parcels Service. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Appel moved to RD 3, Wyoming. He is an electrician. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Klimas moved to Harveys Lake. Mr. Klimas is a construction worker. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Liller moved to 114 Carverton Road, Trucksville. Mr. Liller is a machinist. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Scull moved to Harveys Lake. Mr. Scull works at Duke Isaacs Auto Agency. Mountain Memorial Library should be open 35 hours per week and receive at least 50 periodicals. In addition to this, the library’s collection should “contain ‘1:5’ ‘‘currently useful” hook titles per-capita. “Currently useful” is library terminology to indicate how up-to-date reference materials are: An atlas which does not show Africa’s new states would not be considered ‘‘currently useful,” for example. Mrs. Martin Davern, librarian at the Back Mountain Memorial Library, points out that the library is open 34 hours per week and receives only 44 peri- odicals. Moreover, she notes, the library has fewer than 20, 000 “‘currently useful” volumes or less than one volume for every person in the library’s service area. “With the library’s present means of financial support, - primarily the Library Auction,’’ Mrs. Davern states, ‘‘it is im- possible for us to come up to these standards.” She suggests that library usage has increased rapidly and warrants additional support. “Our total circulation for the year 1968 was 55,797 and repre- sented an increase of 1,836 books signed out over last year’s circulation. In the first 8 months of this year alone,” she said, ‘‘there has been an increase in circulation of 3,652 books over last year’s total figure.” Si Harveys Lake Yacht Club plans are being made by Mrs. B. Todd Maguire and Mrs. Robert L. Casselberry, seated left to right. Standing are B. Todd Maguire, commodore and Robert L. Casselberry. sm
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