Oops! If you got a notice that Monkey Wards was the name of this post, you are probably wondering how that matched up with Highland Hotel. It doesn’t really connect and chalk it up to writer error.
I so appreciate the comments Halfway Brook readers have been making. I continue to group information and photos into the years 1920 to 1950 (plus or minus) for book 3, and today ran across this envelope from Sand Beach. I … Continue reading
I’ve collected quite a list of boarding house owners from 1920 to 1950. If anyone has more information or photos/postcards!! of the following boarding house owners, it would be greatly appreicated!! You can leave a comment after this post or … Continue reading
Here is an excerpt from the diary my great-aunt Aida Austin wrote in 1942, the year she turned 81. Aida and her brother Lon lived next door to each other on the old Austin homestead. The houses faced Proctor Road. … Continue reading
As you might imagine, running a boarding house was a considerable amount of hard work, including in 1906, getting water from the well. Just like many other boarding house owners, Mort Austin also farmed. In 1906 Mort and Jennie Austin’s … Continue reading
Mort and Jennie Austin bought the Collins’ place on 9 acres of land for $300 from Emma Kelso Collins, wife of Tom K. Collins, in April 1905. The former Collins’ home (which was on Collins Road) became Mort and Jennie’s … Continue reading
This is a fun photo in my mom’s collection. I think this was taken at Coney Island in maybe the 1930s. In back row: Bud Smith, Bill Warden at the wheel, Charles Geissler, Ian Warden?, Art Austin; front left: Royden … Continue reading
