It’s hard to believe this Halfway Brook blog will be ten years old in September. Here is a post from 2009, with an image I recently found on Library of Congress. In 1800, Lumberland (then two years old), had a … Continue reading
Terrible cold* blanketed the Northern Hemisphere with wintry weather in the summer of 1816. The notorious cold destroyed most of the crops in the Town of Lumberland, New York. Only rye, potatoes, and onions grew. Not even a blade of … Continue reading
This is a repost of a collection of Austin New Year’s Postcards first on the Halfway Brook site starting in 2011. In 1937 Aida Austin sent this card to her brother Ell Austin. On the back she wrote the first … Continue reading
