I found a site that you can join for free and register to find
classmates.  You can post your profile, photos, e mail, etc, and it
is all free.  Address is:  http://www.gradfinder.com/default.asp
check it out.

I am the daughter of a Blossburg native who was born there in 1909 and
lived there until 1925 when the family moved to Rochster, New York.  It
may have only been 16 years, but as the most formative years, Blossburg
made a lasting impact on Dad and his 5 siblings. (All but the oldest were
born in Blossburg).   When my cousins and I were growing up, we were
entertained with all the stories.  In 1959, I made the first of several
visits to the old home town on the way back from a trip to Washington.
(Good old Route 15).  Whenever my aunt and uncle drove up to visit from
North Carolina, they would always stop to pay a visit to "the shrine" (
as we used to call the house where they grew up).  I made another visit
in 1983 just before my younger daughter was born.  Even as Dad and my
aunts and uncles grew older, whenever they got together, the Blossburg
stories and the stories of their younger years would flow as if they had
just happened.

In December, 1994, we celebrated Dad's 85th birthday by taking our whole
family (Dad, Mom, myself, my husband and our 2 daughters) for an
overnight visit.  We first stopped in Wellsboro where Dad reminisced
about traveling there with HIS dad.  Of course we stopped into Dunhams,
too.  Our overnight stay in the Mountain Laurel B&B was wonderful and
Dad gave us the story about that building's "dark past".  The next day, I
videotaped the town with Dad giving a running commentary.  Coming up Main
Street he could tell us what all the storefronts used to be and what used
to be in the Post Office Plaza.  The high points came when we met the
Trowbridges who now live in "our" house and Isabelle Berguson who knew
the family way back when and was a playmate of my aunt's.  Hearing Dad
and Isabelle reminisce was really something.

Because of that visit, we learned about the Coal Festival and we came for
3 years.  In 1995 our daughter won the Duck Race!  Our schedule for the
last several years has not let us return - but we hope to.

I'm sorry to report that Dad died in mid March - just 3 months after his
90th birthday.  Blossburg and the warm memories of his childhood there
figured prominently in his eulogy.  It was still a part of him -even 74
years after moving away.

Sometime soon I am hoping to drive down with my aunt and another
Rochesterian who was born in Blossburg so that they too can take a stroll
down Memory Lane.  So, even though I never actually lived in Blossburg
the warmth of the town has surely had an effect on me too.

Peggy Raskind Blumenthal
Bill Raskind's daughter

P.S.  Dad played basketball for BHS (as it was then called) in 1924 and
1925.  It is hard to believe because he was no more than 5'10" but
basketball players were shorter in those days.  Do any of you know anyone
who might have been on the team with him?

Bev & Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Check out our updated "AD" section!  We've made it possible to
> advertise items "for sale",  "wanted", and "for rent".  We add your
> e-mail address as the contact person.  Contact Dave & Bev for more
> information and to submit items to this section.  Even garage/yard
> sales can be advertised here, too!
> Bev

http://www.blossburg.org/orgs/ads/default.asp  <<  direct link

Heidi

We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

2000 Blossburg-North Penn Alumni Reunion

Date: Saturday, August 5, 2000
Time: 3:00PM - 10:00PM EDT (GMT-04:00)

Reunion of all Blossburg and North Penn High School graduates or
those who attended this school

Check out our updated "AD" section!  We've made it possible to
advertise items "for sale",  "wanted", and "for rent".  We add your
e-mail address as the contact person.  Contact Dave & Bev for more
information and to submit items to this section.  Even garage/yard
sales can be advertised here, too!
Bev

-----Original Message-----
From: Ghcrt2@... [mailto:Ghcrt2@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:49 PM
To: blossburg@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [blossburg] Reminder - 2000 Blossburg-North Penn Alumni Reunion

Plan on getting home Friday afternoon from Key Largo, FL for the alumni
gathering.  I haven't missed one yet and look forward to seeing everyone.

Jerry Cunningham
Class of 1966
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Plan on getting home Friday afternoon from Key Largo, FL for the alumni
gathering.  I haven't missed one yet and look forward to seeing everyone.

Jerry Cunningham
Class of 1966

We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

2000 Blossburg-North Penn Alumni Reunion

Date: Saturday, August 5, 2000
Time: 3:00PM - 10:00PM EDT (GMT-04:00)

Reunion of all Blossburg and North Penn High School graduates or
those who attended this school

> Drysdale's wrote:
>
> I am a great, great neice of William Wilson.  His brother Joseph was
> my great grandfather. I am searching for other realtives.  I live on
> teh Olympic Peninsula of washington but return to Pennsylvania to
> visit every couple of years.Janet Daugherty Drysdale


Hi Janet!

My family is on this list too -- my dad is a great-grandson of William
B. Wilson.  We put a biographical piece on the blossburg.org website.
We've been slowly getting in touch with other relatives as well.

Best,
Heidi
--
Heidi I. Jones
hij@...

hij wrote:
>  In comparison to even Mansfield or
> Wellsboro, we definitely have the best community facilities.
>

Sheesh... in comparision to where I live now and have lived for the past
10 years, Blossburg still has the best community facilities.  State
College wins on arts, tho. I live in a suburb (Maryland City) of a
suburb (Laurel) of Washington DC & Baltimore MD.  There are TWO
elementary schools within walking distance, but the community park is
way outside the community and the pool, which is in the community, costs
a LOT of money to join.  There are no community gathering places.

Heidi

Lynae Llewellyn wrote:

> Why does it seem that Blossburg is the boringest town in Pa but no
> one wants to leave and when they do they want to come back?


Excellent question!  As one of those who has moved away, I have found
that Blossburg provided me with very different experiences than most
people have had.  Very few people graduated from high school in a class
of 45 (1990).  My college dorm was bigger than NPHS. I've noticed that
many other folks didn't really know their classmates, and certainly not
parents, aunts & uncles, grandparents.  (Shel, feel free to comment
here; you're a city girl.)  They don't know what it's like to know
people and families for really long periods of time (like going all thru
school with the same people is very rare).

In sociology-speak, social networks in Blossburg are very strong and tie
people together much more deeply than in other (non-rural) areas.  And I
think Blossburg has a specific thing that no one else has: The Island.
Many of the folks who have introduced themselves have mentioned the
Island as a favorite Blossburg location.  Why? It's very unusual to have
a central park area with all the sports fields, pool, playground,
community center etc. Usually, those spaces are more spread out and
age-segregated (and often race and class separated). As kids, we all
bond there in addition to school - and that's why many of us have very
close friends not in our class.  In comparison to even Mansfield or
Wellsboro, we definitely have the best community facilities.

So, that's why I come back.  I might not ever live there again, but I
will always visit.

Heidi

> Name: Lynae Llewellyn
> Location:  Blossburg
> Connection(s) to Blossburg: Live there/family/school student
> What is on your mousepad?: Plain blue
Favorite Icecream: Mouse tracks
> Student/Working/Retired/Other?: Student- a Junior at NPHS
Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area?: the Island
Favorite food??: Tacos/chicken
What is your favorite hobby?: collecting dolls/running/swimming
> Add a question...

Why does it seem that Blossburg is the boringest town in Pa but no
one wants to leave and when they do they want to come back?

Naner(Lynae)

Name:  Dave & Bev Jones

Location:  Main St Blossburg USA

Connection(s) to Blossburg:  We live here, raised our family here and
"We're Blossburg Proud".

What is on your mousepad?  Gateway cow box

What is your favorite ice cream?  Dave-chocolate  &  Bev-chocolate


Student/Working/Retired/Other?  Dave-Student & working; Bev-working

Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area? Our corner and Island
Park.

[Feel free to add a question!]

Does anyone know for sure who put the flower box by the green bridge??

We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

Vacation Bible School Methodist Church, Blossburg

Date: Monday, July 24, 2000
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT (GMT-04:00)

Vacation Bible School for all children of the community and
surrounding communitites between the ages of 4 and 12. Call
638-3046 for more info.

Name:Linda (Keagle) Pettitt

Location: The World

Connection(s) to Blossburg: Class of '75

What is on your mousepad? My hand, which is the key to cyberspace.

What is your favorite ice cream? Old Fashioned Vanilla with
Butterscotch topping.

Student/Working/Retired/Other? Elementary school teacher. Have taught
in Hawaii, Okinawa, and Alabama. In the process of returning to
Okinawa. Hope to return to my previous 5th grade position.

Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area? Old Bon-Ton
Restaurant which is now named "The Brick." The food is excellent.
Highly recommend the Blueberry Cheesecake.

Favorite sport: Love to golf.

Hobby: Collecting pigs...have over 250.

Favorite saying: Live one day at a time and make it a mastepiece.

Request: Would love to hear from fellow '75 classmates. I will not be
able to attend 2000 Class Reunion as we will have departed for the
other side of the International Dateline by that time.

Name: Tom Wilson
Location: South Williamsport, PA.
Connection(s) to Blossburg: Grew up there; family still living there.
What is on your mousepad? The Gateway "cow box."
What is your favorite ice cream? Heavenly Hash.
Student/Working/Retired/Other? I spent 20 years as a reporter/editor
at the Williamsport Sun-Gazette; have been publications editor at
Pennsylvania College of Technology since June 1999.
Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area? I'm old enough to
remember Mabel's dairy store, Monk's smoke shop and the Victoria
Theater, but -- considering I spent 10 hours a day there during 10
years of summers -- "The Island" wins, hands down.

Name:  Peggy Raskind Blumenthal
Location: Rochester, New York
Connection(s) to Blossburg: My father and his siblings were born there; I
have visited several times and participated in the Craft Sale at the Coal
Festival
What is on your mousepad? My older daughter and her husband at their
wedding
What is your favorite ice cream? Heavenly Hash
Student/Working/Retired/Other?  I sell personalized gifts, invitations
and stationery
Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area? My Dad's old house on
Granger St.
Hobbies:  Needlepoint and genealogy
[Feel free to add a question!]
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Finally, a way to stay in touch or get in touch with fellow classmates. This
is GREAT !!!!!!

Look forward to hearing from you.

Fairways & greens,
Linda

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We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

Vacation Bible School Methodist Church, Blossburg

Date: Monday, July 24, 2000
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT (GMT-04:00)

Vacation Bible School for all children of the community and
surrounding communitites between the ages of 4 and 12. Call
638-3046 for more info.

Hi folks!

Here's my .02

Name: Shelby T. West (Shel to most)
Location: Laurel, MD
Connection(s) to Blossburg:  Heidi Jones (and family)
What is on your mousepad?  Boring blue!
What is your favorite ice cream?  I'd rather have hamburg stroganoff.
Student/Working/Retired/Other?  Is this work?  :-)  I'm a project manager
for a business-to-business e-Commerce company.
Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area?  The Island...definitely.
Hobbies:  banging on my drums, watching Star Trek

Name:  JoAnn (Annie Buck) Bailey   
Location:  Blossburg
Connection(s) to Blossburg: School, family & friends
What is on your mousepad?:  Pictures of my 15 month old son, Jarrod
What is your favorite ice cream?: Chocolate anything!
Student/Working/Retired/Other?:  Working, Tioga County Housing Authority, Blossburg

Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area?:  The small water falls behind my mother's house, and my gram's house.

Favorite food??:  Potatoes!  Mashed, scalloped, french fried, home fried, raw, boiled, it doesn't matter!

What is your favorite hobby?:  Right now I spend a lot of time with Jarrod, but I love to read and go for walks.
Add a question...

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Name:  Danni Logue (aka Calkins)
Location:  Brick, NJ
Connection(s) to Blossburg:  high school, friends,
relatives.
What is on your mousepad? a sleeping kitten with
sunglasses.
What is your favorite ice cream? mint chocolate chip.
Student/Working/Retired/Other? working as a paralegal
for a building company.
Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area?  My
great grandparents farm in Cherry Flats.
[Feel free to add a question!]

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Name: Heidi Jones
Location: Laurel, MD
Connection(s) to Blossburg: Grew up there, help run the website, NPHS
Class of 1990
What is on your mousepad? Gateway logo
What is your favorite ice cream? Ben & Jerry's Phish Food
Student/Working/Retired/Other?  Consultant at Bell Atlantic in
Baltimore, working as Lotus Notes/Domino developer.
Favorite spot in Blossburg or surrounding area?  I have three
favorites: The Island, Pirate's Rock, Jones' Pond.

Heidi & Annie,

Have the two of you sent in your reservation for the 2000
Blossburg-North Penn Alumni reunion?  You do remember, don't you,
that this is your 10th anniversary?  Better do it today!!
Mom/Bev

Hi Annie & Josh!

I put a subscribe box on the blossburg.org home page.  Hopefully
someone will see it and subscribe :-)

Love yas,

Heidi