Doris's Family

"The Good Old Days........"  is a short autobiography of Mary Alberta "Billie" Martsolf Robinson (1915-1996) which desrcibes many of the pleasures and hardships of Western Pennsylvania rural life in the early 1900s.  The family property is now part of Morraine State Park of Pennsylvania; and much of it is covered by Lake Arthur.

Gas Explosion Claims the House of John W. Reid tells about how the house of the John Way Reid family exploded in 1908.

Rege's Family

Childhood of Russell Berger - Early Adulthood of Russell Berger - Russell Builds a House  Parts from an autobiographical story by Russell Leroy Berger (1899 - 1972).  Several years after his death, pages of autobiographical notes were found in the old house by his daughter, Anna Berger Zagrocki.  Hand written in pencil on yellow page, the notes were transcribed by Anna.