fiddlers were usually our uncles, Joe and William Kearney, as well as Calvin Kemp. With no telephones, the invitations went out by word of mouth in a kind of relay system. Our parents informed John Dan and Ruth Sorrie, and it was their responsibility to contact a few more neighbors such as Pearl and “Little” Eddy Mahar, Hattie and George Stewart, and Warren and Mabel Kemp. Sterling and Mildred Conrad would likewise get the word out to several other invitees. They included Dick and Pearl Sencabaugh, and Leigh and Kate White and Leroy. Aunt Margaret and Raymond Condon would inform Walter and Lexie King and Jack and Bessie Lavers.

The ladies brought sandwiches and sweets and the men smuggled their “teddy of shine” to a convenient snow