Zac Brown Band

 My seat for the night.

Snitz Creek, Annville, Pa.

 We ate a very nice lunch here today.  The ribs special was excellent and my wife’s fried chicken entree was excellent as well.  I had two of their many beer offerings.

https://lebtown.com/2020/03/17/funcks-at-the-gap-rebranded-as-snitz-creek-restaurant-brewery/

Genealogy Gem: Lieutenant Joseph Spaulding, my Half 3rd cousin 7 times removed

Revolutionary War militia officer.  

He was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought on Breed's Hill.

Months before the outbreak of war, Spaulding lost his wife, Phoebe, to "nervous fever."  That left him as the sole provider for a young son and daughter.  Nevertheless, he answered the call to arms of April 19, 1775, and hastened with his company to Concord and Lexington.  He returned home to Pepperell to arrange care for his children and then rejoined the army at Cambridge.  He was first Lieutenant to Capt.  Asa Lawrence's Company, Under the command of Col. William Prescott, which occupied Breed's Hill on the night of June 16, 1775,  Tradition has it that in the ensuing battle on the afternoon of the 17th, Lieut, Spalding exhorted his troops as they exchanged fire with the oncoming British.  His last words were reported to be , "They fall like pigeons."  His death left his children orphans, cared for by a grateful community that honored his memory and service.

Einkorn crust pizza for lunch

 

Sinnemahoning fishing with my Grandson

 

Camp activity

 

Another day at the office

 

PA Grand Canyon

 

My view at the office

 

Scout Hero & my Half 9th cousin once removed

 

On August 29, 1917, at approximately 12:20 PM, Edward S. Goodnow, age 16, of 136 King Street, Springfield, MA went swimming with other boys at Shaker Pond during a lunch break from working on a nearby tobacco farm in then Thompsonville, CT (current day Enfield, CT near Shaker Station RR Station just south of Springfield, MA). Two other boys reportedly stepped off of a ledge in the pond and began to drown. Goodnow managed to separate the two and save one, but the other, in a panic, reportedly got a stranglehold around Goodnow's neck. Both were drowned. Attempts to revive both using the latest technology, a pulmotor, proved unsuccessful. Edward S. Goodnow was a First Class Scout of Boys Scouts of America Troop 14, sponsored by First Church in Springfield, MA. For his selfless act of courage and sacrifice, Goodnow was one of four boys who were all simultaneously awarded, posthumously, the very first Gold Honor Awards by BSA's National Court of Honor. Goodnow is buried in a family plot in the Locust Hill Cemetery in Montague, MA.

In 2017, the local BSA Council held a Centennial Court of Honor at the cemetery for Goodnow. The Goodnow family, which still possesses Goodnow's Gold Honor Award, was present and sponsored a new inscription on the family plot monument reading: "Edward S. Goodnow, A Boy Scout Hero Who Gave His Life For Another." The inscription is similar to that of Goodnow's Gold Honor co-recipient, Robert W. Eicher, (who also drowned attempting to rescue another) buried in Jeannette, PA whose stone reads "Boy Hero Who Gave His Life For Another." The story of these four boy recipients was memorialized in a 1932 booklet from the BSA National Court of Honor entitled "Boy Heroes of Today." Go to: http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/boyheroes.pdf.

According to accounts of author Michael S. Malone in his book "Running Toward Danger: Real Life Scouting Action Stories of Heroism, Valor and Guts," WindRush Publishing 2015, the death of these boys is believed to have had a significant impact upon BSA's Founders. In response, the BSA partnered with the American Red Cross to dramatically increased the first aid, safety, lifesaving, swimming and water safety requirements for millions of Boy Scouts who followed them and who then went on to save thousands of lives. Such is the legacy of First Class Scout Edward Samuel Goodnow and his co-recipients. "Learn it Young, Remember It Forever:" https://youtu.be/rpMFkcSn5IM.

Happy 46th Anniversary

 

Grandma with her granddaughters