A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[RBH29]

Referencing Mitch's item about the live ammunition found at Gettysburg:

The Rhode Island State House has two cannons from the Civil War.
The one from Gettysburg was just yards from the "copse of trees" during Pickett's charge. While the artillery crew were swabbing the barrel for the next shot, it was struck by a Confederate cannon ball, which dented the muzzle, then fragmented killing two of the artillerymen, one by slicing off part of his head, the other by severing his arm (he bled out yelling "hallelujah, amen"). The rest of the squad tried to reload, but the ball got stuck in the muzzle because of the dent. After the war the cannon was given to the state of Rhode Island. It was only 99 years later when someone thought to remove the black powder charge in 1962.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A very distant memory, but I think my mother and I stayed there at neighboring-cabins on one of our Route 11 adventures during the late-50’s . I think I was glad to be on our way the next day.
P.S. Her car was a 1954 Mercury sedan, creamy-green with an ivory roof; no AC, though.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Wburg Pete]

Thank you for taking the time to post these pictures. Provides a window into the "good old days"...


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[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Salem, Pa

[J. S. Bach]

Thank you for taking the time to post these pictures. Provides a window into the "good old days"...

Hmmm, the "good old days" were not really that "good".

[healey36]

Anyone know what type of tree that is? You still occasionally see them around old homes. It has a blossom similar to a wisteria, only upturned.

[Wburg Pete]

Hmmm, the "good old days" were not really that "good".

There you go...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Anyone know what type of tree that is? You still occasionally see them around old homes. It has a blossom similar to a wisteria, only upturned.

Nope. Odd leaf on it, too. Not one I recognize.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Schafferstown, Pa

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Smiling for photos didn’t appear to be an interest, in those days, nor a natural reaction nor priority.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Smiling for photos didn’t appear to be an interest, in those days, nor a natural reaction nor priority.

Does seem a rarity; couple of the boys up on the back to the right are and a couple of the little girls off to right are as well. Getting photographed was, I guess, something to be taken seriously then.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I think you are right.
And I noticed those three boys, together, and had a feeling they were probably a close-knit little group of mischief makers, particularly the boy on the far right who has his hand grasping the head of the girl in front of him There’s something in their eyes , as regards mischief.

[healey36]

First National Bank is not messing around when it comes to preventing break-ins.