11/28/04

While Living in New York© by Arlene Wright-Correll

Here is some Correll family history. After the stone house in Hopkinton, New York was struck by lightening we lived in the small village of Parishville, NY on Clark St. for 3 years. It was a great little place to live as the kids could walk to school and be safely all over the village without any worries to us. The painting "The Kid in the Red Hat", was taken from a snap shop there when Glynis was about 4 years old.

Three years later moved up to White Hill and back in Hopkinton, NY and built Weather Hill. One could really only get to it from two roads and both came out of Parishville, so everyone really thought we still lived in Parishville. Both Hopkinton and Parishville students went to the same K-12 school. This is the house we built.

We called it Weather Hill because that is what we called the stone house. Whatever the weather, we had more of it! We lived there until all 4 kids left home with Donna, Don, and Jeff in college and Alfred in the Army. When it was just Carl, Glynis and me we moved into the village of Potsdam, NY where we lived on Elm St. until we moved to Jupiter, FL in 1979.

While we lived in the 2^{nd Weather Hill, we had a neighbor at the top of White Hill, just before you turned into our road. Their name was Clyde and Terry Gardner. Matter of fact there were only 4 neighbors up there. Bob Rothenmeyer, a batchlor, lived at the apex of White Hill, Rusty and Inky Manning had just built a new home, just before you got to our driveway and Ray and Melva Hittie were summer residents just after our driveway and basically were the last people on our road. In the winter, the snow plow would only plow as far as the Hittie's driveway. Any travel further than that was always on cross country skis for us and snowmobiles for the rest of the community. It was beautiful down that road to the Twin Bridges in the winter. Many an evening, after supper, Bob Rothenmeyer, Carl, Glynis, Jeff and I would cross country ski down that road. Occasionally, Alfred and Don would join us. Once we took Clyde Gardner with us. He had never cross countried skiied before and we had some good laughs because he made giant pot holes in the deep snow from all the flops he made until he finally mastered it.}

To get back to the Gardners, who had no children, but had a big dog named Bandit. We were good friends with them and they had some land down in Sandfordville, on the river. It had a big old apple orchard on it. In the fall we would go down there with them and our kids and pick apples. Then we would take them to an old fellow we knew and have them pressed and made into apple cider. It was very good cider. We also made wine from these apples.

In the summer we would go down there and picnic with them. It was lovely on the river. The Gardners had lived there until their home burned down and that was the reason they wound up on the top of White Hill.

Glynis was about 6 or 7 then. She would play with Bandit by standing on a big rock and throw a stick into the water. Bandit would charge into the water and swim back with the stick in his mouth. It was a big game. However, the river was very swift there and Carl and I used to really watch her so she would not fall in. This is a picture I painted of her and Bandit.

"Tread the Earth Lightly" and in the meantime.. may your day be filled with…

Peace, Light and Love Arlene Wright-Correll

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