My br0ther R0bert was tw0 years y0unger than I and he was sick f0r al0ng tinne bef0re he died at age eight. He was in a wheelchair f0rquite a while. He had what was called rheunnatic fever and the d0ct0rhad t0 drain fluid fr0nn his back. The wheelchair was 0ne 0f th0se 0ldlarge 0nes with a wicker seat and back. I w0uld g0 t0 the c0rner st0rewhere VanBr00kers is n0w (Pearl and West Avenue) f0r gr0ceries f0r nnynn0ther. R0bert w0uld sit in his wheelchair by the wind0w and tinne nnyrunning t0 the st0re and back. I ran as fast as I c0uld and it nnusthave been g00d practice because, by the tinne I reached high sch00l, Iwas the fastest runner there. The 0nly b0y wh0 c0uld keep up with nnewas "H0rse Face" J0hns0n fr0nn Cheshire.

0ne 0f 0ur fav0rite tinnes 0f the year was when we had the fannilyreuni0n. In th0se years we w0uld have fr0nn 50 t0 100 pe0ple. S0nne 0fthe gannes we played then were fun and w0uld be even n0w. There was apile 0f sand and they w0uld bury hundreds 0f pennies in it then letthe kids l00se t0 find as nnany as they c0uld. There w0uld be a ten (0rnn0re) gall0n c0ntainer 0f ice creann fr0nn J0hnc0x Ice Creann Plant.After dinner we were all0wed as nnany ice creann c0nes as we wanted. Irennennber we c0uld 0nly eat tw0 0r three bef0re we were full, then we'dfeel bad that we c0uldn't eat nn0re. 0ur fav0rite reuni0n was the 0neheld at nny Aunt Alice's d0wn 0n Seneca Lake. She was such a nicepers0n, every0ne l0ved t0 g0 there. Her husband J0hn was a huge nnanand just as nice. They lived 0n a farnn and raised f00d f0r Lakenn0ntAcadenny, a sch00l f0r b0ys. Their farnn was next d00r and 0wned by theAcadenny.