[music playing] SPEAKER 1: Welcome to our town, Chestnut Ridge.

Located in Bedford County, Chestnut Ridge offers miles of farm fields, apple orchards, and small town charm.

The people of this area take great pride in their history and their future.

Join us as several residents show and tell what makes this area great place to live.

Your friends and neighbors welcome you to our town, Chestnut Ridge.

Support for our town Chestnut Ridge comes from-- Bedford County Chamber of Commerce and the Bedford County Chamber foundation, Hometown Bank, not just a community bank, a bank for the community, Somerset Trust Company, a proud supporter of our town, Chestnut Ridge, and viewers like you.

Thank you.

ERIC ZEZNANSKI: Hello.

I'm Eric Zeznanski.

I'm the Principal of Chestnut Ridge High school, and I'm here today to talk about Chestnut Ridge School district.

[music playing] There were nine Independent School districts, and in 1952, they formed the Chestnut Ridge joint school system.

Prior to that, if you went to Schellsburg or Napier Township, you would graduate from that high school.

Else, you would have to travel to Bedford.

So one of the first things the joint school system did was they started building the junior senior high school, which is now our middle school.

There was 54 board members when they unified to one joint system.

So they formed a Western Bedford County Municipal Authority, and that municipal authority was one responsible for building our current middle school over here in Fishertown.

Whenever I was going through the district archives and I saw Western Bedford County School authority, I started talking to people and no one even knew what that was.

So it's kind of lost to the ages that there was a whole separate organization.

So all those Independent School districts, they each had an elementary school.

And over time, they kind of consolidated to our current form.

We are about 225 square miles.

It's very sprawling, and the district itself is the hub of the community.

There is no town of Chestnut Ridge.

So when you identify you're from Chestnut Ridge, it's just a collection of small villages and towns ranging from 50 people to 500 people.

It's a small community, and the focal point is the school district.

We always talk about the three A's, the Academics, Athletics, and the Arts.

So there's a lot of opportunity to participate in physical education, music, chorus, arts.

We have 13 clubs.

During the school day, you can participate in FBLA, the Future Business Leaders of America.

That's a club that we've had a lot of success on the state and national level.

We have a long tradition of an FFA, Future Farmers of America, organization.

So there's a lot of things for students to do.

We also have a lot of sports.

We sponsor 15 sports for members of the Laurel Highlands Athletic Committee.

Our students, when they get to high school, we have 10 dual enrollment courses that are partnerships with Mount Aloysius or Allegheny College of Maryland.

We offer six AP classes, so there's a lot of opportunity for students to explore themselves.

I was a graduate of 2002, so I've been here my whole life.

And went away to college and came back.

It's a quiet community.

A lot of the families.

At this point in my career, I have kids that come up, and I know that they're grandparents.

I appreciate the small town environment and the ability to do a lot of great things SUSAN WILLIAMS: Hello.

I'm Susan Williams, and I'd like to talk to you about the Quaker presence here in the Fisher area.

[music playing] The Religious Society of Friends of the Truth, that is the full name for Friends or Quakers.

The Quakers were living in Ireland and the UK in the 1700s.

They were getting tired of being harassed and persecuted.

So in the early 1700s, the Blackburn Family moved to the Fishertown area here and got permission to start a preparative meeting, which then became a regular meeting in spring meadow.

The spring meadow area is halfway between Fishertown and a town called Alum Bank, a.k.a.

Pleasantville.

And the whole area was predominantly Quaker.

This is why it's called Quaker Valley here.

And there were carpenters, surveyors, blacksmiths, potters, storekeepers, farmers, and schoolteachers, just to name a few.

Education is very important for friends, both boys and girls.

They built a meeting house, a log structure, in spring meadow, and worshiped there for a while.

And then in 1830, there was a huge theological split, the Orthodox Friends and the Hicksite Friends.

So they built two meeting houses there in spring meadow and worshipped separately.

The only visual reminder today of the original meeting house in spring meadow is the cemetery, and it's on a small but steep hill.

In 2009, Fisher Friends and Dunnings Creek finally reunited.

And we did not need to meetinghouses what to do.

We decided to stay at Dunnings Creek, the brick one.

We meet every week.

It's still very much alive Friends meeting.

And we decided that we could make this into a museum.

Here I am, back to where I started.

I'm in the museum, sitting here, which was once upon a time Fishertown Friend's meeting house.

I love the peace and quiet here where we live now.

I can walk out my back door and walk up through the woods and up to the orchards and stand there and see from Cumberland, Maryland, practically up to Altoona.

SHANE WEYANT: Hello.

I'm Shane Weyant.

And today, I'm going to tell you about Creative Pultrusions and how it was founded in the Chestnut Ridge area.

[music playing] Creative Pultrusions is a manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced composites.

These materials are used mainly in the infrastructure markets.

But some of the things you may know if you go to your local Home Depot and Lowe's, the fiberglass ladders, that's a protrusion.

So it's the opposite of extrusion where you push metal, we pull fiberglass fibers.

So the name pultrusion.

Utility poles, you drive down the road every day.

A lot of the utility poles you see today are wood.

Our material being fiberglass, it's like a straw.

It'll flex and come back.

So today, there's a big push with shortages of wood, plus the green material.

Wood with the creosote are not good in the environment.

So we do a lot of restoration, grid resilience of putting fiberglass in because they last longer than the wood poles.

Pedestrian bridges.

We manufacture a lot of pedestrian bridges used for rails to trails.

These are easily installed because of the fiberglass materials being lightweight.

We can bring them in already prefabricated to remote areas, install them fairly easily.

And some of the structures also are lifted in with helicopters.

The company moved to the Chestnut Ridge area in 1979.

So we've been the leading manufacturer, the largest employer, largest tax generator in the Chestnut Ridge area.

It started in 1973, so this is our 51st year in Bedford, Pennsylvania, by the founder Bob Sweet.

And Bob located the business here in 1979 in Pleasantville.

So we've been here over 45 years, and a lot of Chestnut Ridge alumni work there.

We have employees 30, 40, 45 years.

Last week, I celebrated my 35th year, hired right out of college as a Chestnut Ridge graduate and went to work for Bob in 1989 as a salesman.

Since 2016, we've acquired six other companies.

So we formed the Creative Composites Group.

And we have seven sites in the United States, six manufacturing sites in five states.

And in that group now, which Creative Pultrusions owns, we have over 580 employees.

Here in Pleasantville, we have over 275 of those employees.

I've been blessed, born and raised here.

I call this my town.

So Bob gave me a chance in 1989 to come aboard.

It's the only place I've ever worked.

Bob was always supporting the local talent.

And today, I do the same.

Chestnut Ridge is a great area, and it's mainly because of the people.

RON BARLICK: Hi.

I'm Ron Barlick.

Today, I'm going to tell you about Shawnee State Park.

[music playing] Shawnee State Park was built back after the Second World War.

They were looking for places for relaxation after the war and also after all the flooding in the seconds.

It was put in dual purpose of recreation and flood control.

The dam was built between 1949 and 1951.

The basin was ready to go by March of '51, and activities began that year.

During the peak time for the seasons was back in the 1960s up to the early '70s, thousands of people.

Shawnee was the only sand beach between Pittsburgh and the shore.

And so we used to get people from the Pittsburgh area, Maryland, and of course, all the surrounding area.

Shawnee State Park is the place where they dispense all uniforms for the State Park system of Pennsylvania.

We have a person that works there.

He sends out uniforms to various parks.

Some of it is sent directly to the people.

The Park is over 4,000 acres.

The major activities at the Park include camping, kayaking, hunting, picnicking, and of course, we do outdoor program presentations for the public during the seasonal times.

Shawnee Indians had a encampment in Schellsburg in that area called the Shawanese Cabins, and that was prior to the French and Indian War.

So that's where the name Shawnee comes from.

And of course, we have an artifact display at the Park, but they predate the Shawnee.

They would be artifacts from 3 to $5,000 years ago that we don't know anything about.

The main highlight in the middle are the buildings.

There's a barn.

Well, this was all part of the estate of Dr. John Bowman.

He was a chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1921 to 1945, and he built a estate house and a farm back in the 1920s sometime.

He had 500 acres, and that became the nucleus of Shawnee State Park.

The horse barn was torn down, but the barn that is there, which housed the cattle cows, that's a storage facility now.

What used to be the carriage house, that's where Region 3 offices are.

The State Park is broken into four regions, and we house Region 3 headquarters at our Park.

And right along the road going through there, the herdsman house is now a lodge that's rented out to the public during the year.

[music playing] I love Bedford County.

I love the history of Bedford County, the ambiance.

I always wanted to move to Bedford County if I could, and I actually did.

I live about 7 and 1/2 miles South of roaring spring in Bloomfield Township, which is just a little bit into Bedford County, but I am a Bedford County resident now.

BRAD HARBAUGH: Hi.

My name is Brad Harbaugh.

I am the chief of the Alum Bank Volunteer Fire Company, and I'm here today to talk about the car show and the fire department.

[music playing] The car show is our largest fundraiser that we do in a year.

It's been going on for 36 years.

The money goes towards basically the maintenance and upkeep of the fire department, plus our equipment.

They start out with about 2 and 1/2 dozen cars.

And today, currently, we go up to about 400 cars.

It's a four-day event.

We start Thursday evening, run through Sunday.

We do cruise ins.

We have over 400 cars for our cruise in.

We do a burnout pad.

We have live entertainment.

We do fireworks at the end of it.

People, they plan their vacation around it.

We have high school reunions that come to the event.

It's just a family-oriented, community-minded event that our fire company's been doing.

Back in 1949, the fire department was chartered.

We're currently in this year-- this is our 75th year anniversary.

It's a neat time for us celebrating 75 years.

I know it might not seem like a long time for a lot of people, but for our little community it is.

I'm proud to be a part of it.

It's a big part of our community.

I always felt like it was a calling to be in the service, been in it for 32 years.

We have two gentlemen that are celebrating 50 years this year, Dave Webb and Jerry Leppert.

Big shout out to them.

They're the core of our department, and they're still very active.

I just think it's important to be there to help our community in their time of need JOYCE HERCANE: Hi.

I'm Joyce Herncane, and I'm here today to tell you about the Old Log Church located in Schellsburg.

[music playing] The Old Log Church is 218 years old this year.

It has an interesting history.

John Chell, the founder of Schellsburg, arrived here around 1798.

He proceeded to buy a total of about 1,500 acres in the area, and 6 acres of those were put aside for the Old Log Church.

The Old Log Church started out very small, simple to this day in its pews, et cetera.

The church itself was started by the German reformed congregation and the Lutheran congregation.

They got along well together because the Lutherans never left the area until 1848, and the Reformed Church left in 1852.

In 1881, they put siding on the church.

1935, 1936, that siding was removed from the church.

Ever since, it has been called the Old Log Church.

It's also interesting to note that there were quite some good graffiti artists at that time.

We have a pew in the upstairs gallery, which was carved out with a knife.

It's very lovely.

Must have taken quite a few Sundays, and maybe a few boring sermons to get that carved out.

The church went through a period after that where it was used for maybe funerals, occasional weddings.

And in the 1950s, we do know that there were services occasionally held there.

The church was put on the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 2005, right before our bicentennial year.

One of the other things that has occurred at this church for probably since we had Decoration Day, which became known as Memorial Day, was that celebration.

And this has gone on since I can't tell you when I have an old picture of soldiers coming up the road from Schellsburg.

That was part of it.

We're pretty sure that when some of the Civil War soldiers were still living, it was started because there's a photo of all of these men dressed in medals on their breasts.

And I'm sure they came from the Civil War.

I kind of inherited my job as secretary treasurer of the Chestnut Ridge and Schellsburg Union Cemetery Association.

My mother did it before me.

It's fascinated me from my childhood.

It's just incredible to see a building that old that has remained there.

I think Bedford County is probably one of the most beautiful counties in Pennsylvania.

I don't think people realize that.

I graduated from Chestnut Ridge High school and made a life here.

And I had that opportunity to leave, but I chose not to.

My husband the same way.

He could have had a job in Philadelphia.

No, back here.

Taking care of family, and I think that's a part of it.

We're family.

I think that people stay together when they're family.

MARK CLEVENGER Hi.

My name is Mark Clevenger, and I want to talk about how sports as an important part of the Chestnut Ridge Community.

[music playing] The athletics, it gives the school its identity.

We're known pretty well across the state and beyond, especially in some of our sports that have had great success for what our kids are able to accomplish.

Many years ago, sports, and Chestnut Ridge area was all the smaller towns the kids competing against each other.

As a progression has come forward now, we still have that kids get their start, but what it is they've grown into the travel teams where select kids from all the little towns come together and go and compete beyond this area.

And the ability to do this gives exposure to our kids and to this area, especially to the kids as to what's out there, what's available to them.

Our sports are generational.

We have grandparents who come to watch their grandkids play, their fathers have played, their grandparents have played, and of course, then their kids.

I've seen their younger kids coming up through the elementary will continue to play.

The boys sports currently have 9, the girls have 11.

Like most schools, the bigger ones are football, wrestling.

We now have girls wrestling, girls volleyball, and girls softball has done really well.

Basketball in both has had great success.

For our students, sports is a great thing.

It keeps them connected to the school.

Without sports and just the educational aspect, which is great, I think they would lose focus.

But sports is what keeps them tied to the school and their learning.

Recent years, we've had a lot of kids.

Doors have been open to them, and they're competing at all levels of intercollegiate sports.

Their participation in sports has provided them opportunities that they never would have had before.

They've gotten scholarship opportunities where some of these kids, they wouldn't have ended up going to college.

But because of that opportunity, it pulled them to go in that direction.

Our newest athletic team here at Chestnut Ridge and across Pennsylvania last year was the addition of girls wrestling.

And we did have a girl wrestler state champion last year.

We've had girls who wrestle with previous years, but they, of course, had to wrestle on the boys team.

But this past year, it was girls wrestling.

And we're glad in the first year, we had a state champ.

I mean, the ultimate goal to me is to have a team win a state championship.

We've come close.

We've gotten to the final 8, but we have had several individual State champions.

The area is just beautiful.

We're comprised of many small towns and villages spread over a huge geographic area.

It's just a great place to grow up and live and raise kids and be a part of.

I'm tied to Chestnut Ridge forever.

I'm home grown.

I was born here.

I taught here for almost 40 years.

I retired here.

My kids went here.

Some of my grandkids will go here.

I bleed blue and gold.

ANNE DARROW: Hi.

My name is Ann Darrow.

And today, I'm going to talk about the Bison Corral and the Darrow Bison Range.

[music playing] My father-in-law, in 1988, said, get the barn ready.

We have four bison coming tomorrow.

And that was in Juniata County, and we moved here in '93 and moved the Herd out here with us where it continued to grow and is what it is today.

The most we've ever had is about 300 head, and today we like to keep the numbers around 140 head with the calves, then at about 35 to 45 head a year.

We also have a gift shop where we sell Native American gifts and jewelry, crafts, bison souvenirs, and we sell Bison meat.

Taste, a little sweeter than beef, is the best way to describe it.

It's much leaner, low fat, low cholesterol, higher in protein.

So a lot of patients that are heart patients, their doctors want them to eat very little red meat.

They are allowed to eat bison.

We carry, of course, the bison meat in the gift shop.

Jean Bonnet tavern carries our bison burger on their menu, and they do a really good job with it.

But we sell right to the public in the gift shop for meat and all of our souvenirs.

We carry a wide line of jewelry and Native American made gifts.

We hand select everything that we sell.

We also have three Airbnbs on the farm.

So I get a lot of people that come here to stay from different areas that meet here to do things in the area.

Bison are easier to raise, I think, if they have enough to eat, companionship, and the fencing is proper.

They're harder to work, because you need a proper corral system.

But they don't push the fence like the beef do.

Bison in the long run are, I feel, easier if you leave them alone.

They are very aggressive.

They are not friendly.

They are not tame.

Just leave them alone.

Let them do their own thing.

I like watching the calves, not being born.

It's very rare to see one actually being born.

It does happen occasionally, but I like when the calves come in the spring, and I like to go up in the pasture and sit and watch them, and then watch them play.

I like the fact that a group of cows will babysit for each other.

So a group of cows will go off and eat while another group watches a group of calves.

There's a main herd leader, and then the Bulls keep an eye on everything as well.

I love the animals themselves.

I think they're very majestic.

KELLY GOODMAN SCHAEFER: I'm Kelly Goodman Schaefer, President and CEO of the Bedford County Chamber of Commerce.

And I'm going to tell you a little bit about some industries and businesses in the Chestnut Ridge area of Bedford County.

So there's some significant industries and employers that are located in the Chestnut Ridge area, and they are manufacturers of things that, I think, make industry go not just locally, but around the country and even around the world.

Mission Critical Solutions is a company that does fabrication, engineering, welding, and they're really problem solvers for their customers.

So some of their customers can be the military or rail systems or transportation, just all kinds of infrastructure of the country.

So they get a project from another company, and it's their job to create the solution for that company.

I think that one of the interesting things about MCS is they would tell you they don't really make anything.

They don't have a set product.

What they do is solve problems for their customers.

So they might fabricate a tool that another company needs, or they might find a way to weld a product onto another product to create a solution.

So it's a kind of manufacturing, but they would tell you that they don't really deal in creating a specific product as much as they create solutions for their customers.

SPEAKER 2: You don't see many things go out of the door with the MCS label on them because they're part of some larger assembly or product.

But we know where our things are, and it gives us a great sense of pride.

KELLY GOODMAN SCHAEFER: They're a very innovative company, and they call their welders, they call all of their workers artists.

And they really view their workforce as family.

And to go in there, you really see a finely tuned team working together as opposed to, I think, what you would have thought about in manufacturing 20 or 30 years ago.

Corle Building Systems is located in Imler.

They do create metal buildings, metal structures, bleachers, all kinds of metal products that are used all over the country and all over the world.

Years ago, when I first started working for the chamber, one of the stories that we did was about a metal structure that they built that was actually sent to Africa for the celebration of an African nation.

When you think about something from a small town, Imler in Chestnut Ridge, Pennsylvania, going over to Africa to be part of a major celebration of an entire country, that's really pretty cool.

SPEAKER 2: What I'm most proud of is the product we put out and the workforce we have.

We have a very hard working workforce.

I'm proud that we're providing numerous jobs, over 270 families are benefiting from us here at Corle Building Systems in the local community.

KELLY GOODMAN SCHAEFER: They are very invested in workforce pipeline management.

So they work a lot with the schools.

They support the challenge program.

They have co-ops.

So they're really trying to develop and cultivate and inspire the next generation of workers in Bedford County.

I think that the people of the Chestnut Ridge area are hard workers, and they're people that take incredible pride in what they do.

This whole county is really based on agriculture and manufacturing.

And in those industries, you have to be really, really good at what you do.

And when you see the pride that is literally handed down from father to son, grandfather, to father, it's really something that makes Bedford County and Chestnut Ridge special.

SCOTT BROLLIER: My name is Scott Brollier.

And today, I'm going to tell you about the Reynolds Dale Fish Hatchery.

[music playing] The fish hatchery was acquired in 1928 by the state.

It is operated on 130 acres near Reynolds Dale.

We have a visitor center, which is open every day of the year from 8:00 to 3:30.

And on weekends and holidays, the hours are 8:00 to 3:00.

The Reynolds fish hatchery operates off of spring meadow run, which is a spring that's located on the facility that produces approximately 1,400 gallons a minute.

And being that the water all comes out of the ground, it starts out at 52 degrees.

And year round, that is an optimum temperature for growing trout.

We produce brown trout, rainbow trout, and golden trout.

And the Reynolds Dale fish hatchery is also unique in that Spring Meadow run, it's a protected water source being that it all comes from the ground, which gives us the highest disease classification in the state among state fish hatcheries.

Based on us having a class A rating as far as disease classifications, the Reynolds Dale hatchery produces over 2 million Brown trout and golden trout eggs to the remaining State trout hatchery.

Annually, the staff from Reynolds Dale stock approximately 200,000 trout in our local area, which encompasses the Southwest corner of Pennsylvania.

Then after that, we also produce about 250,000 fingerling trout, which are distributed to cooperative nurseries as well as sportsmen's clubs, and then they distribute them as well.

So just an added boost for the local economy.

The Ramsdell hatchery employs nine employees.

And although we're state workers, the Ramsdale hatchery as well as the Fish Commission in general is funded primarily by fishing license sales.

So that's a unique thing as well, that we do not take tax dollars.

The Fish Commission's goal is to protect and enhance fishing opportunities.

And by raising extra trout and distributing the trout throughout our area, it boosts the economy.

The opening day of trout season is like a state holiday.

A lot of people travel into the area.

Not only does it benefit sportsmen's clubs, but also local dining and hotels.

I always wanted to work outdoors.

And when an opportunity came up to work at the Reynolds Dale State fish hatchery, I jumped on it.

It's a unique thing.

Throughout the year, we do different things.

So it's not like working at a factory where you do the same thing every day.

The trout generally spawn in the fall of the year.

So in the fall, we get to spawn the trout.

In the spring time, we get to go out and make the stocking runs.

And then throughout the summer, we're cleaning ponds and getting set up for the next year.

JIM CLAYCOMB: I'm Jim Claycomb.

I'm here today to tell you about the Cal Soft Ice Cream Stand.

[music playing] It was my mother's dream to have an ice cream stand in 1958.

My dad and mother decided to go ahead and build the ice cream stand.

My dad was a dairy farmer, and somewhere he had seen a picture of a business in Wisconsin that had a cow as their mascot, and that's how she became-- she's still with the original cow from 1958 standing there.

In 1959, they added the Old Sandwich side stand along the side of it, selling hot dogs and hamburgers.

At that point, they had one employee besides themselves.

That's always been in the family ever since.

So we've all helped run the business from 1958.

[music playing] One of the favorite ice cream we have is orange pineapple.

That's a trademark of the cow, and that's one of the favorite flavors that everybody likes.

We run out of flavors of ice cream also, but orange pineapple became so popular that we have to run it continuously.

We can't switch off to another flavor.

So we had to add more machines to do that.

When you come over to the sandwich side, our specialty is blue plates.

That's hamburgers and French fries combination.

We have a farm.

Our cattle is raised on the farm, and the whole animal is ground into hamburger.

So we sell our own hamburgers.

We now have 15 employees, a lot of young girls and some adults taking care of the business.

We have people that come to the stand bringing their grandchildren to get ice cream and say, I worked at the cow years ago.

So that's how long the cow has been there.

2018, we had our 60th anniversary.

And we're in our 66 year this year of the cow, still in the family name.

Bedford County is noted for its covered bridges for tourism.

There are 14 covered bridges in Bedford County.

And within the 14, 8 of those covered bridges are in the Chestnut Ridge School district area.

And I should say I'm fortunate to own one of those bridges.

It's called the Knisley Covered Bridge.

Built in 1867, cost $500 to build it, and it's 87 feet long.

There's weddings there all the time.

The store buses come through all the time, tourists there every day.

It's pretty much a rural area.

And from my perspective, it's a great place to send your kids to school because there's so much wildlife and so much nature.

I was born on the farm and I've never left, so I guess that pretty much says it all.

Yeah.

DENNIS TICE: Hi.

I'm Dennis Tice from Bedford County, and I'm here to talk about a man named Wayne Hyde, who is one of the finest sculptors in America.

And he's from Chestnut Ridge.

[music playing] I first met Wayne whenever we were working on a World War II monument for Bedford County.

And somebody said, well, why don't we do a bronze sculpture?

And I thought, how do you do that?

Well, do you go to the phone book and look up sculptors?

They said, well, there's a really good sculptor here in Bedford County.

Who?

Wayne Hyde is a local boy.

He graduated the same year I did.

I graduated from Everett.

He graduated Chestnut Ridge.

Wayne is an interesting sculptor.

You always picture a sculptor as somebody in a smock with a French beret.

I met Wayne, and this is who he is.

When he sculpts, he sculpts in blue jeans, a flannel shirt, and a Ford tractor hat.

He's a country boy with absolutely world class talent, and he's become known for some of the finest sculptures in America.

I called Wayne and asked him if he'd be able to just do a brief interview, and he said, sure.

So I met him in his studio, which is there actually in his own house, and we talked for a few minutes about what he does.

WAYNE HYDE: Well, I do like to work detailed.

I mean, I can appreciate bronze or a little smoother textured and not have a lot of detail.

But that's not my thing.

I like to make it look as lifelike as possible.

And you can get very fine detail in it.

I know that if I let a full bold finger print in clay, it actually will reproduce in the Bronze.

I know whenever we did a World War II monument, one of the things that I think is most greatly appreciated is the fact that all those men that were able to came and put their thumbprint in.

I get a comments about it.

Whenever I show people, they're amazed that that was done.

I think it's a great feature.

DENNIS TICE: Wayne talked about some of the sculptures that he's worked on.

He has a sculpture in Oregon.

He's got him in Tennessee.

I know he has one over actually in London in the royal palace.

So he's got a lot of great work out there.

And I was in Knoxville not too long ago.

We were recording an album and we knew Wayne had a statue there.

So we looked around for it, found it.

So we all decided to pose in front of Wayne's Excellent statue.

WAYNE HYDE: My parents were very encouraging.

My dad didn't think I had to be a farmer because he was a farmer.

He recognized my artistic ability and he encouraged me to follow it, to pursue it.

But it's a matter of determination, I believe, on your part to succeed.

For instance, the Vietnam Memorial that stands in Bedford of Robert Hartsock and his dog, Duke, there's a lot going on the sculpture.

You have his gun, canteens, cartRidge boxes.

All those components together adds up into a lot of hours of work.

And I worked on it for approximately a year in completing the large piece.

DENNIS TICE: I'm a Bedford County boy.

I was born and raised here, and Wayne was too.

We just have very close ties here with the people.

And I have very close ties with what I call small town America.

I've lived all over, and certainly, there are wonderful places around the country.

But I've never found any place that I felt as home as I do here HANNAH HUTSELL: Hi.

My name is Hannah Hutsell, and today, I'm going to be talking about Heather's Kup.

[music playing] Heather's Kup is a youth football tournament, but it's so much more than football.

It was created in 2009 just to support my family as my sister Heather was enduring her battle with Ewing Sarcoma.

Heather was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma on October 1, 2008.

Ewing sarcoma is a cancer of the bone and soft tissue.

Unfortunately, Heather passed away in January 29 of 2010, but her spirit lives on through Heather's Kup.

The second annual Heather's Kup, the third, the whole way up to the 15, has aimed to support families like my own enduring a medical trial.

Since then, we've raised over $450,000 for over 30 families enduring their own medical trials, all in Heather's spirit of fully relying on God, which was Heather's mantra.

She loved frogs, so fully rely on God was what she lived by.

In 2020, we changed the name.

It used to be Heather's Cup with a C. In 2020, we changed it to a K. And that was after organizers Marci and Erin Burkett.

Their son, Kai, was killed in a car accident in 2020.

And Kai and Heather were a lot alike, actually.

They both had a humble and shy demeanor.

They both loved sports.

But most importantly, they both fully rely on God in all aspects of their life.

And so to honor Kai's memory, we changed the name from Heather's Cup with a C to Heather's Kup with a K. The biggest highlight of the day that's happened since the first Heather's Kup is a prayer circle.

And the recipients go in the middle of the circle.

So in the first one, it was my family in the middle of the circle.

And on the outside is the entire community, which I think is a beautiful symbol of what this community is all about, lifting each other up in their time of need.

So the recipients are in the middle, the entire community wraps them around on the outside.

And we lift them up in prayer.

We have a balloon release.

I believe I have a unique perspective.

When my sister was sick, I started in the middle of the circle with my family.

Then for the next 14 years, I moved back to the outside of the circle, helping back, which a lot of our recipients do afterwards.

They want to give back.

But this past year, I actually found myself back in the middle of the circle again as my father-in-law was battling end stage colorectal cancer.

So it was a very unique perspective.

And I think Heather's Kup is important to so many community members because you never know when you're going to find yourself on the inside of the circle.

Heather's Kup has grown exponentially.

There's truly something for everyone.

We have a basket tent with over 100 baskets.

We have a kids carnival.

We have delicious concessions.

We have a fresh cut fries stand, a bake sale.

We even have a prayer tent for those who are in need of prayer.

Heather's Kup takes place on the last Saturday of October at Chestnut Ridge High school.

You don't have to come spend the entire day.

It's something you can pop in, put tickets in baskets.

You can get concessions.

You can come for the prayer circle at 12 o'clock and see what the whole thing is about.

And if people want to help, we're always looking for volunteers to volunteer their time.

I don't think that you could find something like Heather's Kup in any community.

I think Chestnut Ridge Community in Bedford County as a whole is really special because we've seen it time and time again as our own is struggling, you know you're not alone.

And the community is so quick to wrap each other up and to really support each other in their time of need.

And I think that this community puts so much emphasis on their faith and on loving one another.

And that when you see someone struggling, you're quick to wrap them up and let them know that they're not battling whatever it is alone.

CONNIE WAY: Hello.

I'm Connie Way, and I'm going to share with you the story about the prehistoric elk found in the region of the Chestnut Ridge.

[music playing] The elk actually was found over a procession of many years and in collaboration with a farmer and Carnegie Museum.

In the late 40s, a farmer fell into a depression in the ground.

And when he fell into it, he discovered just the head of a bull elk.

And what might be significant in the head of the elk that he found was this projectile in the vertebrae.

And so through collaboration with Carnegie Museum, they discovered, through carbon dating, that projectile had gotten there during the Ice Age.

In the '60s then, Carnegie moved in to do some in-depth studies down 127 feet, as a matter of fact.

They took pipe, they bolted it together.

And as they went on down into the hole, they did find the rest of the bones, the entire skeleton of this bull elk that had been shot in a young age.

And they determined that it was 10 years old actually when it fell into the hole.

Every bit of the ground and the fauna and the debris that they pulled out of there, every bit of it was actually sent up in a bucket.

They'd pull it up in a bucket, they'd look through it.

And that's how they found the rest of the elk's bones and 340 volt skeletons, which is a near extinct animal.

It's found only in the arctic, currently.

They were there for years.

Every summer they would come out, the students would come out, and they would investigate what was down in these holes just to determine what was here during the Ice Age.

I am a lifelong resident here.

My husband is also.

I graduated from Chestnut Ridge.

The vicinity is just so old fashioned in the way that you can walk and you can discover.

I can go into creeks and see fossils.

And not everywhere in your life are you going to be able to do that.

LUCAS STEINBRUNNER: Hi.

My name is Lucas Steinbrunner, and I'm going to talk about the Lincoln Motor Court.

[music playing] The Lincoln Motor Court originated in 1940, and it started because people started traveling and needed a place to stay.

Our claim to fame is we're the last motor court on the Lincoln Highway that you can still spend the night.

And the Lincoln Highway runs from New York to California.

Over the years, motels and hotels came in, and so people wanted to stay at the more modern places.

So the motor courts, they were looked down upon.

And so over the years, motor courts started to fade away.

And so it just made more sense to bulldoze them over and put new businesses in.

What drew me was the history of it.

I purchased it off the advertisers who owned it for 39 years prior to me.

To run the motor court, there's a lot of maintenance.

We're dealing with very old electric, very old plumbing, very old heating.

My family and friends all pitch in and help.

I'm always renovating a cabin.

So when I purchased the motor court, there were eight rentable cabins out of 12.

Now I'm up to 9.

None of the cabins ever had air conditioning.

Now I have five with air conditioning.

I've added a stage to the back courtyard.

And once a month, I have a free concert.

And I post it on Facebook.

And with 24 hours, all the cabins are rented.

We have really nice turnouts.

And I've also updated some of the cabins.

Cabin number one was not rented in over 10 years.

It is now rentable.

I put a deck on the back.

I made the bathroom bigger.

It's nice.

All of the cabins have Wi-Fi, and they all have smart TVs.

So if you have an account and you want to watch your show that you're watching at home, you can log right in and watch it.

I also have a funnel cake trailer there, and that's to bring locals in because for five years, I would drive by the Lincoln Motor Corp before I owned it and never notice it.

And I know a lot of my neighbors can say the same.

And so to get the community there, I put a funnel cake trailer, and now they come and get funnel cakes.

And I'll talk to them and I'm like, have you ever been here?

And they're like no, we've never been here.

Been here my whole life.

And so while they're eating their funnel cake, I recommend that they go walk around the Motor Court and take a look, and they all love it.

We also rent the entire motor court to anyone that wants to have a special event.

We've done high school reunions.

We've done family reunions.

Last year, we did a pig roast, that sort of thing.

A large majority of the people that stay at the Motor Court are return customers and generations of them.

People's interest in historic places and retro places has really boosted our business.

It's not a cookie cutter hotel.

It's unique, it's nostalgic, and it's historic.

MATT BOYER: Hi.

My name is Matt Boyer, and I'd like to comment on the Chestnut Ridge agriculture.

Us local folks call this area the Ridge, and what a Ridge it is.

As for the chestnut trees, it is unfortunate that the Ridge has not had a live wild chestnut tree for over 100 years.

Back in the 1920s, the infamous chestnut tree blight occurred, killing all the chestnut trees not only here, but in the entire Northeastern United States.

The chestnut trees were a valued hardwood species.

A straight grained wood, excellent for making furniture and lumber materials, and also a food source for wildlife.

Before the blight, one out of every three hardwood trees in the woods were chestnuts, hence the name of Chestnut Ridge occurred around 1900.

The locals realized the area had good agricultural soil, great for different crops.

As I mentioned the Ridge, it is 1,700 feet in elevation and the highest point in 1,300 feet in the low ground.

This difference in elevation is 400 feet, which is ideal for growing fruit trees.

We have good soils plus elevation.

On a cold, frosty, spring morning, there is a temperature inversion where the cold air drains to the low areas while the warmer air rises to the top, making the top ground frost free.

If the wind is blowing, the temperature is the same on the top, and bottom will probably have a freeze then.

This difference in temperature can be as much as six to eight degrees, many times saving our fruit crops.

Traveling along the Chestnut Ridge Road, you will find agricultural crops such as corn, soy beans, and fruit trees.

There is approximately thousand acres of fruit trees, mostly held by the Boyer family.

This is my 44th year of growing fruit in the Ridge.

I'm a second generation fruit grower, along with my younger brother Bruce.

We have a third generation also working in the orchards.

My sons Wes and Sam and Bruce's son Ben work together.

We farm over 400 acres of fruit trees, and all of our orchards are located on the Ridge.

We also have a farm market open from August to December and shipped most of our apples to Hess Brothers Fruit Company in Lancaster, PA. A lot has changed since our earlier years.

Trees are planted closer together with dwarfing rootstocks, and our varieties are all eating apples, honeycrisp, and gala with a few cooking apples such as Cortland.

Many folks say that we are small town America, but we are proud of that.

Here in rural areas such as Chestnut Ridge, there's a lot of small towns.

And we don't get on each other's nerves all the time.

We've got plenty of room to roam.

SUSIE MICKLE: My name is Susie Mickle, and I am here to talk about Mickle's Barbershop and the Junior Fair Board.

The barbershop originally started with Gary Mickle, and that was 1964, '65.

In 2012, Gary wanted to retire, so I bought him out.

And because I'm a Mickle now, it worked perfectly for me to take over the shop.

The barbershop has been a great part for me to learn a lot of the history of Fishertown and the surrounding areas, and also to be able to connect people together that way that come in the Barber shop.

I focus a lot on the military, which I enjoy meeting and talking to a lot of the veterans.

And so I have a board on my wall.

The veterans that come in sign their names.

The ones are even active military come in and sign their names on that paper and then I hang it up.

It's really important to me to focus on supporting our veterans as well.

Many of the younger kids that come into the barbershop, I've been able to talk with them and encourage them to join the Junior Fair Board.

The Junior Fair Board is made up of kids ages 14 to 21, and it's mainly learning about the operations of the Fair, the Bedford County Fair, which this is their 150th year.

So this is a big celebration.

We also raise money and donate to the different barns, the different areas of the agricultural side.

Two years ago, we had a family that their home burnt, and we raised funds, over $15,000, for them.

And then last year we had a farming accident, and so we did a pie in the face fundraiser.

And we raised also about that much money.

Any time there is a problem, you have a community coming together.

And so I noticed that with this area, whatever is going on in our community, everybody comes together and supports one another.

So that is what I like about this area and this community.

WILLIAM ROY MOCK: My name is William Roy Mock, and what I'd like to talk about today is the Underground Railroad of what I refer to as Quaker corner, specifically dealing with the Benjamin Walker homestead.

[music playing] Our farm is commonly referred to as the Benjamin Walker homestead.

And he was, according to the 1884 history of Bedford County Somerset and Fulton counties, one of the leading operators in Bedford County of the Underground Railroad.

He, as is documented, fully assisted 500 fugitives on their way to liberty.

And he also had a $500 reward placed on his head.

[music playing] He would, when the time was right, take the fugitives over the mountain, up the Allegheny Front, and over to Johnstown on that old Johnstown road or the Conemaugh path.

And he would take them over to friends over in Cambria County.

At the Quaker museum in Fishertown, I donated the old wagon seat, the original, of my great, great grandfather, Benjamin Harris Walker that he used.

[music playing] It took me over 30 years of research to qualify through the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum commission for the first Underground Railroad historical marker of Bedford County.

Listing the names of the individuals around the farm up there, as well as the three African-Americans in Bedford.

Because of the significance of the Underground Railroad and my great, great grandfather's involvement in this, as well as other participants in this area, I had written two books.

I have these books on sale at the Bedford County Historical Society with the proceeds supporting, through the community foundation of the Alleghenies, a memorial history award for my wife.

It's available to a graduating high school senior in Bedford County who pursues a career dealing with the preservation of American history.

I have been all around the world in the military, and my ties are with Bedford County.

The people here are just so nice.

Their approach and lifestyle continues to be based on our Constitution and the freedom and the love of God, and our neighbors, my neighbors, I couldn't ask for better people to be around me.

And we look out after each other.

BARBARA HAMMER: Hi.

My name is Barbara Hammer, and I'm going to tell you today about the importance of volunteering and in regards to the Chestnut Ridge Ambulance Association.

[music playing] Prior to 1971, the undertakers were the ambulance personnel.

So if somebody had an emergency and needed to be transported to the hospital, the undertaker would show up with his hearse and transport the patients to the hospital.

One of the main reasons why they used hearses or why the undertaker that was their role was because they had a vehicle that people could actually lay down in and they didn't have to be seated.

There was a fatal car accident on Route 56 that claimed the lives of three young men that were from the area.

From that, there were individuals that made the determination that we really needed an ambulance service.

Of course, there was no government funding at that time, so these individuals, they put up their personal financial security to begin the association as we know it today.

They purchased a used Cadillac hearse.

It was $2,500.

And in July of 1971, the Ambulance Association opened its doors and began to transport patients.

There was no 911 dispatch or anything like that at that time.

So people would call the operator, and the operator in turn would call-- in this area, it was a couple that owned the local motel.

And since they were up 24/7 or had to be available 24/7, they were the ones that received the call.

Once they received a call, then they got on the phone and called around to everybody that was on the roster until they fielded a crew.

In 1987, the Ambulance Association was able to purchase a building on State Route 56, which is where it is currently still housed.

It had been a feed store originally, and then it had converted into a pharmacy.

And then, of course, when the ambulance purchased it, it was now an ambulance station.

Still there today, still going strong.

50 years later, we're still staffed by volunteers.

Our volunteers also provide education for the public.

We have safety fairs.

We have done stop the bleed classes for the public.

We do fundraising.

And here's to another 50 years.

As a volunteer, you're giving back to your community.

There are patients that comment often about, we're so friendly and so kind.

We do this because we want to, not because it's a job.

And we have to.

We are a strong community.

We do take care of each other.

We might be spread out being rural, but we know each other, and we help each other out.

That's what we do as a small town.

ZACHARY BROUSE: My name is Zachary Brouse, and I'm going to tell you about the PA Lumberjack Championships.

[music playing] So in 2016, I started Pennsylvania Lumberjack Championships, an outdoor show in downtown Bedford.

And then in 2018, I moved it to Schellsburg at Camp Living Waters.

And since then, it's grown to be the largest premier lumberjack event in the State of Pennsylvania.

The first year in 2016, we had five spectators.

By 2018, it moved to two days, and in 2019, it was three days long, and we grow to about 10,000 spectators over the three-day weekend.

Athlete wise, we have about 50 to 60 athletes from all over the world that come in to compete.

As the spectators grew, we asked the spectators what they wanted to see each year.

They want to see the same events.

They want to see different events.

It's for the athletes, but it's also for the community.

It's entertainment.

So whatever they want is what we try to bring to them.

You can see underhand chop, standing block chop, two man crosscut, Jack and Jill cross cut, springboard.

I think there's about 12 or 13 disciplines that will compete on over the three day period.

It's a niche thing that not many people get to see.

But a large event, there's only two or three in the State of Pennsylvania, and then maybe a dozen or so across the country.

So that's why I think it grew so quickly.

We have a big heritage of logging and lumber history in our area.

As the festival has grown, we've got a lot of help from the community.

It's completely a community-funded event.

So we have lots of sponsorships and partnerships with other community businesses, and we raise about $30,000 to $40,000 to put on the event over three days.

And I think about 90% of my volunteers are from either graduated from Chestnut Ridge High school or from this Chestnut Ridge area of Bedford County.

So without the community, we wouldn't be able to have it.

We don't make money off the show.

Whatever money we make, we'll try to roll it into next year.

Most of the profit goes to Camp Living Waters to help keep Camp Living Waters open and afloat.

Camp Living Waters is a nonprofit Christian camp.

Out of the 30 or 40 venues we go to a year, the athletes that travel the circuit choose Camp Living Waters and the PA championships as the number one venue that they go to all year long, because we get to stay there on the property all weekend.

We don't have to drive 30 miles away to stay at hotels.

And it's just a beautiful area, and we all love it there.

The venue that we have is world class.

I would love it to be world renowned.

I'd love to be able to host a multitude of world title events, so which means I to get 40, 50 athletes from all over the world.

And the prize money would be $5,000 per event, and that would make it a world title event.

To have something like that, have it to be the most renowned lumberjack show not only in the state, but in the country and if not the world one day.

JERRY MILLER: Hello.

My name is Jerry Miller, and I want to speak about my ancestors.

[music playing] Quakers are not real popular now.

They're not frowned upon.

They're just not popular.

Where we're taping this show was an active meeting from 1830 maybe, somewhere around there.

My maternal grandparents were McCreary, which is an Irish name.

And it was Robert and Anna McCreary, and he was a wagon builder and a carriage builder.

They had three children, and Nellie was the one girl.

That's my grandmother.

She had a black horse, which she was proud of and got a picture taken with the horse.

It's not a bad photo for the age, which would be probably 1900.

So anyway, when Nelly got a little older, she met my grandfather, Bert Hornstein.

And eventually, they got married.

And they had four children and a very large farm.

That family was also Quakers for many, many years.

In fact, 1753, I believe, they came, which is a long time ago.

This was a beautiful area to be raised in.

Beautiful.

I'm connected to the area.

I feel like I have the meeting, Friends meeting, where I attend, and I have other friends to.

From way back.

So it's nice.

It's real nice.

MYRA DIBERT WHYSONG-KRENTZ: My name is Myra Dibert Whysong-Krentz, and I'm here to talk about Pavia and the Lost Children of the Alleghenies.

These two little boys were lost in the woods.

Their last name was Cox.

They were children of Samuel and Susanna Cox.

They were lost in April of 1856.

The two boys were ages seven and five The oldest one's name was George.

The younger one was named Joseph.

Immediately, search parties went out.

It was said that there were hundreds people searching yet that night.

Three days later, there were 1,000 people.

And by the end of the week, 3,000 people.

The story gets interesting because my grandfather, my great, great grandfather, his name was Jacob Dibert.

His wife was Sarah, Sarah Whysong.

And they were living in Claysburg at a place called Polecat Hollow.

He had a dream.

In his dream, he knows that he goes down what looks like a cow path down a very steep hill into a very deep and dark ravine.

In this ravine, he ends up seeing two little dead boys.

Now, along the path, there were certain markers that he saw.

He saw, first, the carcass of a dead deer.

The second thing he saw was a shoe or a part of a shoe.

It depends on who's telling the story as to what you get there, but some part of a shoe, a child's shoe.

He goes a little further.

He sees that there is a stream with a log, particular log, a beech log, that he's able to cross the first stream with walking across that log.

Tells his wife about the dreams.

Describes this deep, dark hollow as being very dark with two very steep hills on both sides.

She says, well, there was a hollow like that near where she had grown up.

She had grown up at the top of Blue Knob.

So she sent him off.

He left Claysburg at about 3:00 PM in the afternoon after he had done his work.

He traveled by foot.

So the next morning, they set off to find the boys in the woods.

And they found every single marker that Jacob had dreamed in the dream.

They came down the cowpath, down Blue Knob, which is not a nice descent, it's very steep, into a deep and dark area where there's lots of water.

They first saw the carcass of the dead deer.

They secondly saw the shoe or part of a shoe.

They, again, crossed the first little stream, which we now know is Rodes's Run.

They crossed Rodes's Run on a log, happened to be a beech log.

There they find the two little boys laying dead.

The little one had evidently died first, because the older one had made a bed out of pine boughs for him, put a rock under his head and his cap under his head as a pillow.

The community decided to put a monument up in memory of the place where these boys were found.

The money for finding the boys was $50.

My great, great grandfather and Harrison donated that money to the family, and they put a marker up in the cemetery.

The boys are buried in the Mount Union Cemetery over in Lovely.

I think the thing I'm most proud about with Pavia is our military heritage.

We have sent many, many men.

Our oldest grave is a Revolutionary War veteran, guy by the name of Leonard Coral.

The Coral family actually established the town.

We have sacrificed a lot.

And because of it, Memorial Day is a big thing in Pavia.

We always have a big Memorial Day celebration.

We have a parade.

It's a very small parade because we're a very small town.

We make homemade bouquets, which we place on all of the graves of the military men in our cemetery.

We made 170 homemade bouquets this year, placed them on the veterans graves, and the people of the community all grabbed these homemade bouquets and fan out through the cemetery to make sure that every veteran that is buried in our cemetery gets a homemade bouquet.

Makes you cry.

ROSS SNIDER: I'm Ross Snider, and I'm going to talk about Sinking Brook Farms.

My grandfather started the farm in 1950, and he called it Sinking Brook Farms because there are sinkholes around the farm that the water goes into.

They had some financial struggles at the beginning, and they thought they should come up with a better name.

So they named it Singing Brook Farms because he liked to sing.

And they had a stand at the end of the farm driveway where people could come and get white milk or chocolate milk.

And in the early '70s, it was getting to be too much work.

So he got hold of Lou Gallagher, and he got on with Gallagher's, and we still ship milk to Gallagher's to this day.

The farm started out milking about 20 cows, and today we're right around 300.

He started with about 120 acres to crop farm, and now we're around 2,500.

My dad, my sister, and I work at the farm, and we have six employees that work with us.

We milk cows, and we grow corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and some wheat.

We milk twice a day, 3 o'clock in the morning and 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

I'm hoping that my daughters will keep the farm going, and some of my nephews will be interested in it someday.

Agriculture in this area is huge.

There's beef cows, you have the orchards, you have grain farmers, you have dairy farms.

It's a very big part of the economy.

JAMIE UTZ: Hi.

My name is Jamie Utz, and I'm the owner of the Lion's Den.

When I was 16, I worked in a restaurant, the Jean Bonnet tave and I became a manager there.

And then I just decided that it would be a good idea to own a cafe.

In 2012, Linda Lee started the Lion's Den Coffee Bar.

And in 2016, I took over, and I named it the Lion's Den Cafe.

There's breakfast, lunch, and then we also serve dinner two nights a week.

We're open Monday through Saturday.

We do specialty coffees.

Some of our most popular items are the breakfast items as the breakfast bowl and the burritos, the burgers, and also the salads.

A couple of things I like about owning my own business is I am my own manager.

I like to interact with the customers, and especially the employees.

In a typical day, we serve between 75 to 100 people.

All the customers are mainly repeated customers.

They come in daily for their breakfast and lunch.

I always like growing up around the country area.

The people are always pleasant to be around.

We had the same group of gentlemen that come in for coffee daily, and we also have our coffee drinkers that come in on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings.

And we also have our regular lunch crowd, our construction workers around town.

CONNIE HURTT: Hello.

I'm Connie Hurtt.

I'm going to be talking to you about historic Schellsburg.

[music playing] The homes in Schellsburg have been on the National register of Historic Places since 2001, and a lot of those houses are right on Pitt Street.

Dr. John Ely came to Schellsburg in 1838, and he opened his practice.

And that house has been in the Ely family for over 180 years.

John Ely and his wife, Anna Maria Clark, had seven children.

One of his sons, Dr. Taylor Ely, was a Presbyterian missionary, a doctor, and a teacher.

He and his wife were sent to Arbuckle, Oklahoma, right after the Civil War to teach Black children.

After that, they were sent to Lincoln County, New Mexico.

And it was here that they met up with Billy the Kid.

Billy the Kid was in their church.

He actually sang in the Choir.

Now, right down the street is another famous house in our town, and that is the Clark House.

The Clark family came to Schellsburg in 1803.

The Clark family had 10 children, and of their children, they had two lawyers, a doctor, two preachers, and a farmer.

One of their-- the farmer stayed on here in Schellsburg and ran the farm and the tannery.

But their other two sons, who were lawyers, moved on to Iowa.

And it was out there that Captain George Clark married Nancy Boal.

Nancy Boal's father was the founder of the Farmers High School, the Forerunner of Penn State University.

The last place is the Odd Fellows Hall in Schellsburg.

The Odd Fellows Hall has four floors, and on the top floor is where the Odd Fellows met.

On the middle floor is a stage where there were many high school plays and also bands played there, and they had festivals there.

On the first floor they had grocery stores and antique stores.

And these four floors are being renovated right now by Diane Stewart.

And Diane came to Schellsburg because her ancestors owned or worked in that building.

People in Schellsburg are very kind and thoughtful.

I grew up there, and I really moved away and then came back here, because the bond here is so great with the neighbors and the memories that you have because of the kindness of the people that I wanted to experience that again.

SPEAKER 1: And that's our town, Chestnut Ridge, a look at this Bedford County Community through the eyes of its residents.

Support for our town, Chestnut Ridge, comes from-- Bedford County Chamber of Commerce and the Bedford County Chamber foundation, Hometown Bank, not just a community bank, a bank for the community, Somerset Trust Company, a proud supporter of our town, Chestnut Ridge, Boyer Orchards, 4116 Cortland Drive, New Paris, and viewers like you.

Thank you.

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