Sarah Stabler, born 1899: "Frank Willson rode a very quiet old mule to school. We would often see Frank leaning forward on the mule taking a nap on the way home." "We were always impatient when spring arrived to cast off long stockings and shoes. Oh, the blissful sense of freedom it gave us!"

Harold Stabler, born 1875: "My youthful recreational activities included fishing, hunting, bird watching, bird's egg collecting, swimming in summer, skating and sledding in winter, and baseball when enough of us could get together and play. There was berry picking and nut gathering in the fall."

Mary H. Stabler, born 1867: "Once Rob [brother] and I were deeply interested in reading Tom Sawyer and he had to cut the yard, so I walked up and down beside him as he used the lawnmower and I read to him."

At butchering time "the pigs' bladders were saved and hung in the cellar after they were blown up, to use as ice bags in case of sickness...We children were allowed to have some of them and it was great fun to play with them."

Sallie P. Brooke, born 1875: Her siblings were her playmates. "I didn't have to know anyone else...they were all I needed."

David L. Brigham, born 1916: "I curried the horses, mucked the stalls, milked the cows, slopped the pigs, fed the chickens, loaded the manure spreader, and cleared the barnyard and chicken house."

Roderick Drysdale Adams grew up to run a dairy farm where the hospital now stands. He eventually sold the land to move to Brighton. Among his grandchildren is Ellen Dinel Hartge of Riverside. Roderick's brother Herbert ran the Sandy Spring Store in the mid-1900s.