My grandparents, Charles and Lorene Reiner, lived here for many years. I spent a lot of time here, especially in the summers, playing baseball and football in the yard north of the house. The street address is 2896 Fairgrounds Road.

Hi there! It's great to hear about your memories of the property on Fairgrounds Road. Could you share more about the kind of farming your grandparents did on the property?

Charles and Lorene Reiner, 2896 Fairgrounds Rd., purchased the property in 1958. Charlie worked for Penna. Power & Light Co. He used the 11 acre property to raise a couple steers and a few chickens. Some of the land was covered with grass and clover for grazing and hay. He also planted corn and harvested the that crop, which he took to a local mill and had it ground into feed. He would butcher one steer for food for the family. The other couple steers were sold to butcher shops. He would get several more baby steers and start the whole process over for the following year. In the upper left center of the photo is the "truck patch" or family garden. The family raised sweet corn, strawberries, peas, beans, potatoes, other vegetables for family use. Lorene would jar and freeze the vegetables for family use or sometimes if there was an over abundance, it was sold given away. The building next to the garden was an old foundation from a barn which Charlie converted into a shed for equipment and also a pen for the steers. The building to the right of the house (dark siding with three windows) was a combination chicken house and work shop. And a little more to the right is another small building which served as the corn crib. The small building with three shrubs surrounding is the smoke house. Here is where Charlie cured his hams, bacon and sausage. He would purchase a hog, slaughter it and cure the meat in this building. Funny story, the smoke house had some smoke escape during the curing process and one day as the family was seated at the dinner table, a local young man who was not familiar with concept of a smoke house, came running up to our screen door and cried out "Charlie, your toilets on fire". Charlie assured the young man that all is well and there was no need for concern.
I am Dale Reiner and my parents Charles and Lorene along with my sisters and brother had wonderful life at this property.
Thank you to my son Mike who has created this opportunity for me to share this small piece of history.