16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, February 23, 1912: It was so awful muddy this afternoon. Didn’t hardly know how I would get through mud and everything else coming home from school.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Mud was a huge problem a hundred years ago. Neither the streets in McEwensville nor the rural roads that Grandma needed to walk to get home from school were paved.
A muddy Main street in McEwensville in the early 1900s. Photo from Watsontown, McEwensville, and Delaware Township: A real Photo Postcard History by Robert Swope, Jr. (Photo used with permission)
Recent photo showing the same section of Main Street. The paved road is a definite improvement on muddy late winter days.
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but I’d miss the trees, if I lived there.
The town looked much more picturesque a hundred years ago.