This is a picture of Joe Whitney and George Schneider down the road from where we lived on Warren Rd. in Mohawk, roughly in 1952. It is the corner of Warren Rd. and Pettingill St. Joe has his hands behind his back and George's arms are sticking out under Joe's armpits. George lived next door to us and was roughly Joe's age. He lived with his mother and father, Joe. Mary Maranville Ratajack sent me this picture on June 17, 2022. The boys are playing on the Maranville's front lawn. Mary is my age and lived there with her older sister, Ellen (2 yr older), her mother, Lura (we called her Marandy), and her father, Harry. Harry was from Vermont and still had the New England accent. He worked at Remington Arms in Ilion and was a fishing and hunting buddy of my father. The Whitney's and the Maranvilles were close friends and we spent a lot of time together. I remember we rented a camp together on Otsego Lake near Cooperstown for a week in the summer when I was 8 or 9. Lura was a great cook and made the best molasses cookies I have ever had. Harry was several years older than Lura, and after he passed, she worked as the housekeeper and cook at the Catholic parsonage in Ilion.
