The Moyer Family

This is a photo of Charles and Erdith Moyer, the gentleman on the far left is Mr. MacMaster,taken during a return vist to the Moyer Family. He and his family rented the Moyer's upstairs apartment, during the 1950's. The dog is un-named until someone emails me with the name and that should not take long. That did not take long, Claire emailed me, the dogs name was 'Shaggy".

I received this photo from Mr. Macmaster's son, John MacMaster from Douglasville, GA , John's father was a Tradesman Electrician and traveled from job to Job For two years he lived in the Moyer's upstairs apartment on Main Street. The MacMasters were originally from Gardiner, Maine and moved to Groveville in 1955, while his father was working on a job in New Jersey.

John recalls fondly the years he spent in Groveville, here is an excerpt of what he said in his email accompanying the photo.

I remember the back yard where Michael (Moyer) and I would devise these walkie-talkies - then just string and some tin cans. We'd walk to the corner grocery store, and the school was easily within walking distance "around the corner". I remember the schools being so much harder than those in Maine. I remember at the end of Main St there was this "dumpy area" where we could forage through small sand pits and find all sorts of construction items....junk mainly. The years I was there TV was just coming into its own. My father brought home a black and white that we watched until the stations went off the air. We'd watch every commercial as we'd watch every feature show - fascinated - like everyone else - over the picture transmission.

It is such a testament to living in Groveville, that people that live here for a short period of time in 1955, fifty four years ago, still have such fond memories of our little town and cherish a photo of his father and a family that touched him so briefly, so long ago.