Montgomery County Parks, Trails, and Historic Sites offer wonderful opportunities for residents and visitors alike. We welcome everyone to enjoy the natural resources, participate in educational and recreational opportunities, and to appreciate our local history.
Over 1.5 million visitors each year enjoy our nine parks and five historic sites, totaling more than 6,000 acres of public space, and over sixty miles of regional trails. We are excited to now bring some of our trails and tours to our RU-vid channel and share our county treasures with even more people!
I’ve begun what is called slow stitching. However, it is simply embroidery. As I sit down to do sewing, I realize-- I do need a needle holder. Then I see your site. Thank you so much.
Please work on the audio. Your voice echoed when you were sitting on the window seat. This made it difficult to follow what you have to say. Excited to learn more about this topic
Our military carries little sewing kits. Those treasures that you have I would love to have one. My uncle was killed in Belgium during WW2. It devastated my father's family. We as the next generation have felt it greatly. He was only 20 years old, just turned, newly married before he left for basic training, and only lived 2 or 3 months after joining. I wonder about those cousins whom my siblings and I and my other cousins never had the opportunity to meet and know. Your sharing about this just brought these thoughts to mind. I served for 23 years and to have one of the housewives used by our former soldiers would be so treasured.❤🥲
Fantastic video as I was at a military collectable show and had my choice of 4 Canadian tri-fold housewives. I paid $10 but now wish I took one seller up on the offer of all 3 for $25. I picked the tan one that looked unused; it has original buttons, and maybe original safety pins/needles. I put these contents aside and instead I am putting in the contents of our 80's housewife as I plan to carry this as a useable kit. So going down: threads/darning yarn***needles/safety pins/thimble/threader/buttons***modern sticky patches/screen repair/small length of wire. I may even add in a war nickel after watching this video. I also own a German 2 pocket kit that had some contents and I added more of the carded darning yarn that is from German military (The same yarn in my Canadian kit).
My name is Brandon Potts I would like to know if you have possibly any information regarding family history as I am interested and don't have much info about it myself
Hello! There are a couple Potts family genealogy resources you can find on our website (www.montgomerycountypa.gov/930/Pottsgrove-Manor). We do joke that the Potts family is always trying to confuse you as similarly named individuals appear frequently but are not directly related. Good luck and enjoy the research journey!
Still have never found any information on the very very small stone . Go behind the house into the new parking lot go into the field and find the storm run off to the right and right in the middle of the path
Thanks for reaching out! It's hard to identify without seeing it (if you want to send us photos you can at pottsgrovemanor@montgomerycountypa.gov) but if it looks like it is hand written on the back it's possibly the soldier's name. If it looks like it was printed/stamped it could be from the Kohler company--same one as the plumbing fixture company today--as they took on a wide variety of government contracts during the war years.
What a great question that sadly does not have a simple answer! It's probably more than we think, but we cannot say for certain. There are some household clothing inventories that have 12-20 shirts/shifts, which are you 18th century underwear, and just as many stockings. So it would not be unreasonable to say possibly over 10 caps.
Nice! Your videos should be seen by more watchers. May I repost your channel without changing anything on the clean platform named Ganjing World? Thank you!
Mattew Brenckle is an excellent hatter! He is incredibly pleasant to work with, and the quality of his work is superb. The custom cocked hat he made for me is beloved in my collection. I cannot recommend his work enough. This video has some great insights - thanks for sharing!
An opossum got into the house of a friend. And apparently lived on cat food and pooped all over for several days before they found it , by accident, hiding behind a bedroom door. 🤣🤣
This was beautiful. In my area, I would probably be only to get raisins. (Also, like that shout out for Nutmeg - seemed to be a staple from the past!). I will have to give this one a try.
