Tag: cortland

  • Bill Harned – 100 years ago in Smalltown, America

    Bill Harned, my dad as I remember him Bill Harned had been the dad in the 1960’s with his Kodak 8mm movies of everyone else in our family then later endless slide shows and even a poster-board chart of our family tree. I remember this photo of him in his new uniform after his promotion…

  • About Cortland Ohio VFD

    OCTOBER is FIRE PREVENTION MONTH Cortland Volunteer Fire Department (1960’s) Chief? How are you today, Chief? (As I recall, I wasn’t even in my teens and ‘chief’ of nothing.) The question came from the always-smiling face of Herm McLaughlin who actually had been the Chief of the Cortland Volunteer Fire Department. He lived next to…

  • Cortland Ohio

    This is my Grandpa Harned (Al to everyone) at the 1959 Cortland Street Fair.  He moved to Cortland from Conneaut Lake PA.  He was born August 2, 1903, as I recall, was married to my Grandma Gen until her death, & lived to age 93. They are buried in the cemetery by Mosquito Lake at…