are hacket which we're doing today minissha by our hill mcmurry thompson bill and also in crossroads today we are starting at the eastern end of peter's township and i first place of interest is the village of hack heck it was a mining town situated on the being of the railroad at the intersection of the boundary lines of peter's nottingham and union township the town was named for thomas hackett from pittsburgh operated the hack at mine a short distance west of the railroad station this mine was abandoned about nineteen hundred in the early days of peter's timeship it was a very busy village having all sorts of historical interest which my guests will be telling us about today something first surely your ball here well i remember the ice man coming with the ice and when the off season he used to deliver a call to the family and what i remember when i was a kid how we used to sled ride down the main road because there wasn't hardly any cars we enjoyed playing games outdoors all of us kids we didn't have no computers or no sega genesis or anything a television no television not even a telephone so there's a lot of other things that some of these others and i want to talk about that will in our we all start again i understand that you were all born store and then our father had a store to which we grew up in the store and he was real there's a he was an interpreter at the courthouse and so real second you maybe you want my call you sack that's ok do you remember anything about oh there being a post office we're starting down at the very end of packet now this is the beginning of peter's township have their way held dances down there almost every saturday papa dance it was really an entertaining time for all the people there and i actually i had still have four schools did they go to different grades or some you know anything about numbers i don't think they operate at the same time no longer with a girl in the other one i think the one next to the store was closed before the other was  yes that was that was there i was yes i was taking my first ride up there and i don't know when it was used to have three dollars or something like that you could go for five or ten minutes really remember about it oh yeah yeah john chapman flew from up there and i know some other well still in use up there yeah yeah yeah yes is it private same to stay there or something yeah i suppose our way our parents brought us up the teaching everyone right from wrong and one charlie and i for you coming from the same place little town that we both sense spent some time in korea and fifty three and fifty four and we met over in a post exchange when someone called me a ham which was my nickname and then i knew it had be someone from hacking it was interesting and also jack green who lived up around his dad was nice enough to come down and tell my dad that he met me in korea you know for a few miles away in a small community i'm glad if you like beer was there with us so it was like old home week it is very interesting that  susan in fact i got my aunt's piano when i was twelve years old and there are layers now it's just a regular regular plaid and it's still down the game room and my daughter learned to play on it  night we had local teachers to teach and they were professional i and used to say that when they had the death of down to hack a class she couldn't go because that was no place for a know something else we used to have a man come in a truck selling apples mr thomas and then there was the sole dishes and pots and pans story had a butcher shop in it and so did zoo pants and i don't know about schools prior to that but there were two they sold me i think when my dad started and he just sold gas we were still young i remember he worked in the mine for a while fifty seven i believe my brother still lives there now that we're really them right i wanted him to come he went and all that as i said well you know i don't i don't want to be that  house when they first had the club there up until after the war really right after the war and then you got indoor plumbing in the bombing like my dad used to far that's where our way who was one of the school board for a well he lived there my daughter went to school with his daughter no entertainment society it was known as then or now now now still known as i think i'm the one that had the contract put new the siding on it then the shopping watch t over the years it was quite huge one time townies grandson that's wonderful well i thank you all very very much for your wonderful participation and all these wonderful memories and