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Dexter's life in a small
town, Bucks
County, Sellersville &
Perkasie, Pa. 1930
through 60's
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Dexter eBook
Life
in a small town runs at a different pace. It
seems to be set by the local business
attitudes and activities. It also could be
the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) people. They
were dedicated hard workers but at a farmers
pace.
My hometown
was Sellersville, which is next to Perkasie,
Souderton, Telford, Quakertown and far away
Doylestown - the county seat. Actually my
family was renting in 17 Noble St,
Sellersville and mom and dad decided to
build their house up on a hill just outside
of Sellersville in West Rockhill Township.
It was well named since we had these red
colored rocks everywhere we tried to dig.
This rambling
is a "Mackway thing" (my mother's family)
they take a written road and follow it to a
crossroad in their mind and then make a turn
and keep repeating these turns until they
have lost the reader in a maze of written
subject turns. But we need to get back to
Life in the slow lane.
My dad's
mother Bess Osborn Waite had just died of
cancer. He was
the third child born in Bethlehem. He moved to Sellersville
looking for a job. He wrote a diary 1935-36
while living at the Sellers Inn/Tavern now
called the Washington House. He worked as an
artist and draftsman in the engineering
department of the US Gauge company. It was a
(German) gauge manufacture used for reading
temperature and pressure. He worked his way
up to chief engineer with no engineering
degree.
My mother and
the Mackway family was living in
Sellersville. She worked at the US Gauge, I
am not sure about her job there. She was
active in the outside work activities and
she met my dad since they were in archery
together. He called her Mack. After Ralph Jr
was born she stopped working to raise the
family.
My father was a nature
man. For a time he was
Scoutmaster to the local
scout troop. He would go
out bird watching with
other local men. In
fact, he was just
remembered in the Buck
County Herald by one of
his scouts, Judge
William Heart Rufe.
See index_extra.htm.
<- See Diary of Ralph Dexter Waite Sr -
eBook "My two years in Bethlehem and the
Washington House (pictured) in Sellersville Pa."
Liberty Bell Trolley ran
from 1912 to 1951
through Sellersville,
Perkasie and around..
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