Springettsbury Township's Clair E. Wentz provided this photo of Newberry school students in 1946. Wentz started a school reunion in 1998 and the former classmates plus their counterparts from Roxbury and Beshore schools have been meeting every other year at Paddletown (St. Paul's) United Methodist Church's Christian Education Center. Background posts: Stetler Dodge transition indicative of other York-area changes , Smoketown a popular York County name a century ago and York County libraries offer serendipity - and have done so for decades.
My conversation with the woman scheduling me to speak at a Newberry Township one-room school reunion went something like this.
Reunion contact: Do you know where Paddletown is?
Me: I know about Paddletown Road, near Newberrytown.
Contact: It's at the Paddletown Church hall.
Me: What's the name of the church?
Contact: It's just known as the Paddletown church.
It was as if, everybody knows where that is. No further explanation needed... .
