A private funeral will be held for Dale Adcock, one of the last of my old neighbors from the days when I lived on Blauvelt’s Hill. I want to emphasize the term (old) as opposed to those I classify as the “youngsters.” While I consider them to be the youngsters, most readers of this newspaper will put them in a different class. For an example we have recently had an ad in this newspaper for one of those youngsters, Twila Cool, congratulating her on her 80th birthday.

The Adcock family purchased part of the farm my grandfather once owned and moved to Montana Township about 1953 or 195...