Before Paul and I really got into doing genealogy, we went to the Wait Family Reunion in 2002. While we were there we met a lady (my grandfather's sister's son's wife, got that?) who was really into genealogy. She brought her book that she was working on and went around gathering everyone's information.
It was around 2003 that Paul and I started getting interested in genealogy. Some time later in talking with my Aunt Esther about some of what we had found out she gave me this lady, Ann Bonneville's, email. We corresponded back and forth and she eventually mailed us her book that she was still working on. It had a lot of information and pictures that I had never seen.
One of the pictures in her book was of Uncle Harold's "camp" on Lake Sherman in Brimfield, MA.
I remember talk of this camp. My Dad used to love going there. My Aunt Dot said she never liked going in the water there because there were blood suckers.
This picture was from Ann's book.
Last fall I decided that I would like to try and find out if this camp still existed. We found the lake, but couldn't identify the house.
My Dad told me years ago that he tried to find it and he had to hike from the road to get to it. The picture we had was from the water, so I thought maybe we could find it from the kayaks. Believe it or not, we found it and it didn't look much different than the picture we had.
Through landmarks we were able to find the camp from the road. No one was there at the time. When we got home we looked up the deed and found that Uncle Harold's son Jim sold it in 1990.
It was so much fun actually finding this place. I was really surprised that it was still there.
In going through my grandmother's photo album this week I found this picture.
On the back of the picture, this was written in my grandmother's handwriting.
1957 Camp at Lake Sherman, Brimfield Mass.
Donald Merz Wait, Feb 6, 1900, my grandfather.
David Reed Wait, Jan 19, 1907, his brother.
Can I say it again? I LOVE doing family history.
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