The group pictures taken in side the Fire Hall.

JoAnn and Rich Kieta looking great and having a great time.

Josephine Kapacko and Ann Helesik enjoy another great reunion

Rita Suich Kantorick and Mary Rebidas Spooner - lifelong residents and friends

Descendants of Samuel Smock joined us for the Homecoming:

Vera Fike, Edwin Smock, and Myra Dolence reunite after many, many years.

Folks gathered around the bar on Sunday at the Museum. From L to r: Bernie Link, Vilma Shumaker, Bernice Rocheck, and Bradley Shumaker. Bernice tended bar and served ginger ale and root beer as well as the pagash and cabbage soup made by her mother, Mary Spooner.

This beautiful painted of the Samuel Smock Homestead was handpainted by Sabra Smock of Belle Vernon, PA.

Visitors spent alot of time trying to identify relatives in the pictures at the museum.

Rita Kantorik shows a visitor our memorial plaques and book.

Former Smock resident Walter Rayman shows the French Medal of Honor which he recently received as a veteran of D-Day. He was one of 100 veterans invited to France to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Walter worked at Jendrall's Store in Smock before he joined the army at 17 - he left his house and told his mom that he was going to join but that the army would not take him so young. But they did and he was a group squadron leader at age 19 when they landed on France's shores. After the war, his paperwork was lost and it took an extra 6 months for him to return to the US. He settled in New York where he ran into a young woman from Smock(coincidence or fate?) and they later married. We are working on getting Walter's name on the memorial in Smock. (That's a promise, Walter!)

The group was so large that 2 photos were taken in front of the Fire House