Thursday, August 2, 1984 [on way to Hildreth Reunion in CT]
Review of the three Mauk Chunks now Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Left at 5:15 up 209 toward buskill Falls 150 MI at Winona Lodge $89. Dave spent an hour in pool- had to himself.
Left motel at 8:10 for Sunbury crossing Susquehanna River into Northumberland County. At Courthouse by 8:30 and in recorder’s office found early records were in vault-like rooms in basement. Found Tobias Bickel’s will 1790 and his land records of 1768. Bought history at Planning Commission and got map from Mr Reed recorder- very accommodating. I-80 to Hazelton with picnic at rest stop. Through the Western Poconos to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Crossed Lehigh River by mistake and got to what had been East Mauk Chunk but found Jim Thorpe Monument on Route 93. Back across river and all the things Carol told me fell in place. Courthouse where we talked to James Walker recorder and former mayor. He referred us to Agnes McCarty at Railroad Museum tourist office. She was delighted to have 49 Jim Thorpe books- hadn’t known it was published. Drove up Flagstaff mountain.
