In February, 1900, the members of the Hastings Women�s Club met to celebrate the �End of a Century.� Ten came dressed in the fashion popular in one of the century�s decades. Pictured above from left to right are:
Sitting: Mrs. Frank (Nettie) Brooke (1830) and Mrs. John Lombard (1820)
Standing: Mrs. James Sweezy (1800), Mrs. Richard (Allie) Bates (1840), Mrs. P.T. (Rose) Colgrove (1850). Mrs. Carrie Grant (1860), Mrs. William W. (Margaret) Potter (1870), Mrs. Charity Stauffer (1880), Mrs. Arthur Brown (1890), Mrs. Maggie Bailey (1900)
Copy of the agreement between the Women's Club and the Board of Education in Hastings to place the Women's Club book collection in the new high school for both school and public use. Unfortunately the original signed agreement cannot be located.
The Dibble family at Barlow Lake. Mother Estella (standing), brother Bob (kneeling), brother Bill (left), James (right), and father James (on the ground).
Jim Dibble (left) with James' brother Bill (back to camera), eyewitness Enzo Pinto (center right) and relative of a family friend Sal Dimaio (right). Enzo authored the monument erected in James Dibble's honor. Sal was a guide from Salerno/Naples. Pinto saw the crash when he was 12 years old, later became the Padula mayor, and authored the plaque on James Dibble's monument.
