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*r‘f'u. a‘- . A 2’! . V x '. . o J . t " . Coming from Toronto, 1950,T wrote the fCollowing,- In September of l95uijust one hundred years after the great storm that swept across Cartwright(‘ecorded on page 53,0n the Shoeesof Scugog) I came from Bowmanville north to Port Perry,along the roads that our fore-tla- thers taavelled so long ago. I found it a very pleasant country of quiet holms,and gently rolling hills and va11eysi.1he road was of smooth asphOEx (asphdlt).and usually was flahkdd (flanked) by huge maples and noble elms. "any of them planted a hundred,or so, years ago. " found Port Perry a beautiful 1ocation,the main street running r:aduall to the lake front. On the lake a number of boats,some of' them sail g y -1 boats,lay at anchor,and the distant blue vistas of a lovely lake stretched away across to Scugog Island,and beyodd. Port Perry is not old fashioned,or outamoded,but rather smug and contented.The house which my father,John Joseph Hembley built in 1896A is standing white and sedate with some large hard maples in front of it.lhese are trees which he planted somewhere around 1896,0r 1898,and they are the glory of their street. The old rink where we children played is now gone. There was no Sign of the old negro ex-slave,who_used to drive hi his cow,up and down the street,to pasture,4 suppose, when l was a small boy Old ‘John Rolph has gone.Names like Bigelww,and Archer and Brock,can still h be seen on sign here and there..l Stood beside the statue of (I for- get the name of this man) standing near Lake bcugog. Here is a little poem that 4 wrote about my visit to the old 'Home Town' and lake. , e , George Henry Hambley. (At this time of wriiting,lyierch 10th 1979,; found this) (The above letter),which l had written in the last bl- Lank_page of the fine old book,"0n the Shores of ScugogU. (by Eamuel Farmer.' I had forgotge§13hat it was there.-) _ . .H. Mrs luoore I haye Just taken down from ' . t m 1 br a school reader usednby my,father in 1869. I will get :rghgggifaghzg 012? the front page of It. lou can see by this copy that he wasn't very strgi C, ” spelling.He would be about In years ahd the year that he got this bogk n Notice where he marks it "School Section No. h".-- l how A look up Samuel Farmer's book up i - - on The Shore (ji' " on page Tir, he tells of the beginnings of the schools (fl thesggig%h ye, 1 being builf,rarmet says,"ln 18lrlra school was built on)the 2nd conce s? oo near the ganvelled road". But he doesn't mention the name of' this siiigg’ Could this be the school, named ohirley,where my Sathaueratrtended?. ' . (father) ' F _ iii/ _