Name/Title
Hugging the HomesteadEntry/Object ID
000641Tags
William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN, Goshen, N.Y. • Wednesday, September 6, 2000 • 9
Left Caption
FAMILY MEMBERS gathered, hand in hand, around the house and gave it "a Big Hug" as a tribute to the homestead.
Right Caption
KEN PETZOLD, Pat Petzold and her husband, Blaine, and Bill Pepping are pictured in front of a teepee, which was typical of what the Crow tribe used in their part of the country while William Bull and Sarah Wells had their stone house. The 18 ft. diameter teepee was easily assembled as well as easily taken down. The Petzolds and Mr. Pepping are holding flintlock rifles, tomahawks, "death-mail" weapons used by the Indians in battle, "possible bags" which held gun powder, and patchballs. Ken is wearing a hunting frock which trappers in the fur trade wore from 1740 to 1840. The lazy back chair which the young lady is sitting in was made of willow shoots. In the winter the chair was used under bedding as insulation.