By RICHARD F. BELISLE / Staff Writer, Waynesboro
photo: RIC DUGAN / staff photographer [enlarge]
GREENCASTLE, Pa. - The five Williams sisters, who grew up on Washington Street during the Great Depression, reflected on Wednesday about life in a small town in those quieter, slower times.
They were at the Allison-Antrim Museum taping their recollections for posterity as part of Greencastle's Old Home Week celebration.
They sat in front of the video camera chronologically by age.
On the left was Janet Williams, 67, the baby of the family, born in 1931; next was Dorothy Whitmore, 76, born in 1921; then Margaretta Williams, 78, born in 1919; Isobel Hartman, 81, born in 1916; and Pauline Rinehart, 86, born in 1912.
A brother, Orville, the oldest child of Melanchton S. and Lucy Williams, was born in 1910. He died in 1980.
A big part of the sisters' young lives was spent working in Williams Bakery, the business run by their father. It specialized in pretzels and the girls became adept at twisting ropes of soft dough into traditional shapes.