Remembering All Parents on Parents' Day

When I think of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, I think of more than one or two people, so I’m writing a tribute to five people for Parents’ Day, July 24.

I’m one of four children born to Harry and Laura Snyder 80-plus years ago in Loysburg. The home I and my siblings were born into was, at first, a two-story log house, built about 200 years ago. It received several additions, weather-boarding to cover the logs, a dug-out basement (which flooded now and then), porches and many interior improvements over the four generations of Snyders who lived there.

My grandparents on the Snyder side of the f...