Tough People: Dillings Tale Begins

When one sees the words “if this place could talk,” there is a tendency to conjure images of ghosts, thrilling romance or big money deals. But when one looks at the farm that now belongs to the Bakers, just a stones throw from Piney Creek Road in Huston Township, it’s difficult to imagine what of much drama occurred here.

Enter Ella Snowberger, the intrepid Morrisons Cove Herald reporter of 80 years ago, and some of the mystery surfaces.

Some of us first heard about the Baker farm a week ago when Jim Snyder, president of the Blair County Genealogical Society, and local resident Allen Edwards m...