Bangs House History

While looking for a lost bible, I came across a file that had some of the accumulated historical documents relating to our house.  Gloria had stored most of these away(maybe all).  She loved the history of The Benjamin Bangs House.  She did all of the things one must do to get the house on the state and national registries of historic places.  The letters stating our house indeed made it are in the file. A letter of commendation from the Fenton Beautification Committee is there and notably the head of the committee was John Gerych.  

Other newspaper articles are archived also.  One article is a story of how Ray Rausch's students all
wore paper bags over their heads, and switched seats, so he couldn't identify them and direct comments to them individually.  Ray was one of the great B.S.ers. They had a short discussion and adjourned to the cafeteria for coffee.  Ray was a great coffee drinker also.  The article appeared in the Mott CC Post.  

Another story saved was written by the late Jan Rynearson in the Fenton Independent(also no longer with us).  The story was of a woman who found and framed an old 1890 copy of The Independent.  That copy happened to include a story of a horse and buggy accident written by none other than Benjamin Bangs.  He tells of how he was giving a ride home to the church pastor(named Mr. Parson).  The horse was frightened by a donkey pulling a toy express wagon with a boy mounted on the wagon.  The horse turned short around dumping the buggy and it's occupants in the ditch.  Injuries were minor.  

What a nice bit of history.  I think I will copy and frame those two stories so our many guests can read them when they visit.

Back to Wheat Thins and Easy Cheese.  I believe I have perfected the exact proportions of cheese to cracker.