By Judy Kestner
Sue Williams, only daughter of the late Lothar "Bud" Fieg, reports that her brother, Russell, recently underwent a biopsy to investigate "spots" in his bladder and received the excellent results that they were not cancerous.
Says Sue, "This is the 3rd time since 2008 that he has had the "scare" and the 2nd time that it has been very good news! ... Let's hope the good news continues in the future w/frequent check ups!" I will add an "amen" to that cheerful report.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Kevin Corkery Plays Drums for 'Rent'
By Greg Fieg
Kevin Corkery, husband of Sarah Fieg Corkery, has been selected to play drums as part of a five-piece rock ensemble in a presentation of the Tony winning Broadway show "Rent," being produced by the Orpheus Theatre group in his hometown of Oneonta, NY.
Simultaneously it will be staged Sept. 18-20 at Goodrich Theater at State University of New York at Oneonta, featuring a cast of largely local talent including theater majors from the school.
The original Broadway production, featuring musical and dance compositions by Jonathan Larson, opened in New York in 1996 with current primetime television staple Jesse L. Martin of NBC's Law and Order, and continues its run to this day.
The musical is based on the story line from the Italian opera La Boheme by Puccini, but updates the setting from 19th century Paris to New York's contemporary Greenwich Village, where struggling artists and musicians deal with the challenges of urban life. Admission is open to the general public. Tickets range from $15 to $25.
Kevin, father of five girls, is a graduate of State University of New York at Potsdam, where he majored in economics. He is a professional financial adviser, with offices at 15 South Main St. in Oneonta.
http://www.orpheustheatre.limewebs.com/Website/index.htm
Kevin Corkery, husband of Sarah Fieg Corkery, has been selected to play drums as part of a five-piece rock ensemble in a presentation of the Tony winning Broadway show "Rent," being produced by the Orpheus Theatre group in his hometown of Oneonta, NY.
Simultaneously it will be staged Sept. 18-20 at Goodrich Theater at State University of New York at Oneonta, featuring a cast of largely local talent including theater majors from the school.
The original Broadway production, featuring musical and dance compositions by Jonathan Larson, opened in New York in 1996 with current primetime television staple Jesse L. Martin of NBC's Law and Order, and continues its run to this day.
The musical is based on the story line from the Italian opera La Boheme by Puccini, but updates the setting from 19th century Paris to New York's contemporary Greenwich Village, where struggling artists and musicians deal with the challenges of urban life. Admission is open to the general public. Tickets range from $15 to $25.
Kevin, father of five girls, is a graduate of State University of New York at Potsdam, where he majored in economics. He is a professional financial adviser, with offices at 15 South Main St. in Oneonta.
http://www.orpheustheatre.limewebs.com/Website/index.htm
Monday, September 6, 2010
Milestone Marks Fiegs' Date With Fate
Dictated by Greg Fieg
The year 2012 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Corbett and Stewart acid factory which played a key part in the establishment of the Lothar Fieg family and subsequent generations.
As a boy, Lothar Fieg (1886-1958) emigrated from Germany with his parents, Carl and Emilie Fieg. He left the family farm in Milford, PA in the early part of the twentieth century to find work at the factory in southern Delaware County near the hamlet of Corbett, NY - then called Campbell's Creek. Lothar was remembered by the late Beulah Stewart, an heir of the factory's founder, as being affable, intelligent and capable, and he rapidly advanced through the corporate hierarchy and was named superintendent before his thirtieth birthday. This was no small feat as the plant, which produced acid, charcoal, wood alcohol and other collateral products was described as the largest such operation in the world at its inception.
Corbett and Stewart was a major contributor to munitions manufacturing and thus, upon the U.S. entry into World War I in 1917, the war department mandated that Lothar be fired as he was a German citizen and technically an "enemy alien." (Though domestic sabotage was almost unheard of during America's participation in World War I and presumably most spies were too clever to be caught, the War Department knew exactly what to do: fire that guy working in the acid plant in upstate New York!)
Without this intervention of fate, Lothar never would have taken his fledgling family in 1918 to find work at the burgeoning rail yards in Oneonta, Lothar's children would never have found their future mates and none of the next generation of that branch of the family would have been conceived! Coincidentally, without the hundreds of jobs provided by Corbett and Stewart that drew job seekers from hundreds of miles around, Lothar and Florence's union would never have been consummated in the first instance.
Florence's father, William, a stone cutter, had contracted pneumoconiosis, (also known as "Potter's rot" or silicosis), a severe lung disorder caused by the inhalation of stone dust. He and his family left their home in Colchester for Corbett where his wife, Celestia, operated the Merry Mason Boarding House. The five Shields daughters, Jane, Jessie, Nettie, Florence and Grace, pitched in with the chores.
When Florence met dashing young Lothar Fieg she was teaching school. After their courtship, the wedding date was set but on that day Florence, who had contracted scarlet fever, was quarantined to her room. Lothar was forced to climb to the roof of the boarding house and hold hands with his fiancee through the open window while the preacher performed the ceremony from the ground.
Ironically, though once a going concern that made millions of dollars for its investors, the Corbett and Stewart operation was predicated on the harvesting of thousands of acres of timber throughout the Catskills which, being a finite amount, foretold at the company's inception, of a time in generations hence when the timber would be gone and Corbett and Stewart would be finished.
By 1970 all that was left of the once mighty factory were the barely recognizable ruins of its rail yard and the sidings of the Delaware and Northern Railway, also now defunct. The village of Corbett, once wholly owned by the company, remains.
The year 2012 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Corbett and Stewart acid factory which played a key part in the establishment of the Lothar Fieg family and subsequent generations.
As a boy, Lothar Fieg (1886-1958) emigrated from Germany with his parents, Carl and Emilie Fieg. He left the family farm in Milford, PA in the early part of the twentieth century to find work at the factory in southern Delaware County near the hamlet of Corbett, NY - then called Campbell's Creek. Lothar was remembered by the late Beulah Stewart, an heir of the factory's founder, as being affable, intelligent and capable, and he rapidly advanced through the corporate hierarchy and was named superintendent before his thirtieth birthday. This was no small feat as the plant, which produced acid, charcoal, wood alcohol and other collateral products was described as the largest such operation in the world at its inception.
Corbett and Stewart was a major contributor to munitions manufacturing and thus, upon the U.S. entry into World War I in 1917, the war department mandated that Lothar be fired as he was a German citizen and technically an "enemy alien." (Though domestic sabotage was almost unheard of during America's participation in World War I and presumably most spies were too clever to be caught, the War Department knew exactly what to do: fire that guy working in the acid plant in upstate New York!)
Without this intervention of fate, Lothar never would have taken his fledgling family in 1918 to find work at the burgeoning rail yards in Oneonta, Lothar's children would never have found their future mates and none of the next generation of that branch of the family would have been conceived! Coincidentally, without the hundreds of jobs provided by Corbett and Stewart that drew job seekers from hundreds of miles around, Lothar and Florence's union would never have been consummated in the first instance.
Florence's father, William, a stone cutter, had contracted pneumoconiosis, (also known as "Potter's rot" or silicosis), a severe lung disorder caused by the inhalation of stone dust. He and his family left their home in Colchester for Corbett where his wife, Celestia, operated the Merry Mason Boarding House. The five Shields daughters, Jane, Jessie, Nettie, Florence and Grace, pitched in with the chores.
When Florence met dashing young Lothar Fieg she was teaching school. After their courtship, the wedding date was set but on that day Florence, who had contracted scarlet fever, was quarantined to her room. Lothar was forced to climb to the roof of the boarding house and hold hands with his fiancee through the open window while the preacher performed the ceremony from the ground.
In 1920 Lothar finally took his oath of allegiance to the United States at the Delaware County courthouse in Delhi and became a U.S. citizen. He never returned to work at Corbett and Stewart as he had already established himself in Oneonta where he is credited with the construction of numerous buildings, some of historical significance, many of which still stand today.
Ironically, though once a going concern that made millions of dollars for its investors, the Corbett and Stewart operation was predicated on the harvesting of thousands of acres of timber throughout the Catskills which, being a finite amount, foretold at the company's inception, of a time in generations hence when the timber would be gone and Corbett and Stewart would be finished.
By 1970 all that was left of the once mighty factory were the barely recognizable ruins of its rail yard and the sidings of the Delaware and Northern Railway, also now defunct. The village of Corbett, once wholly owned by the company, remains.
Ramagosa Yacht Outruns Hurricane Earl
By Greg Fieg
Details are sketchy but word comes from the high seas that Carol and Bob Ramagosa hastily furled sails on their 43-foot sailing yacht Sunnylands just in time to find a safe haven from a rendez-vous with Hurricane Earl. Luckily the storm only brushed the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., though seas were predicted to be twenty feet in some areas, and Sunnylands, whose homeport is in Onslow County, NC, was presumably undamaged.
Carol and Bob reside near the original North American Fieg homestead, now operated as the Black Walnut Inn bed-and-breakfast near Milford, PA, but spend much time at their second home in the Carolinas when not at sea. The area of the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Susquehanna River dominates most of Cap'n Bob's charts.
Carol is the daughter of the late Emma Fieg of Milford and granddaughter of Max Fieg. Bob is an important builder in the Carolinas where he specializes in lake shore development.
Details are sketchy but word comes from the high seas that Carol and Bob Ramagosa hastily furled sails on their 43-foot sailing yacht Sunnylands just in time to find a safe haven from a rendez-vous with Hurricane Earl. Luckily the storm only brushed the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., though seas were predicted to be twenty feet in some areas, and Sunnylands, whose homeport is in Onslow County, NC, was presumably undamaged.
Carol and Bob reside near the original North American Fieg homestead, now operated as the Black Walnut Inn bed-and-breakfast near Milford, PA, but spend much time at their second home in the Carolinas when not at sea. The area of the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Susquehanna River dominates most of Cap'n Bob's charts.
Carol is the daughter of the late Emma Fieg of Milford and granddaughter of Max Fieg. Bob is an important builder in the Carolinas where he specializes in lake shore development.
Ed and Sue Williams Travel to Atlanta
By Judy Kestner
In August, Ed and Sue Williams ventured south to visit with family on both family trees. They arrived at the condo of Laura Fieg (Doug's oldest and only granddaughter of Sue's dad, Lothar "Bud" Fieg) where Brian (Doug's youngest and Lothar's only grandson) and his wife Emily have been living while Laura teaches in Africa.
Brian and Emily shared lots of photos of their new home where they hope soon to move -- if only the bank would give them a closing date! Laura also had many pictures of her ventures in Uganda, as well as of her new love "Chief" who is Ugandan. Sue says, "Sorry I cannot give you his real name because I didn't write it down." Laura returned to Africa on August 11 where she has signed up for another year of teaching fifth grade. Sue did say that Laura had originally planned to teach younger children but added, "She loves it!"
One morning Ed and Sue ventured to Bob "Punchy" Powell's home. Punchy and Bud were best of friends during World War II. He actually has a mini war museum in his basement, and even has some things from World War I. He is one of the authors of the book Bluenoser Tales that includes pictures and bios of him and Bud, along with those of many other Bluenose pilots. Punchy mentioned there is another publication in paperback form to keep prices down. (To see a brief review of the publication or to purchase a copy go to: http://www.hyperscale.com/2007/reviews/books/bluenosertalespreview_1.htm. )
Of course, Sue and Ed had their personal copy of the book autographed and now have two signed pictures - Bud's and Punchy's. Punchy regaled them with stories about the 352nd fighter group of the "Mighty Eighth" Air Force. He and his wife, Betty, were wonderful hosts.
After a few hours Sue and Ed ventured south to Newnan, GA to visit with Ed's side of the family. They, too, brought out old pictures and news articles about the Williams family for an afternoon of recollections and memories. Sue says, "It was just not enough time to get everything done! But it sure was a great trip."
Any questions? Sue asks you to email sue.625@comcast.net or call 708-460-5179 (home) or 708-955-2906 (cell).
In August, Ed and Sue Williams ventured south to visit with family on both family trees. They arrived at the condo of Laura Fieg (Doug's oldest and only granddaughter of Sue's dad, Lothar "Bud" Fieg) where Brian (Doug's youngest and Lothar's only grandson) and his wife Emily have been living while Laura teaches in Africa.
Brian and Emily shared lots of photos of their new home where they hope soon to move -- if only the bank would give them a closing date! Laura also had many pictures of her ventures in Uganda, as well as of her new love "Chief" who is Ugandan. Sue says, "Sorry I cannot give you his real name because I didn't write it down." Laura returned to Africa on August 11 where she has signed up for another year of teaching fifth grade. Sue did say that Laura had originally planned to teach younger children but added, "She loves it!"
One morning Ed and Sue ventured to Bob "Punchy" Powell's home. Punchy and Bud were best of friends during World War II. He actually has a mini war museum in his basement, and even has some things from World War I. He is one of the authors of the book Bluenoser Tales that includes pictures and bios of him and Bud, along with those of many other Bluenose pilots. Punchy mentioned there is another publication in paperback form to keep prices down. (To see a brief review of the publication or to purchase a copy go to: http://www.hyperscale.com/2007/reviews/books/bluenosertalespreview_1.htm. )
Of course, Sue and Ed had their personal copy of the book autographed and now have two signed pictures - Bud's and Punchy's. Punchy regaled them with stories about the 352nd fighter group of the "Mighty Eighth" Air Force. He and his wife, Betty, were wonderful hosts.
After a few hours Sue and Ed ventured south to Newnan, GA to visit with Ed's side of the family. They, too, brought out old pictures and news articles about the Williams family for an afternoon of recollections and memories. Sue says, "It was just not enough time to get everything done! But it sure was a great trip."
Any questions? Sue asks you to email sue.625@comcast.net or call 708-460-5179 (home) or 708-955-2906 (cell).
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| From left, Brian Fieg, wife Emily, Sue Williams, husband Ed, Laura Fieg at Laura's condo in Smyrna, GA Aug. 2010 |
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| Sue Williams and Punchy Powell at Punchy's mini war museum in his home, Atlanta, GA Aug. 2010 |
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