THE SECOND ANNUAL JUDY BOLTON DAY 1992

JUDY BOLTON DAY 1992

The following article about Judy Bolton Day weekend 1992 by Joe Slavin appeared in the December 1993 JUDY BOLTON SOCIETY NEWSLETTER. Click on images to enlarge for reading.

Joyce Wallner, Fred Batich, John Rotello, Mike DeBaptiste, Lorraine Rogers,
Diana McInerney, and Margie and Bob Kerns - 2nd Annual Judy Bolton Day 1992.

The Haunted Attic house in Coudersport PA - Judy's house in Farringdon.

Mike's 1981 El Camino parked on the road in front of the Dry Brook Hollow house
in Odin PA. This here is Dry Brook Hollow!

FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 (3)



NOT ANOTHER FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY ARTICLE!

You betcha! And this one was in the Potter-Leader-Enterprise, Coudersport PA's newspaper, on October 9, 1991, welcoming Judy fans to town. Even though there were only about a dozen of us who had come, the event was highly covered by the media in the county, and still is to this day, every year on Judy Bolton Day.



Lorraine Rogers and Joyce Wallner in Dry Brook Hollow
after having discovered Judy Bolton's Dry Brook Hollow house.





This article has lost some clarity in the copyying process, but you should be able to read most of it. Click on the image to enlarge!









FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 *PHOTOS 2*

more JUDY BOLTON DAY PHOTOS 1991

Judy Bolton fans on the North Hollow Road, photographing the meadow that leads to the Dry Brook Hollow house, the old Smeed Farm.

The wall of deer inside the Dry Brook Hollow house.

Mike DeBaptiste in Potter County Courthouse, used as a site in The Pledge of the Twin Knights.

Mike with Ann Creamer and daughter Meg outside the Potter County Courthouse.

The swimming pool in Sizerville State park, used as a site in The Voice in the Suitcase.

Lorraine Rogers with Mike DeBaptiste and Joyce Wallner in Dry Brook Hollow (Odin PA).

Ruins of the Austin Dam, used as the Roulsville Dam in The Vanishing Shadow,

John Rotello and Mike DeBaptiste completing a book sale outside the Laurelwood Motel.

Lorraine Rogers and Mike DeBaptiste speak at assembly in Austin PA (Roulsville) Firehouse.

Lorraine and Mike with Peg Rotello in Austin Firehouse.

Host John Rigas of Adelphia Communications talks to Judy fans Meg Creamer, Lorraine Rogers, Diana McInerney, and Rosemarie DiCristo at Saturday evening banquet at the Crittenden Hotel in Coudersport PA.

FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 * PHOTOS*

JUDY BOLTON DAY PHOTOS 1991

• Here are some photos from the first Judy Bolton Day weekend held in Coudersport PA in 1991. You can click on the photos to enlarge.

                                           

Bucolic scene in front of the Dry Brook Hollow house

                                         

The Farringdon -Pett mansion along the banks of the Allegheny River

                                         

Meadows next to the Dry Brook Hollow house, the old Smeed Farm.

                                         

Joe Slavin, Rosemarie DiCristo, Lorraine Rogers, Meg and Ann Creamer, Joyce Wallner, Mike DeBaptiste, and Diana McInerney on the front porch of the Farringdon-Pett mansion (the Judge Lewis house).

                                         

Joyce Wallner and Mike DeBaptiste in front of the Laurelwood Motel.

                                 

Jack Sharpe, Joyce Wallner, Mike DeBaptiste, Lorraine Rogers, and Rosemarie DiCristo gather in front of the Laurelwood Motel on Saturday morning to begin their first annual tour of Judy Bolton sites.

                               



Judy Bolton fans Joe Slavin, Mike DeBaptiste, Ann and Meg Creamer, Lorraine Rogers, and Diana McInerney in Potter County PA for the first annual Judy Bolton Day weekend in October 1991.

                                

more photos to come..........

FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991 (Part 2)

THE FIRST ANNUAL JUDY BOLTON DAY WEEKEND 1991


Regardless of what some others may be claiming, this was the first actual Judy Bolton Day weekend get-together in October 1991. Some of us had been there the year before searching out sites and laying the groundwork for future visits, but it was a different time of year and it wasn't an 'official' event. At this point, we were still representing the Phantom Friends, which is why the name is used in the article which appeared in several fanzines in 1992, including The Judy Bolton Society newsletter. Click on the images for reading!

This year's event, 2014, will be the 24th annual Judy Bolton Day weekend, not the 15th, as some are claiming.

FIRST JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991

JUDY BOLTON DAY 1991

This is the news article from the local Coudersport newspaper announcing the first annual Judy Bolton Day fan get-together in Coudersport PA in 1991. This year, 2014, will mark the 24th annual convening of fans of the mystery series by Margaret Sutton. Judy Bolton fans have met every year since 1991 in early October for a festive fun-filled weekend in the beautiful PA mountains, visiting Judy Bolton sites and the people who live in and around them.



Judy Bolton Day is a Judy Bolton Fans event. Formal visits and events have taken place each year since 1991, sponsored throughout the 1990s by Adelphia Cable Company, which was headquartered in Coudersport, and the Potter County Chamber of Commerce.

Some of the fans who go there now have taken claim to the inception of the event and count the years only since 2000 when they first came. They claim that nothing had been going on there before they first came. The truth is, everything they do from the hotel they stay in to the places they eat dinner to the sites they visit were in effect long before they ever came. These articles are proof of that. Our visits during the 1990s were real. LOL! Yes, we were really there. We even took Margaret Sutton back to the place of her birth, the Dry Brook Hollow house, in 1998, for a late morning brunch.

The first year this group attended there was a Judy Bolton Day parade in town, and a Halloween-themed square dance sponsored by Adelphia like the one in the Judy Bolton book The Haunted Road. I would call these 'formal' events and there just is no reason for the continual claim that nothing was going on before they came there and started things.

                                  Click on to enlarge for reading.

JUDY BOLTON GRADUATION PHOTOS

Judy Bolton HIGH SCHOOL Graduation Photos

These photographs sit atop a piano in an old farmhouse in Potter County PA near Coudersport, the real location of 'Farringdon' in the Judy Bolton Mystery series books. They are from the early 1940s and highly resemble what the main characters in the books would have looked like in that era - Judy Bolton, the main character, of course, her brother Horace, Arthur Farringdon-Pett, and Peter Dobbs, the fellow Judy eventually marries.

Judy Bolton fans visit this house every year on Judy Bolton Day weekend and marvel over these likenesses, who are family members of those who live in the house. The house itself also has a real Judy Bolton association: the father of Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton books, helped to build the house and also built some of the furniture still used in the house.

Judy, Horace, Arthur, and Peter!