"All aboard for Werleys Corner," Bill Townsend said at the end of the song, "The Orange Blossom Special," played by The Majestics at the Weisenberg Lowhill Historical Society's annual festival.

A storm cut short the festivities on Sept. 8 but the grounds were crowded on Sunday.

Townsend asked for a round of applause for the volunteers who "had some bad weather last night.

"Let's hear it for the historical society."

"Orange Blossom Special" was played in response to a request for some fiddle music by Phil Meek.

Townsend said they were going to play some old-time music that was around when Zimmerman's Hotel at Werleys Corner was active.

The song was "I'll Fly Away."

Although the rain came Saturday, Society President Don Breininger said people stayed and ate.

It is the 10th anniversary for the society, so newspaper stories were spread across two tables showing what was done during those 10 years.

The Rev. Elaine Bogert said she has been teasing Breininger about speaking Pennsylvania Dutch, so she was going to say the prayer in Dutch, but then no one would know what she was saying.

Breininger announced there is a cookie sale and Santa Claus, a banquet open to the public, twice-a-year yard sales, and if a large enough group volunteers they would like to restart the quilting project.

Randy Spaide has 100 hives of bees. Forty will be going to South Carolina where they will be used for pollination.

He was selling honey and said the dark color was from bees that were working on the blossoms of tulip popular trees.

Bob Milot of Weisenberg Township said honeybees are having a tough time.

They were attacked by invasive mites that damaged their lungs and then chewed into the bees causing sores that did not heal leaving openings for infection.

Then came colony collapse disorder, Milot said.

People are trying to find a reason a hive will be healthy one day and the next day they will not return from looking for nectar.

They collect pollen when they visit a flower and carry it to another flower. Pollinated flowers produce fruit.

Old pictures, maps, frakturs and Bibles were part of the exhibit of the Bachman family history. The family had a reunion April 29 at St. Peter's Church, Lynnville, said James Bachman, who was talking about the exhibit.

Elizabeth Meeker donated the frakturs which, with the other exhibits, have been donated to the historical society. Her great grandmother was a Bachman, said James Bachman.

Dave Laidacker of Danville started with a survey map from 1816 and matched sections to a Google map. This is what let Bachman find what was probably his family's farm - along a creek and with a hook on one side. From the original map to today's Google map, 200 years are bridged.

"This is so fascinating," Bachman said. "We all share a great, great, great grandfather if we go back through enough "greats."

Sharon Bachman Wagner came to look at the materials. She traces her lineage to Solomon Bachman, her great great grandfather, who was the postmaster at the Lynn-ville post office.

The younger generations were Claude and then Sterling Bachman.

The original Bachman came to this country in 1753 and in 1769 he donated land for Lowhill Church.