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Dave: I’m Dave Pelepzuck, I live on Larry Hill Road. I’ve been there all my life. I never really knew Chet at all. But I’m doing volunteer work at the Old Stone Fort trying to sort out all the millions and millions of photographs and stories and everything that he has there. And I feel like I’ve known him all my life now. And just from everything that I’ve seen and heard and that I want to learn maybe a little bit more about today. I’m sure you all recognize the maps that used to be put out for the town of Wright, just a basic map that they were usually handing out during election time. Want to see the back there? Well, he must have come up with quite a few of them. He made so many different variations of the maps, like where all the old mills were and he would have everything ever down there or where property lines ran through different areas around here or old roads that are very woarn that we used to go through and he’s got another map and another map and another map and another map with another map. He just seemed to spend every waking hour he had to make this up. So, it’s going to be there for prosperity. You know, there’s stuff in there that I’m sure nobody knew about until you actually look at that map. And there it is, and wow what’s that? Anbody ever heard of the Russellville area? It’s just a little… you can’t even call it a town. It’s just a like a handful of homes. And one certain area was back where the old dump was. Just outside the town line between the town of Wright and the town of Schoharie. So, he found this, in fact I think it was Alfred Chrysler gave him the names of the people that lived there. So, Chet saw that and then I don’t know one thing came to him or which order it came to. He went back checking old newspaper clippings, that were at the Fort from the Schoharie Republican or whatever and was able to go through different newspaper clippings of it to find out that little area was there. And one of the people I believe that owned the area had cut down a whole bunch of lumber for sale, and it was the paper. And how do you go about to find all this out? Not a Google to be seen.