This is about my Kenneth L Wolf Srs and My wife Donna Irene Renkens Family.  
Starting from when I was born in 1933 with three (3) brothers.  It was a great 
time to be a youngster.  No computer, no TV, no electricity, no 
refrigerators.  
We had large gardens and my mother canned all our vegatables for winter.  She 
also canned meat. Deer, rabbits and squirrels.  In the fall we had family hog 
butchering  when the weather turned cold.  All the relatives would bring their 
pigs to be slaughtered.  After slaughtering the pigs would be slid into 55 
gallon drum tipped and tied to an old door.  Filled with water and a fire 
burning at the bottom.  As many as possible would gather around the table and 
sscrape the hair off the hog.  We used knives and I remember using the Old 
zink 
jar lids to scrape the hair off.  Worked fine. Then they wold be hung up to 
cool overnight.  The next day they were cut up and put in the salt house to 
cure.  The lard would be rendered ot and put away for winter. Sausage would be 
canned also for the winter.  In the summer when school was out we played from 
sunup to after dark. No drugs then, just good clean fun. No crazy peolpe to 
worry about.  We did have our homeless people but we called them tramps or 
bums.  It was a very good time. Of course we had our ole swimming hole in the 
Little Youghagany River.  The boys had one and the girls had theirs up river 
and around the bend from us. Lots of time spent hunting and fishing. Sundays 
were spent laying around reading the funny papers or going to visit the 
relatives. I have tried to geather as much information about the three 
families involved.  Many thanks to Irene Renken for her hard work and the book 
she helped compile about the Renken Family and her ancestors.  Also many 
thanks to My Mother, Beulah Barnes for giving me the Book about The Bittinger 
Family which was invalube in giving me information and steering me in the 
right direction.  Also to the many people that I have talked to on the 
telephone and internet giving me information and pictures.  The job is not 
over but I will keep trying.  If anyone has any information or pictures I will 
be glad to pay the postage.