The Oxford Historical Society has announced the winners in the photo displays at the recent Peach Festival.
One photo in each category were selected as the People’s Favorites, including Favorite Animals today, Heritage Animals and Oxford Olde Tyme Fair photos. In addition, those photos who received nearly as many votes as the category winners were given Honorable Mention.
The People’s Favorite heritage animal photo was a snapshot from the Nyberg family photo collection of three donkeys at Jack’s Hill Donkey Farm.
Honorable Mention went to a Loretta Dempsey photo of beekeeper Stanley Popowski, Sr., taken in 1977; and three other Nyberg Family photos, featuring Eleanor Nyberg with pupppies in a wheelbarrow, cats sitting on a sleigh looking out a window and Alice Nyberg seated on her donkey “Pinocchio.”
The People’s Favorite Animals of Oxford Today was a photo of her English Angora rabbit, taken by Jennifer East.
Honorable Mention went to Elains Serus Baron for her photo of a Tiger Swallowtail on a butterlfy bush; Also to Dorothy Valee, for her photo of her draft horse hitch; Dorothy DeBisschop for a photo of wild turkeys; Kevin W. Warhola received four honorable mentions for his photos, including a raccoon in a tree, a ladybug on a daisy, a chipmunk, and one of a red fox.
There were over 100 photos in the Oxford Olde Tyme Fair Category. The People’s Favorite, and the two runners-up with Honorable Mention were all taken by the Rev. Fred Kuhlman. The Favorite featured a photo of a sleeping pig. The Honorable Mentions went to a photo of sheep looking out a pen, and two pigs sleeping side-by-side.
The Photos are available for viewing on the Historical Society website.
The Society thanks all who attended and cast votes at the event, as well as Howard Belinsky for his donation of Oxford-grown peaches and Rich Ice Cream for their donation of peaches and cream ice cream. The Society also thanks St. Peter’s Episcopal Church for the use of the hall.
The Society will use the funds raised at the Peach Festival to open the Twitchell-Rowland Homestead on Towner Lane as Oxford’s first museum, scheduled to open later this year.