HMC Family Association

For the young’ns from Gavin Kerr

Take on the challenges and make the decisions your ancestors did, on your computer! This is an old game. If it’s been awhile or you’ve never played it, you can get the original version for free as well as specifics on how to load and play it by clicking HERE .

Download Applewin from this page (or go to http://applewin.berlios.de/ to download 1.14.0(beta) of Apple Emulator for Windows).

Note: These files are “zipped” so if you don’t already have it on your computer, go HERE to  download free software to “unzip” your downloads. (Zip files are compressed so the download takes less time. It also assures you get complete files.)

Then open the jeff.greenfld.net link on the same page and scroll down to Oregon Trail-FOUND! Click on Oregon Trail and download that file(2 disks). Once down-loaded, click on disk 1. It will automatically open the Apple Emulator for Windows and you can start playing.

Note: When you reach the point of switching to the ‘2nd floppy disk’ – click on the master drive 2 the one under 1 and then go to your virtual floppies and double click on the 2nd disk. It will then go in drive two. After that click on the drive that has a 1/2 on it and then press space bar. There you go.

If you want the latest version for your PC go to http://www.learning company.com/ or, you can Google ‘Oregon Trail game’ to find the updated version for sale.

For the computer savvy users out there:

* The Apple II emulator can be found at http://jeff.greenfld.net/zips/applewin.zip
* The Apple II Oregon Trail Game at http://jeff.greenfld.net/zips/otrail.zip

A story Jean Kerr told his daughter, Barbara

The original black walnut tree that was planted at the first Hewitt Donation Land Claim home was a huge tree–four feet in diameter. I remember walking by the tree to go to school in the first grade. It was extremely healthy and strong–a huge tree. When no one harvested the walnuts, hundreds of little walnut trees grew around it.

The walnuts were very oily. My brother, Kerwin, and I would fill our pockets with them when we walked by it and take them home.

When we moved to the Homestead and went to High Heaven School, we made our own sports equipment.We wrapped one of the walnuts in string to make a baseball. I don’t remember what we covered it with, but after a while the oil from the walnut seeped through the string and the covering.

[Henry and Elizabeth Hewitt > James Andrew Hewitt >
Sylva Hewitt Kerr > Kerwin Kerr and Jean Kerr]