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Since this entry was written the author found out the picture below was taken at a picnic spot in Patton, Pennsylvania. Duman's Dam, now known as Duman Lake Park, was and is a popular spot for family picnics in Cambria County. I have fond memories of fishing at the park as a boy of about 10 years old. Early one morning my Uncle Jerry took me and a couple of my Byrnesville friends fishing at the lake. I remember freezing, hearing on KDKA radio on the way to the lake that it was 52°'s Fahrenheit. Walking down to the lake through a foot high, wet meadow, I remember thinking it was the coldest 52°'s I'd ever experienced and it still is. It was on the lake that I saw a boat constructed from the hoods of two cars. In 1939 some car hoods were deep enough to look like half a boat when upended so some handy person welded two together and made a fine boat. Two people were fishing from the car-hood boat when we got to the lake. Duman's Dam is the only park owned by Cambria County, and it has about 70 acres of woods and meadow along with the 20 acres of lake. From copies of various pictures contributed by Edna Francina Byrnes Lantzy and Donna Marie Gibas Lloyd it looks like the Byrnes family enjoyed picnics in Patton and at Duman's Dam as early as the 1930's. Edna Byrnes Lantzy and Karen Byrnes Harmon have identified most of the people in this photograph. If you know any of the unnamed people or if I've made mistakes on putting names a faces together. Please let me know. Click the picture below for a large version. Click 'Comments' below and leave a note. ~Ed Byrnes Byrnesville Site Administrator |
 Picnic Spot in Patton, Pennsylvania. |
