[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] My Great-Grandfather Dreger's Clock - his family was from volhynia

[Jerry Frank]

Great local interest story, Glenn.  That certainly has to be one of 
the best EBay finds that one could come across.  I will include a 
link to your site from ours the next time I do an update.

Would Andrew's parents have been Gottlieb and Julianna nee 
Friedenberg?  This family lived at Matschulki.



Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca




At 03:46 PM 17/11/2007, Glenn F wrote:
>Hi, this is just an general interest posting...
>
>One of my family lines that is from the Volhynia area was my DREGER
>family line.
>
>My Great-Grandfather Andrew Dreger Sr. was a mechanical tinkerer and a
>watchmaker in his later years. He built a multi-faced town clock when he
>lived in Long Beach, CA, reminiscent of the fancy town clocks of Europe,
>with clock faces that told the solar time of cities from all around the
>world. The clock spent 50 years being proudly displayed to the public at
>Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA... but recently was sold and
>removed from public view. With the help of the Buena Park Historical
>Society, I am working to restore the Dreger Clock and place it in the
>city's historical park. The society was able to buy the clock and save
>it, now we are asking the community to help get it restored to its
>former glory.
>
>I just thought that some of you might be interested in reading about the
>clock built by an immigrant from Volhynia...
>
>http://www.dregerclock.org
>
>Thanks,
>
>Glenn Frank
>
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