Earl Smith, my grandfather, worked for the Hurley Sand and Gravel company for many years later in his career - I think from about the 1950s or 60s on.  He operated a dragline for them.

•  A photo apparently taken sometime in the 1950s.  This shows a big pile of sand or gravel and a dump truck.

•  This is an undated newspaper clipping about my grandfather.  It appears to have been from the Kingston Daily Freeman.  The photo shows him operating a Hurley Sand and Gravel Company dragline.  A handwritten note below the caption reads "Smitty and shovel."  The caption reads as follows:

  CLUB DREDGING HARBOR -- Work on improving harbor facilities in Port Ewen has been undertaken by the Hidden Harbor Yacht Club at the former Pennsylvania Coal Company facilities.  According to a spokesman for the club, the work is expected to be completed about March 30 and will provide more space and greater depth in the harbor.  Cost of the work estimated at $6,000 is being done by Joseph Schrowang of the Hurley Sand and Gravel Company.  (Freeman photo by Kruh).

  
  

•          These photos were taken at the Hurley Sand and Gravel Company in June of 1974.  We went out to visit Grandpa at his worksite and my little brother, who was four years old at the time, got to ride in the cab with him while he ran the dragline.

•  This is a clipping from 1987, five years after my grandfather's death.  This is probably also from the Kingston Daily Freeman.  The caption reads as follows:

  Silent Sentinel.   Looking a little like the skeleton of some ancient dinosaur forever mired at waterhole, the conveyor of the Hurley Sand and Gravel Co. is reflected in water collected on the Hurley Flats near Lomontville.

  
  

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