Remember when the Montgomery County Fair was held on the grounds of the Hatfield Speedway?Remember the Hatfield Speedway?Either way, you’ll learn a lot and quite obviously enjoy a walk down memory lane if you attendthe Hatfield Museum & History Society’s next community program, “This & That — An Eclectic Look At Hatfield History —Part 2,” on Tuesday (March 29, 2011).

The photo featured here today was snapped in 1934 at the Montgomery County Fair when it took up residence at the Hatfield Speedway tract in Hatfield Township.Shown with the goat cart are Lee Weber, Merrill Weber and Richard Weber.

Not quite the kind of amusement ride you find at most fairs today, though.Like the first “This & That” program presented last year, this program will feature a slideshow presentation of photographs, many never before displayed, on a wide variety of subjects, all part of Hatfield’s history.

The program, narrated by Society President Larry Stevens, will be held in the Hatfield Fire Company Banquet Hall beginning at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.For more information, check http://www.hatfieldhistory.org/.

This area is blessed with plenty of Girl and Boy Scout troops ... and has been for generations.Today we feature one photo from 1964 and another from present day, plus the older photo.George Messa of Lansdale has shared these photos — and is featured in the one shot in February 1964.The “retro” shot (right) highlights Cub Scout Den 6 of Lansdale.In the front row are George, Doug Nelson and Robert Taylor.In the back row are Alfred Neneca, Matthew McNalley and Cub Leader Mary Messa, George’s mom.George thought it would be fun to also share a photo of her grandson, Giovanni Messa, (inset) from Troop 55 in Quakertown, who is holding the picture from days gone by.

Here's a photo from quite some time ago: The North Wales High School graduating class of 1918.

You can only suppose that the young men of this class enjoyed the fact that they were in the minority; that probably gave them the pick of which lovely young lady they wanted to escort to school events.

Shown in this photo, in the back row from left, are Violet Buck, Hazel Rudolph, Edith Wolfgang and Margaret Schafenacker.

In the front row are George Lukens, Betty Knause, Grace Patterson, Rose Kuhn and an unidentied man.

Could he have been the teacher or was he another student?The photo was submitted by Wendy Warner of North Wales, the granddaughter of Elizabeth Knause (Betty) in the photo, who later became Mrs. R. Johnson, she noted.