"Posed in this picture for the 4th of July Celebration of 1908 as "Miss Columbus" is Mrs. John M. Rhea (nee Bird Vickrey) of pioneer Corning family. The picnics in that era were beng held on the Corning Lake grounds through the courtesy of the Knobel Club that had possession of the wooded tract on the West banks of the lake, South of their cottages. There is no record of the first Independence Day celebration in Corning, but it probably occurred in 1873 in the wooded area that later became the town square."