A 64-year-old history buff, teacher, and artist, Bruce Kennedy, has spent the last three weeks filming and documenting family histories, artifacts, and related sites in the Hilltowns and Delaware County.

Stephen A. Venear was born Athanasium Frank Venearski, on Feb. 2, 1887 in Chemerootza, Russia and arrived in America in 1908, at the Port of New York, on the ship Statendam out of Rotterdam, Holland. He was 21 years old and already a trained nurse.