by Mike Kelley

John’s father Martin C Harty

John’s mother Annie B knew that something big was going to happen out in the field.

The Harty Farm in the year 1800

Baptized in the pond by John

God’s Wisdom by Noreen

John Harty

John with his aunt Harriet and cousins Barbara and Christina

Visitors coming to see a work of art

The Harty Farm- View from the small fire pond

A woman who lived a few towns over from Barre had not heard of the cross. One night she was saying her prayers and a soft man's voice spoke right out loud to her, he said: “There is a man in Barre with a cross, give him a message, to keep strait the things of God from religion and the world." The next morning she didn’t know what to do because she didn’t have a name so she decided to call up the Barre newspaper to see if there had ever been anything written about a Cross. The lady at the Barre Gazette who answered the phone happened to be John’s sister Mary. Mary told the woman about John and the cross. The woman then called up the cross to relay this message.

Leo Perras and Rich Hayse

This issue of American Iron Magazine was published two months after John died

John on his Harley in 1947 headed off to watch the races

A gift to John P Harty from his motorcycle friends

John with his motorcycle

33 Harty Rd, Barre, MA 01005

Noreen made little cross necklaces

God’s Wisdom painting by Noreen

An aerial view of God’s Wisdom in the snow

The well in the wintertime

God’s Wisdom trees in the wintertime

A wintertime view

The benches in the wintertime -both made to withstand 200 miles per hour winds someday

Artwork by Mike Kelley and Noreen

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Mike Kelley raises his glass with honor to Jesus!

Artwork by Jack Kacian