Schoolhouse Central Inc. will present the Simcoe Gallery from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Albrightsville one-room schoolhouse, located on Route 534 in Albrightsville, next to the Albrightsville Volunteer Fire Company.

Gerald Simcoe will be displaying his art and musical talents.His work features his grandmother, Mary U. "Nana" Hahn (née Green), who enrolled in the Albrightsville School in 1921 along with her three siblings.She worked in the fields harvesting crops and also as a domestic. Hahn met her husband, Alvin, while he was working for the WPA and building a road from Jonas to Albrightsville.He asked her to accompany him to Palmerton, where she milked 21 cows each morning by 3 a.m. then drove a school bus at 6 a.m. for the Palmerton Area School District for 42 years before retiring.She founded Hahn's Cloverleaf Dairy in 1969, which is still selling jug milk today.Hahn was awarded the Golden Book of Deeds by the Palmerton Exchange Club in 1976."I have witnessed first-hand many of these acts of kindness from giving the kids who rode on her bus a six-pack of Coke to goody bags on their last day of school," says Simcoe, who having finished school earlier, would sometimes ride along with his grandmother on the last days of school.Hahn also took clothes and food to needy families with children, and delivered milk to the elderly.Simcoe paints in oils in his barn/studio, and was the only Pennsylvania artist featured in the book "Inside the Art Studio," published by American Artist Magazine and North Light Books in 2014.He studied at the Art Student's League of New York in the early 1980s, and his work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery of Haverford College, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and more.He won the Forbes Magazine Award for "Rob Conti with Peter" 2007 at the Salamagundi Club of New York, and his mural, "Dutch Influence in Horticulture," was on view at the muZEEum Vlissingen, Netherlands in 2010 for the show "400th Anniversary of the Dutch Discovering Manhattan."For more information on Simcoe, visit

www.simcoegallery.com.