Twenty years ago, 15 families newly moved onto Gray Rock Farm's Dorsey Search Circle decided to celebrate the start of school with a neighborhood crab feast on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend.

Held at the home of Toni and George Arthur, this first event featured pot luck appetizers and salads, Berger's cookies, and, of course, crabs.

The kids were small. The line for the elementary school bus stretched down the block. It was such a good idea that the group has met annually ever since.

To celebrate this landmark year, Neil Troppman designed T-shirts for everyone to wear, Jackie Troppman photographed everyone's house and created a collage, Ellen Bell created a slide show of the neighborhood through the years, and the Arthur's hosted the event once again.

The kids are mostly grown now, some with kids of their own, so the group has grown quite a bit from that core beginning. This year's gathering attracted 80 people.

Every one of the original families was represented -- even the single family that moved away. Represented in the photo are Williams, Collins, Arthur, Kusterer, St. Ours, Leuba, Kouroupis, Laycock, Troppman, Bell, Heineman, Hansen, Schmidt, Aquilano and Honaker families and friends.

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