Your webmaster's interview with Cousin Howard Doster who currently submits the annual newspaper write-up for the Collett-McKay Picnic. The sound starts before the video from the source I used. I haven't figured out how to make the two match more closely at this time.

     After offering a prayer, Trustee Mckay Collett welcomed 155 persons from 15 states to the 145th annual Collett-Mckay Picnic, again on the second Saturday in August, 2010. Steve Mckay had the grounds in perfect picnic condition. Trustee Steve Collett asked for donations to pay real estate taxes, now nearing $400, and for roofing for the bathroom, as well as for volunteers to help install the roofing. His address is 3603 Center Road, Wilmington, Ohio, 45177, and his phone is 937 382 8736.
     After putting up one of several awnings now placed on sites of former trees, Travis Glaze rigged a fan to run off his auto battery. Perhaps because of the heat, there were few games, and cousins barely met each other before going on to cooler environs, just ahead of a major rain storm. The storm rained out the annual "Doster Dinner" at our 1818 Moses Mckay House, and perhaps other after-picnic parties.
     While announcing she would make a major printing of her Mckay Genealogy for the 2012 Picnic, Kathryn Luby asked that cousins send her their updated family trees. Her address is 1714 Buck Run Road, Wilmington, Ohio, 45177.
     Carol Collett came from California, but Trustee John Mothersol and John Becker could have walked from their homes on land adjacent on different sides to the four-acre picnic site at 5353 Gurneyville Road. Mothersol just inherited his former Moses Mckay land from his aunt, Betty Magee. Mckay purchased it in 1819 from his cousin, Jessie Mckay, who bought it four years earlier.
     Two other farms sold out of the family for the first time. In spite of the efforts of Mckay cousins, the Van Tress land, adjoining the picnic site on the SE and SW, part of the original 1000 acre purchased in 1805 by our ancestor, Moses Mckay, was not purchased by a cousin. Also, part of our ancestor Daniel Collett's 1814 land purchase in southern Chester Township, including his 1816 home, was sold for the first time.
     Keagan Billingsley of New Carlisle, born June 7, was the youngest first-timer. Other first-timers included babies Tyler Billingsley and Mykah Mothersol of Wilmington and Landen Boswell of Springfield, plus Mckay Collett's adult nephews from Mass, Thomas Wilcox, Jr. and William Mayo-Smith, as well as Maria and Sierra Brock of Winchester, VA.
     Wilcox, interested in genealogy, and this reporter, committed to search the records in Maryland and northern VA, near now Charlestown, WVA, for evidence of early Colletts in America. While we all first read on Howard Collett's "Blueprint", and on the picnic grounds entrance posts, that Colletts came from France, this reporter has entered evidence of English roots on the Mckay website at www.robertmackayclan.com. When asked, Wallace Collett, who died two years ago, told this reporter he had been to Little Giddings, England twice; and he confirmed his impression that, despite what his father, Howard, wrote, Colletts came from England.
     Virginia Collett, age 90, was the oldest present from the Daniel Haines Collett/Maria Mckay line. Mckay Collett , age 86, was the oldest descendant of the Jonathan Collett/Sarah Mckay line. Jeanette Muser, age 82, was the oldest present from the Francis Mckay/Mary Collett line. Ray Sell, age 88, was the oldest from his line and Kathryn Luby, age 65, was the oldest present from her line.
     Five cousins died since the last picnic, including Lois Mckay Ervin, Ralph Glen Ames, Florence Lane Ellis, Charles Luby, and Betty Magee.
     Out of state attendees included Carol Collett, Radondo, CA; Ray, Virginia, and Mary Sell, Boulder, CO; Robin Fabian and Fred McKay, Bartlett, Ill, and Chad, Chuck, and Karen Fabian, Des Plaines, Ill; Lena, Stella, and Pierpaolo Pulzonetti, South Bend, IN; Jim & Tricia Giesting, Glenwood, Iowa; Ben Kelly, Lexington, and Sally and David Sell, Richmond, KY; Thomas Wilcox, Jr., Deltham, and William Mayo-Smith, Weston, Mass.; Dave, Cindi, and Adam Doster, Novi, Mich.; Brian and Bernice Magee, Dryden, NY; Jimmy Doster, Raleigh, NC; Marilyn Talmage, Nashville, Tenn.; Zoe, Emma, Seth, Caleb, Kimberly, and Delwyn Price, Midvale, Utah; Michael McKay, Maria and Sierra Brock, Winchester, VA; Gary Lee Fields and Ellen Magee, Madison, Wisc.