Hello everyone, this is David Crittenden. My Uncle, John Moritz inherited this land, Cross Mountain from our Grandfather, John Moritz senior. When I was four years old I would go with my grandfather and we would feed the cattle at the small ranch which was once located at the end of Cross Mountain Drive which runs by the foot of Cross Mountain. On that easter in 1963 I saw a bonfire at the top of Cross Mountain. It was then that I learned that it was a local tradition, probably a local German tradition that they would build bonfires at the top of the hills circling Fredericksburg on Easter Sunday. Soon I could see they had five or six bonfires on all the hilltops surrounding the town every night for about four or five nights. My Grandmother, Rose Margaret Blum told me that Peter Cottontail was going to bring me Easter Eggs and I thought I saw a bunny laying eggs. Well, I was 4.