Response to the Enterprise has been overwhelming to an article that appeared in the March 8 Looking Back section entitled Uncovering snapshots of life.

Enterprise news editor Amy Hubbell received several calls that helped match names with the faces of unidentified people in photos left to the Leelanau Historical Museum.

The most interest was expressed in a photo of an elderly man looking over blacksmith implements. Callers identified the gentleman as Henry Verno, who was a blacksmith in Empire through the 1950s. Verno’s blacksmith shop was located just west of the Empire Township hall. It is his shop that is replicated in the lower level of the Empire Area Heritage Museum.

With readers’ help we were also able to identify three of the four men pictured in Send Brothers’ Barber Shop in Suttons Bay. From right, they are Bonnie (Boniface) Strang, John Send and Fred Send. The identity of the fourth man on the far left remains unknown.

Readers from Suttons Bay helped identify the clergyman raising a flag as the Rev. Charles Baker, priest at St. Michael’s School.

The priest, who served as pastor at the church for more than 20 years in the 1940s and ‘50s, held a flag-raising ceremony each morning at the first through 8th-grade school. Other daily activities included a prayer, recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, and singing of patriotic songs. Callers estimated that the picture was taken in the 1950s.

Additional information was provided about the photo, which we believe was taken looking east on the Narrows bridge in Lake Leelanau. A color guard is pictured with a priest in the foreground, who was initially thought to be the Rev. Linus Schrems. However, callers who lived near the village in the 1940s believe the priest pictured was the Rev. Edward Neubecker, pastor through May 1946.

We’re still looking for information about the photos depicting two men dressed in their Sunday best, sitting beside a lace-covered table with a cake. A figure of a carriage rests atop the cake. They have small, book-size packages in their hands.

Anyone with information about the mystery picture may contact Enterprise news editor Amy Hubbell at 256-9827 or via email at amy@leelanaunews.com.