Once a Southwick institution, Pioneer Dairy started as a creamery-turned-milk bottling plant. The Dairy found great success with its assortment of ice cream flavors, pasteurized milk, and its most popular product offering: Fudgie-Frost (almost always mistaken as Fudgsicle®). Pioneer Dairy Chronology 1903: Future Pioneer Dairy founder Charles Albert Nutter is born on July 25 in the Feeding Hills section of Agawam. His mother, Anna May (Johnson) Nutter, known as Annie, dies from postpartum hemorrhage and shock the same day. Charlie's father, Albert Turner Nutter, sends him to live with Annie's parents, who raise him on their large farm in Southwick's Long Yard District (North Longyard Road). 1912: Albert Nutter remarries. He weds 21-year-old Grace Williams on March 27. 1914: Charlie attends the North Longyard schoolhouse, where he gets routinely recognized for punctuality and perfect attendance. 1915: In a community-wide celebration in Southwick in July, Charlie takes first p...