Sigurd Rascher, world renowned saxophonist
Sigurd Manfred Rascher, known worldwide for the development of the classical saxophone, was born in Elberfeld, Germany on 15-May-1907 and died in Shushan, NY on 25-Feb-2001. Growing up in Germany, …
Cambridge Diner (Country Gals)
[I’m only covering the early years] On Sunday October 13,2019 the revitalized Cambridge Diner sign was unveiled to a cheering throng of 300. The Country Gals invited the community to …
American Legion, Capt. Maxson Post #634
On March 15-17, 1919 members of the American Expeditionary Force convened in Paris for the first American Legion caucus. On Sept. 16 same year the U.S. Congress chartered the American …
Vly Summit, or is it Fly Summit
The names Vly Summit and Fly Summit have been used interchangeably throughout history. The Post Office (12-Dec-1870 to 31-Jan-1935) was named Fly Summit. Google and NYS DOT maps now use …
A gym, a ballroom, and a bus garage
The Old School didn’t have a gymnasium when it opened in 1891. Mary Hubbard’s bequest in 1914 built the addition on the back (south) of the school. The out-of-bounds were …
1961 Summer Rec Program
(thanks to Carson Fuller for organizing this and all the others who helped make it happen) Swimming at Hedges LakeCraft program in Kindergarten wingBaseball program at night Here are the …
Main Street Flood: March 13-14, 1977
The green Victorian footbridge. The fire dept had to tie one end of a rope around the bridge and the other around a nearby tree to prevent the footbridge from …
And then there were 3
Six years ago this week we lost the 3rd building on the south side of West Main Street … known either as LeGrys & Son Jeweler or Francis Ackley’s store. …
Photo from cupola atop Rice Seed, looking northward
Left-to-right: Ray Durrin’s house in the 1970s, American Legion home on the corner (was A.B.McNish house), the back of the Wash Cnty Post building, Rice Mansion. The roadway to the …
1890 John Larmon Hose Company
Standing left-to-right: Eldred Brownell, Walter Murdoch, Thomas Luddy, James Loren, Walter Galbraith, William Luddy, Michael R. Murray Seated: Richard Roach, Thomas Powers, John Brownell, Fred LeGrys, John K. Larmon, John …