The Rochester Public Library has a pretty good run of yearbooks from Monroe High School. But they are missing The 1931 Monrolog. This one that I have and scanned has a bunch of loose pages but you can’t tell in the digital version. The title page lies. It says it is the yearbook for the …
Want more disco? Well here is “More, More, More” by The Andrea True Connection. This song was written and produced Gregg Diamond. “More, More, More” got up to $4 on the Billboard chart for the week of July 11 -17. On the Cash Box chart it got up to #3 for three weeks (June 27 – July …
Some of you didn’t get last week’s message about new things on the GenWeb. That’s because some spammer was using a RocHistory.com mail address as a return address. So some websites blocked all emails coming from RocHistory.com including a real messages from me. Last week I posted three smaller diaries/journals of Hamlet Scrantom, an early …
Last week’s project was to scan transcriptions of personal diaries by Hamlet Scrantom. His was the first family to occupy a lot in the Hundred Acre Tract of Rochester. That would be the lots owned by Rochester, Fitzhugh, and Carroll on the west side of the Genesee River. These three documents were bound together: Hamlet …