First, I got an update on the burials records for Lakeview and Beach Ridge Cemeteries. The cemeteries are maintained by the Highway Department of the Town of Sweden. The cemeteries adjoin each other and it is hard to tell which cemetery you are in. Lakeview is so large that I have it split into 6 …
A few weeks ago in one of the book seller groups someone mentioned that some old books are toxic. I didn’t quite understand but it seems that some very old books contained arsenic. A week ago there was this article on Local History ROCs!, the blog of Local History & Genealogy Division of the Rochester …
Last week I scanned “Blondie and Dagwood’s Snapshot Clue” (1943). It isn’t local history so I put it on the Internet Archive. On the title page it says this novel is written by Chic Young but I really doubt that he was the actual author. He created Blondie in 1930 and was busy drawing the …
Last Saturday was the Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair. It was the first time back since 2019 because of Covid restrictions. They also moved the fair from the old Rochester Armory (on Main St.) to the Dome Arena. They are saying that they had about 700 people come and view the many book sellers. Also there …