I scanned another book by Arch Merrill last week. This one is Shadows on the Wall. It was his 11th book. Part of these stories had appeared in his news paper column. The stories in this book are from all over western New York. It starts out with the story of the seven Sutherland sisters …
Yesterday I shared the new pictures of the construction of War Memorial from the early 1950s. First thing to be done was to knock down the old buildings of the Kimball Tobacco Co. Sitting on top of the smokestack for that company was the statue of Mercury. I could write about the statue but instead …
Last week I scanned Arch Merrill’s book The White Woman and Her Valley (1955). This book is almost all about tales from Genesee River valley and Livingston County. The first and longest chapter is about Mary Jemison who was called the White Woman of the Genesee. She was captured by Indians and became part of …
What am I going to do in 2023? I never really know for sure because I find new things to scan all the time. I have about 40 school yearbooks but I know that there is a team coming to the Rochester Public Library to scan more of their yearbook collection. I still have a …