Winter 2003

About the Winter 2003 Issue

Note from the Editors

Leading off this issue is the second installment from Barbara S. Ramsdell's story of John W. Jones and the abolitionists in and around Elmira who assisted runaway slaves to travel to Canada and freedom. Mrs. Ramsdell is secretary of the John W. Jones Museum Board which is working to restore the Jones's house as a museum about the Underground Railroad in the Southern Tier.

Read all about the sport of basketball in Honeoye Falls from the early teens to recent years in Paul Worboys' article. He writes of the combined movie house and basket ball court built by entrepreneur Paul Wolfsburger in 1913, of fitting out the Village Hall for basketball in the 1920s, and the inauguration of a new school gymnasium in 1928.

Richard Palmer contributed three items to this issue: Remember the Old Fanning Mill?, his story of the Cardiff Giant, the famous hoax of the 1870s, and an 1850 review of O. Turner's The History of the Holland Purchase from the Utica Daily Observer.

David Minor's Eagles Byte Timeline reports New York State events of the year 1821. You can listen to David speak on history topics every Saturday morning at 10:12 on WXXI-FM (91.5). Also check out his page of meeting announcements, exhibit notices, museum/gallery links in and about New York at http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/meetings.html.

The chapter titled Dancing School from Robert Beck's Story appears in this issue.

We include an account from the February 27, 1929, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle about a contest for the design of a new emblem for the Society of the Genesee. Donovan Shilling, always searching for items and references to the original Society, found this newspaper clipping showing the contest winning emblem.

Bill Treichler reports on the trip taken in October 2002 by the New Society of the Genesee to Rochester's Mount Hope Cemetery.

During the days and long nights of winter, the Senecas told stories in their longhouses to teach their children and to entertain each other. In this issue Stephen Lewandowski reviews five famous books about the Iroquois by: Henry Lewis Morgan, James Seaver, Arthur C. Parker, Antony F. C. Wallace, and Ted Williams. "Three Sisters in Jerusalem" by Stephen Lewandowski appeared in CLR Issue No. 74 in May 1994.

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