George Burlingame

Prepping today to go tomorrow to interview George Burlingame with Sue Savard from the local history museum. George is 92, a life long local resident, who may be able to help ID scenes and people from the 1930s Costich videos.

Alexander Milliner, reapers

Very long email query about this fellow, who was a Revolutionary war vet who lived a lot of his life in Adams Basin. I don't have much on that, a little east of what we have always collected, did suggest the Brockport Republic online. For the reaper materials suggested a couple ebooks and one print book. The questioner was a chem major asking just out of curiosity, and can't spend over much time on that sort of thing right now...

Sim's Pond

Have discovered where Sims Pond is, thanks to Sue Savard of the community museum, who has been working with a local man, George Burlingame, 92 years of age. I am going to see him with her next week, do some oral history, ask some questions re the Costich film footage.

Genealogy question

From a Ms. Tibbitts in NC, about the children of Silas Holbrook, who was the head physical plant person here late 19th, early 20th century; several of his children were BSNS grads.

Computer Science Dept. 25th anniversary dinner

T. Rao is organizing a dinner for the 25th anniversary of the Computer Science Dept. It existed prior to that, in different forms, but the current unit is now 25. Have found and scanned some old slides, working on a powerpoint etc.

Genealogy - Dodge

Request from a genealogist to visit in October - replied saying is certainly welcome, not a lot here necessarily, general histories etc. Took a quick look in Brockport Republic and referred her to same, was one mention at least of her family. Also recommended some of the village histories in DC I have posted.

Old Houses...

Contact with Cynthia Howk at Landmark Society is leading into another project, that of the "Old Houses of Monroe County" book. Helen Hastings did it in the '40s with some other DAR ladies, there seem to be various "editions" or binders of it around, and it would be a valuable resource if collated, edited, and digitized.