Canastota Area Remembrances

Interviews with Local Residents







Harold Briggs
Topics Discussed: Various businesses and individuals from 1911, too numerous to mention.
Images included. 

Doris Keene
Topics Discussed:  Quality Hill area, Nathan Baker, blacksmith, Chapman creamery, Keene family, personal life, Presbyterian Church, teachers (only quick listing of names--Gifford, Hanrahan, Feidt, Brill, White, Shearling (sp?))

Russell Rielle
Topics Discussed: Hermitage, hitching posts, Indian Opening Road, KKK, Oneida Purchase of 1798, Peterboro Glass Factory, Quality Hill, Scenic Heights, Selah Hills, Spencer Telescope, Three Pines lore, time capsule (1960) 
 

A million thanks to Dorothy Pringle Schneider for conducting these interviews and for getting this oral history project off the ground!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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