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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1972
Page
12
Trumansburg readers are invited to share Christmas memories from prior decades. The piece recalls wartime low moods in World War II and asks residents to write letters describing family traditions decorations food or memorable gifts from past holidays.
Edna Newell recalls three Christmases in the McKeel Quaker settlement near Trumansburg. Grandfather Allen’s large home, gifts piled under a loaded square piano, and a family feast with turkey and mince pie stand alongside Aunt Edna’s Christmas. The stockings reveal simple joy from dolls to nuts, coal, and a globe of childlike wonder.
Hazel H R Timerson recalls Christmases of old on a Trumansburg farm. The stockings on Christmas Eve and the church tree anchored holiday joy, with stockings bulging with gifts and the big toe not an orange, a treat beyond present oranges.
Albany area notices list December events through 28 with Rotary meetings Rebekah Christmas party Masonic Temple Searsburg Grange Searsburg events at Searsburg and Interlaken Village calendar shows LT activities OES and Grange gatherings plus RSLS guilds and senior citizen parties all week long
Joseph Brokaw announces the next Ovid Lyceum debate topic on Texas statehood with Dr Bolter leading the affirmative and T M Bishop the negative. The column also notes molasses improvements, recent heavy rain damage, a Rothschilds restaurant in Ithaca, and a December 13, 1905 local skating report. It covers bird sightings, including Evening Grosbeaks, a Northern Shrike, Loon, Great Black-backed gulls, Monk Parakeet arrivals, and Robins, plus a planned January 1 1973 Christmas Bird Count.
Waterloo area transfers show numerous deeds across the towns of Covert Lodi Ovid Romulus Varick and joint Varick Romulus listings. Notable grantees include Edwin L Resler Jr Theresa D Ryan Elbert Lee Davidson Jill Anne Docharty and the Warne brothers among others. Transfers involve diverse properties and heirs with executors and individuals named.
A boy recalls a Christmas wish for a single orange to enjoy alone and the happiness it brought. The memory highlights simple, sincere, joyful holiday moments from childhood.
Sheriff Maurice F. Dean announces a county wide snowmobile enforcement program due to complaints. Deputies will police unsafe speeds on highways and private property, prohibit riding near dwellings after midnight, and uphold state rules to reduce damage and disturbance.
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