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My response is, don’t consider it a membership. Think of it as supporting the Historical Society so we can continue providing school programs and keeping LeRoy House and the Jell-O Gallery open.
Maybe your family didn’t come here in a covered wagon. And maybe your grandfather didn’t work for Jell-O. And maybe you’ve only lived in LeRoy a short time. But consider this town without an organization that preserves the rich heritage of this community.
As some of you know, at one time there was talk of leveling the LeRoy House and building a bank on the site. Not so long ago, some people wanted us to tear down the Academic Building where the Jell-O Gallery is. Thank goodness that never happened. I think about all the people who contact us with questions about their families that used to live in LeRoy. Just this morning I had a call from a man who found an O.F. Woodward bottle in the Adirondacks. “What can you tell me about the bottle? Who was O.F. Woodward? Why would a bottle from LeRoy end up in the Adirondacks?” I had the answers and he was happy to learn about our local history. A couple of weeks ago a man arrived to do research on the salt industry in LeRoy. He was here most of the day and yesterday I received a copy of his research on the salt and oil industry in New York. I will share his research will all of you in a Pennysaver article. Last week we had an e-mail from a woman who wanted copies of photographs of her father. I scanned them and e-mailed them to her.
So now you ask, what does the picture have to do with supporting the Historical Society? To be honest, there is no connection. I just like the picture and I used in 1995 in the membership article in the Pennysaver. I have no idea who the baby is. The photo is in an album assembled by a LeRoy photographer Charles Brooks from the late 1890s. We are in the process of scanning all the photographic images in the five file cabinets and someday they will be accessible on the internet.
By Lynne Belluscio
I need your help to win a bet. At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society, I made a bet with the Board that I could get more new members with this Pennysaver article than the twelve of them. So I’m counting on all of you who read the Pennysaver - - and there are a lot of you. Now you’re saying to yourself, “ Why should I become a member of the Historical Society?” Maybe you’re not a “joiner.”
