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A Visit To Geo P At School
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Monday, January 6, 1845: Tonight my children went with the cutter up to singing school to the widow Goodrich’s. Tonight a high wind and a little snow.
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Anti-Rent Agitation; A New Schoolhouse
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday, December 19, 1844: I drew a load of apple tree wood from Harvy Patchings orchard and let him have the ox team to draw another load of wood from the same place.
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Funerals Amid Threshing Of Oats
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday December 12, 1844: Today I changed works with Nathan Sackett.
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Schooling For Geo P
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Geo P is to remain at James Bush’s until George finds him a school...
Wednesday, November 27, 1844: I then left him on my way home and Charlotte with me.
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Looking For A School For Geo P.
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Monday, November 25, 1844: Today I took my one horse wagon and my oldest daughter Charlotte with me, we started for Albany and Geo P. with us to look for a school where he can study and board with the teacher.
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Butchering Pigs And Making Sausages
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Friday, October 25, 1844: This forenoon we drew stone to put in the wall in front of my house.
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The Trip Back From Western New York
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Wednesday, October 9, 1844: This morning Andrew Camel took his two horse team and carried brother Simeon and wife and I and my wife to Utica.
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A Journey To the West
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday, September 26, 1844: This morning I and my wife started on a visit to the west in company with brother Simeon Wylie.
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George’s Lawsuit Is Resolved
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Friday, September 13, 1844: Today my wife visited to the widow Murphy’s.
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A Big Anti-Rent Meeting
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Friday, August 30 1844: We hayed some and this afternoon.
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By Steve Bradley Hoosick Falls Central School’s Luke Hoag delivered over 77,000 letters to Santa as part of the Macy’s department store “Believe Day.” You must be logged in to view this article.
At Least One Other Still Sought By Doug La Rocque For the last two weeks, Eastern Rensselaer, Southern Washington and Southwestern Bennington Counties have been hit with a rash of burglaries, sometimes more than one occurring in near proximity of another. You must be logged in to view this article.
By Doug La Rocque Moving this year’s annual festival to the Roxborough Holdings building (formerly the Grafton Elementary School) was like adding Miracle Grow™ to the event. You must be logged in to view this article.
By Doug La Rocque Hoosick Falls Central School Superintendent Ken Facin told the School Board members gathered for its regular meeting on Thursday night, August 23, that the District has entered into a contract with the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Department to employee a full-time School Resource Officer (SRO), for a three-year period. You must be […]
Last Meeting For Laurin And Gormley By Alex Brooks The Hoosick Falls School Board meeting held on June14 was the last for School Board President Greg Laurin and School Board member Laurie Gormley, who have both put in many years of School Board service.
Submitted by Eileen Druckenmiller Stephanie Merwin, a senior at Hoosick Falls Junior/Senior High School and Corie Rushman, the high school’s school psychologist, were honored by The Academy for Character Education at the Sage Colleges.