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Lousie Bement
2021 Report
As usual, I wrote and mailed close to 200 Lansing Historical Association newsletters four times a
year.
I attended the Municipal Historians of Tompkins County meetings by Zoom this year as group
meetings were discouraged by the COVID virus.
In January, I copied and mailed information on Milliken Station to Charles Woolever in
Honeyoye Falls. He is interested in small Short Line railroads and Milliken has their own small
one.
In April, Frank Bower came to the Archives building to read our files about the overhead bridge
that is being replaced over Salmon Creek.
Tom Sill and a friend also came to read the files about the bridge.
Fannie Welch and I often work at the Archives on Saturday mornings.
In May, Lisa Campbell asked me to give a talk about the history of Myers Park for a group of
older men. I was glad that I had recently written a brochure about the park that can be handed
out at the entrance to the park in the summertime.
In July, a young man came to do research on the Barr family of Ludlowville.
In December, I worked at the Archives with Jo Hass’s grandson. He was interested in the
Outhouse book that Jo and Lou Barr had written.
The COVID virus has caused this year to be one in which I didn’t see many people coming to do
research.
This is a short report because of the virus, but I have kept busy reading and writing about the
history of Lansing.