Cudmore: Amsterdam civic leader lamented the loss of trees | The Daily Gazette
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A woman who lived most of her life while Amsterdam was a village lamented the loss of many trees after the municipality became more industrialized.
“There was more greenness, more freshness in the village in those old days than there is now,” wrote M. Annie Allen Trapnell in a paper presented to the Century Club. In 1895 Trapnell had founded the women’s club and remarks from the paper she presented were preserved.
Recorder newspaper columnist Hugh Donlon quoted Trapnell in an article he wrote 42 years ago. Donlon said other writers of Trapnell’s generation also lamented the loss of Amsterdam’s trees.
Cudmore: Singing in the St. Ann’s choir in Amsterdam | The Daily Gazette
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Emily Vandermeer Youngs Devendorf wrote poetry and music and was active in Amsterdam’s community life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Emily’s husband was G. Smith Devendorf, an attorney with an office at 45 East Main Street. The Devendorfs had no children and lived at 40 Division Street, near St. Ann’s Episcopal Church where husband and wife were in the choir.
G. Smith directed the group; Emily sang and composed music for the choir, including an Easter anthem privately published in 1876. In the anthem, the chorus sings, “for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.”
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Courtesy photo | Volunteers unload food from a truck from the Northern Illinois Food Bank and distribute the goods at the mobile food bank of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church of Woodstock. A blog entry on the website of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Woodstock features the quote “We Love to Eat!” Several years ago, the church’s Outreach Committee observed that food […]
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Deborah Dean Pennels
CASCO/WINDHAM – Deborah Dean Pennels, 84, died peacefully at Falmouth House at OceanView, in Falmouth on Jan. 14, 2021. Born in Woodbury, N.J. on March 4, 1936 to John C. and Barbara W. Dean, she grew up in Port Washington, N.Y. and Wellesley, Mass. Upon graduating from high school in 1953, Debbie earned a B.A. in Sociology from Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. in 1957. After a whirlwind tour of Europe, she settled into a small coach house in Greenwich Village, NYC and worked for New York Life Insurance Company until meeting and marrying Stuart A. Pennels (deceased) in 1958.The first few years of married life were hectic as they had two children in quick succession, Stuart A. “Toby” Pennels (deceased) in 1959 and a daughter, Melissa Pennels Best in 1961. Then, having spent several years nav