POTSDAM â Potsdam-Mayor Reinhold Tischler has announced that a historic marker memorializing the original site of the Crane Institute of Music will be installed at 10 a.m. June 11.
The marker will be placed at the site of Julia E. Craneâs Main Street home, where she established the Crane Normal Institute of Music in 1886.
Crane School went on to become one of the nationâs first schools to train public school music teachers.The Crane School became part of the Potsdam Normal School, later SUNY Potsdam, in 1926.
Today, generations of top music educators, performers and scholars are Crane alumni, and Crane continues to be vital to the areaâs cultural and economic landscape.
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:11 pm
State Sen. Joe Griffo tours Potsdam s Garner Park earlier today. He helped secured state funding for the project. A local match for the funding included $50,000 each from St. Lawrence Health System and Clarkson University. Above are state and local officials with members of the Garner family. From left, Sen. Joe Griffo, Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler, Clarkson President Tony Collins, Joan Garner, David Haggard and Margaret Garner Haggard. NCNow photo.
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
POTSDAM – New York State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-I-C-Rome, today was in Potsdam to present The Clarkson Inn in Potsdam with a New York State Senate Empire Award, and to get a look at the Garner Park rehab project.
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:11 pm
State Sen. Joe Griffo tours Potsdam s Garner Park earlier today. He helped secured state funding for the project. A local match for the funding included $50,000 each from St. Lawrence Health System and Clarkson University. Above are state and local officials with members of the Garner family. From left, Sen. Joe Griffo, Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler, Clarkson President Tony Collins, Joan Garner, David Haggard and Margaret Garner Haggard. See story for more details. NCNow photo.