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The March 4, 2021 Meeting of the Honeoye Falls-Mendon Historical Society will be held on Zoom. Details for logging into the meeting are below.
Our speaker will be Maureen Whalen. Her topic will be “Sam Patch, America’s First Daredevil”. Whalen was a librarian with the Rochester Public Library for more than 30 years. Since her retirement in 2007, she has pursued her interest in local history research. She co-wrote the centennial history of the Rochester Public Library. She has prepared exhibits on the War of 1812, World War II, the Underground Railroad, Women’s Suffrage and Prohibition for the Greece Historical Society where she has been a volunteer for the past nine years. She conducts walking tours of the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. In 2019, she published her book “A History of the Seneca Park Zoo”.