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FROM PAGES PAST: 1921: Shall Liberty St. in Penn Yan be paved for progress?
Staff reports
The Chronicle-Express
Consolidation, January 1, 1926, of the Yates County Chronicle (1824) and the Penn Yan Express (1866); the Rushville Chronicle (1905) and the Gorham New Age (1902)
The Yates County History Center’s volunteers have gleaned these entries for your enjoyment from their digitized newspapers. You can access them at the free site www.nyshistoricnewspapers.com. For more information about the YCHC, visit www.yatespast.org.
150 Years Ago
March 2, 1871
Seneca Lake But one boat, the “Langdon,” is making trips on our lake at present. She leaves Watkins in the morning, and Geneva at 2.20 p.m. The “Magee” was successfully hauled out at the foot of Castle St. on the 16th inst. and the work of rebuilding her lower works has been commenced under the mechanical supervision of Geo. Codington, the superior ship-builder who made such a fine job in converting the old “Field”
Son of Frankenstein Italian poster could fetch $120K at Heritage Auctions
Son of Frankenstein (E.N.I.C., 1940). Very Fine on Linen. Italian 4 - Fogli (55.25 X 77.5 ) Francesco Giammari Artwork.
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.- The only known copy of a 4Fogli from Boris Karloff s third and final appearance in his signature role could be one of the top offerings in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Auction March 27-28.
Son of Frankenstein (E.N.I.C., 1940) Italian 4 Fogli with Francesco Giammari Artwork (estimate: $60,000-120,000) was housed at one time in a private Swiss collection. This large-format poster (measuring 55-1/4 by 77-1/2 inches), featuring a spectacular design from the classic film, is offered through Heritage Auctions for the first time. A potential centerpiece of any horror collection, it captures Frankenstein s Monster emerging from a shadow. Considered the final truly great Frankenstein movie at Universal, it features a stellar cast that included Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone a
Hair-raising horticulture: A guide to plants in early horror
On National Plant a Flower Day, put on your gardening gloves and grab a crucifix as we examine the roots of herbal magic on screen.
12 March 2021
Frankenstein (1931)
Long before The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Day of the Triffids (1963) or Little Joe (2019), the horror genre featured an absolute menagerie of strange and fantastical flowers. In contrast to Cold War era sci-fi, where plants were bent on humanity’s destruction – take the carnivorous vegetable-creature in The Thing from Another World (1951) or the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), for example – plants in early horror came to humanity’s aid as poisons, antidotes and talismans against the creatures of the night. This breed of herbal magic is as old as folklore itself. The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest written stories, mentions a mystical flower that grants immortality to anyone who eats it.
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