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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”.
The Evolution of a Landmark: The montage of two pictures provided by the Honeoye Falls/Mendon Historical Society show 3 North Main Street both before (left as the Wilcox House/Hotel) and after (right as the Masonic Temple) the building was purchased and then renovated by the Union Star Temple Association in 1920.
Montage created by Chris Carosa
The January 7, 2021 meeting of the Honeoye Falls / Mendon Historical Society will be a virtual meeting on Zoom. Our speaker will be Chris Carosa.
You know Chris Carosa as the publisher of our local newspaper The Mendon-Honeoye Falls-Lima Sentinel. But did you also know he’s known as “The Hamburger Historian”? Well, he’s gone down plenty of other historical rabbit holes, especially those burrowed within the Greater Western New York Region. He’s a Senior Contributor at Forbes.com, President of Carosa Stanton Asset Management, and Chairman of the Board for the Bullfinch Fund. He’s past president of the National Society of Newspa