Bound Volumes

March 27, 2025

135 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1890

110 YEARS AGO

One of the most popular actors in the Vitagraph moving pictures is Anders Randolf. He is featured in many of the big productions that appear in the Vitagraph Theatre at Broadway and 44th Street in New York City, and is frequently seen on the screen at the Star Theatre, Cooperstown. Mr. Randolf is well known to many in Cooperstown. He spent a summer at The Fenimore about five years ago, and while here superintended experiments at the International plant with a Danish cloister cheese, the formula for which he had inherited from an ancestor in Denmark, his native country. The cheese proposition did not materialize on account of the climate, or something in the quality of the milk. It was finally concluded that the cheese could not be made in this country. Mr. Randolf has painted the portraits of many famous men, and done some very excellent work as an actor before visiting Cooperstown.

March 24, 1915

60 YEARS AGO

Because the Board of Trustees of the New York State Historical Association feels very strongly about the quality of its educational program, and because the Association had to turn away about 50 school groups last year, NYSHA has made a realistic appraisal of its current method of handling the 19,000 students who visit its facilities here every year. Mrs. Frank Spinney, who is an alumna of Old Sturbridge Village’s school department, has been appointed to coordinate this interesting experiment under the direction of Minor Wine Thomas, assistant director. Thirteen new part-time guides and three reserve guides have been recruited to host school groups at the Farmers’ Museum and at Fenimore House. As buses arrive, these hostesses will be assigned a school group unit and will stay with it during the entire visit.

March 24, 1965

35 YEARS AGO

Baseball Hall of Fame Director Howard C. Talbot has told the Village Board of Trustees that the Clark Foundation will make a donation to the Village for the purchase of three new trolleys in time for the 1990 season. The foundation will also fund construction of a parking lot on Glen Avenue adjacent to the Leatherstocking Garage (formerly Glen Garage) and will expand the parking lot north of the Fenimore House on State Highway 80.

March 28, 1990

20 YEARS AGO

Katie Anania, a seventh-grader, is the first CCS student to qualify for the National Geographic Bee state competition to be held tomorrow at the New York State Museum in Albany. Winners at each participating school must complete a qualifying test to make it to the state finals. “I love geography, Anania said. “I love learning about world history and other cultures.” Anania attributes her success in geography to her social studies teacher Jon Brotherton.

March 25, 2005