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Gilbertsville native Larry Smith sits before a Gilbert Block storefront featuring items included in a local history exhibit he organized for the Village of Gilbertsville. (Photo by Teresa Winchester)

Gilbertsville History Exhibit: A Remembrance of Things Past

By TERESA WINCHESTER
GILBERTSVILLE

Time spent browsing is all it costs to peruse the local history exhibit mounted by lifelong Gilbertsville resident Larry Smith in an unoccupied commercial space in the Gilbert Block, itself of historical significance, having been constructed in neo-Tudor style in 1894.

The exhibit will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 24 and Saturday, May 31. It will also be open on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26 from 8-11 a.m.

The storefront windows feature framed photographs and drawings as well as a baseball uniform worn by players of Gilbertsville’s American Legion team, which Smith played on in the mid- to late-1950s.

“I was pitching when I got hit in the head with a line drive in Laurens. I had a concussion and spent a week in the hospital. I never played again,” Smith recalled.

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