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100 Years Later, Monument To Dedicated Lady Declines

REPAIR IT, ARDENT FAN SAYS 100 Years Later, Monument To Dedicated Lady Declines By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA – On Memorial Day 1922, Mayor C.C. Miller accepted the memorial to Ethel Scatchard, calling upon “all citizens to revere the name of Miss Scatchard and to take a lesson from her spirit of usefulness and service.” Now 100 years after her death in Paris, historian Robert Calendresa wants the city to honor that promise. “The monument, frankly, is deteriorating,” he said during…
February 13, 2019

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