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Happenings The Birthday Celebration at Marion Museum will be April 15. Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 14. Guests will be served birthday cake. Marion's 'Historic Rooms' were established in February 1976, when a committee of interested citizens set up a permanent exhibit in celebration of our Nation's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the Town of Marion. The rooms consisted of two rooms facing Marion's Main Street, above the Marion Town Library. In December 1981, one of the rooms was converted to a Country Schoolroom where young and old alike can sit at the desks, write their names on the blackboard or play a fast game of tic tac toe. Many pour over the old maps on the walls and some adults sneak a look in the 'Dick and Jane' books on the shelves. Old yearbooks fascinate younger guests who delight in seeing their parents in 'funny' clothes and 'weird' haircuts. The homemade soap display remains of interest to many as a reminder that in days past each housewife used her wood ashes and rendered her pork fat in preparation of creating a batch of laundry or face soap for her family. The Heritage Room houses reference materials such as scrapbooks, and old and new photo albums. It is an interesting place to sit a spell and recollect. The last room, opened in May of 1986, is the 'Country Kitchen.' A sewing machine given by the Sewert family; a butter worker given by Art Stone and a kerosene stove (used by housewives during the hot summer months when lighting a wood stove was unthinkable) given by Roy and Joy Baize. The pioneers of Marion were principally Rhode Islanders with a few from the State of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. None but brave and heroic men and women could think of overcoming the difficulties in traversing hundreds of miles in an almost unbroken wilderness and building up a home here in the dense forest and upon the wild drift hills, with intervening swamps. Early settlers seem to have sought the hills in preference to the more fertile valleys and roads so called, ran from summit to summit without any definite course, except to avoid the wet lowlands. The first highway through the town was the old thoroughfare from Geneva to Canandaigua, through Palmyra and Marion to the Upper Corners. It was similar direction and vicinity as that now passing northeast from the Upper Corners schoolhouse to East Williamson. The Sodus Road was laid out by Captain Charles Williamson in 1974. The second road continued northward from Marion Upper Corners to Pultneyville. The first white man to build a house within the limits of Marion, then a part of Williamson, was Henry Lovell, who came in early the year 1795 and purchased a large farm now occupied by the south and west portions of Marion village. His log house was built on the village lot, known as the Buckle Newton place now owned by Mrs. Eve Radar. Game was abundant and Lovell was a famous hunter and excellent marksman. It is stated that David Sherman once drew in with his oxen 30 deer, which Lovell had killed in one day. (Excerpted from The History of the Township of Marion, NY by Lucy H. Mason) Marion Boy Scout Troop 130 is having a spaghetti dinner on March 18 from 3-6 p.m. at Mary Ellen's Restaurant on North Main Street; under age 5 eats free. Take-out dinners will also be available. Proceeds from the dinner benefit the troop activity fund. Twenty-one instrumentalists represented Marion Elementary School at the All-County Music Festival at North Rose-Wolcott. They are Deanna Nortier, Molly Perry, Stephanie Moran, flute; Terri Bove, Rachael Rose, Kaylin Kostrzebski, Sarah Mackey, clarinet; Emily VerStraete, bass clarinet; Cara Thomas, Lauren Cummings, Bradley Reiss, Melissa Boise saxophone; Jordan VerPlank, Jayson Keys, Rachel Gardner, trumpet; Cory Kreiss, French horn; David Goodridge, Joshua Bovet, trombone; Matthew Hussey, baritone horn; Cody Maines, tuba and Chad Jackson, percussion. Rick and Millie Loucks have returned home from a trip where they visited their son. Rick and Sandy and girls and with Arlene Burley. MARCH 22, 1934: The faculty of Marion High School, to help the seniors earn money for their Washington trip, will present a three-act play on March 23rd. March 17, Marion High School dinner dance. March 21, Kindergarten registration 7:30-9:30 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. Some of us enjoyed the snow and the snow days! As my brother-in-law always said, 'There's always a 75% chance that we will have weather.' Bob and Judy Young have returned home from Florida where they visited with Bob's brother, Richard and family members. I have copied the 1925 issue of the local newspaper. Anyone wishing to borrow may call. There is a lot of interesting information about Marion. 'Mothers of little boys work from son up! till son down!' Scott and Lisa Hoffman of Budd Lake, New Jersey announce the birth of their son Hunter Isaac, born February 12, 8 lbs. 11 oz., 21 inches long. Scott is the son of Roger and Linda Hoffman of Marion. Lisa is the daughter of Richard and Carol Theys of Hackettstown.
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