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Two win Mildred Taylor Awards
Rose Supervisor Lucinda Collier presented the two ($150 each) awards. The first went to Marion resident Daryl VerStreate of Marion. VerStreate has documented and indexed the inventory of all Revolutionary War veterans in all Wayne County cemeteries; has updated the inventory and index of all known county cemeteries; has provided pictures, location instructions and contact information for many county cemeteries; and has added substantially to the documented cemetery information available at the Wayne County Historian's office. The other recipient was North Rose-Wolcott student Emily Granger. Granger's teacher Brian LaValley was on hand as she received the award for work on a class project to photograph the 1858 Gillette Wall Map, testing them to maximize image resolution and definition. The images were then provided to the Historian's Office as both high quality laser prints and as CD files. The images will enable reproduction and publication of a new, revised edition of the Gillette Wall Map Book.
The Mildred Taylor Awards are presented annually, generated from a sum of money given to the county by the late Mildred Taylor of Lyons, who served as NYS Assemblywoman from 1946 to 1960.
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Wayne County Historian Peter Evans was on hand Tuesday at the Wayne County Board of Supervisors' meeting to acknowledge two recipients of the Mildred Taylor Award. 
Supervisor Collier heads the County Board's Educational & Historical Committee.