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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Updates and New Exhibit

Sorry I have not written on almost two years. I have been busy with a lot of other things for the museum. One of the things I did was complete a new listing of Bayside Cemetery in Potsdam NY, I started it in 2008. Its not as complete as I would like because I have not been able to get a hold of some records to get plot numbers for some people. In connection with the Bayside listing I started a blog about Bayside.

I have been writing articles for our Quarterly magazine. Others things I have worked on are:the most recent Remington Festival exhibit which opened last year, going through the Massena Observer issues on the Northern New York website to update our listing of Massena Calvary Cemetery, and on an online exhibit about the history of the buildings we sell as wooden miniatures. I am hopeful it will be up later this year.

Our newest exhibit opened in January, Its focus is on General Newton Martin Curtis who was the hero of Fort Fisher.

Painting of Gen Curtis that used to hang in the Administration building at the State Hospital in Ogdensburg


Also last year our director Trent Trulock resigned because he accepted a job at the Brewery what opened up in Canton. Our collections manager Sue Longshore replaced him. This month we hired a new collection manager named Cassidy Percoco.