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Elizabeth Adams is an elderly woman who offered stories of her early life and family photos to SUNY Geneseo’s organization “Heard @ Geneseo.” The oral interview was taken and transcribed by Jaclyn Connoly and Erica Sutton, and it was later revised by…

Ethel Rost talks about living in Geneseo with her husband and her children to SUNY Geneseo’s organization “Heard @ Geneseo.” She shares how she and her husband met and what brought both of them to Geneseo. The oral interview was taken and transcribed…

Marion Roecker shares biology classes were like in Geneseo when she attended with SUNY Geneseo’s organization “Heard @ Geneseo.” She also talks about her husband and how her husband worked in the Bailey Science Building and that he would take…

Robert Kelsey is a man who shared his experiences in The NY Army National Guard Armory in Geneseo. The oral interview was taken and transcribed by Kristen Druse, and it was later revised by Jordan Keane.

Anthropologist Jayne Howell spoke with two brothers and their cousin concerning apparently simple sculptures created with popsicle sticks. Their answers are much more involved. Diodoro explains how, "For my part, I made the figures with the objective…

Oral History, as told by prior principal of Avon School District, Irene Coleman. Coleman talks about the school fire of 1961, the development of Avon schools, and the different traditions and sense of community that evolved from the school. Her own…

Caption to photograph summarizes the content of this news clipping: "General secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, of Baltimore, who has resigned her position to manage a big wheat farm in Western New York. She takes the place of her…

All five of the Pecci paintings at the New Deal Gallery shuffle elements from each other, such as a table perhaps common to all. In this still life, a pictorial jug from his “Fruit and Flowers (1)” receives a 90-degree turn so that its handle can be…

A sunny, hazy day in western New York is framed by trees and a lush green lawn. The view of Ithaca rendered de-emphasizes its commercial center in favor of forested hill dotted with homes. It's possible that the tall structure depicted is part of the…