Category: Franklin County

  • Joseph Dufrane

    Mr. Joseph Dufrane 1868-1971   Tape 1 Track 1 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/FCRTR-109-1-A.mp3]  Track 2 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/FCRTR-109-1-B.mp3]  Tape 2 Track 1 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/FCRTR-109-2-A.mp3]  Track 2 Click on Audio link to listen to interview:…

  • Anne Becknauld

    Miss. Anne Becknauld 1899-1972  Inteviewed by W. Langlois 1970 Schoolteacher, Bombay, NY. Potsdam Normal School  Listen to Anne Becknauld:                  Tape 1     Track 1   Family background;  growing up in Bombay New York; household furniture and fixtures lat 19th earl 20 Centuries; history of Bombay; household life; raising livestock…

  • Mr. Peter Calahan

      Peter Callahan Early days of farming  and social conditions in Burke,  NY 1910-1950. Tape 1 Track 1   Growing up in Burke; family life; living conditions and family; religion; farming; potatoes.   Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/FCRTR-089-1-A.mp3] Track 2 Education; food and preservation; shopping; clothing; woollen industry; home remedies; raising…

  • Mr. Glenn Dickinson

    Mr. Glenn Dickinson 1896-1974   Interviewers W.J. Langlois, Robert McGowan. Summary: Description of farming in various areas of N.Y. State, 1910-1950. Farming and social life in the town of Malone and New York State Tape 1 Track 1  Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/FCRTR-088-1-A.mp3]  Track 2 Click on Audio link to…

  • Haidee Rushlow

      Haidee Rushlow   Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/01 Mrs. Haidee Rushlow 1.mp3] /public_html/reynoldstonnewyork/wp-content/01 Mrs. Haidee Rushlow 1.mp3 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/02 Mrs. Haidee Rushlow 2.mp3] /public_html/reynoldstonnewyork/wp-content/02 Mrs. Haidee Rushlow 2.mp3   Click on this link to read Haidee Rushlow’s :   TRANSCRIPT  

  • Mrs. Ann (Bordeaux) Desparois and Mr. Eleon Bordeaux

    Mrs. Ann (Bordeaux) Desparois   1903-1994 and Mr. Elond Bordeaux 1898 -1969       Tape 1 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/01 Desparois – Bordeaux1.mp3] Tape 2 Click play to listen to interview: [audio:http://www.reynoldstonnewyork.org/wp-content/Desparois-Bordeaux/01-Ann-Desparois&Eleon-Bordeaux2.mp3] Click on link for transcript:   Transcript  

  • Lillian Prue

    Mrs. Lillian (Bordeaux) Prue  1891-1992     Tape 1                                                                                                 Page 9 Day to day life, chores, life at home in the late 19th Century in Reynoldston NY;  Mothers chores, baking making soft soap and housework;  Description of other houses in Reynoldston and that only a few were painted on the outside;  Details on the rooms in…

  • Eugenia Lashomb

    Eugenia (Bordeaux, Brothers) Lashomb Eugenia Lashomb is the daugher to Daisy and Eugene Bordeaux and grew up in Reynoldston before World War II and after the Reynolds Mill closed.   She was one of the last students to attend the one room school house.  During her childhood most of the small number residents who remained in Reynoldston were…

  • Eugene & Daisy Bordeaux

    Interviewed in 1969 Comments on the Interview: We first interviewed Eugene and Daisy French Bordeaux, Bill’s grandparents, two of only a few people then living in Reynoldston.  They were a good choice for our first interviews, as they were willing to be patient with us as we learned the ins and outs of interviewing.  During…

  • Harold H. McGowan 1898-1979

      Harold H. McGowan 1898-1979                                                                                                                                                               Harold McGowan 1970  TABLE OF CONTENTS: Tape 1   Tape 2                                                                                 Side A                                                                               Page 7  Description of house  helived in as a child on Howard Street, Malone, NY; Description of the Franklin County Fairgrounds in the early part of the twentieth Century;  Description of some…