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| Recollections |
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Stanley "Buster" Major: Athlete, prankster, politician |
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| Helen Smolinski Major: We called the navigator |
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Jack Major: Often blessed with good timing |
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| Mary Beth Major Chard: As a child, she was never alone |
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Olinda Johnson Major: Cupid was a car thief |
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| Jeffrey Stephen Major: Child psychologyvdidn't work |
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Laura Suzanne Major: Watch out for the quiet ones |
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| Meridith Johnson Major: She loves L. A. |
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Bimby and Bobby Smolinski: Anything you can do . . . |
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William Smolinski: He put us into the movies |
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| Jim Smolinski: He always had the last laugh |
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Tom Smolinski: He made it look easy |
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| Liz Major: Family historian, poet laureate |
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Wanda Smolinski Kaldowski: Maybe she WAS Gracie Allen |
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| Alma Kaldowski Furcinito: The perfect talk show guest |
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Kathleen Nicholson Mullally Johnson: A face from the '40 |
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| Sister Mary Antonia: Beloved nun and author |
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Oel Johnson: Adversity met its match |
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| Stewart and Ruth Donnan: King and queen of Donnan Farm |
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Charles Major Sr.: Remarkable in many ways |
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| Charles Major Jr.: The judge who put out fires |
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John C. McLaughlin: Jordan lawyer and politician |
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| Thomas Francis McLaughlin: The singing professor |
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| In the news |
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| God Struck Out In 1913, Mickey Major and 17 others were arrested. Their crime? Playing baseball on Sunday. (Mickey's the man in the middle in the photo above.) |
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| Tony Kane's last voyage The bootlegging Kane could have been a character in "Boardwalk Empire." |
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| Christmas tragedy In December, 1929, Leo Major and six other teenagers crammed into a car to buy holiday decorations in Skaneateles for their school. Minutes later tragedy struck. |
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Grapes of wrath |
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| Missing brother found in Pennsylvania after 19 years William McLaughlin, who disappeared from Skaneateles, NY, in 1891, was found in 1910 by his brother, James, in a hamlet in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania. |
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| Adventurous job Andrew Carrigan discovered that being a motorman on the electric railroad had its hazards. |
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| Another James McLaughin While there were several McLaughlin family members in Skaneateles, including two named James, it was a third James McLaughlin who may have been the most interesting, though it's only a guess to say he was related to the others. |
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| It could have been much worse It's a miracle only one Marcellus student was killed at the Kirkville train crossing. |
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| Tragedy at Putnam's Crossing Two lives were lost as the result of a spectacular, but perhaps inevitable train-car collision in Jordan, NY, in 1917. |
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| Have teasels, will travel Skaneateles farmers turned weeds into a thriving industry. |
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| Stalked by tragedy The family of Kate Major's husband, William J. Dougherty, had more than its share of tragedies. |
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