The Heart of Central New York

Martin A. Sweeney

doi:10.5771/9780761873334

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In The Heart of Central New York: Stories of Historic Homer, NY Martin A. Sweeney makes the past come alive through this collection of articles from his column in The Homer News. Through his writing, Sweeney offers readers a glimpse of the excitement he brought to his classrooms by bringing to life the people, events, manners, and mores of the past in a community that is the heart of Central New York State. This compilation represents Sweeney’s successful efforts as a public historian in using the press as a tool for generating interest in his community’s unique historical identity.With annotations and a touch of humor, this book illustrates for current and emerging public historians how to successfully engage a community in acknowledging their history matters—that the fibers of “microhistory” contribute to the rich tapestry that is county, regional, state, and national history.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-7332-7
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-7333-4
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 406
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Map of Central New York State No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. A History of a Homer Newspaper No access
2. Slavery in the History of Homer No access
3. Sources No access
1. Homer’s Inventor of Grammar No access
2. Homer, N.Y.: A Town and its Hall No access
3. Early Residents and the Organization of the Town of Homer No access
4. Homer Grows Rapidly in the 1800s No access
5. Homer During the Civil War and the Nation’s Centennial No access
6. Homer in a Time of National Transition No access
7. The Town of Homer Builds a Hall No access
1. Homer Town Hall Dedication No access
2. The Post-World War I Town of Homer No access
3. The Town of Homer in the Great Depression No access
4. The Town Hall as the Capitol Theater No access
5. The Town in the Post-World War II Era No access
6. The Town of Homer in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century No access
7. Town Hall Renovations and Tomorrow No access
8. Little York: A Hamlet Not to be Overlooked No access
9. How Little York Got Its Name No access
10. Last of three articles about the early history of the hamlet of Little York No access
1. The Albany Post Road—NYS Route 90 No access
2. The Stagecoach Brings Us to Homer Village No access
3. A Glimpse of the Green No access
4. The Coach Heads Westward on the Turnpike No access
5. Granddaughter of William O. Stoddard Died in January No access
6. 1. In Washington Post of January 30, 2014 No access
7. Harry Clarke Ostrander: The Adventurous Traveler behind the Magic Lantern Shows No access
8. Martin Sweeney Addresses Group at Memorial Day Ceremonies No access
9. How Did the Health Camp Road Receive Its Name? No access
10. Memories of Morotai, Malaria, and Matsuda No access
11. This is the second of two installments on Bill Dillon’s years in the service. No access
1. When a Circus Came to Town in 1935 No access
2. When Izzy and Moe Came to Homer No access
3. The Homer of Amelia Jenks Bloomer No access
4. The Assassination and the Iconic Image of Lincoln No access
5. An Old-Fashioned Winter No access
6. When the Klan Was Driven Out of Cortland County No access
7. Historic Homer: Gateway to Heritage Tourism in Central New York No access
8. 1. Homer Aug 31st 1856 No access
9. 1. Cousin Mary No access
10. “HOMER” by Isaac Marshall Samson No access
11. HOMER No access
1. The Woman’s Place No access
2. Ralph Rural’s Verse No access
3. A Sorely Tested Homer Parent No access
4. And How was School Today? No access
5. What and Where is Brewery Hill? No access
6. Homer’s Remarkable Postal Service No access
7. This is the second of two installments on the history of the Homer Post Office. No access
8. Homer’s Hospital No access
9. Significant Portrait by F. B. Carpenter Comes to Homer No access
10. Of Cutters and Rickshaws No access
11. 1. The first of five installments No access
12. The Strange Case of Lieutenant Cogswell No access
13. The Siege of Stimson’s Tavern No access
14. Two Early School Teachers in the Town of Homer No access
15. The Holiday Season of Yore No access
1. Lincoln’s Secretary Needs a Vacation and Visits Homer No access
2. Eleanor Roosevelt Visits Homer Women in 1924 No access
3. Homer Girls Ask the President for Help No access
4. The Tragic Demise of Alton Howe No access
5. Learned Young Man from Homer Baffles Physicians No access
6. The Homer Artist Who Never Forgot His Roots No access
7. Bootleggers Arrested in Cortland and Homer No access
8. “Uncle Jed,” The Great Western, and “Clinton’s Big Ditch” No access
9. Homer Restauranteur Fed Our Military’s “Top Brass” No access
10. Two Homer Men Helped to Settle Nebraska No access
11. Don Brown, the Popcorn Man No access
1. 1. Gravestone Located for Don Brown the Popcorn Man No access
2. Early Settlers: Crandall and Albright No access
3. Remember When . . . ? No access
4. And Be It Further Ordained No access
5. Homer Village Ordinances No access
6. Readers Follow Up to “Remember When . . . ?” No access
7. Readers Follow Up to “Remember When . . . ?” (Part 2) No access
8. Readers Follow Up to “Remember When . . . ?” (Part 3) No access
9. Briggs’ Pool No access
10. Readers Follow Up to “Remember When . . . ?” (Part 4) No access
11. Readers’ Response to “Remember When . . . ?” (Part 5) No access
12. The Little White Church on the Green No access
1. Homer’s Cemetery Deemed to be National Historic Site No access
2. The 1950s in Homer No access
3. A Fowl Smorgasbord No access
4. “Unique Smorgasbord Brings Wide Reputation to Plummer Turkey Farm” No access
5. A Notable Group of Houses No access
6. Fires Discovered by Boys on Same Day in 1900 No access
7. The Significance of the Bridges of Homer Village No access
8. Life in Early Nineteenth Century Town of Homer No access
9. Rhoda Beebe’s Heroism Recognized No access
10. 1. Opinion No access
11. And to Think It Happened in Homer No access
12. The Significance of a Runaway Slave in the Cellar No access
13. The Town of Homer in the Post-Civil War Era No access
14. The Lincoln Francis B. Carpenter Revealed No access
15. The Homer National Bank No access
16. Outrage over Construction of Homer Town Hall No access
17. 1. L. P. MERRILL, Clerk. No access
18. Village Ordinances in 1897 No access
19. The Evolution of Firefighting in Homer No access
1. Interesting Features of Life in Post-Civil War Homer No access
2. Albert Bigelow: The Mugwump Minister No access
3. A Brief History of the Village Police Department No access
4. Please Get Off the Phone, Bertha; I’m Trying to Reach Burgett’s No access
5. The Trials and Tribulations of Homer’s Circus Owner, Sig Sautelle No access
6. BIG ELEPHANT BREAKS LOOSE No access
7. The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 No access
8. A Salute to Homer School Secretaries No access
9. Early Homer Physicians and the County Medical Society No access
10. Past Memorial Days in Homer No access
11. Dennis Dobbins and the House That Cabbage Built No access
12. Past July Fourths in the Town of Homer No access
13. The Darnedest Things One Comes Across When Researching No access
14. 1. (Before Used for Paper Training) No access
15. The Great Cortland Rotary Hijinks of 1921 No access
16. Homer’s Affinity for Ulysses S. Grant No access
17. A Railroad Runs Through It No access
18. Homer and the Golden Age of the Bicycle No access
19. Carpenter Descendant Visits Homer No access
20. The Homer Road Prisoners Built No access
21. Homer’s Connection to a Civil War Nurse No access
22. Shopping in Homer: What’s Changed? No access
23. “The Queen of Vaudeville” Performed in Homer No access
24. The Sham Battle of 1880 No access
1. Proposed Annexation of Homer by the City of Cortland No access
1. Periodicals Used No access
2. Contributions No access
Index No access Pages 395 - 404
About the Author No access Pages 405 - 406