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Throwback Thursday! Ring in the new year with Elmira’s town crier from 1850-1870

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Ring in the new year with Elmira’s town crier from 1850-1870, Tom Tallada (Pictured here with his bell). His wedding is described in the library’s “History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, NY” on page 252. It reads: The Continue reading Throwback Thursday! Ring in the new year with Elmira’s town crier from 1850-1870→

TBT: On Christmas day, 100 years ago in Elmira

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“Ameta: Famous French Mirror and Fire Dancer” headlined Elmira’s Majestic Theatre’s Christmas program. According the Elmira Star Gazette article from Dec. 24, 1914,  Ameta was a “…world famous mirror and fire dancer…a French woman, she had been appearing in Berlin Continue reading TBT: On Christmas day, 100 years ago in Elmira→