Today, we uploaded the second in a series of newly-digitized reel-to-reel tapes from our archives to our YouTube channel.
Tape 2 features several people reading prepared local history notes. Probably mid to late 1950s. Note at about 31:40, you can hear the Lehigh Valley Railroad whistling for the grade crossing and quickly passing by the building they are speaking in.
We hope you enjoy this trip back in time!
We recently honored the memory of Sally Gilbert, who passed away in August 2022 at the age of 79, by adding her to the Appreciation Plaque in our Museum:
Sally served us well, with sincere dedication, for many years. Most recently, she was known as our “Postcard Lady,” organizing our annual postcard updates and stewarding our postcard sales throughout the year around town, including at the Festival on the Green and the Honeoye Falls Marketplace.
Sally, thank you for your years of service. You will never be forgotten.
On January 4, 2019, the brothers of the Union Star Masonic Temple hosted a special tour of their facility at 3 North Main St. It was well-attended, yet many folks missed the opportunity.
Good news! The brothers are offering a special fundraising event that will include another tour of the facility. This special event will occur on Saturday, November 19, 2022. You can read more and register for the event on the Mendon-Honeoye Falls-Lima Sentinel web page.
Here are some photos from our January 4, 2019 event:
Today, we uploaded the first in a series of newly-digitized reel-to-reel tapes from our archives to our YouTube channel.
Tape 1 features a woman reading a local history paper, answering questions, and telling of old local history. Probably mid to late 1950s.
We hope you enjoy this trip back in time!
We’d like to take a moment to honor the memory of Sally Gilbert, who passed away last week at the age of 79.
Sally served us well, with sincere dedication, for many years. Most recently, she was known as our “Postcard Lady,” organizing our annual postcard updates and stewarding our postcard sales throughout the year around town, including at the Festival on the Green and the Honeoye Falls Marketplace.
Sally, thank you for your years of service. You will never be forgotten.
If you would like to donate to the Historical Society per Sally’s wish, please address checks to:
Honeoye Falls-Town of Mendon Historical Society
PO Box 26
Honeoye Falls NY 14472
We’ve had a change to our October 6, 2022 event.
The October 6 Meeting of the Honeoye Falls – Mendon Historical Society will feature Chris Carosa. The topic of his talk is “How (and What) Forged Our Major Roads.”
Where did our roads come from? How did they get there? Most importantly, why did they get there? You may think our major highways appeared randomly through the good graces of the New York State Department of Transportation (which an assist from the many community Highway Departments they traverse through). But you’d be wrong. There was no central planning. But their formation wasn’t random, either. What was that forged and maintained these thoroughfares we take for granted today? Come learn how both nature and man — from the Ice Age to the Mastodons — worked in tandem to create the much-traveled highways and byways that cross the Greater Western New York Region.
Christopher Carosa is a Best-Selling Author, a Whimsical Playwright, and a long-time Keynote Speaker. Along the way, he’s been an Award Winning Journalist, a Nationally Ranked Mutual Fund Manager, and was recently recognized (by Chicago’s biggest radio state, no less) as the “premiere” Hamburger Historian. Oh, yeah, but you probably just know him as the mild-mannered published of a major community newspaper.
The meeting will begin at 7:30 on Thursday, October 6 at the Mendon Community Center, 167 North Main Street in Honeoye Falls. This facility is handicapped accessible. The meeting is open to the public.
For information, call 624-5655.
Welcome!
It’s a delight to see you visiting us here on our new web site. Our previous site was a mere single page, hand-coded in HTML, which not only limited its usefulness and appeal; it made it less friendly on mobile devices, and made it a bit of a burden to update.
Our new site is rich with information, and sees a significant boost in readability and usability on mobile devices. Here are some highlights:
We’re quite excited to have our new site live. Please make a return visit or two part of your schedule throughout each month to stay engaged with us and our mission. Thank you for supporting the Honeoye Falls-Town of Mendon Historical Society!
For those of you who missed it, here’s my president’s letter from earlier this year. Please read it — it’s still relevant news! We look forward to posting more in the very near future.
—Drew
