RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION - Genesee County

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SUBJECT TEXT DATEAustin Park (cont) Big elm in Austin Park hit by lightning. 6-24-1920Austin legacy funds released. 1-3-1921Council votes funds for playground equipment. 5-4-1921Band concert & balloon ascension for park. (Allen) 8-18-1922Comfort Allen's balloon burned and bag went up without him. 8-12-1922Council approves beautification program for. 8-31-1922Women want park to be recreation area not beauty spot. 2-8-1924Executor Austin estate asks settlement - about $30,000 available for park.Chapin onle executor of Austin estate living. 4-10-1924Austin died Oct. 3, 1914. Will read April 10, 1914?Council asks for conference on. 4-11-1924Clubs take great interest in uses proposed for park space. 4-16-1924Caouncil passes decision for use to Park Commission. 4-24-1924Park Commission confers. 5-1-1924Money from Austin estate to be released to city. 1-16-1925Baseball scoreboard being put up in southwest corner of park. 6-3-1925Money released - now $31,953.93. 7-24-1925Austin estate settlement in full - soon. Need $36,000 - take $414 fromcontingency. 7-30-1925Grandstand to be taken down at end of season to improve park - trees tobe planted. 9-15-1928Grandstand to be moved to Taggart Field at Bushville. 10-24-1928Excavation for wading pool done, ready for cement. 7-16-1929Wading pool now completed. 9-18-1929Brisbane donates $5,699 for wading pool, in addition to his early $5,000. 9-19-1929Skating on wading pool. 12-23-1929Description of park - lawns being seeded. 4-30-1930Sculpture by Bessie Vonnoh Potter, an artist friend of Mrs. Edward Washburn,a statue of a child with bird drinking from a dish in it's hand. Landscapingby Harold Olmsted. 6-19-1930Harold L. Olmsted, a Le Roy native. Buffalo address: 185 Bryant. In1916listed as an architect. In 1920 listed as a landscape artist.Died: March 19, 1972, aged 85.Bronze tablet to go on rock by wading pool. 7-2-1930Open to public on Wednesday. 6-15,19-1931Bronze plaques to mark Austin and Williams Park. 10-21-0931Park to open Wednesday (17th) Snow fence to go. Plan made severalyears ago by Harold W. Olmsted. Wading pool given by Arthur Brisbanein memory of father - Albert Brisbane. Mrs. Edward A. Atwaterpresented statue. Rock garden built by Gerald S. Wallace. Bronze figureby Bessie Potter vonnoh given in momory of Mrs. Edward Washburn'sfather - James Peabody Marsh. 6-15-1931Golf banned. 9-22-1931Bronze tablet placed in park. 10-21-1931About 1,500 attend campfire and singing program - first ever. 8-13-1936400 at campfire sing. 9-3-1936Picture: Waders. 6-24-1938Picture: Children in park. 7-1-1943Children injured by broken glass in pool. 6-28-1944City Attorney says no large structure can be built in park. City submittedproposition to buy property for $50,000 in August 1917, financed by bonds
to be retired when Austin money available. 11-20-1945Children injured by broken glass in pool. 6-25-1948Picture: Egg hunt; and statue of child. 4-6-1953Picture: Pool. 6-11-1954RUTH McEVOY COLLECTIONSUBJECT TEXT DATEAustin Park (cont) Picture: Vandalism in park. 6-24-1957Called "forgotten park." 5-8-1956Perkins finds old ordinance forbidding football in Williams Park - moving itto Austin. 1-27-1958Council approves building shelter house as Lions Club project. 5-12-1964Picture: Lions dedicate shelter house. William C. Gillons Shelter. 9-12-1964Porter Ave. residents ask clean-up of. 9-16-1964Shelter House to honor William Gillons. 11-3-1964Picture: Lions dedicate shelter. 10-19-1965Picture: Wading pool. 6-23-1966Wading pool closed - broken glass. 6-30-1966Pool cleared of glass. 7-1-1966Police raid noisy pool part. 8-18-1969Police arrest 14 for party. 8-19-1969Kids set to clean park - picture. 4-27-1973City workers cleaning north part. 3-15-1975Park shelter ruined - picture. 6-30-1975Picture: Litter in park. 6-2-1978New slide in park - picture. 8-2-1978Neighborhood residents to clean park of glass. 4-22-1980Jaycees cleaning park - picture. 4-29-1980County looking at slice of park for jail expansion. 8-11, 12?-1981County and City discuss land exchange. 8-13-1981Winegar objects to use of park for jail. 8-13-1981Park mentioned in article on parks. 9-10-1985Picture: Legislators planting crimson king tree as memorial to bombing inOklahoma City. 5-2-1995Winegar remembers beginning of park. 8-18-1995City Council and Kiwanis invests in playground equipment for - picture. 12-13-2000AuthorsCarolyn Atwater Mason.Mrs. Edwin Houghton (Bertha Delbridge) playwright (Johnstown Flood) -dead. 4-29-1902Brooks and Lister of Batavia Daily staff write play slated for Broadway -"Spread Eagle." George S. Brooks & Walter B. Lister. 2-7-1927Play: Spread Eagle opening is Atlantic City. 3-26-1927Past & Present column: Press releases for Honor Be Damned quoteBatavia officials who have never seen it. 4-2-1927Spread Eagle said unfit for radio. Legion objects, for one. 4-21-1927Mrs. Frances Seaver, author of book "How to Manage Personal Finance,"Harper Bros. 1-25-1930George S. Brooks, obit. 2-7-1961Ellen Kester - Le Roy - 2 pieces of fiction. 1978Winegar mentions poem by A. S. Huff on Richmond Library. Also mentionsJohn Gardner. 9-8-1986
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Edward F. Nye, navigator fire truck
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Three teenagers and instructor in d
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Universal Studios - she has been in
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Half page ad: Adelman Electric cele
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East Main Rd. 11-30-1980Air Service
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Councilon Alcoholism & Substance Co
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Allans sell Contractors' Machinery
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Allen - Flying Allens Allen's ballo
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Allen to make drop Memorial Day. 5-
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Alpine Ski Hut Harry Strobel moving
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plan reunion at Chicken Roost in Ea
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