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Students from Grades 1 and 2<br />
at Newcomb Central School<br />
were the first official visitors to the<br />
Newcomb Historical Museum May<br />
24 and 31, <strong>2017</strong>. Dr. Joan Burke,<br />
the Museum’s Director, scheduled<br />
two visits for Mrs. Amanda Bush’s<br />
classes to introduce the students<br />
to Newcomb’s rich heritage and<br />
history with pictures of places<br />
and people, several old schools,<br />
founding fathers, and with stories of<br />
the life and times here in the <strong>18</strong>00s<br />
and early 1900s.<br />
Dr. Burke showed them three small<br />
tin-types and prints from archival<br />
scans of the daguerrotypes from the<br />
Leslie Rist Collection. First a print of<br />
a young girl about their age, another<br />
of her mother and baby brother, and<br />
finally a group portrait of the girl’s<br />
family. She explained how sweet<br />
the girl looked with her freckles and<br />
curly hair, and how sad for us that<br />
they were all unknowns; almost<br />
certainly connected to Newcomb,<br />
but no information has been<br />
provided about them. Dr. Burke<br />
then asked each student to return<br />
with a personal photograph and tell<br />
us who they were with, what they<br />
were doing, and where they were.<br />
Important information is lost when<br />
photographs are left behind without<br />
details.<br />
After hearing about Daniel<br />
Newcomb incorporating the town<br />
in <strong>18</strong>28, a boy remarked that he<br />
knew him. The passage of almost<br />
two hundred years ago meant little<br />
to a student who was impressed<br />
with his horse-drawn wagon-ride<br />
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into Camp Santanoni with “Mr.<br />
Larry Newcombe”.<br />
It was, therefore, not accidental<br />
that the next visit started in front of<br />
a timeline of bright blue painters’<br />
tape divided into fifty-year sections.<br />
A pointer for a tiny span indicated<br />
the students’ own lives, hopefully<br />
putting 100 years into some<br />
perspective. After reviewing the<br />
earlier events in Newcomb’s history,<br />
students moved into the room<br />
housing the Museum’s new exhibit,<br />
“Mining Life in the Mountains: The<br />
Tahawus Story” to consider the<br />
history of Tahawus, the National<br />
Lead mine, and eventually the<br />
move to Winebrook. Here there<br />
were pictures and artifacts from a<br />
community that no longer exists:<br />
old bowling pins from the YMCA,<br />
sports trophies, a hard hat and a<br />
photo of Bernie Killon (a Sinter<br />
Plant employee) from Minerva<br />
wearing his, mine dust from the<br />
bottom of a miner’s locker, some<br />
mail boxes from the Tahawus post<br />
office, and much more. On another<br />
wall was a large survey map of<br />
Winebrook a year before the town<br />
move and pictures showing some<br />
of the students’ great-grandfathers,<br />
then on the job for National Lead.<br />
Toward the end of the day, students<br />
watched parts of the 1963 film<br />
of the move—big trucks pulling<br />
and pushing homes, apartments,<br />
churches, and the store into<br />
Winebrook, where several of the<br />
students now live. This concluded<br />
their visit, and they asked to come<br />
back! A successful event, indeed!<br />
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