by Old Mentz | Apr 29, 2017 | Anita Messina, hardware store, Port Byron, Stella Pokrzywa
True Value to the VillageBy Anita Messina 1960. Rudolph Schasel was mayor of a canal village with lingering prosperity developed during the energetic days of the great Erie Canal waterway. Here and there small bruises began, not terribly noticeable because, as Stella...
by Old Mentz | Apr 29, 2017 | Anita Messina, Leona Dove, Leona Morningstar, Port Byron, Port Byron Historical Society
Leona Morningstar DoveBy Anita MessinaI was born April 8, 1915 in Athens, Pennsylvania. Now I live here near my daughter.My two earliest memories were playing house and baking a real cake in a toy cake pan. Another memory I have is when my sister Marian was taken for...
by Old Mentz | Apr 29, 2017 | Anita Messina, Port Byron, Ted Eiben
Ted EibenConservationist and Fighter Plane AviatorBy Anita MessinaTed Eiben recalls the first time he came to Port Byron to visit one of Port Byron’s gifted artists, Lindy Burke. He drove through town and noticed “the most beautiful building, the school.” A slight...
