Currently two members are going through the archives and organizing all the material there. The big items are pretty well categorized, but the little stuff – such as articles about......Read More
Recently a visitor to the Sturgeon House donated several issues of the Community News. These included the very first issue, dated November 15, 1921. The visitor explained that the News......Read More
This week our long-awaited booklet has arrived from the printer and now is available for sale. The title is Lake Shore Memories and includes two sections. The first, called “Early......Read More
It’s February 16. The day had started out cold and rainy. In many places the earth had turned to mud. Yet people came out. They stood along the tracks; they......Read More
January activity in the Fairview Area Historical Society has changed over the years. Initially, as the group formed and grew, the month of January was membership renewal month, which meant......Read More
Today’s posting is the last in the series of Fairview’s Outstanding Women… Not that there are no more outstanding women in Fairview, but rather, it is simply time to wind......Read More
As the world worked to return to normal after a Second World War and the Korean Conflict, some things would not go back to where they were before. Women, for......Read More
It was inevitable that the U.S. entered World War II. President Roosevelt knew it, so he ran for a third term in 1940. He wanted to be at the helm,......Read More
Over the years some Fairview women had ten or more children during their lifetimes. Farm families in particular found that many children were of great help with the never-ending chores. ......Read More
School teachers early in the 1900s were not required to have much training. In fact, the day after a person finished his or her high school years he or she......Read More
In June 1915 a young woman met the ships arriving in New York that might be carrying passengers from the ill-fated British Passenger Liner RMS Lusitania. She arranged for dock......Read More