Retired Orleans County Historian C. W. “Bill” Lattin produced weekly articles from 1979-2014, entitled, Bethinking of Old Orleans. These articles featured a treasure-trove of historical information about Orleans County since its inception to modern times. This page contains all articles written in during the thirty-fifth year of 2013. Special thanks to historian Frank Berger for clipping these articles from various local newspapers. We hope you enjoy reading and researching through this great resource.
Vol. 35 No. 1 The Albion House 01/03/2013
Vol. 35 No. 2 Record Booze Haul 01/10/2013
Vol. 35 No. 4 1863 Report of the Poor 01/17/2013
Vol. 35 No. 5 A&P Store – Medina 01/24/2013
Vol. 35 No. 6 A Strange Dog Story 01/13/2013
Vol. 35 No. 7 History In Doors 02/07/2013
Vol. 35 No. 9 Schulyer Hazard 02/14/2013
Vol. 35 No. 10 Frank W. Mallison 02/21/2013
Vol. 35 No. 11 Paintings by West 02/28/2013
Vol. 35 No. 12 Jail Limits 03/07/2013
Vol. 35 No. 13 Phillip I. Brust 03/14/2013
Vol. 35 No. 13 Ruffle Shirt Hill 03/21/2013
Vol. 35 No. 14 Coldest Weather 03/28/2013
Vol. 35 No. 15 Jennie A. King 04/15/2013
Vol. 35 No. 17 Major General John S. Thompson 04/04/2013
Vol. 35 No. 18 The Bushnell Sextuplets 04/18/2013
Vol. 35 No. 19 W.G. Skinner – Boots & Shoes, Medina, N.Y. 4/25/2013
Vol. 35 No. 20 Two Poems by Joseph B. Achilles 05/03/2013
Vol. 35 No. 21 Albion’s Mrs. Ruth Curtis Wells 05/10/2013
Vol. 35 No. 22 The Medina Manufacturing Company 05/17/2013
Vol. 35 No. 23 Hart Hose Fire House 05/29/2013
Vol. 35 No. 24 ‘An Awful Discovery’ 06/07/2013
Vol. 35 No. 25 Elizabeth Harriet Denio, Ph.D 06/14/2013
Vol. 35 No. 26 Russell J. Waldo 06/21/2013
Vol. 35 No. 27 William U. Lee 06/28/2013
Vol. 35 No. 28 John Newton Proctor 07/05/2013
Vol. 35 No. 29 The Transit Line 07/12/2013
Vol. 35 No. 30 Gaines Grange 07/19/2013
Vol. 35 No. 31 Judge W. Crawford Ramsdale 02/26/2013
Vol. 35 No. 32 Lynn M. Burrows 08/02/2013
Vol. 35 No. 33 Pearl Coann 08/09/2013
Vol. 35 No. 34 The Bijou Dream 8/23/2013
Vol. 35 No. 35 An early county jail 8/23/2013
Vol. 35 No. 36 Judge Noah Davis, 1818-1902 8/30/2013
Vol. 35 No. 37 Dr. Charles E. Fairman 1856- 1934 9/06/2013
Vol. 35 No. 38 Dr. Phoebe R. Sprague, 1845- 1904 9/13/2013
Vol. 35 No. 39 Getting to know William Watson 9/20/2013
Vol. 35 No. 40 Old words seldom used 9/27/2013
Vol. 35 No. 41 John Cunneen 1848-1907 10/11/2013
Vol. 35 No. 42 Judge Gerald B. Fluher 1878-1925 8/24/2022
Vol. 35 No. 44 Clements bean planter 10/18/2013
Vol. 35 No. 45 Orleans County apples 10/25/2013
Vol. 35 No. 46 Hon. Edmund L. Pitts known as The Little Giant of Orleans 11/01/2013
Vol. 35 No. 47 George Shatuck Expert of penmanship 11/08/2013
Vol. 35 No. 48 A Not So Nice Prank 11/08/2013
Vol. 35 No. 49 Mother Ross 1860-1936 11/22/2013
Vol. 35 No. 50 John Bowles 11/20/2013
Vol. 35 No. 51 Webster’s Band 12/06/2013