GOSSIP COLUMNS
Why gossip columns? you ask. Aren't they, well, mostly slander and fiction? Read some of these items from a more innocent age. The information was widely read, talked about, of course, but generally in a much more positive way than gossip is considered today. A young man from Long Island, thoroughly urbanized, modern in outlook, was puzzled by my excitement over this find. "What's the point?" he asked, expecting to find something malicious about these people.
The point here and now is social history. The genealogist can find family links in these few lines, such as "Mrs. Tassay visited her mother, Mrs. Senecal" giving us two married names for women. The family historian now knows that Mrs. Senecal lived on Grenadier Island, which is in Canada, and may wonder how her daughter got there, in the absence of bridge or ferry. And savor the item mentioning maple syrup. Malicious? Hardly. Amusing? I found it so. Examine gossip as it used to be. If you have any such items in Gramma's scrap book, send them along, especially if they are dated.
ALEXANDRIA BAY MORE BAY GOSSIP PLESSIS MORE ON PLESSIS PLESSIS 23 Jan 1873 REDWOOD 23 Jan 1873 REDWOOD
Nan Dixon
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