Name/Title
Fair Exchange for a Truck (1 of 2)Entry/Object ID
2023.120.4Description
Part 1 of 2 of a recording for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Contains narration by an unidentified British husband and wife. They take turns telling the story of how they came to be in Saranac Lake for a year. The man came to Saranac Lake to work as a doctor with support from a Fulbright scholarship, and his wife came with him. Includes clips of narration from the following: William Chapman White, an unidentified "old hunter" [likely an announcer reading a written account], Francis Berger Trudeau, Father Ward, a radio announcement about a fire call at 3 Bloomingdale Avenue sponsored by Herbert R. Leggett Insurance, Roger Tubby and Jim Loeb of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Mayor Tony Anderson, Hector MacKay [?], (16 year old Saranac Lake High School football player), SLHS students singing a school song, elementary school students saying the Pledge of Allegiance, students talking about their schooling, Kenneth Wilson (inspector of schools), high school student Steve Gurley talking about teen dating. Continued in 2023.120.5.