Kenny Libben, Curator Cleo Redd Fisher Museum

LOUDONVILLE — If you were a fan of crossword puzzles in the 1960s, and found yourself stuck on such ambiguous definitions as “Dickens character,” “African boat,” “oleoresin” and “Peleg’s father” you had Loudonville resident George Frank to thank for your misery. George, who suffered from multiple sclerosis, designed thousands of crossword puzzles that were printed […]

August Imgard, of Wooster, was once widely credited as the first person to bring the Christmas tree to America. Imgard was born in Bavaria, Germany before immigrating to America as a young adult. He began to miss winters in his homeland, where residents cut live evergreens to bring inside as a reminder of life in […]

In 1938 Walt Disney debuted “Ferdinand the Bull,” a short film based on the book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf. The short became an instant classic and was televised around the world. Ferdinand became 2017 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Although Leaf […]