LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum is offering the chance to win a hand-built black powder rifle modeled after those built by famed Loudonville gunsmith Peter Reinhard in the 1800s. The rifle was built by students in the museum’s educational workshop series last year, using traditional tools and techniques. The rifle is .32 caliber […]
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Cleveland’s unsolved torso serial killer is subject of Nov. 20 show at Loudonville museum
LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series continues this month with a Nov. 20 look into Cleveland’s greatest murder mystery — and its connection to America’s most famous lawman, with “Eliot Ness and the Torso Murders.” Eliot Ness was best known as the American Prohibition agent who organized and led a crack team […]
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Mansfield’s eccentric “witch” topic of new book, CRF museum talk on Oct. 16
LOUDONVILLE—The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum kicks off the next Speaker Series by welcoming back historian and author Mark S. Jordan on Oct. 16 to discuss the topic of his new book The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise. The frontier town of Mansfield had already had its share of eccentrics, including mystic/businessman […]
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CRF Museum invites public to explore Panama
LOUDONVILLE—The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum in Loudonville has announced a tour to the Central American isthmus of Panama, slated for January. The tour is designed to give guests an introduction to one of the most popular regions of Central America and includes numerous historic and cultural landmarks ranging from indigenous villages, Spanish forts, the world […]