COXSACKIE — On Thursday, Oct. 27, the Greene County Historical Society is pleased to announce that GCHS President Bob Hallock will offer the program “Greene County in the 1920s and ‘30s.”
The program relives the history of Greene County through the person of Joseph Frankel. Frankel married Dorothy Tolley of Cairo and moved to Cairo from Minnesota in 1920. He lived until 1980.
The program will outline a history of the 1920s boarding houses, hotels, prohibition, gangsters, KKK, movies, radio, cars and a booming economy until the 1929 spectacular bust of the economy.
Then the 1930s and organized crime, Legs Diamond, gangsters and Murder Inc., train travel, bus travel and the decline of steamboat travel, the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, and the Nazi youth camps in Greene County. Plus, Frankel’s new job dealing with electricity.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. and be held in the reading room of the Greene County Historical Society’s Vedder Research Library, located on the grounds of the Bronck Museum. The Bronck Museum is located just of Route 9W, about 1.5 miles south of the intersection of Routes 9W, 385 and 81 near Coxsackie.
The program is free and open to the general public.