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Owen P. Merrill – Trials and Tribulations of being a Sodus Point Sailor
Owen P. Merrill's 1986 recollections of life as a Sodus Point sailor in the early 1900s, set against a history of Great Lakes shipping.
Dannys Superette
Memories of the grocery Daniel DeMarco and his wife ran on the ground floor of today's Sodus Point post office building until it closed in 1965.
Swimming the Channel
A dangerous teenage rite of passage from the 1940s and 50s, swimming between the two Sodus Bay piers, as recalled in Bob Pearson's book Stinky's Tales.
Deborah Hopkins (Hopkins / DoVille Families)
Deborah Hopkins remembers 1950s childhood visits to relatives around Sodus Point, including her grandfather's bay cottage near 1st Creek with a view of the busy coal…
Doug Stark (50s – 60s)
Doug Stark's memories of visiting Sodus Point in the 1950s and 60s, including riding the tugboat Agnes H. as it turned a freighter at the coal…