Grace Young is Back!!!!

Okay, you got me, it really isn't Grace, it is the essence of Grace. In 2026, this blog will bring back those funny articles about what is happening in town just as Grace did for the Greenwood News column in the Andover paper.

Grace with her Aunt Ellen in Young Young Store (now our history museum)

Who remembers Grace? Her extended family were the proprietors of Young and Young during Greenwood’s heyday. And, her little notebook? Grace would go from home to home throughout town jotting down our history and sharing it with the world through the Greenwood News.  Dinners with family and friends, weddings, showers, and babies. To know what color dress my mother wore, amazing. Visits, visitors and vacations. The Telephone Co-op and the Town Board. All about Troop 62; every camp out, award ceremony and community project. Cub Scouts, 4-H, Girl Scouts, the GCS Alumni Association, the Masons, the Grange, I could go on and on. If it was happening in Greenwood, Grace captured it. 

As a child, I thought, wow, my name is in the paper. As a teenager, oh please with the obligatory eye roll. As a young adult, I just had to chuckle at how quaint it was that this little town of Greenwood’s citizens shared ever aspect of their lives with each other and the readers of the Canisteo and then Andover papers. Now that I am, let’s call me seasoned, I appreciate the value of those articles. And, I share a kinship with Grace. I want to tell your stories too.  

I am ISO a ghost reporter to play Grace. Who is up for this task? Reach out to me at kmrhistoryblog@gmail.com