Step Back in Time

June 21, 2009 02:09 pm

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Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.

25 years ago

June 20, 1984

BAINBRIDGE _ The Laing Brothers, Bill of Bainbridge and Gill of Earlville, will head the host band of the Lain Family Bluegrass Festival in the Oxford Village Park July 7 and 8. The brothers are members of the board of directors of Galin Productions Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Bluegrass music.

The Oxford village board and the Lions Club have cooperated in the organization of the festival, which could become an annual event. Performing will be Bill Harrell and the Virginians, Bob Paisley and the Southern Grass, the Spirits of Bluegrass and Whetstone Run, all three of Pennsylvania; Bristol Mountain Bluegrass and the Diamond Back Rattlers of New York State and local groups State Line Bluegrass and the Laing Brothers.

50 years ago

June 20, 1959

COOPERSTOWN _ Two brothers with the unique distinction of having two grandfathers enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum were in Cooperstown to visit the shrine this week.

Edward Trowbridge Collins III, 15, and his 10-year-old brother Peter, were brought to Cooperstown as a part of a motor trip which was a birthday present for Peter.

Their father, Edward T. Collins II, is a son of baseball's late immortal "Eddie" Collins, great White Sox and Athletics second-sacker, and their mother is the former Miss Jane Pennock, daughter of the late Herbert J. "Herb" Pennock, southpaw pitcher of Athletics, Red Sox and Yankee fame, also immortalized at Cooperstown.

The boys are both students at the Kennett Consolidated schools in Kennett Square, Pa. "Eddie" is a first baseman in a Babe Ruth League and Peter is active in Little League circles.