Neighbors help farmer Sydney Lonsdale near Dexter

16 neighbors brought their tractors and plows to plow the 35-acre field of Sydney Lonsdale who had been ill for six weeks and couldn’t do his autumn plowing. Those who took part were: Paul Williams, Clifford Bowman, Harry Williams, Everett White, Chester Lee, Winfred Weaver, Emmett Poole, Ross Sykes, Frank Adams, Ernest Middlestate, Edwin Eveleigh, Neil Adams, George Lewis, Russell Cole, Lyle Phelps, Malcolm Major, and Lawrence Van Ness. Photo from Alice Lee Sykes (her mother is Doris R. Lee who wrote the book History of Pillar Point). Courtesy of the Dexter Historical Society. Circa October 1949. Dexter, NY.

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