TEA Party meeting features sheriff, legislator

JAMESTOWN — Sheriff Jim Quattrone and County Legislator Bob Bankoski will be featured speakers on Tuesday at the next meeting of the Southern Tier TEA Party Patriots at 1309 Norby Road. Quattrone will discuss consolidation of law enforcement in the county and municipalities. Bankoski will discuss county-related issues including taxation, “green energy” and Medicaid. Audience participation is encouraged. There will also be an update on the July 4 Mayville parade and the TEA Party float.

Summer reading event planned for July

STOCKTON — A Summer Reading program kickoff event will be at the Seymour Stockton Library branch. The library is hosting a free Ice Cream social event on Saturday, July 11 from noon to 2 p.m. The Chautauqua County SWAT Team will be there at 1 p.m. Everyone is welcome to sign up for Summer Reading. We will also be open for regular library services.

Meet the Author event set for June 25

JAMESTOWN — The Fenton History Center invites all to attend a Meet the Author event at the Fenton Mansion on Wednesday, June 25 at 7 p.m. Former resident, Edward T. Davis, III M.D. will be speaking about his recent works which will be published by the Fenton History Center.

They are a two-volume set entitled “The Early Years of Boating on Chautauqua Lake” which contains almost 600 pages of text, mostly consisting of newspaper articles dating from 1826 – 1888, the majority of which are from the Jamestown Journal, Jamestown Daily Journal and Jamestown Evening Journal. Accompanying the articles are 280 photographs/advertisements supplied by the Fenton History Center, the Chautauqua County Historical Society, the Chautauqua Institution Archives, the Davis collection of stereoviews of the Chautauqua Lake region dating from the 1870s – 1880s and several private collectors.

The second publication is “Life in a Chautauqua Lake Resort Community: The Early Years of Point Chautauqua, New York” tells the story of the evolution of Point Chautauqua from a Baptist colony in 1875, through the years of the Grand Hotel and ending in 1930, as it settled into a quiet summer and year-round community using period newspaper articles. It consists of 320 pages with 250 photographs.

Copies of the books may be ordered at the event.