Relive the history of Peru through memories shared by Peru residents
with Peru Town Historian Helen Allen Nerska.
Theresa Schofield Guynup, Cassie Rock McGee, and Dick Connors chat with Helen Nerska
Recorded September 8, 2025.
Helen Nerska interviews members of the Peru HS Classes of 57, 58 and 59
Patricia
Cooper Elmore, Bob Elmore, Janice Rock Dashnaw, Helen Allen Nerska, Bob
McGee, Jim Collins, Theresa Lamar Collins, Sylvia McGee Newman, Roland
McGee.
Recorded August 4, 2025.
Peru History Chat - Peru HS Class of 57
Bob McGee, Sylvia McGee Newman, Judy Barber Walpole, Janice Dashnaw Rock, Bob Elmore.
Recored June 23, 2025
Chat with Mary Downs Nisoff - Janet Lacey Duprey
Mary
Nisoff shares her life on the John Boswell Road and her years of
nursing experience in schools and the prison. Janet Duprey shares her
experiences as owner of the Rustic Inn, her longtime work as a
legislator and her role in the development of the Apple Valley Senior
Housing.
Recorded October 7, 2024 Chat with Cheryl Woodward Randall - Frank Woodward - Bob McGee
Memories from Cheryl Randall and Frank Woodward who grew up in downtown
Peru and Bob McGee from Lapham’s Mills. Remembering Marshall’s
Drugstore, the airplane crash at Mason’s Sawmill, swimming in the
AuSable River, and walking into town from Lapham’s Mills.
Recorded September 9,
2024 Chat with Priscilla (Pam) Monette Altizer - Carol Davis Gallaghe
Memories
from Pam Altizer who grew up in Peru, picking apples during the war,
going to school in the Peru Village and whose family worked at the
Mason Sawmill until its closing in 1972; and from Carol Gallagher who
experienced the last great fire that wiped out downtown Peru and whose
lifelong musical career included working with the Peru Central School
and the Peru Community Church.
Recorded June 17, 2024 Chat with Barbara Copeland Perry - Monical Downs Remillard - Douglas Brown - Judy Barber Walpole
Join Barbara Perry sharing her early life in downtown Peru as the
daughter of the first woman doctor in the area; Monica Remillard who
transitioned from a one room school house to the new Peru Central
School and raised her children on a prosperous farm; Douglas Brown, a
WWII veteran from Mooers who came to Peru in 1948 and served the
community as postman and storeowner; and Judy Walpole talking about her
family memories of the Mason’s Sawmill and growing up in the hamlet of
Peru.
Recorded May 13, 2024.
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