Morris, New York

Films based on Mark Twain's Private History of a Campaign That Failed and his short story, The War Prayer were partially filmed in Morris.

This youtube video presents The War Prayer. It is the epilogue to the production of Private History of a Campaign that Failed.
https://youtu.be/sVYIRbmxHpc

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33294188/horace-b-field

Gary Norman wrote in May, 2022:

The event described above took place in the aftermath of a tragedy that you can read about by reading the links below. Dimock or Dimmock, either way, you spell it, it was a tragic situation.

https://anothercenturyblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/the-tragedy-of-dimmo...

The year was 1925 and ghostbusters were not available. So the US government decided to ask school children to send in pennies! I am not kidding.

1803 painting of USS Constituion.

The article below was in The Morris Chronicle on April 8, 1925.

Greetings Village of Morris Residents,


The Village Board is announcing the retirement of Chris Robinson on July 22, 2022.


Chris has been a loyal and valuable Village employee for the past 28 years and the 
Village will miss Chris immensely.

The Village Board would appreciate, if you see 
Chris, to please take the time to wish him well.


The Village Board


Michael Newell

Rush French

William Burdick

28 years?