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A woman who lived most of her life while Amsterdam was a village lamented the loss of many trees after the municipality became more industrialized.
“There was more greenness, more freshness in the village in those old days than there is now,” wrote M. Annie Allen Trapnell in a paper presented to the Century Club. In 1895 Trapnell had founded the women’s club and remarks from the paper she presented were preserved.
Recorder newspaper columnist Hugh Donlon quoted Trapnell in an article he wrote 42 years ago. Donlon said other writers of Trapnell’s generation also lamented the loss of Amsterdam’s trees.
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