Life was anything but easy growing up on Cutler Street during the early 1940s. At the time, the bustling street in Schenectady’s Mont Pleasant neighborhood was crowded with low-income and immigrant families. Poverty was common, and there was seldom time to do anything but work.
Herb Finch, left, watches as his grandson 3-year-old Elijah Travis of Old Fort, North Carolina, catches a duck on a fishing pole while playing a game on the midway at the Sunshine Fair in Cobleskill Tuesday.
Sabrina Schwartz, 2, of Tribeshill, left, and Alivia Page, 5, of Carlisle, play with the toys they won on the midawy at the Sunshine Fair in Cobleskill in their wagon Tuesday.
Teresa Maginnes of Buffalo, dives into a pool of water during a diving demonstration put on by Water Show Productions at the Sunshine Fair in Cobleskill Tuesday.
Scott Horsington of Rochester, dives into a pool of water during a diving demonstration put on by Water Show Productions at the Sunshine Fair in Cobleskill Tuesday.
