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Former Mayor Brenner

Reads From New Book

Former Mayor David Brenner was reading correspondence selections from his new book selections from his book The Life and Letters of Christopher F. Kompare U.S.N at the Swart Wilcox house as the last of their Summer Sunday series of talks and readings. In his hands he holds a folio of the original postcards that were collected and organized by Kompare's sister in the 1940's. (Ian Austin/ allotsego.com)
Former Oneonta Mayor David W. Brenner reads selections from his new book, “The Life and Letters of Christopher F. Kompare U.S.N,” at the Swart Wilcox House.  Brenner’s appearance was the final program in the Summer Sunday Series.  In his hands he holds a folio of the original postcards the sailor mailed home during World War II that were collected and organized by sister in the 1940s.   Kompare, whose family moved from Albany to Oneonta while he was at war, died in a Kamikaze attack near the war’s end.  (Ian Austin/ allotsego.com)

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