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Video: Penn Yan and How It Got that Way

Yates County Historian Fran Dumas stopped by PYPL last Tuesday and discussed the origin of Penn Yan’s name, famous bear battles, whiskey, and other subjects found in her recently published two-volume history “Penn Yan and How it Got That Way”.

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