Photos: Living tributes at Rensselaerville town hall
Memorials to a much-loved town clerk and to Rensselaerville veterans look their mid-summer best.
— Photo by Robert Bolte
Flags aloft and roses abloom. The Ring of Honor is a circle within a circle. Once the stainless-steel collar is filled with names, another collar can be added above for more honorees.
The Enterprise — Tim Tulloch
A bed of flowers and shrubs, also the work of Rensselaerville Councilman Robert Bolte, flanks the town hall entrance, a memorial to Deidre (“Dee”) Andrus, who died earlier this year. She served as Rensselaerville town clerk for 15 years. The perennial flowers, called Lorraine Sunshine, are named for Bolte’s sister, who found the unnamed volunteer plant in her garden in Wisconsin. Bolte ordered them from his home state.
The Enterprise — Tim Tulloch
Robert Bolte, town board member, and Victoria Kraker, town clerk, stand inside the Ring of Honor at the Rensselaerville town hall. Its outer wall is now planted with rose bushes. Bolte is the memorial’s begetter and builder. Town residents who wish their veterans names to be added to the memorial should contact Kraker.