Meet Your Neighbor
Taxes Were Collected in This Woman's Hamilton Kitchen for 40 Years
Get to know Cindy Stelline of Hamilton in this week's Meet Your Neighbor.
Name: Cindy Stelline Where do you live? Rust Street, Hamilton. I am the third generation of Crowells to live in this house. My grandmother, Bertha Crowell, was Hamilton’s tax collector. Everyone who paid taxes in the early 1940s to early 1970s paid them in what is now our dining room. My father, Grant Crowell, was on the Board of Appeals for many years. He was also a town historian and was single-handedly responsible for getting the Town’s Seal changed from “Alex” Hamilton to “Alexander” Hamilton. He was very active in town business and politics. Family: Married 33 years to Paul, stepdaughter, Pam, 41 anc grandson, Jonathan, 12, live in South Carolina. Hobbies/interests: Travelling, reading, doing Sudokus and KenKens and dining out. …
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