Re: You want the conversation changed? (493 Views)
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toppled (IP Logged)
Date: April 20, 2015 06:22PM
Fredonia is my alma mater. Many of us heard the legend of how it got into the Marx Brothers movie (where it's spelled Freedonia). I graduated 40 years ago, so the newer students might not have heard it or even know who the Marx Brothers are.
Here's the story: The Marx Brothers had a bad experience there. They got booed during their vaudeville act. As revenge, they decided to mock Fredonia in the movie Duck Soup. Sylvania comes from the next (or nearly next) stop on the vaudeville circuit, it's a shortened version of Pennsylvania as Fredonia NY is located between Buffalo NY & Erie Pa.
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