You probably don't remember Tash's store on Water Street, almost directly across from the mouth of Latham St.

Fanny and Anna Tash were Assyrian, and their dad began the store selling goods to one of the Williams college dorms' kitchens from a wagon. 

With his proceeds he built the store and left it to Fanny and Anna, and it became a wonderfull place to get an ice cream cone or some zots or root beer barrels when we were kids.

The pair gave many of the locals credit during the great depression keeping them fed until the 1933 New Deal, which created the greatest economic expansion in history. 

Looking them up was how we found out about the Assyrian Genocide the Muslim Ottomans perpetrated against Christians in the middle East during WW1, ending with the Battle of Armageddon (Megiddo) in 1918, which ended the war, giving the British and French control of Palestine, before Israel was given it back in 1947 with the Balfour Doctrine.