Marlene Thompson:  

I always wanted to be a veterinarian when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a bad idea. As it turns out, they were probably right. I blow off steam by taking walks and I like to do my genealogy research, which gets my mind off things and focused on something else. I think my heroes are strong and influential women. I am amazed that it took women an additional over 50 years to gain the right to vote over black men. I think that struggle still goes on. Look at our current president and Hilary Clinton, not that she would have been that great as president. But the women suffragettes I admire and some day I hope to go to Seneca Falls to see the Womens' Hall of Fame. Other women heroes would be Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Hellen Keller, and of course her teacher, Ann Sullivan, and many others. I have lived in Johnstown, because I went to FMCC there. I lived in Albany because I used to work at Albany Med. Then I moved to N. Troy (Lansingburgh) to get away from Albany and finally to Averill Park because my husband wanted to live in the city and I wanted to live in the country so we compromised and moved to the Burbs. The one person from my past who I'd most like to see again is Kim Brewer, because we were good friends until she moved to wherever she moved to.. I have one son and what I have learned the most from him is that I'm not too electroni...Expand for more