For her patience, support, insight, and clear-headed reactions throughout the various stages of this book’s development, I am indebted to Leslie S. Connor, to whom this book is dedicated. Thanks also are due to Margaret Eck, Joe Masucci, Frank Mouris, the Clan Swierzewski, Frank Mouris the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, the New York State Writers Institute, and the management of Hoyts Crossgates Cinemas and the Spectrum 7 Theatres, both in Albany, New York.