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TABLE TALK

I read Niki Kourofsky’s “The Girls Next Door” (October 2021) with interest and some nostalgia.

Holidays at our table were full of good spirits and laughter. My dad, Russ Murray, of Plattsburgh, often entertained us with a ditty about “the Cadyville Whore up on the Saranac River.” That is, he would try to sing it until my mom, Marguerite, would stop him after the