Dryden, New York is your typical, small town nestled among forestry, ponds and plains. But in the 1990s, that peace was disrupted by a string of events so tragic it was hard not to suspect a site-specific curse. Dryden would come to be known for a time as the \u201cVillage of the Damned,\u201d and in Part 1 of this series we\u2019ll trace the first half of this ominous decade there.\xa0