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Vintage “Catskill Mountain News” Now Available Online
Web users can now search and browse the Margaretville-based newspaper from July 13, 1902 to April 28, 1961. Visit http://history.catskill.net to find this treasure trove of history, made possible by several individual donors and the O’Connor Foundation.
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Deposit: Going Back in Time
video Video highlights the history and architecture of Deposit.
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The Hanford Collection : Photographs of the mill and community
The Hanford Collection is the work of Horace D. Hanford and his son, James Ralph Hanford, taken from the early 1890s to the early 1920s. The Collection represents the themes of people and family, life and work, and change over time.
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Film: The Cannonsville Story
Part of the ongoing film series from the Delaware County Historical Association - check it out!!! Norm Studer's film about the construction of the Cannonsville Dam along the west branch of the Delaware River. Awesome soundtrack. Free Admission. Donations gratefully accepted!
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Middletown Historical Society has a new home
Built in 1938 as the clubhouse for the Catskill Mountain Chapeter of the Izaak Walton League, this building outisde Margaretville became the New Kingston Valley Grange Hall in the mid-1990s. The Grange recently deeded it to the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown.
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Archived Photos Now Online
Update - the latest batch of Catskill Mountain News microfilm has been scanned and posted online at http://history.catskill.net. Check it out.
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Kortright Invites You
History for the Holidays?? Why not!! A Pictorial History of the Town of Kortright is now available for $20 at the Delaware County Historical Association.
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Lumbering on the Delaware
Wednesday July 20th at 7:30pm, the Deposit Historical Society will present a program entitled, "Rafting and Lumbering on the Delaware". Presenters for the evening will be Gloria McCullough, research librarian for the Wayne County Historical Society, and Ann O'Hara, a trustee and chair of the library committee.
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Masonville Celebrates 200th Anniversary
The Masonville Bicentennial Celebration is being held Saturday July 16th. Celebrating your 200th birthday is a big deal and the town will kick it off with a parade at 11am, followed by an old-fashioned community picnic at 1pm complete with live music.
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John Burroughs, Delaware County’s Native Son
Naturalist John Burroughs paid lifelong homage to his Delaware County roots. Scattered throughout his essays are scores of recounted memories from the first 17 years of his life, years that he spent near Roxbury, New York. “My blood,” he said, “has the flavor of the soil in it; it is rural to the last drop.” Biographer Edward Renehan, Jr . writes that Burroughs “had a deep psychic connection not only to the geography of his home region, but also to his kin who lingered there above and below ground.”
