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Delaware County Historical Association to Host Two Daytrips:
May 28 ~ Corning Glass Museum, Finger Lakes Winery, and Curtiss Aviation Museum
June 28 ~ Chesterwood Estate and Garrison Keillor’s The Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
The Delaware County Historical Association invites you to join us on two daytrips planned for the coming months.
On Wednesday, May 28 travel with us via motor coach to the Corning Museum of Glass, Heron Hill Winery and Glenn Curtiss Museum of Flight. Guests will travel on a luxury motor coach to the Corning Museum of Glass and receive a guided tour. Afterwards guests will continue into the Finger Lakes along scenic Keuka Lake to the beautiful Esperanza Mansion for lunch. After lunch there will be a wine tasting at Heron Hill Winery, set on a hill over looking Keuka Lake. The trip will conclude with a tour of the Glenn Curtiss Museum of Flight in Hammondsport. Glenn H. Curtiss is acknowledged as "The Father of Naval Aviation." Cost: $95 members/ $100 non-members (Tickets include coach, lunch & admission to winery and museums plus a donation to DCHA) For reservations please call DCHA at (607) 746-3849. Reservations required by May 12, 2008.
On Saturday, June 28 we will travel via motor coach to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts for a day of history and entertainment. The first stop will be at The Chesterwood Estate and Museum, country home and studio of Daniel Chester French - sculptor of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Guests will receive a guided tour and will have time to view the galleries. After lunch at the Red Lion Inn guests will head for an early evening of live entertainment: A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor, at Tanglewood, MA. Cost: $135 DCHA Members / $140 Non- Members. For reservations please call DCHA at (607) 746-3849. Reservations required by June 11, 2008.
NEW BOOK TRACES HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY
A new book written by Delaware County Historical Association Director Tim Duerden, is set to appear on store shelves this holiday season. The book, entitled: A History of Delaware County, New York, 1797 – 2007, is the first general history of the county since 1949.
Published by Purple Mountain Press, A History of Delaware County attempts to unravel the numerous strands of the region’s past over the last 200 and more years and in so doing creates a general synopsis of those characters, issues and events that so affect our present. The land, and how it has been used, is at the fore of this tale of remote, upland Delaware County. Once the haunt of Native Americans, the county became home to hardy pioneer families, farmers and trades people - each group with its own particular needs to be derived from the land. Eventually, as Duerden shows, land-use issues come to dominate the local scene, as documented by the stories of the Anti-Rent War, the construction of railroads and highways and eventually the creation of the protected watershed for New York City’s thirsty millions.
Exactly how our land is to be best utilized is still, of course, very much a part of our present and our future. As Duerden states, "It is my hope that a more thorough understanding of our county and our region’s past will enable current generations to more completely understand some of those issues that affect us all today, such as water resources and the need to generate ever-more power for the urban northeast." Duerden also said, " Aside from this important aspect of needing to know about the past, I hope my book is just a plain good read. I do hope readers will enjoy our fascinating past as a story, too!"
In addition, the book also includes over 100 photographs, maps and other images, most from the archives of the Delaware County Historical Association. The retail price of A History of Delaware County is $20.00. For more information, contact the publisher at 1-800-325-2665.
Tim Duerden will be available to sign copies of his new book on Saturday, December 15, 2007 from 2pm to 4pm at the Delaware County Historical Association in Delhi.
FLOOD DAMAGED LIBRARY
Friends,
The library in Walton suffered extensive damage during the flood this summer, to the tune of about $380,000. Much of the damage was to the basement area, where the genealogy collection, microfilm collection, and microfilm readers were located. There is no FEMA assistance, and only a $5000 grant from NYS and another $1000 grant from the NY Library Association. I recently contacted the staff there to see if I could donate something. Below is their reply. I understand that they are relocating the genealogy collection to the attic area of the building, and that some of the collecton was saved by the staff before the flood waters reached the building. --Best wishes, Carolee Inskeep, October 2006
Sally Cranston, Director of the Ogden Library writes, "We had the most complete collection of Walton Reporters, Blade and Chronicle going back to the 1800s. The company we worked with, Proquest, has copies of what we lost. The cost of replacing these would be $26,235. What we really need is money ... If you find out any information about putting old copies of the Reporter etc. on CDs (as oppposed to microfilm) that would be useful ... Annie Sulger, who works in the Historical Room is going to e-mail you with more info. about specific books etc. that were lost."
Annie Sulger wrote, "At the present time I'm not sure what all we have and what we need to replace ... Any family genealogies are welcome ... For the last three months I've been working on drying books, copying what we had saved and now we are collecting as much as possible .... We can get dates of deaths and some of the stats up to 1996 from our indexes that some of us have compiled but not many obits ... We had a card file, but that was in the basement too and is gone."
If you would like to make a cash or genealogical donation, you can send it to:
William B. Ogden Free Library
42 Gardiner Place
Walton, New York 13856-1399
t: 607.865.5929
See also: http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2006/09/13/librar6.html
See also: http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2006/07/08/mm5.html
ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHER NEEDED
The County Historian for Delaware County, Patrick Grimes, is looking for some help in a Photo Project that will cover all the towns of Delaware County.
The background needed is a knowledge of Digitizing, Scanning and captioning . Possibly someone who is attending such College courses might like to assist as an intern.
Pat can be reached at his e-mail trout7431@catskill.net
or his home phone 845-676-3790.
DELAWARE COUNTY, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, MINUTES
OF THE ANNUAL MEETINGS FROM 1798 THRU 1812
from Delaware County Historian, Patrick Grimes
When I took over as Delaware County Historian, they told me that they were missing the minutes of the Board of Supervisors annual meeting. Some think they might have been destroyed in the 1922 jail fire but it's only a guess.
I've tried the Town Clerks of those towns that were part of Delaware County prior to 1813 but no luck.
Surprisingly they do have minutes of the first annual meeting in 1792 and every year from 1813 to the present. Maybe one of you had an ancestor who
was a member of the Board of Supervisors during the missing 15 year period. ....maybe an ancestor with a historical collection. Please find that "Needle in the Hay Stack" so that our records will be complete.
Contact me via e-mail at: pat.grimes@co.delaware.us or my office address: Patrick Grimes, Delaware County Historian, 111 Main St., Delhi, NY 13740.
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