The first ever publication by the Greene County Historical Society, originally released in 1932. This volume, edited by George H. Chadwick and Jessie Van Vechten Vedder, is a compilation of columns that ran in the Catskill Examiner authored by Vedder as Greene County Historian with Chadwick’s assistance as President of the Historical Society. The volume covers a variety of topics related to the earliest European history of Greene County while also containing much fascinating detail about the earliest years of the Historical Society and the people who fomented its creation.