Jonathan Palmer, Greene County Historian, photographic Ice Yachts at Athens in February 2022. Photograph by Adam Deen.
Jonathan Palmer
Greene County Historian and Archivist for the Vedder Research Library
The Vedder Research Library's current Archivist has been an employee of the Historical Society since the start of Summer 2017. He is a 2012 graduate of Columbia-Greene Community College, Siena College Class of 2014, and a 2016 graduate of the Department of Information Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Albany with an Archives Concentration. He has served as Greene County Historian since January 2021.
A native of Athens, New York, Jonathan is a descendant of the earliest Dutch colonists of Coxsackie and Catskill. He writes weekly history features for local newspapers, and his current research focuses include the legacy of slavery in Greene County and the tenant system practiced in the Catskills.