The Greene County Historical Society’s
Quarterly Journal
The Greene County Historical Society has published a journal of local history articles and stories since 1977. Back editions of the Journal are made available free of charge after five years has elapsed from their publishing date.
Search for particular editions, articles, and authors in the volume and title listing below.
GCHS Quarterly Journal Title Index by Volume:
1977
The Journal, A New Publication [Staff]
Homes Tour set for June 4 [Staff]
A Young Couple’s Effort at Historic Preservation (Timothy Meier House) [Staff]
Summering in Palenville [David and Susan Erdmann]
A Man Ahead of His Time - Abraham Van Dyck [Raymond Beecher]
Black Rock at Athens - A Historic Landmark [Raymond Beecher]
Genealogy in Greene County [Staff]
Historical Gleanings from Hither and Yon [Staff].
Education in the Catskills - Ashland’s Two Institutes [Raymond Beecher]
Summering in Palenville (Part Two) [David and Susan Erdmann]
The Dutch-English Settlers and Their “Kocks Hacky” Church [Rev. Eugene Hill]
Some Loyalist Descendants of Madame Dies [H. Nelson]
Friends of the Museum Continue to Enhance Collections [Staff]
The Unruly Batavia Kill and Soper Soap Box Factory [Raymond Beecher]
Three Wills and Susannah Bronk [Raymond Beecher]
Home Tour Nets $2,342.21 for Conservation of Museum Painting [Staff]
Brigade of the American Revolution Detatchments at Bronck Museum Encampment on Annual Meeting Day [Staff]
People and Events Make “Busy” Bronck Museum Season [Staff]
Super-Challenge (Letter from the President) [J. Ruben Garcia]
Woodstock Bridge Rates of Toll Sign Acquired [Staff]
Authoress Ann S. Stephens - Her Use of the Catskill Locale [Staff]
Interview with a Ghost [Roberta M. Everett]
The Ashland Collegiate Institute - Its Last Ten Weeks [Raymond Beecher]
The Prevost Gore at Greenville - The Disputed Lands [Raymond Beecher]
Painting and Prints at Bronck House [Staff]
Genealogist “Info” and Other News Gleanings [Staff]
1978
Joseph Waltz - Between Murders He Wrote Poetry [Raymond Beecher]
Sawmills on a Mountain Top [Esther H. Dunn]
Catskill Marble Worker “Sculpture Bent” [Patricia H. Christian]
The Pruyn Likenesses - An Assemblage of Hudson Valley Portraiture [Raymond Beecher]
Curator’s Corner [Staff]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Staff]
Operation HELP! (Letter from the President) [J. Ruben Garcia]
Plans for 1978 Trading Post Season Underway [Staff]
Fitch-Daley Letter Documents Prattsville Life in 1840s [Raymond Beecher]
Luman Reed - He Made American Artists the Fashion [Raymond Beecher]
Samuel Platt Scott (1835-1917) - Catskill Artist [Staff]
Joe Waltz - Between Murders He Wrote Poetry (Part Two) [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Staff]
Building Fund Drive in Final Stages - Can You Help! [J. Ruben Garcia]
Dates to Remember - Mark Your Calendars! [Staff]
Keep Us Informed if! [Staff]
Bringing You Up-To-Date - A Report from President Garcia [J. Ruben Garcia]
South Cairo Landscapes Willed To Bronck Museum [Staff]
Water, Water Everywhere - But Not In Catskill [Raymond Beecher]
Orin Queal Flint (1867-1933) Society’s First President [Staff]
Greene County Gets the News - Gold in California [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Staff]
Curator’s Corner [Staff]
Simeon Scripture’s Fulling Mill on the Basic Creek [Raymond Beecher]
James Van Gelder’s Lake Kiskatom - Pure Water and Cheap Electric Power [Raymond Beecher]
The Village of Windham in 1848 [Staff]
Curator’s Corner [Shelby Kriele]
When General Tom Thumb Came to Catskill [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1979
The Society’s First Year - 1929 [Staff]
Smith’s Landing - Now Cementon [Elsie and Barbara Van Orden]
1929-1979 50th Anniversary Celebration [J. Ruben Garcia]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Curator’s Corner [Shelby Kriele]
We Have Done It! Indeed We Have! [J. Ruben Garcia]
James Reid and his Knuckledusters [Charles M. Grimes]
Scenes from “Icebound” Filmed at Leeds in 1924 [J. Ruben Garcia]
The Ritz Grocery Store at Reed’s Landing [Staff]
“The Best Rustic Souvenirs on the Road” Was Lester Story’s Goal [Staff Interview]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Digressions on the Journal of Lovisa King [Mary Vedder Kamenoff]
Phase I of Restoration Work Underway [Staff]
The Van Gelder’s Stereoptican Lecture Tour [Raymond Beecher]
The 1848 Meeting House at Jewett Heights [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Curator’s Corner [Shelby Kriele]
A Winter’s Ice Harvest 1900-1901 [Raymond Beecher]
Digressions on the Journal of Lovisa King (Part Two) [Mary Vedder Kamenoff]
Song of the Kaaterskill [Roberta Everitt]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Letter from the President [J. Ruben Garcia]
1980
Willard Silversmiths of Catskill [Shelby Kriele]
The Kaaterskill Comes Down the Ways at Athens [Raymond Beecher]
High Falls, Town of Catskill [Elsie and Barbara Van Orden]
Digressions on the Journal of Lovisa King (Part Three) [Mary Vedder Kamenoff]
Two Important Dates - Mark Your Calendars [Staff]
Early Teamsters in the Town of Greenville [Edna Ingalls Adams]
A Prehistoric Homicide at Kaaks-Acki [Raymond Beecher]
Digressions on the Journal of Lovisa King (Part Four) [Mary Vedder Kamenoff]
High Falls, Town of Catskill (Part Two) [Elsie and Barbara Van Orden]
Thomas T. Thomson - Pickney’s Enigma [Raymond Beecher]
Klinkenbergh, An Ancient Dutch Bouwerij: A Record of Early Ownership [Sidney Phoenix Thomas]
Cole’s Grove - A Favorite Spot on the Hudson River [Raymond Beecher]
Curator’s Corner [Shelby Kriele]
Vedder Memorial Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Society Elects New President for 1980-1982 Term [Raymond Beecher]
An Historical Analysis of the Bronck House, Coxsackie [Joseph W. Hammond]
The Broncks - Pieter, Hillitje, Jan and Commertje [Raymond Beecher]
In Appreciation [Raymond Beecher]
1981
A Trip to West Point and the Catskills in 1835 [Raymond Beecher]
Archaeological Excavation at Bronck Homestead - 1979 [Shelby Kriele]
And the Catskill Mob Pulled Down Nancy McFall’s House [Raymond Beecher]
C. A. Clegg’s Sunset Park at Haines Falls [Raymond Beecher]
Requiem for an Ancestor [Louise S. Messinger]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Joseph Allen - Catskill’s Retired Sea Captain [Raymond Beecher]
A Certain Small House (William Miller House, Platte Clove) [Esther H. Dunn]
The Rowena Memorial School Feud [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Manuscript Policy [Raymond Beecher]
This and That - News for Journal Readers [Raymond Beecher]
Pale Death with Impartial Footsteps (Edwin Bronk and Leonard Bronk) [Raymond Beecher]
Greene County’s Good News Letter [Raymond Beecher]
We Appreciate Great Grandmother’s Shawl but…
The Corvee in 19th-Century Greene County [Raymond Beecher]
Excerpts from Robert Bloomer Griffin’s Diary [Mrs. R. D. Olney]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
The 1905 Collision of the George H. Power and the Young America [Raymond Beecher]
Builder Beardsley and his Catskill Houses [Edith S. Minerly]
President Kriele Reports to the Membership [Val Kriele]
Greene County and the Suffering Greek Cause [Raymond Beecher]
“Bits and Pieces” from the Catskill Messenger [Raymond Beecher]
James M. Pierson, Civil War Recruiter [Raymond Beecher]
Otis T. Bedell (1843-1903) Inventor and Park Promoter [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1982
Abner Austin’s Hope Mill on Catskill Creek [Raymond Beecher]
Index to the Greene County Historical Journal (1977-1981)
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Transportation to the Mountain House - C. A. Beach & Co. [Raymond Beecher]
Archibald Stephens of Stephensville [Thomas Blaisdell]
Mountain View Farm House, Kiskatom [Edith S. Minerly]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Museum Committee Plans for 1982 Summer Season [Staff]
Harry Fenn, Illustrator [Esther H. Dunn]
Stanton Hill in the 1870s - The Moses Bedell Diaries [Raymond Beecher and Francis Dietz]
Mike Dolan’s Company Strip Mine’s Moulding Sand [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
A Catskill Mountain Tragedy (Twilight Inn Fire) [George H. Peiffer]
Stanton Hill in the 1870s - The Moses Bedell Diaries (Part Two) [Francis Dietz]
Education in Norton Hill [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1983
To Stay The Ravages of the Cholera [Raymond Beecher]
Stanton Hill in the 1870s - The Moses Bedell Diaries (Part Three) [Francis Dietz]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
John Alexander Thomson (1778-1846) Catskill Merchant [Raymond Beecher]
Stanton Hill in the 1870s - The Moses Bedell Diaries (Part Four) [Raymond Beecher and Francis Dietz]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Continuum [Raymond Beecher]
A Woman’s Work - J. V. V. Vedder (1859-1952) [Mabel P. Smith]
Edward Clark’s Lean Years [Raymond Beecher]
Greene County’s Hospital - Half a Century of Service [Raymond Beecher]
West Greenville, Erstwhile Marble Pillar [Raymond Beecher]
A Woman’s Work - J. V. V. Vedder (1859-1952) Part Two [Mabel P. Smith]
Some Insights into Athens’ Society of Friends [Edith S. Minerly]
1984
The Quinby Beekeepers of Honey Hollow [Raymond Beecher]
D. H. Rundell’s Auctions [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
The Genealogy Corner [Raymond Beecher]
Greene County’s Horse Ferries [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Genealogical Corner [Raymond Beecher]
C. C. Wells, Coxsackie Photographer [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Memorial Notice of Judge Henry Werker [Raymond Beecher]
Early Flyers in Greene County (Aviation) [Edna Ingalls Adams]
The C. J. Cave Paper Mill at Woodstock [Raymond Beecher]
First Society in Windham [Raymond Beecher]
Captain Kidd’s Hudson River Treasure Trove [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Genealogical Corner [Raymond Beecher]
1985
Roswell Reed’s “Speculative Opportunities” [Raymond Beecher]
Colonel Pratt’s Bank Clerk - Joseph Allen DuBois [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
“Bits and Pieces” of Hotaling History [Faith Jenkins]
Coxsackie’s Seminary of Learning [Raymond Beecher]
Roswell Reed’s “Speculative Opportunities” Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Rip’s Hudson River Bridge [Raymond Beecher]
The 1813 Greene County Courthouse [Mabel P. Smith]
Catskill Author Producing Historical Volume (Winifred Fiero/Attic Odyssey) [Raymond Beecher]
Memorials Received [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Staffordshire Earthenware with Local Scenes [Raymond Beecher]
Ice Harvesting on the Hudson At Catskill - c. 1922 [Mabel P. Smith interviewing Morris Tischler]
Let the Trolleys Come! [Raymond Beecher]
Friends Continue to Augment Library Holdings [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1986
Attic Odyssey - Letters Tell a Tale or Two [Winnifred Wardle Fiero]
Let the Trolleys Come! Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
The Catskill Mechanical Society [Raymond Beecher]
Let the Trolleys Come! Part Three [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Catskill’s Fence Viewers [Raymond Beecher]
An Early Land-Merchant of Coeymans [Thomas Blaisdell]
My Search for Jonathan Howard [Jack Howard Smith]
Honore Chaurand’s Friendship’s Asylum [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Vignettes on Paul Sherman (1763-1820) [Raymond Beecher]
Those Early “Relic Hunters” [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1987
Volume 11, no. 1
Deidamia Douglass Willes [Francis Dietz]
Index to the Greene County Historical Journal (1982-1986)
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
New Research Policy Announced [Raymond Beecher]
Walter and Dorothy Smith Collection Received [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 11, no. 2
Also Known as “Mill Village” at Leeds [Raymond Beecher]
Letters from the Gold Seekers [Raymond Beecher]
Litchfield Academy Attracted Greene County Girls [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 11, no. 3
The Thomas Powell in the Civil War [Raymond Beecher]
The Greenville Academy’s Second Principal [Raymond Beecher]
The Catskill to Canajoharie Ship Canal [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 11, no. 4
Indians of the Greene County Area [Edna Ingalls Adams]
A New Baltimore Sequel - Joseph Sherman (1786-1876) [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1988
Volume 12, no. 1
Searching for Pazzi Lapham [Louise Messinger]
The Dr. Lee and Martha Ann (Hallock) Ensign Memorial Collection [Raymond Beecher]
Some Notes on John D. Spoor [Raymond Beecher]
Trading Post Needs Merchandise and Volunteers [Raymond Beecher]
A New Baltimore Sequel - Joseph Sherman (1786-1876) Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 12, no. 2
Henry Green and the “Small Potato War” [Raymond Beecher]
Portrait Painting [Raymond Beecher]
Some Greene County Inventive Minds [Raymond Beecher]
The Coxsackie Missionary Society [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Recognizing Local Historians (Edith Minerly) [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 12, no. 3
The Shermans of New Baltimore - The Fourth Generation’s Augustus Sherman [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Comments Concerning the 1988 Tour of Homes [Raymond Beecher]
Memorial Trust Fund Established [Raymond Beecher]
New Gift Merchandise [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 12, no. 4
A Van Bergen Legacy [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
George F. Holdridge Gift Acknowledged [Raymond Beecher]
1989
Volume 13, no. 1
The Loonenburg Patent: Northeast [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 13, no. 2
A Right-Of-Way and Two Streaks of Rust (The White Elephant Railroad) [Raymond Beecher]
John Kennedy Brown - Steamboat Captain [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Museum Trading Post to Open Sunday, June 25 [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 13, no. 3
Pipe Organs - The King Of Instruments - In Greene County Churches [Robert H. Stackman]
John Kennedy Brown - Steamboat Captain Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 13, no. 4
Frederick Nelson DuBois: 1829-1915 [Ruth Lidnsay]
Fourth Graders at Greenville Central Investigate Local History [Raymond Beecher]
St. Patrick’s School Will Celebrate Centennial [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1990
Volume 14, no. 1
Frederick Nelson DuBois Part Two [Ruth Lindsay]
The Spoor Desk: A Lesson in History [Raymond Beecher]
A Message from the Society’s President [Robert H. Stackman]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 14, no 2.
A Kaleidoscope of Greenville Village History [Raymond Beecher]
Greene County Takes to Wheels: The Bicycle Craze [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Bronck Trading Post Opens for Season [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 14, no. 3
A Family of Inventors (The Reid Family) [T. G. Bowen]
Reminiscing with Orlie Bear [Jeanne Bear]
The Tercentenary of the Van Vechten House: 1690-1990 [Lois McCulloch]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 14, no. 4
Zadock Pratt: October 30, 1790 - April 6, 1871 [Muriel Pons]
The Wilcoxsons and Badeaus - At Home and Abroad [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1991
Volume 15, no. 1
The Vanderlyn Letter: A Mystery Resolved [Raymond Beecher]
Turn of the Century Etiquette for Female Bicyclists [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
The Trading Post has been Restocked for the New Season! [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 15, no. 2
A Brief History of Oak Hill [Raymond Beecher]
Religion in Oak Hill [Raymond Beecher]
Oak Hill and the Problems of Transportation [Raymond Beecher]
Industry in Oak Hill: The Foundries [Raymond Beecher]
Oak Hill Agriculture [Raymond Beecher]
New Anniversary Edition Released of Van Zandt’s Scholarly Book on the Famed Catskill Mountain House [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 15, no. 3
Captain Jacob Dunham of Catskill, New York [John B. Bowles]
Local Historian Honored by New York State (Justine Hommel) [Raymond Beecher]
Portrait of First GCHS President Given to Society [Harvey Durham]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
New Book Presents Far Ranging Collection of Hudson Valley Writings [Raymond Beecher]
The Journal is Seeking Manuscripts! [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 15, no. 4
Captain Jacob Dunham of Catskill, New York Part Two [John B. Bowles]
New Book by Raymond Beecher Explores History of the Township of Coxsackie
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Trustee Emeritus Ellen Smith Witbeck [1903-1991]
1992
Volume 16, no. 1
The Catskill Draw Bridge Monopoly [Raymond Beecher]
Catskill’s First Cement Plant [Raymond Beecher]
The End of an Era: Smith’s Landing Becomes Cementon [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Pieter Bronck Trading Post Prepares for 1992 Season [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 16, no. 2
The Barlow Store at Jewett Heights [Raymond Beecher]
Index to the Greene County Historical Journal (1987-1991)
Volume 16, no. 3
Noah’s Brig Totals the SWALLOW [Raymond Beecher]
The SWALLOW [Michael Hayes]
We Lost So Much in that Fire (112 William Street) [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
A Catskill Boyhood Recalls Early 20th Century Life [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 16, no. 4
Red Falls (Federal City) on the Batavia Kill [Raymond Beecher]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Flint Knapping: Rediscovering an Ancient Art [Richard Antonelli]
A Brief Overview of Indian Life in Greene County [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1993
Volume 17, no. 1
A Quest for Learning Space: The First Catskill High School Building [Robert D’Agostino]
The Academy Street Then and Now [Robert D’Agostino]
A Vision of the Onteora: a Recent Acquisition at the VML [Harvey Durham]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 17, no.2
Fertile Plains and Rocky Ridges: The Valley of the Kiskatom [Raymond Beecher]
The Lawrences of Kiskatom [Raymond Beecher]
A Kiskatom Vignette: Lake Kiskatom [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
A Kiskatom Vignette: Milling [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 17, no. 3
Athens: Southern Terminus of the Athens and Schenectady Railroad [William McCord]
Frank and Raymond Gallt, Publishers at Catskill [Janet Brandow]
Tales from the One-Room Schoolhouse [Doris West Brooks]
The Historical Journal is Seeking Manuscripts [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
The On-Ti-Ora Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution [Elizabeth Gustavson]
Volume 17, no. 4
The Bentleys of Greenville [Persis T. Elwood/Raymond Beecher]
New Publications from Black Dome Press [Staff]
Treasures of the Past in Oak Hill [Allison C. Bennett]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Education Committee Announces Upcoming Seminars [Staff]
1994
Volume 18, no. 1
The West Shore Railroad Line in Greene County: An Illustrated History [Ted Hilscher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 18, no. 2
Catskill’s Cut Glass Factory [Elsie Van Orden]
Preparing, Cutting, and Caring For Cut Glass [Elsie Van Orden]
Steamboat Modeling: Reflections of a Memorable Era [Rex Stewart]
What’s In a Name? Another Look at the Gallt Family, Publishers at Catskill [Theodore Van Loan]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
“If Only Wishes Could Come True” [Staff]
Volume 18, no. 3
At The Bench: Greene County On Trial [Robert D’Agostino]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Errata [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 18, no. 4
At The Bench: Greene County On Trial Part Two [Robert D’Agostino]
The Manly He Had To Beat: Judge Mattice [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
The Straight Party Line versus “Pasters” [Robert D’Agostino]
1995
Volume 19, no. 1
At The Bench: Greene County On Trial Part Three [Robert D’Agostino]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Lineage of the Recorder [Robert D’Agostino]
Searching for The Windham Journal [Robert D’Agostino]
Edward M. Cole: More than Just A “Country Editor” [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Surprise, New York: Erstwhile “Forest Mills” [Raymond Beecher]
Remembering the Hamlet of Result, Greene County [Oral History by Anne Foster with Lillian Weeks]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 19, no. 3
Indian Ridge School, The Leeds School, and My One-Room School, French’s Corners [Marjorie P. Coventry]
The Little Red Schoolhouse in Coeyman’s Hollow [Marlie Muller]
Catharine Schaffer Beecher: 1901-1995 [Staff]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Memorial Library sets Schedule for the Winter Season [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 19, no. 4
The Life of Elizabeth Miller Part One: Elizabeth Miller, Diarist [Francis Dietz]
1996
Volume 20, no. 1
The Life of Elizabeth Miller Part Two: Elizabeth Miller, Author and Helpmeet [Francis Dietz]
Local DAR Chapter Awards National Medal to Raymond Beecher [Staff]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 20, no. 2
Before the Era of the Backyard Pool: The Old Swimming Holes of Greene County [Gloria Bader, Dave Dively, Mary Dively, Rosemary Gebe, Sue Knott, Joanne Lounsbury, Kathy McAneny, Pan Ruzzi, JoAnn Simmons, Marylou Spencer, and Art Thorman]
Elizabeth Miller Hathaway: More Information Comes to Light: Francis Dietz]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 20, no. 3
Thomas Cole also Designed for Wood, Mortar, and Brick [Betty Larsen/Robert D’Agostino]
The Van Bergen Barn at Old Catskill [Greg Huber]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 20, no. 4
Thomas Cole’s House was Never Thomas Cole’s House [Robert D’Agostino]
Thomas Cole also Designed for Wood, Mortar, and Brick Part Two. [Betty Larsen/Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
A Summary of Computer System Enhancements and Upgrades [Staff]
1997
Volume 21, no. 1
A Brief History of the Beach Family and Its Business Enterprises [Jim Hubbard]
Portraits of the Artist and His Personality (Thomas Cole) [Robert D’Agostino]
Romanticism and America [Adapted from Roland Van Zandt]
From a Cole Lecture at the Catskill Lyceum, 1841 [Adapted from Lecture on American Scenery]
An Unknown Cole? [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 21, no. 2
New Baltimore, 1939: Hollywood on the Hudson [Clesson Bush]
First Sights on the Dayboat - A Personal Reminiscence [Jim Hubbard]
Two New Publications are Now Available [Staff]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 21, no. 3
Jeremiah Dean, the Hannacroix Miller, Part One. [Walter F. Dietz]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 21, no. 4
Jeremiah Dean, the Hannacroix Miller, Part Two. [Walter F. Dietz]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 16-20. [Staff]
1998
Volume 22, no. 1
Landslides in Catskill and the Unusually Acrobatic Sheep of Mr. Bogardus [Robert D’Agostino]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 16-20 Continued [Staff]
The Van Bergen Barn, A Final Note [Staff]
Volume 22, no. 2
Benjamin Lisk’s Three-Bay Barn [Ted Hilscher]
Volume 22, no. 3
Fontanella’s Ladies and Gents [Raymond Beecher]
“The Big One” of 1856, A Personal Reminiscence [Rufus T. Smith, Elsie Van Orden]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 22, no. 4
After the Revolution, A Personal Reminiscence [Jessie Van Vechten Vedder]
The State of New York Honors Jessie Van Vechten Vedder [Staff]
The Stone Bridge at Leeds: Still Going Strong After Battling Fire, Flood, and New York Bureaucrats [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
1999
Volume 23, no. 1
The Cauterskill Ice Company: An Ice Business in Catskill [Robert H. Wiltse]
Why a Toll Road? A Brief History of the Susquehanna Turnpike [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 23, no. 2
The Thomsons of Catskill Landing: An In-Depth Study, Part One [Raymond Beecher]
Dr. Thomson, the Tories, and the Albany Committee for the Detecting and Defeating of Conspiracies [Raymond Beecher]
In Search of the Thomson Family’s “Stone Castle” [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 23, no. 3
The Thomsons of Catskill Landing: An In-Depth Study, Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
What Were the “Three-Lives” Leases? [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 23, no. 4
The Town of New Baltimore’s Rocky Store School, Part One. [Clesson Bush]
The Cole Family of Catskill and the Bicycling Parson of Chicago [Frank C. Stoll/Raymond Beecher]
Speaking of the Future: A Brief History of Time Capsules and How to Design Your Own [Robert D’Agostino]
2000
Volume 24, no. 1
Witty Speeches and Happy Allusions: The Greene County Society in the City of New York [Raymond Beecher]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
The Town of New Baltimore’s Rocky Store School, Part Two. [Clesson Bush]
Kenneth Palmer Egbertson, June 4, 1908—January 15, 1999. [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 24, no. 2
The Legacy of Thomas Cole [Ted Hilscher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 24, no. 3
Old South Catskill [Lois Whealey]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Cornelius DuBois, His House, and His Revolutionary Celebration [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 24, no. 4
Ice Harvesting on the Hudson [Mabel Parker Smith]
Motorized Fun on the Frozen Hudson as the Twentieth Century Began [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
2001
Volume 25, no. 1
The Arcane Occupation of Scrivener [Robert D’Agostino]
July 1994: Searching DuBois Roots [Lois Whealey]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 25, no. 2
“I Never Studied Journalism… I Just Naturally Took To It.” The Life and Career of Elizabeth Boice [Jessica Pasko]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
The Typewriter Cometh [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 25, no. 3
‘Twixt Greene and Columbia: The History of Roger’s Island, Part One [Raymond Beecher]
The Age of Technology [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 25, no. 4
The Icemen Cometh: The History of Roger’s Island, Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
The Question Was: Who Really Owned Roger’s Island? [Raymond Beecher]
Catskill’s Very Own “Coney Island” [Raymond Beecher]
Fulton’s Steamboat, Thurlow Weed, and Roger’s Island [Raymond Beecher]
2002
Volume 26, no. 1
Summer Bungalows: The History of Roger’s Island, Part Three [Raymond Beecher]
The Church Bell Still Rings, Part One [Jean Bush]
Once a Navigable Backwater… Once Known as Hallenbeck Creek [Raymond Beecher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 26, no. 2
The Church Bell Still Rings, Part Two [Jean Bush]
Vite’s Epitaph [Robert Lazaaro]
Volume 26, no. 3
Portraits in Stone [Regina Daley]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 21-25 [Staff]
Volume 26, no. 4
A Brief History of Cairo, New York [Robert Uzzilia]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 21-25 Continued [Staff]
2003
Volume 27, no. 1
Consolidation and Loss: End of the Line for New Baltimore’s Schools, Part One [Clesson Bush]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 21-25 Continued [Staff]
Volume 27, no. 2
Consolidation and Loss: End of the Line for New Baltimore’s Schools, Part Two [Clesson Bush]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 21-25 Continued [Staff]
Volume 27, no. 3
Consolidation and Loss: End of the Line for New Baltimore’s Schools, Part Three [Clesson Bush]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 21-25 Continued [Staff]
Volume 27, no. 4
The Vedder Catalogue and the Mystery of the Pratt Book Collection, Part One [Muriel Pons]
Vedder Research Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Index for Quarterly Journal Volumes 21-25 Continued [Staff]
2004
Volume 28, no. 1
The Vedder Catalogue and the Mystery of the Pratt Book Collection, Part Two [Muriel Pons]
Meier and Hotaling Build a Barn, Part One [Ted Hilscher]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 28, no. 2
Meier and Hotaling Build a Barn, Part Two [Ted Hilscher]
From the Editor’s Desk: Remembering the Past [Robert D’Agostino]
The Mystery of the Pratt Book Collection, Conclusion [Muriel Pons]
Celebrating the Kaaterskill Clove… and a New Book on its History by Another Greene County Treasure [Staff]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 28, no. 3
Rocks, Rocks, and More Rocks [Norman Fuller, mistakenly attributed to John Loveland]
The Historic Stone Bridge and the County Historian [Robert D’Agostino]
Freelance Photographer Robert Mazon [staff]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 28, no. 4
Charles L. Beach and Co. - Alas their barge GLOBE! Part One [Raymond Beecher]
A Tale of Three Fire Trucks [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
2005
Volume 29, no. 1
Charles L. Beach and Co. - Alas their barge GLOBE! Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
From the Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
“Piering” Into the Past [Robert D’Agostino]
Hudson River Barges of the Mid-1800s [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 29, no. 2
The Canal to New Baltimore [Clesson Bush]
The Greenery of Greene County [Norman Fuller]
This Apple Didn’t Fall Far From Citizen Genet [Robert D’Agostino]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 29, no. 3
The Angles of Lexington, Part One [Raymond Beecher]
The Apples of Greene County [Norman Fuller]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 29, no. 4
The Angles of Lexington, Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
Seeing the Elephant: A Revolutionary War Reenactor Speaks [Art Thorman]
2006
Volume 30, no. 1
A Brief Look at Catskill’s Jewish Community and a Personal Connection to it [Steve Mann]
Kooten Tinny and the Chipmunk [Jim Hubbard]
Volume 30, no. 2
Lime Street, Yesterday and Today: How the Automobile Changed a Community [Norman Fuller]
Harvesting Hay… In The Old Days [Norman Fuller]
Vedder Library Notes [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 30, no. 3
The Old Van Vechten House: A Memory [Jim Hubbard]
A Century of Commerce at 513 Main Street, Cairo [Jean Bush]
“One Day in September 1938” A Hunting Tale Complete With A Recipe [Jim Hubbard]
Volume 30, no. 4
The 40th Anniversary of the Greene County Legislature [Oreste Vincent]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Making Maple Syrup “The Old Way” [Norman Fuller]
2007
Volume 31, no. 1
Another Walk Down Memory Lane: Catskill’s Italian Community Remembered [Steve Mann]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Harvesting Trees “The Old Way” [Norman Fuller]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 31, no. 2
Eighty Years Young, and Growing: On-Ti-Ora Chapter, NSDAR, Part One [Delia Cross/Sylvia Story Magin]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
The Old Fashioned Vegetable Garden [Norman Fuller]
A Review of Two Books on the Colonial Dutch [Robert Hallock]
Life on the Homefront in World War II [Staff]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 31, no. 3
Eighty Years Young, and Growing: On-Ti-Ora Chapter, NSDAR, Part Two [Delia Cross/Sylvia Story Magin]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Edward Philip Livingston’s Account Book, Part One [Raymond Beecher]
Hanne Kraii… Kiskatom… Schagh-Nack-Taa-Da… To-Was Scho-Her… Ga-Ha-Oos [Robert Hallock]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 31, no. 4
Edward Philip Livingston’s Account Book, Part Two [Raymond Beecher]
Personal Memories of World War Two “I Spy” [Sylvia Story Magin]
History Quiz [Staff]
2008
Volume 32, no. 1
Green Lake: Then and Now [Norman Fuller]
When The Warlords Came To Town [Sylvia Story Magin]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 32, no. 2
Up, Up, And Away: Remembering Catskill’s Airport, Part One [Sylvia Story Magin]
Memories of Catskill: The Great Depression and the War Years [Wanda Traver]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 32, no. 3
Andrew Brosnahan of Catskill, New York, Part One [Ann Healy Field]
A Slide For Titans [Stan Rose]
Up, Up, And Away: Remembering Catskill’s Airport, Part Two [Sylvia Story Magin]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 33, no. 4
Andrew Brosnahan of Catskill, New York, Part Two [Ann Healy Field]
The Vosburgh House in the Town of New Baltimore [Jean Bush]
Where’s The Vosenkill Hiding? [Robert D’Agostino]
2009
Volume 33, Special Issue
Remembering Dr. Raymond V. Beecher
Volume 33, no. 1
1909’s Hudson-Fulton Celebration and its “Greene County Day” [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 33, no. 2
Nathan Elliot, Bookseller, of Catskill, NY [Raymond Beecher]
Volume 33, no. 3
The Catskills, A Playground [Laura Lawrence, Beecher Scholarship]
The Shermans and the Ice Industry [Jenna Melewski, Beecher Scholarship]
History Quiz [Ann Hallock]
Cornell Hook and Ladder Fire Company [Britney Firstiun, Beecher Scholarship]
About the Beecher Scholarship [Staff]
Volum 33, no. 4
A Trustworthy Pair During the Age of Steam [Thomas Briggs] [Jean Bush]
2010
Volume 34, no. 1
The Eventful Times of Private John Parry, Part One [John D. Cameron]
1909’s Hudson-Fulton Celebration and its “Greene County Day” Conclusion [Robert D’Agostino]
A Very Artistic Stamp [Robert D’Agostino]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 34, no. 2
The Eventful Times of Private John Parry, Part Two [John D. Cameron]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 34, no. 3
The Eventful Times of Private John Parry, Conclusion [John D. Cameron]
History Quiz [Staff]
Found! The Burial Site of Rev. Lafayette Moore, Founder of Two Major US Pharmaceutical Companies [Donald M. Howard]
The Ice Industry in Greene County [Norman Fuller]
Vedder Library Notes [Staff]
2011
Volume 35, no. 1
The Man Who Evolved into a National Symbol: The Story of Uncle Sam, Part One [Andrew Bittner]
Vedder Library Notes [Staff]
Volume 35, no. 2
The Man Who Evolved into a National Symbol: The Story of Uncle Sam, Part Two [Andrew Bittner]
Vedder Library Notes [Staff]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 35, no. 3
Missing?!
Volume 35, no. 4
Resnick’s Buckwheat Mill [Jim Hubbard]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
2012
Volume 36, nos. 1 & 2
Uncle Daniel’s White Elephant: Daniel Drew and the Saratoga and Hudson River Railroad [Daniel W. Bigler]
Volume 36, no. 3
When Kaaterskill Falls Fell: An Inappropriate 4th of July [Jim Planck]
A Challenge for Greene County: The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 [Karla Flegl]
Memories of World War Two: Life in the Gas Station [Ann Hallock]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 36, no. 4
Norton Hill: John I.’s General Store [Maureen VerPlanck]
The Hospitals of Greene County [Wanda Traver]
Two Townships Reach Two Hundred Years [Robert Hallock]
The Colgates of East Jewett [Robert Hallock]
History Quiz [Staff]
2013
Volume 37, no. 1
Rationing: A Fair Share [Robert D’Agostino]
From The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
History Quiz [Staff]
In Woods Once Cleared [Robert D’Agostino]
Reflections: World War Two from a Child’s View [Donna Pantoliano Reiley]
Volume 37, no. 2
William H. Edwards and the Amazon [Jim Planck]
History Quiz [Staff]
Nineteenth Century Transportation in Greene County, Part One [Wanda Traver]
Volume 37, no. 3
Pieter Bronck and the “Katskil Colonies” [Jim Planck]
History Quiz [Staff]
Nineteenth Century Transportation in Greene County, Part Two [Wanda Traver]
Volume 37, no. 4
The Rothe-Gaspar Family Farm, formerly the Elias S. Palmer Farm [Jean Bush]
History Quiz [Staff]
Polio’s Little Brother: The Coxsackie Virus [Karla Flegl]
2014
Volume 38, no. 1
Conyn, Conyne, or Coneyn: A Colonial Family’s History [Harold Cornine]
Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 38, nos. 2 & 3
Before The Day Is Over: The Murder of W. Roy Hallenbeck by Worthy Tolley [Kathryn H. N. Schongar]
From the Archives: LOB 420 [Robert D’Agostino]
The Prison at Ossining and its Death House [Robert D’Agostino]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
History Quiz [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 38, no. 4
Long View Park, Rt. 61, New Baltimore: The Bronk/Armstrong Farm [Ted Hilscer/Jean Bush]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert d’Agostino]
Forest Forensics [Yankee Smith’s/Round Top] [Ian Rasweiler]
History Quiz [Robert D’Agostino]
2015
Volume 39, no. 1
Our Summertime Family [Sunnybrook Resort] [Marie Bitter]
History Quiz [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 39, no. 2
The Death and Resurrection of Prospect Park Hotel [Robert D’Agostino]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Agriculture in the Town of Athens [Norman Fuller]
History Quiz: What Happened to Wannatonka Island [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 39, no. 3
The Early History of the Prattsville House Hotel [Jean Bush]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Sybil Luddington: The Female Paul Revere [Wanda Traver/David Dorpfeld]
History Quiz: What, and Where, was Rip Van Winkle Park? [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 39, no. 4
Johannes Schuman: “The Fighting Dominie of the Catskills” [Prof. William C. Barnhart]
That Irascible Dominie Johannes Shuneman [David Dorpfeld]
History Quiz [Robert D’Agostino]
2016
Volume 40, nos. 1 & 2
From the Farm to the Doorstep [Dairy Industry] [David Dorpfeld]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
How a Home Economics Class and a Half Pint of Milk Brought Down a Dairy Co-Op [Robert D’Agostino]
Assorted Memories: Dairy Farms and Milk Deliveries [Joseph Battaglino]
A Listing of Greene County Dairies Provided by David Dorpfeld, Greene County Historian
The Value and Importance of Purebred Cattle [Robert D’Agostino]
George White’s Gayhead Gurnsey Farm [Robert D’Agostino]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 40, no. 3
Hotel Kaaterskill: The Hotel my Great-Great Grandfather Built [George M. Harding]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 40, no. 4
The Sarah Philips House, aka The Greene County Home for Aged Women [Karla Flegl]
Greene County Endures Polio [Karla Flegl]
History Quiz [Staff]
2017
Volume 41, nos. 1 & 2
The Bronck Family Edition: Celebrating the History of the Bronck Family and the 400th Birthday of Peiter Bronck [Shelby Mattice]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
Volume 41, no. 3
Brewers, Beverwijck, and Beer [Richard Muggeo]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
The Development of Greene County’s Tourism Industry [Beecher Scholarship] [Anna White]
Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch: Sportsman, Businessman, Greene County Native [David Dorpfeld]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 41, no. 4
Greene County in the Great War [Richard Muggeo]
Greene County Celebrates its Doughboys [David Dorpfeld]
2018
Volume 42, nos. 1 & 2
Jessie Van Vechten Vedder: The Known and the Unknown [Jim Planck]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
A Commitment to Service Cut Short: The Life of Carolyn Fay Hallock, who Died in Service in the First World War [Robert Hallock]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 42, no. 3
The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 [Richard Muggeo]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
The History of Boehm Farm [Hannah Boehm]
History Quiz [Staff]
Volume 42, no. 4
The Roberts Hill Family on Roberts Hill Road, New Baltimore, NY [Jean Bush]
The Editor’s Desk [Robert D’Agostino]
The Jefferson Rural Cemetery: Its Significance and Most Important Inhabitants [Arley Liberti, Beecher Scholarship]