NORTHERNCATSKILLSHISTORY.COM
Bringing Communities Together with a Common Heritage
The goal of the northerncatskillshistory.com web site is to promote interest, documentation, and publication of local history in the Northern Catskills, in cooperation with individuals, genealogical and historical societies, area museums, and local and county historians.
Success of the web site will be measured by increased activities pertaining to local history in the Northern Catskills; improved attendance at talks and programs on local history; increased membership in local historical societies; and a broader cadre of people documenting local history.
Resources at northerncatskillshistory.com
- Monthly articles on the local history of the Northern Catskills contributed by writers throughout the area
- Monthly articles on techniques of documentation and the writing of local history
- Electronic publication of longer documents as well as individual articles
- Audio files of most articles and documents for use as podcasts or for the visually impaired
- Audio files of other interviews and programs of special interest
- Calendar of local history activities throughout the Northern Catskills from all of our historical societies
Uses of free web site for nonprofit use
Individuals can freely download any northerncatskillshistory.com information for personal use
- Individual articles for personal interest or research
- Audio files for an MP3 reader for listening in your car
- Articles of interest to your family and friends
- Please include credit to the author and the web site should you use an article within a personal publication
Nonprofit organizations can download any northerncatskillshistory.com information for:
- Historical societies can download articles for use in their own newsletters, adding reminders on upcoming meetings or activities, and mailing them to the membership. No longer does one need to wonder "Why doesn't our historical society have a newsletter on our local history?" Please include credit to the author and contributing historical society of the article and this web site for any republication of northerncatskillshistory.com materials.
- Town historians or historical societies can hold classes on documenting local history based on practical techniques. These lessons are being created now and will be on the web site as the various authors get them to us. Please include credit to the author and contributing historical society of the article and this web site for any republication of northerncatskillshistory.com materials.
- Sponsors of programs using speakers may refer to a directory of speakers used by other organizations.
Please let us know what articles were of interest to you, and how you may have used them, and naturally, also let us know what other resources are needed by historians and historical societies in the Northern Catskills.
What is an electronic subscription?
We will send out an email twice a month of upcoming events on local history and a brief description of new articles and features of this web site. We will try to keep these emails short, but it will be a good way to hear about events outside your immediate area.
Please tell us of venues that you enjoy so we can share them with others. For instance, in the Gilboa area, I personally enjoy speakers at the area's historical society meetings, speakers at Hobart's Book Village and the Hunter Bookstore, etc. We have driven as far as Albany, Schoharie, and Andes for presentations, and I am sure others might share this passion. Let me know your favorites so we can all get out and support these events.
We make an effort to keep the files small, but electronic subscription is not ideal if you are limited to a dial-up Internet connection. However, public libraries have high-speed Internet so you can read it at the library, or download files onto a thumb drive to bring to your own computer and printer.
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