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Gilboa Historical Society Quarterly was published in the spring, summer, fall, and winter from 2007 through the summer of 2017. The archives below make all of them accessible for reading online or downloading and archiving at home. This is a free service of the GHS.

Upon termination of the Quarterlies, the society publishes a newsletter of current activities that are also available at this site.

• GHS Newsletter, Autumn 2021
  Letter from the President
  GHS Committees

  Facility Maintenance Endowment
  Gilboa Historical Society Press
  GHS’s Annual Meeting
  GHS Board of Directors
  Catskill Tri-County Historical Views Begins 4th Year
  From Our Archives:  Gilboa-Conesville Central Rural School Second Annual Announcement


• Gilboa Historical Society Newsletter, Spring 2018
• GHS Quarterly 18.2 Summer 2016 —

  Hymnals and Songbooks
  John Hoagland Revolutionary War Patriot by Mark Sullivan
  175 Years of Prattsville History
  George C. Shaler—Inventor, Entrepreneur, Politician  by Amy Sternstein
  Gilboa Military Personnel by LaVerne Hubbard
  Two Servicemen Born in Gilboa Village Before the Town was Formed
  Patent Medicines, Boilerplates, and Gilboa’s Monitor  by Lee Hudson
  Pe-ru-na! by Lee Hudson
  New York State Assembly on a Petition to Create Harrison County
  New York State Assembly Disposition of a Petition to Create Harrison County
  HarrisonCountyNY.org, and NorthernCatskillsHistory.com by Gerry Stoner.

• GHS Quarterly 18.1 Spring 2016 —

  The Impact of Water in the Gilboa Valley
  Why Gilboa? A Bus Tour Around the Schoharie Reservoir
  Gilboa Military Service Personnel by LaVerne Hubbard
  Women Who Paved the Way by Karen Cuccinello
  Thomas Colby, A biographical Sketch.

• GHS Quarterly 17.4 Winter 2015 —
  Samuel Bliss, Jr. by Mark Sullivan
  Gilboa Military Personnel by LaVerne Hubbard
  Janette Reynolds Named New Town of Gilboa Historian
  Public Water Supply in Gilboa by Lee Hudson
  The Passing of the Bucket by Charles D. Stevens
  Gilboa Museum by Kristen Wyckoff
  Gilboa Creamery Equipment by Amy Sternstein
  The Gilboa Dam 1915–2006 by Gerry Stoner
  The DEP Families Around Gilboa by Wilma Jones
  Water System Irregularities by Anthony DePalma
  Gilboa Dam for the 21st Century by Gerry Stoner
  Project of the Year Award for the Gilboa Dam
  Reservoir Boating Program
• GHS Quarterly 17.3 Fall 2015 —
  Elmer Hubbard, Inventor by Amy Sternstein

  A Walking Tour of the Residences on Church Hill by Gerry Stoner and Lee Hudson (with stops at Gilboa Public School, The School in the Village by Philander Stevens, Reformed Dutch Church, Reformed Dutch Church Parsonage, Jennie Coleman, M. Harter Brandow, Luther R. Ellis, Buckingham Estate, Isaac Cronk Estate, Addison Hagadorn, Ezra Brown, Emma C. Davis, Helen I. Mackey, William H. Long, Jason B. Cronk, William and Frances Gilbert, Albert Layman, A. S. Thomas, Jennie Brown, Ward B. Mackey, Frank Mattice, Imer C. Wyckoff
  One of Gilboa’s Own Heroes by Chloe Snyder
  Gilboa Military Personnel by LaVerne Hubbard.

• GHS Quarterly 17.2 Summer 2015 —

  GHS Trip to Gould Memorial Reformed Church
  Corporal William Barringer by Mark Sullivan
  Roads of Gilboa, 1917 and 2015 by Gerry Stoner
  A Walking Tour of North from the Business District by Gerry Stoner and Lee Hudson
  Where Old Meets New: Foote Farm by Bobbi Foote Goldman and Bob Foote
  Schoharie County and Farm Cadet Program by Schenectady Gazette
  Summertime in South Gilboa by Eugene Konkoski 
  How I Worked on the Farm by Averil Mullenix
  Gilboa Honor Roll by LaVerne Hubbard.

• GHS Quarterly 17.1 Spring 2015 —
  Catskill Home by Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino 
  Walking Tour along Main Street and South from Gilboa Village, 1917 by Gerry Stoner & Lee Hudson
  The Hippodrome by Lee Hudson
  Gilboa Military Service Personnel by LaVerne Hubbard.
• GHS Quarterly 16.4 Winter 2014 —
  Gilboa Monitor Online! by Lee Hudson
  Status of Gilboa Monitor Digitization by Gerry Stoner
  Growing up in South Gilboa by Daisy De Silva
  Models of Farm Equipment by Gerry Stoner
  Gilboa Military Service by LaVerne Hubbard
  Newcomb Snowplow and Roller Company by Marty Podskoch and Sam Glanzman
  Gilboa During the Construction of the Dam by Janette Reynolds
  Gilboa’s View of Grand Gorge by Anthony and Lynette Liberatore
  Board of Water Supply Police by Tim Sauveur.
• GHS Quarterly 16.3 Fall 2014 —
  Hints To Be Remembered, from The Circle of Useful Knowledge (1885)
  Fire at the Rexmere Hotel by Don VanEtten
  Fire in the 19th Century by Gerry Stoner
  What Is a Sears Home?
  All That Remained of Gilboa Village Destroyed by Fire
  James Stewart: Revolutionary War Veteran
  The Meat on Your Table; Dinner Meat and Greet by Russell W. Warnick
  Kill It, Cook It, Eat It by Gerry Hubbard
  On Location: Silent Movies in Gilboa by Lee Hudson
  Lt. Charles T. Hunter, Conesville by Peter Lindemann
  Charles T. Hunter as Seen by Different Sources
  Gilboa Military Service Personnel by LaVerne Hubbard
  John Isaac Mattice Cemetery by Bee Mattice.
• GHS Quarterly 16.2  Summer 2014 —
  Stephen Churchill; Medical Education and Practice in the 19th Century
  Steps Leading Up to the Rexmere by Stephen Churchill
  The Rexmere—The Success of a Major Catskill Hotel
  Priests Buy the Rexmere by the Sunday Press
  The Rexmere Hotel as a Redemptorist Retreat by Fr. Jack Kennington, CSSR
  Catskill Mountain Educational Center, 1968 by the Otsego Farmer
  BOCES Offices to Vacate Cyr Center
  Rexmere Hotel for Sale
  Rexmere Hotel/Cyr Center
  I Recall the Stevens Homestead by Joan Hess Mullen
  A Great Work Projected (1896) by the New York Times
  Farm Bureau (1929) by the Mirror-Recorder
  Cattle Statistics for 1929
  Cattle Drive on Shew Hollow Road by Betty Matalavage
  Drummer Boys Orrin B. Curtis Letters pt. III
  Route of Sherman and Orrin Curtis on Modern Map
  A Drum, January 1, 1887.
• GHS Quarterly 16.1 Spring 2014 —
  The Status of Forks-in-the-Road Schoolhouse;
  Free Public Secular Education by Gerry Stoner;
  Fred Murphy at the Forks-in-the-Road Schoolhouse;
  Managing a One-Room School house by Katharine Harrington and Mildred L. Bailey;
  Log Schoolhouses by John H. Salisbury, Superintendent of Common Schools;
  Who Attended Forks-in-the-Road? by Gerry Stoner;
  Today’s Students in Forks-in-the-Road by Carol Barber;
  A Future for Forks-in-the-Road, by Gerry Stoner;
  War in Our Hills by Beatrice Mattice;
  A Revolutionary Soldier by Richard Lewis;
  The Stevens Homestead by Bee Mattice;
  Postcards to Treasure by Jake Brouwer;
  Orrin Curtis’ World in 1863;
  The 134th N.Y.S.V. at Gettysburg;
  Letters of Orrin Curtis Pt II;
  Desertion during the Civil War;
  Proclamation.
• GHS Quarterly 15.4 Winter 2013 —
  Ice Cutting at Grandpa’s by Mary Mace Chichester;
  Churchill Hall Dairy’s Butter Stamp;
  The Army of the Potomac;
  Schoharie Boys Join the Army of the Potomac;
  NY 134th Infantry;
  Letters of Orrin B. Curtis October 1862–March 1865;
  Soldier’s Pocket-Bible;
  Nomenclature of Handguns;
  Development of Revolving Rifles;
  Pistols of the 19th Century from Colt by Cordy Rich;
  Jack Hays, Texas Ranger;
  Records from the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs;
  Geodetic Reference Marks & Bilby Towers by Ruth White;
  Survey of the Coast;
  Flood Insurance and Topographic Maps;
  A Trip to Saratoga Springs, 1833 by Charles D. Griffen;
  Summerset House by Ursula Best (?) and an unknown guest;
  Precedents on the Blue Moon by Gerry Stoner;
  Steam Engines and Larches.
• GHS Quarterly 15.3 Fall 2013—
  George Todd, Local Cauliflower Farmer Goes International by Claude Cook;
  My Dad, George Todd  by George Todd Jr.;
  Broome Center Creamery Company by Mildred Bailey;
  Gilboa Creamery Destroyed by Fire, 5/8/2005 news article;
  Rural Electrification in the Catskills by Millie Faulkner;
  Electricity Comes to Shew Hollow by Betty Matalavage;
  Car Built by a Gilboan;
  Air Spotters of WWII by Bob Grigg;
  Jefferson Observation Post;
  1856 Harvest in Gilboa by Socrates Hubbard;
  Hay Ride or Transportation?;
  Early Barns in the Catskills by Eric Dahlberg;
  The History of an Early Barn by Beatrice Mattice;
  Deconstruction of an English Barn by Eric Dahlberg;
  Cyclone at Mackey’s Corners, 1882 news article;
  South Gilboa Milk Delivery.
• GHS Quarterly 15.2 Summer 2013 —
  The Charcoal Burner by Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.;
  Timberland Corporation by C. LaVerne Hubbard;
  Gilboa Museum 2013 by Kristen Wyckoff;
  Gilboa Forest:One of America’s Top Geo-Sites by Peter Fox;
  Firearms Nomenclature;
  Guns in the Catskills in the First Half of the 19th Century by Cordy Rich;
  Air Guns and Lewis and Clark by William R. Barbour;
  Military Weapons of the Civil War by Cordy Rich;
  Toy Guns by Cordy Rich;
  Hickory and Pine by Karen Cuccinello.
• GHS Quarterly 15.1 Spring 2013 — Nathan Simon by Julia Smith;
  The Peddler: The Ballad of Nate Simon by Gerry Hubbard;
  President Lincoln’s Proposed Thirteenth Amendment Perpetuating Slavery;
  New Online Resources: NYS Census of 1855, Topo Maps;
  Prospect Farms by Claude and Norma Cook;
  Prospect Farms Barn Leveled by Fire, 1/31/68 Mirror Recorder;
  The Gilboa Museum Library  by Karen Cuccinello;
  Construction of the Gilboa Dam by Gerry Stoner;
  Fox Creek Facts & Fancies by Esther N. Mackey;
  New Online Resources;
  How Do I Get from South Gilboa to the Schoharie Creek?  by Gerry Stoner.
• GHS Quarterly 14.4 Winter 2012 — 
  Sources for GHS Newsletter;
  Fred Murphy’s Success Story, Mirror Recorder;
  Notes from the Gilboa Monitor;
  Helen Wyckoff Carson by Kristen V H Wyckoff;
  Griffin Collection: 1841–1879 Marriage & Death Records;
  Weather Delays Caprice of the Mountains, Gilboa Monitor;
  Murders & Funky Stuff by Karen Cuccinello;
  Hurricane Irene, Prattsville, New York by Sarah Armlin;
  The Blenheim Bridge by Hannah Laraway;
  From Mountain Men to Ragmen and Other Peddlers;
  Paige Croswell Stilwell, Sr. by Beatrice Mattice;
  Flood Relief Organizations;
  Nate Simon, Peddler by Fred LeBrun, Times Union;
  Buses in Gilboa (SCPT);
  A Little History about Coby Tech, diary of Frances Hubbard;
  Windows through Time by Robert Titus;
  The Lost Fossils of Gilboa  by Kristen Wyckoff;
  Doctor Duncan Leonard Files at the C. S. Best House and Medical Exhibit;
  Controlling the Schoharie Creek, 1921–1926;
  Medallions on the Gate House;
  They Lived in These Hills: Darius & Stephen Hitchcock, Gene Hallock, Catherine Mattice;
  Memories of Yesteryear by Clifford Hayes;
  Farmers’ Picnics at Broome Center.
• GHS Quarterly 14.3 Fall 2012 —
  Getting onto the Schoharie Reservoir by Yolanda Trappenburg;
  Kayaking Around the Reservoir by Yolanda Trappenburg; 
  Newell Miller’s Life Leading Up to the Farm by Rose Miller Mace;
  Building the Large Barn by Rose Miller Mace;
  Hand-Powered Mortiser; 
  Stryker Road Learning Center by LaVerne Hubbard;
  The Impact Music Had on Me While Growing Up on Hubbard Hill by Susan Ciacci;
  Please God, Stop the Rain by Josh Dean;
  They Lived in These Hills — Gershom Stevens, Hornin’, or Horn In by Gerry Hubbard;
  Rebirth—Stamford Village Library History Room by Karen Cuccinello;
  The Construction of the Berm by Gerry Stoner.
• GHS Quarterly 14.2 Summer 2012 —
  Advertisers in Gilboa Monitor, January 3, 1884;
  Susquehanna Turnpike by Beatrice Mattice;
  Mackey Picnic, Aug 26,1936 by Mildred Bouck;
  Mackey Picnic in the late 1930s and 1940s by Franklin Clapper;
  Photos of Mackey Picnic, 1954 by Beatrice Mattice;
  Thimble Club by Maude Haskin;
  Blenheim Ridge versus Blenheim Hill;
  The New Gilboa Forest by Robert and Johanna Titus;
  A Wander into Wonder by Peter C. Fox;
  Gilboa Quarries by Gerry Stoner;
  Hornings and Shivarees;
  Hot Rocks, Alphonse Rocco, 12/31/46–1/7/47;
  They Lived in These Hills — Gardens at the Hubbards, the Kingsleys, Fred Van Aken;
  Gilboa: Name adapted from a Biblical Mountain.
• GHS Quarterly 14.1 Spring 2012 —
  My Old House by Terri Lahti;
  The Mackey General Store by Franklin C. Clapper;
  The Farmer’s Picnic in Mackey;
  Remember When? by Joan Hess Mullen;
  Helen Krieger’s WW II Scrapbook by Jim Connington;
  Farms of Bruce Buell and David Ellerson by Andy Buell;
  Thomas and Bridget McCabe of South Gilboa by Ed McCabe;
  A Useful Genealogical Source by Gerry Stoner;
  They Lived in These Hills — Charlie Case, “Wild Bill” Schermerhorn, Clifton Hubbard;
  The Comfort of Home: John Burroughs of Roxbury  by Diane Galusha;
  My Association with John Burroughs by Linda VanAller Hernick;
  Additional Shandaken Tunnel Pictures, from Karen Murphy and the DEP Archives;
  Selection and Preparation of the Dam Site.
• GHS Quarterly 13.4 Winter 2011 — A 2011 Tour of Mackey in the 1930s and ’40s by Franklin Clapper;
  They Lived in These Hills — Clifton Hubbard, Franklin Hess, Vernon Pickett, Case and Griffin Families;
  The Irish Come to Gilboa by Beatrice Mattice;
  The Rifle of Timothy Murphy — A Material Contributor to the Victory at Saratoga by Carle J. Kopecky;
  Schoharie Valley Floods by Chester G. Zimmer;
  Blenheim Covered Bridge, 1855–2011 by Norma Christie Coney;
  Blenheim Museum: Past, Present, and Future by Norma Christie Coney;
  Sheep and Goats by Ruth Welch White; 
  Bridge School Tidbits;
  Shandaken Tunnel Gate House by the Board of Water Supply.
• GHS Newsletter 13.3  Fall 2011—
  The Shandaken Tunnel, from the Board of Water Supply annual reports
  Shandaken Tunnel officially inspected by a cavalcade of Ford motorcars, from Stamford’s Mirror Recorder
  “Driving the Red Ball Express” by Art VanAken;
  “They Lived in These Hills” by Richard Lewis and the Rod and Gun Club, Wally Van Houten, George C. Cook, and Gilboan Democrats;
  “A 1973 Interview with Paul Stryker” by Beatrice Mattice;
  “Carlisle Co-Historians” by Jacqueline Turnquist
  “Early Music in Our Churches” by Beatrice Mattice
  Mayham Rocks Part I: The Memorial Stone
  Mayham Rocks Part II: The Dating Rock”
  A Local Mystery Found in Our Gould’s History” by Bill Adams.
   
• GHS Quarterly 13.2 Summer 2011 —
  “Civil War: Gilboa & Conesville Go to War” by Beatrice Mattice
  “Military Records from the Civil War” by Beatrice Mattice
  “Walking Tours & Village Histories” by Trish and Chuck D’Imperio
  “Marvin Simonson at 77” by Rube Rustic
  “Post Office Mural Recalls an Era” by Ray Byrne
  “Old Time Fiddlin’ of Hilton Kelly
  Mine Hill
  “Music in the Hops Era” by Rena Kosersky
  “Music in Our Past” by Gerry Stoner
  “Radiogram from Vera” by Nick Juried

  “They Lived in These Hills” by The Clappers of Mackey and The Girls of Broome Center.

• GHS Newsletter 13.1 Spring 2011
  Local History in the Schools;
  “George Decker”, by Kevin Berner;
  “Genealogical Notes,” by Kevin Berner;
  “Historical Research in the Middleburgh Public Library”, by Steve LaMont;
  “Federal Census of 1850”, by Gerry Stoner;
  “Smiths: Workers in Metal”, by Gerry Stoner;
  “Cows and Chickens,” by Carol Clement;
  American Tools of 1815, about Eric Sloane;
  “They Lived in These Hills” by the Nickersons and Newell and Goldie Miller;
  “Tinseltown, NY”, by Janette Reynolds:
  “Histories of Schoharie County”, by Roscoe (History of Schoharie County) and Simms (History of Schoharie County and Border Wars);
  1914 Hops Crop in Schoharie County, Utica Herald Dispatch;
  
  “Jeremiah Reed’s Letters from the Civil War,” by Robert Morrissey;
  “Churchill Hall”, by Emily Shultes;

  “When Niagara Falls Stood Still,” by snopes.com.

•  GHS Newsletter 12.4 Winter 2010
  – Brittany Brand: “Zadock Pratt and the Pratt Museum”
  Nicole Burgher: “Frozen In Time: Forks in the Road School House”
  Joe Cooper: “Vintage Baseball”
  Ryan Hayes: “Half-Way Home: The Tom and Grace Becker Homestead”

  Brandy Rowe: “Spirits of The Bull’s Head Inn.”

   
• GHS Newsletter 12.3 Fall 2010 —
  “The Pinochle Club” by Joan Hess Mullen;
  “65 Steps” by Gerry Stoner;
  “Trail Building Basics” by Clarence Putnam;
  “The Fourth of July on Flat Creek: A Singular Event” by Janette Reynolds;
  “Soil and Water Conservation” by Brenda Weaver;
  “They Lived in These Hills” by Gerry Stoner”;
  “Letters from The Front: To Mother, Father, and Daniel Reed” by Robert Morrissey;
  “Jeremiah Reed” by Scott Reed;
  “Turkey Shoots: A Celebration of Fall” by Carlton Lewis;
  “Local History: Through the Recollections of Others” by Gerry Stoner;
  “Life in the Coast Guard” by Edward Belinski.
   
• GHS Newsletter 12.2 Summer 2010 —
  “Archaeology – Why Here, Why Now?” by Nina M. Versaggi
  “A Remembrance of My Parents: John and Anna Juried” by Nick Juried
  “Cauliflower in the Catskills” by Gerry Stoner
  Culture and Use of Cauliflower, Reprinted from The Farmer’s Every-day Book, 1950
  The Catskill’s Cauliflower Boom, Reprinted from When Cauliflower Was King, 2004
  “Work In The Cauliflower Fields” by Bill Snyder
  “Tale of The Yet-To-Be-Named Trails: Or Are They To Be the No-Name Trails?” by Velga Kundzins-Tan
  “Recollections After 1950: Life in the Hills Remembered – Part 5” by Maude Bailey Haskin
  “Letters from The Front: To Mother, Father, and Daniel Reed” by Robert Morrissey
  “Cauliflower Farm Closing Signals End of an Era” by Tom Ryan, Stamford Mirror Recorder, 1978
  “Not a Good Season For Local Maple Producers” by Rosie Cunningham
  “Folklore and Folknames of Schoharie County” by Gerry Stoner

  “Copyright Issues” by Gerry Stoner.

• GHS Newsletter 12.1 Spring 2010 —
  “The Great Flood” by Ryan Hayes;
  “The Three P’s of Genealogy: Persistence, Patience and Pennies (sometimes lots of pennies)”, by Karen Cuccinello;
  “Sugaring in the Northern Catskills” by Charlie Buck;
  “Delivering The Promise: The New Bridge on State Route 30 over Minekill Falls” by the New York State Department of Transportation;
  “Volunteering on the Long Path Hiking Trail” by Clarence Putnam;
  “Letters from The Front: To Mother, Father, and Daniel Reed” by Robert Morrissey;
  “Recollections of the 1940s: Wartime on the Home Front” by Maude Bailey Haskin;
  “Spinning and Weaving in Our Hills” by Maude Bailey Haskin;
  “Days of Burlap” by Ruth Hallock, September 4th 1980, reprinted in the Gilboa Sesquicentennial Booklet;
  “I Don’t Know Enough History: Types of Resources” by Gerry Stoner;
  “The Hill Folk of Schoharie County” by Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner;

  “The Mayham Memorial Stone Into Place: South Gilboa near Stamford, NY” by Teena (Mayham) Schroeder.

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  GHS Newsletter 11-3 Fall 2010

• GHS Newsletter 11-2 Summer 2009
• GHS Newsletter 11-1  Spring 2009
• GHS Newsletter 10-3 Fall 2008
• GHS Newsletter 10-2 Summer 2008
• GHS Newsletter 10-1  Spring 2008
• GHS Newsletter 9-3 Fall 2007
• GHS Newsletter 9-2 Summer 2007
• GHS Newsletter 9-1  Spring 2007
• GHS Newsletter 8-2 Summer 2006

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