GHS Newsletter 12.2 Summer 2010

Volume 12.2 Summer 2010 has articles on Nick Juried’s recollections of his family buying a farm in Gilboa in the early 1940s; four articles on the importance of cauliflower to the agriculture of the area by the 1850 Farmer’s Every-day Book, Diane Galusha, Bill Snyder, and a reprinted “obituary” for cauliflower from the 1978 Mirror Recorder; the yet-to-be-named trails on the mountaintops of Gilboa, Jefferson, Stamford, and Harpersfield by Velga Kundzins-Tan; Maude Haskin’s recollections from the 50s; another of the letters that Jeremiah and David Reed wrote home from the Civil War [ Note: we have heard from the family and hope to have more on the families of these Union soldiers in future newsletters]); folklore and folknames of Gilboa and Conesville; copyright issues for people dealing in local issues; a celebration of the new Juried Memorial Barn (an addition to our Gilboa Museum to house agricultural history); and an overview of the archeological digs conducted by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

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