Franklin Clapper’s recollections
of the people around Mackey has stoked the memory of others: Terri Scutt
Lahti’s
” My Old House ” on Maybie Road, Franklin’s further recollections on
“The Mackey General Store,” Andy Buell’s experience with the farms of
Bruce Buell and David Ellerson, and Chauncey Dent’s program from the
Farmer ’s Picnic of 1949. We also offer Joan Hess Mullen thoughts in
“Remember When?” and Helen Krieger
’
s Scrapbook from around World War II. In response to Bee Mattice’s
research on the Irrish coming to Gilboa in the last issue, Ed McCabe
tells of
“Thomas and Bridget McCabe of South Gilboa.” “They Lived in These Hills”
talks of Charlie Case, “Wild Bill ” Schermerhorn, and Clifton Hubbard;
and we have 2 articles on John Burroughs: Diane Galusha’s “The Comfort
of Home: John Burroughs of Roxbury” and Linda VanAller Herenick’s “My
Association with John Burroughs.” Our series of articles on the Gilboa
Reservoir continues with “Additional Shandaken Tunnel Pictures, from
Karen Murphy and the DEP Archives” and “Selection and Preparation of the
Dam Site
”
from the DEP Annual Reports.
This
link
is to a number of free searchable.pdf volumes of interest to the Gilboa-Conesville area, including The Bureau of Water Supply’sAnnual Reports from 1907 through 1927; Warner’s
Military Records of Schoharie County Veterans of Four Wars, Simm’sHistory of Schoharie County and Border Wars of
New York (1845); Roscoe’sHistory of Schoharie County, NY 1713-1882; and White’sThe Catskill Water Supply of New York City (1913).