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Vendors sought for Cauliflower Festival
The Ninth Annual Margaretville Cauliflower Festival will be held rain or shine Saturday, Sept. 29 from 10 to 4 in the Village Park, Margaretville. Space is still available for vendors, community organizations and artisans. Visit www.cauliflowerfestival.com to find forms, or call 845-586-3300 for information. Artists who prefer to be in the large tent must reserve [...]
CMNews, cemetery listing add to historic resources
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM) is happy to announce that a new database of headstone inscriptions from the Margaretville Village Cemetery, and five more years of vintage Catskill Mountain News have been posted online. Web users can find the cemetery listing and associated map at the Delaware County Genealogy and History [...]
HSM seeks items for Flea Market table
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM) will have a table at the Margaretville Hospital Auxiliary Antique and Flea Market August 4 at Margaretville Village Park. Proceeds from the table will go towards renovations of the HSM hall. HSM needs a little help from our friends to make this fundraising effort successful. If [...]
Historic Margaretville subject of slide show
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM) will host a slide show of historic images of Margaretville Wednesday, July 25 at 7 p.m. at the HSM hall, 778 Cemetery Road, Margaretville. Admission is $2; HSM members get in free. Halcottsville post card collector Lynda Stratton and daughter Kathy Roberts have organized a program [...]
Living History Cemetery Tour This Saturday
Ten area residents will portray people from Middletown’s past in a “Living History Tour of Margaretville Cemetery” to be held Saturday, June 30 by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM). Rain date is July 1. Margaretville Cemetery is located on Cemetery Road, one block off upper Main Street (NYS Route 30). This [...]
Cast named for Cemetery Tour
Ten area residents will portray people from Middletown’s past in an unusual fundraising event to be held Saturday, June 30 by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM). In the “Living History Tour of Margaretville Cemetery,” costumed portrayers will bring to life artists and farmers, lawyers and raftsmen, doctors and editors who now [...]
Post Card Show June 16
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM) will host a Vintage Post Card and Ephemera Show and Sale Sat., June 16 from 10 to 3 at the HSM hall, 778 Cemetery Road, Margaretville. Admission is $3; HSM members get in free. Several vendors will offer old post cards, documents, maps, advertisements, flyers and [...]
“The Great Outdoors” at Historical Society Open House
MARGARETVILLE – Middletown residents and visitors have long had a love-hate relationship with the Catskills environment: While beautiful and generous in its abundance, its stony ground, weather extremes and flood-prone waterways can be unforgiving. In “The Great Outdoors,” an exhibit mounted by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM), drudgery, damage and disappointment [...]
More old news
The Historical Society of the Town of Middletown (HSM) is happy to announce that five more years of vintage Catskill Mountain News have been posted online. Web users can now search and browse the Margaretville-based newspaper from July 13, 1902 to April 28, 1961. Visit http://history.catskill.net to find this treasure trove of history, made possible [...]
1950s CMNews now online
HSM is pleased to report that the latest batch of Catskill Mountain News microfilm has been scanned and posted online. They run from Sept. 2, 1949 through Jan. 28, 1955. What a wealth of history these newspapers contain! And they’re searchable! http://history.catskill.net Phase 1 of this project involved microfilming and digitizing bound volumes of the CMN [...]