Events
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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...
A shocking story from 1940!
In this season of thunderstorms, we pass along this story of two boys – and a couple of men – who survived a lightning strike in Arkville in 1940. Ed Stewart sent this clipping from the Catskill Mountain News of July 12 that year – his father was one of the boys...
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...
HSM is open Monday
If you couldn’t come to our Open House last weekend, you have another chance to see The Great Outdoors and experience some of it with a stroll around the pond this coming Monday, May 28 from Noon to 3 p.m. See you there!HSM OPEN HOUSE PHOTO GALLERYClick for a larger...
“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...
Celebrate The Great Outdoors!
Your presence is requested Saturday, May 19 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Open House at our new home (778 Cemetery Rd., Margaretville). We’ll have food and door prizes, a wonderful raffle for an original painting by Michael Fauerbach, and an exhibit, “The Great Outdoors,” a...
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....
Many hands . . .
. . . make light work, and indeed it was true April 28 when several HSM board members and supporters showed up at our new hall to help reorganize and spruce the place up in preparation for our Open House May 19. Earlier, Nick Verni had supplied the equipment, and his...
Diner detective
Bowls Hotel, c. 1920s-30s, Postcard courtesy Roger DavisMichael Engle, who maintains a site about classic diners at www.nydiners.com, wrote to ask if we knew of any photos of a diner that was incorporated into Bowl’s (Kelly’s) Hotel on Main Street in Margaretville. A...