Events
HSM CALENDAR 2022
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...
Genealogy Roundtables
Mark your calendar for two Genealogy Roundtables happening Saturdays, March 24 and April 14 from 10 a.m. to Noon at Fairview Library Community Room, Walnut St., Margaretville. Sally Elliott Scrimshaw will talk about Elliott, Squires, Long and related families on March...
The Irish of Clovesville
There is a small burial ground in Clovesville that harbors a forgotten immigrant history of our area. Known locally as the “Irish” or “Catholic” cemetery, it is located across Old Route 28 from the larger Clovesville Cemetery. Whether those interred wound up there by...