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HISTORICAL  REVIEW
1990-1999 CONTENTS

Copyright 2001, Lester E. Hendrix, All Rights Reserved
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MISCELLANEOUS
Apple Trees and Their Fruit  — And other local products
    Mary James Rigley — Fall 1990, 28
Schoharie County Seal — Fall 1992, 2
Bad Floods Are Nothing New — News accounts from 1839 to 1903
    Chester C. Zimmer — Fall 1996, 2

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Indian Trail and Albany-Schoharie Road — Chester G. Zimmer — Spring 1994, 6
Folk Art of New York — Four Schoharie objects in exhibit
    Starlyn D'Angelo — Fall 1999, 18-B
First Schools in the Schoharie Valley — Flora I. King — Spring 1998, 35
Tales of the Indian Stone Heap — Kenneth Jones — Fall 1999, 22

AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Two of the Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in County
    Stevens at Gilboa, Machin at Carlisle — Spring 1998, 18
Traits of the Revolution — Exploits of W. Bouck and E. Vrooman
    Mark Sullivan — Fall 1998, 18
Conversations with Blacksnake, Seneca War Chief
    Mark Sullivan — Spring 1993, 9
Obituaries of Revolutionary War Veterans — Mark Sullivan — Fall 1997, 26
The Story of Fort Dubois — Jeff O'Connor — Spring 1999, 2

NINETEENTH CENTURY
Schoharie County in 1825: Talk of Hermits, Canals, Elections
    A traveler's journal  — Mark Sullivan — Spring 1999, 35
Building the Schoharie and Albany Plank Road in 1850
    Chester G. Zimmer — Fall 1993, 9
Albany, Helderberg & Schoharie Electric Railroad  — Planned but Never Built
    Chester G. Zimmer — Fall 1992, 3
Railroading in Schoharie Valley — Edward A. Hagan — Spring 1992, 2
Postage Stamps  — From an 1890 Jefferson Courier— Fall 1992, 13
Butter Award Given Roscoe Bailey of South Jefferson — Spring 1991, 31

CIVIL WAR
Schoharie County's Civil War Sailors Remembered  — Fall 1993, 23
A Guernsey Civil War — Grandfather Fought in 134th
    Ruth Guernsey Sundberg — Spring 1999, 30
Schoharie at Gettysburg  — George W. Conklin — Fall 1997, 2
Schoharie Blacks in the Civil War — John Daniels — Spring 1998, 7

TWENTIETH CENTURY
Report of the Archeology and Historic Structures Committee
    Harold Zoch — Spring 1994, 34
Record of the Peacemakers — Activities of Pacifist Group
    John Daniels — Fall 1998, 33 and Spring 1999, 20
What Happened to Power Plant 2? — Was Planned for Schoharie Valley
    Mercedes Culick — Spring 1997, 23
Trail of Memories— Long Path and Other Valley Trails
    Vincent Schaeffer — Spring 1997, 15
Ten Years Ago — Thruway Bridge Collapsed in Flood
    Mercedes Culick — Spring 1997, 20
Signs Bring Back Sense of History — Historical Markers, New and Old
    Jim Poole — Fall, 1999, 2
Fire Towers of Schoharie County  — Wallace C. Van Houten — Spring 1998, 25
SCHS Archeology & Historic Properties Committee Reports
    Spring 1995, 32 & Fall, 1996, 35
Cemetery Search — SCHS Team Is Afield  — Harold Zoch — Fall, 1997, 34
Looking Glass Pond & Rossman Hill  — Gerald Hamm — Fall 1998, 8
Schoharie County Celebrates 200 Years  — Spring 1995, 2
Old Snow Ball — Cow Died in 1965 at 33
    Mrs. Everett Dewell — Fall 1991, 21
Opening of Iroquois Indian Museum  — Spring 1992, 32
Hiking the Long Path — Wallace C. Van Houten — Spring 1994, 2

PEOPLE & GENEALOGY

BLACKS
Exodus of Schoharie's Blacks— John Daniels — Spring 1996, 13
Chloe Thompson of Lawyersville  — Story of a 19th century black woman
    John Daniels — Spring 1992, 14
Schoharie Blacks in the Early 1900s  — Memories of Robert Fain
    John Daniels — Fall 1993, 4
A.M.E. Zion Church in Schoharie  — John Daniels — Fall 1992, 21
Schoharie County Blacks and the Revolution — John Daniels — Spring 1991, 12
Sarah, a Slave 1779-1881  — From the Daisy Brown scrapbooks — Fall 1991, 18
Tom Bronk, a Slave from Sharon  — Ralph Birdsall — Spring 1993, 35

PLACES
Schoharie County — The Upland Areas in Our Southern Towns
    Albert C. Mayhem in the (Jefferson?) Courier c. 1900 — Fall 1993, 29
Do You Believe in Witches?  — Esperance, Huntersland, Dead Man's Creek
    Elsie English Rogers — Fall 1992, 11
Barnerville  — Mabel M. Sagendorf — Spring 1993, 32
Blenheim Scorched and Scarred  — The 1990 Propane Explosion
    Fanchon Dewell Cornell — Fall 1990, 5
Blenheim's 'New Beginning'  — Memorial Building Dedicated
    Fanchon Dewell Cornell — Fall 1992, 29
Breakabeen Grange No. 767 — Mildred Bouck — Spring 1992, 2
The Breakabeen Cookie Cutters  — Mildred Bouck — Spring 1991, 32
Breakabeen Memorial Lists Veterans  — Tom Burton — Fall 1994, 32
The Broome Center Creamery  — Mildred L. Bailey — Fall 1990, 15
No Still in Charlotteville — Beverly Radez — Fall 1992, 31
Rufus Grider Completes History of Cherry Valley
    Kenneth Jones — Spring 1999, 11; corrected Fall 1999, 31
Cobleskill Comes from Jacob Kobel — Norman Olsen — Fall 1992, 19
The Olsen Fire Scarred Cobleskill  — Helen M. White — Fall 1991, 2
Esperance Union Anti-Horse Thief Society — Kenneth Jones — Spring 1992, 23
The Esperance Witch — Kenneth Jones — Spring 1993, 22
131st Anniversary of Fulton — Spring 1994, 22
Gallupville — From Fox Creek Settlement Remembered — Fall 1993, 20
The Col. Hynds Home (Grace Inn) at Janesville
     Genevieve S. Murray — Fall 1994, 28
1902 Middleburgh Annual School Meeting  — A dry list of expenses — Fall 1993, 2
Middleburgh's Freemyer House  Was "Queen of the County" —  Spring 1991, 8
Middleburgh's Library — Spring 1992, 29
The Shoemaker Dairy — Middleburgh milkman
    Editor Edward A. Hagan interviews Sadie Shoemaker — Fall 1994, 20
Mineral Springs: David Barner Home  — Patricia Van Wie Ritrovato — Fall 1994, 23
NorthBlenheim: Haverly Falls and Haverly Mill
   Estella Haverly Roth — Fall 1990, 13
Potter Hill (between Stamford and Jefferson)  — Mildred L. Bailey — Fall 1991, 22
Punch Kill  — Edward A. Hagan — Spring 1991, 32
Sharon Springs a Sleeping Beauty  — Leah Osterhoudt — Fall 1991, 16
A Place Called Vintonton  — Elsie English Rogers — Fall 1994, 14
A 1914 Sunday School Picnic in Warnerville  — Elsie English Rogers — Spring 1991, 4
Memories and Folklore of West Fulton  — Mary James Rigley — Spring 1993, 18
West Fulton  — Hazel Hoose — Spring 1994, 20
Breakabeen Presbyterian Church Old Home Day
    Fanchon Cornell Dewell — Fall 1998, 14
Summersett House — Broome Center scrapbook — Spring 1998, 2
Byrne Patent Settlement  — Ian McGiver — Fall 1996, 18
Central Bridge Fire Department  — Rosemary Christoff Dolan — Fall 1997, 14
The Fair at Cobleskill — 1848 — Charles Phelan — Spring 1998, 14
School District 7 — Dibble Hollow — Mary Hillebrand — Fall, 1995, 25
Esperance United Presbyterian Church — 175th Anniversary
    Ken Jones — Fall 1999, 19
Huntersland School — Minutes of meeting after 1880 Fire — Spring 1995, 36
Middleburgh Ambulance Corps — Patricia L. White — Spring 1995, 5
Middleburgh Bicentennial Celebration— Helene Farrell — Fall 1997,21
Letter — Middleburgh anniversary — Joseph Zelenka — Spring 1997, 33
Richmondville Sesquicentennial — Joseph F. Bernocco Jr. — Fall 1999, 15
The Naming of Richmondville — G.W. Simmons — Spring 1967, 13
Letter — Schoharie — Janette Vroman Schoolcraft — Spring 1997, 31
Schoharie, Iowa  — Beatrice H. Mattice — Fall 1996, 33
Schoharie Hill — All you want to know and more
    Walt Miers — Spring 1995, 26; Fall 1995, 30
Schoharie Fairgrounds  — Chester G. Zimmer — Spring 1996, 2
Schoharie Valley Nurseries  — Betsy Guernsey — Spring 1998, 11
McFees Visit Sharon Springs, Kansas — Henrietta McFee — Spring 1998, 30
History of Sloansville  — Ken Jones — Spring 1996, 30
The Warnerville Dance Pavilion — Walter A. Thurber — Fall 1996, 25
Warnerville: Then and Now  — Charles Phelan — Fall 1996, 30

CHURCHES
Twentieth Century Prayer Meetin's  — Mildred Bouck — Spring 1993, 17
For Whom the Bell Tolls — Area church bells — Mary Jane Rigley — Fall 1993, 27
Roman Catholic Church in Schoharie Valley  — Edward A. Hagan — Fall 1991, 5
Burning a Church Mortgage in 1936 — Sharon Spa Methodist — Spring 1991, 5
Tale of the Sharon Hill Church Bell  — Spring 1991, 7
The Old School (Primitive) Baptist Church  — At Wetsel Hollow and Jefferson
    Walter Miers — Fall 1994, 2
The Old School Baptist Church  — Clinton Nethaway, Jr. — Fall 1994, 6
The Jefferson Old School or Primitive Baptist Church  — Fall 1994, 8
Cobleskill Methodist Church Building 100th Anniversary 
    Ina Jones — Spring 1994, 29

RECOLLECTIONS
Sociability  — In the farm family of 80 years ago — Bernice Pollard — Fall 1992, 27
Good Times at Aunt Edith's  — Early 20th century recollections
    Evelyn Safford Dewell — Spring 1991, 27
Pride Goeth Before a Fall  — Early 20th century recollections
    Mrs. Ray Pollard — Fall 1990, 30
Down Memory Lane  — Twentieth century recollections
    Mildred Bouck — Fall 1991, 19
Tale of a Country School Marm — Twentieth century recollections
    Beatrice Parsons Pollard — Spring 1991, 2
New York's One-Room Schools — A teacher's recollections 
    Martin Hoose — Fall 1997,36
I Remember — Old Gilboa  — Adeline Schilling Borgmann — Fall 1997, 11
Memories of Childhood  — Catherine Karker Ullman — Spring 1999, 32
Cobleskill Recollections  — Ruth Schuldt Hammann — Fall 1996, 8
Gilboa Sesquicentennial  — Linda Stratigos — Fall 1998, 2
A Smattering of Fulton Memories  — Betty Urrey — Spring 1997, 24
Memories of Old Gilboa  — Ivan J. Hallock — Fall 1998, 5
Old Sayings in Schoharie County — Pat Enders — Fall 1999, 14

Forgotten Publications — Excerpts
    Stray Poems & Early History of the A&S R.R. (Dana) — Spring 1990, 29
    The Golden Age of Homespun (Van Wagenen) — Spring 1990, 2
    Echoes from the Hills of Schoharie (Aker) — Spring 1990, 21
    Plank Roads and Interstate I-88 (Wharton) — Spring 1990, 7
    Recollections of Country Living (Rigley) — Spring 1990, 26
    A Summer at Cozy Nook Farm (Bassler) — Spring 1990, 19
    History of the Town of Blenheim (Bliss) — Spring 1990, 3
    Tompkins and Other Folks (Deming) — Spring 1990, 11
    The Little Hill Farm (Van Schaick) — Spring 1990, 22
    Warm Chimneys (Pollard) — Spring 1990, 8
    Raisin' Hops (Pollard) — Spring 1990, 24

BOOK REVIEWS
Four classic Schoharie novels reviewed by Wallace C. Van Houten
      Smokefires in Schoharie by Don Cameron Shafer — Spring 1996, 32 
     The Brave Frontier by Helen Fuller Orton — Spring 1996, 33
     The Rifleman (Timothy Murphy) by John Brick — Spring 1996, 33
     The Promised Land by John J. Vrooman — Spring 1996, 34

The Remarkable Howe Caverns Story by Dana Cudmore 
    Reviewed by Eric Porteus — Spring 1991, 26
Of Trial and Triumph, a County History by Mary James Rigley
    Spring 1991, 27
"Glaciers of Middleburgh" from The Catskills in the Ice Age by Robert Titus 
    Fall 1997, 8
The Gilboa Fossils by Linda Van Aller Hernick
    Reviewed by Wallace C. Van Houten — Spring 1997, 35
Alarm of Fire by Edward A. Hagan
    Fall 1996, 36
History of Schoharie Reformed Church by John P.D. Wilkinson 
   Fall 1996, 36
Saratoga — Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum
    Fall 1998, 30
The Land and the People by John W. Gordon
    Fall 1995, inside back cover

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED
Schoharie County Cemeteries  —  Spring 1999, 20-C

OBITUARIES
     Samuel A. Scranton — Fall 1993, 16D
     Vincent J. Schaefer — Fall 1993, 16D
     George Spencer — Spring 1992, 36
     Van Buren Lamb — Fall 1991, 32
     J. Ernest Wharton — Spring 1990, 28
     Norman Olsen — Spring 1996, 36
     Clifford G. Fisher — Spring 1998, 29
     Walter D. Edmonds — Spring 1998,35