Letter from the Editor

To the Members of the Schoharie County Historical Society:

I am honored to be selected as the new editor of the SCHOHARIE COUNTY HISTORICAL REVIEW, and the more so to follow in the footsteps of my friend Edward Hagan.

The REVIEW is a premier publication among those of New York State's local historical societies. When new acquaintances at regional and state historical gatherings learn that I am from Schoharie, they often remark about the REVIEW with envy. Many local societies have no regular publication save a newsletter, and some have tried a periodical and failed.

Ed has been an excellent steward of the traditions which started with Edmund Moot in 1937 and continued with Myron Vroman, Arthur H. Van Voris and Mary van Order Norton.

Publications are both revolutionary and evolutionary. Having spent my life in publications, I have seen several changes in command and can attest that a change of editors brings a common question: How will this person change my publication?

The revolutionary changes are in this issue. No more are planned but evolutionary changes are inevitable.

With the assistance of the Society’s Publications Committee and academic historians, we drafted writing guidelines for contributors. We hope to broaden the content to include reviews of local books in each issue and genealogical-biographical articles, and we hope to enlist more contributors.

We hope that members find the changes agreeable.

— Lester E. Hendrix