The Catskill Chronicle

GRAHAMSVILLE, NY – Helping to celebrate New York State’s Archives Month, the Town of Neversink and the Time and the Valleys Museum invite you to Follow the History Trail to Grahamsville.

The program will be held on Saturday, October 23, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Neversink Town Hall on State Route 55 in Grahamsville, NY.

Activities include:

• – Self guided tour of Neversink Barn Quilts – a self guided map to large and colorful quilting designs painted on local area barns will be available that day.
• – Self guided tour of nine area cemeteries – a project to help stabilize and restore historic cemeteries (funded through Sullivan County Renaissance), also produced a self guided cemeteries map available that day.

– The gallery photo show: Saved by the Camera: Functional Farm Buildings of the Past

– Opportunity to do research in the Museum’s archival holdings, including burial records, census records , new records from the Town of Denning and 50 years of the local newspapers.

Volunteers will be available to help plot the tours and to assist with research.

Admission is free and open to people of all ages.

For more information, please contact Carol Smythe, Registered Historian, Town of Neversink at 985-2262 ext. 313, or write to her at historian@townofneversink.org.

The Time and the Valleys Museum is a living and interactive resource that preserves the past, educates the present and ensures the uniqueness of the Rondout and Neversink watersheds for all generations. Currently located in the Neversink Town Hall, the Museum provides educational programming for the public and is actively raising funds to install exhibitions in the Museum’s future home, co-located in the new addition to the Daniel Pierce Library.