While on I am on the Historic band wagon: In the 1980's - our Bicentennial Commission did a postcard booklet, an old picture booklet, and a hard cover Bicentennial History (1988). These were done to document our history and as fund raisers. In 2003-2005 my husband and I photographed all of the barns that were left. SInce then we have lost at least 2 per year. Our Curator has been on a mission of gathering the aerial photographs taken during the 1960's and 1970's. >From 2005-2009 we published calendars of the barns and aerial photographs as fund raisers. We hope to do more when the money is available. We also photographed all our historic markers. An assistant photographed all the NYS listed historic architecture and secured a copy from the inventory form (so we have a comparison). We hope to publish these also at some point. Last week I attended a local historic meeting and the presentation was a DVD from a small town in Delaware County NY. The seniors had interviewed four operating dairy farms. We hope to do that soon too as we only have four left in our Town. We also have done a few oral history round tables. We have a presentation at least once a year and invite the community and all the Historians in the County. We host our local fourth graders since 1983 for the morning the first week of June and have at least 19 stations with lots of hands on for the children. We do a newsletter. We were doing 3 per year, but cut back to 1 this year due to cost. It is mailed to entire Town, plus historians in County. We have a free website which is under reconstruction. I have taken over 4,000 photographs in the past 6 years. Part of this is the Cultural Resources Management Law. With permission we take pictures of the proposed subdivision. All the paperwork goes into a binder. When I do a house/property history, a copy goes to our Museum and a copy to the person who made the request. In school we were taught that the Indians jumped from Plymouth Rock to the West. There were no slaves here, just in the South. We didn't have mastodon's or dinasours. Guess what? We had all of the above. We have been searching all our deeds from 1703 to 1850. At present up to 1845 done. These are all copied, filed and abstracted into spread sheets that can be searched. My hope is to do a map from the 1798 Assessment as our earliest map is 1850. An assistant transcribed our first first Town minute book from 1788-1841. Have indexed most of the vital records. The list is extensive. We also have 4 buildings of displays. All of this started in 1970's with our first Historian. Carol Van Buren