Preliminary Notes: While the transcription includes only a few minor changes for readability, the original document that follows the transcription offers the opportunity to experience the events as witnessed and described by Christian Schultz in his original handwriting in 1761. Schultz lived on what is known as Old Post Road south of the intersection with …
One Week in the Life of a Farmer’s Wife July 1905
"Black-and-yellow Wood-Warbler (Flowering Raspberry. Rubus odoratus.), John James Audubon, 1841 From the New York Public Library" One Week in July 1905: Emma Coon shares her days as a farmer's wife and young mother. Sunday July 2, 1905~Rainy in am; Burton and his mother [Mary Cornelia Barker Coon] went to church. Monday July 3, 1905~Warm; I …
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A Mound in the Cemetery
Beneath the Mound: Captain Alexander Hamilton Shultz The key to discovery is questioning. Through the seemingly simple question of “Why? Why is there a mound in the middle of rows of grave-stones in a cemetery?”, Local History Librarian Beverly Kane unearthed a mystery. Courtesy: Beverly Kane, Local History Librarian Kane's curiosity led her to examine …
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