SOTM Contents: Jul-Sep 2018

IN THIS ISSUE

2018 Historic Preservation Merit Awards

This year six awards were given in four different categories. In addition, the Awards Committee chose to make two special commendations.

Book Reviews

Your editor reviews Drawn Together...in Art...in Love...in Friendships: The Biography of Caldecott Award-Winning Authors Berta and Elmer Hader, by Sybilla Avery Cook; Berta and Elmer Hader: A Lifetime of Art, by Joy Hoerner Rich, Karen Tolley, and John and Judy Waller; and Nicholas Gesner, 19th Century Farmer, by Alice Gerard.

Historical Marker

A new Historical Society marker sponsored by Douglas House, Inc., commemorating the naturalist John Bell, was erected in front of the house Bell once owned on Kings Highway in Sparkill.

COVER PICTURE. The buildings and grounds at the Jacob Blauvelt House Historic Site are ready for the Historic Preservation Merit Awards Country Supper on May 20. Photographed by Clare B. Sheridan.

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Editor: Marjorie H. Johnson

Consulting Editor: Marianne B. Leese

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