--Liberty Central
School's Libertas yearbook for 1969.
Thanks to Debra Conway for this one! This
yearbook shows a class graduating into "interesting times" in many
respects. Woodstock happened nearby the same year they
graduated. The Vietnam war was in full swing. The
resort industry was visibly in trouble. And those are only the
external variables! Additional thanks to Debra for also
providing the program for her senior prom (held at the fabled Grossinger's), which is also included. Even if you have no
connection to this class, their yearbook is worth a read for the
glimpse of history it offers. A whopping 185+ pages, in PDF format, for $4.00.
--Liberty
Central School's Libertas yearbook for 1962.
We can't really pick a year when Liberty shown at its brightest as a
crown jewel of the famed Borscht Circuit, but it was certainly
around this time. The yearbook is in PDF format, 162+ pages.
Download it now for $4.75.
--Liberty Central
School's Libertas yearbook for 1960.
Certainly a glimpse of Liberty near its peak (sometimes you can
judge this sort of thing by the number of pages in the yearbook).
This one is 156+ pages
in length, including a new every-name index. Download it now in PDF format is
priced at $4.00.
--Liberty Central
School's Libertas yearbook for 1959.
Liberty at its peak! This is the class with
which the principal partner of Between the Lakes Group would have
graduated with, had he remained in Liberty, so for us this one is
extra important. 133+ pages, in PDF format for $4.50.
--Liberty Central
School's Libertas yearbook for 1957.
Liberty always produced a few people who turned out
distinguished careers after high school, and this class -- another
one to graduate when the Catskills were in their heyday, was no
exception. Always a favorite of ours, this yearbook now is
available for download. It's one is 114+ pages
in length, and you can download it now in PDF format for
$4.25.
--Liberty Central School's
Libertas yearbook for 1958.
Like the 1960 and 1962 Libertas
issues, this one records Liberty at a time when things were pretty
good and getting better. The class pictured in this yearbook –
their yearbook – was born on the eve of World War II, and had come
of age at a time when Liberty, as one of the hubs of the “Borscht
Circuit”, was still becoming more prosperous and successful –
something that was not to last, however. Download it now, 134+ pages
in PDF format, for $4.25
--Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1956. Good
times in a small town in New York's Catskill Mountains, with few
signs of where that community was headed half a century later. 130+ pages, in
PDF format. Download it now for $4.00
--Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1955. A solid yearbook, a
good class, graduating at a good time to be starting adult life in a
community that, at the time, seemed to have everything going for it.
One of our favorite yearbooks, and recommended. 122+ pages, in
PDF format. Download it now for $5.25.
--Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1954. As Liberty High
School yearbooks go, this was a rather short one, more like 1953's
than 1955. However, it was a class that left its mark on the
world in several respects, and, while brief, the book was complete
in its coverage. 68+ pages, in
PDF format. Download it now for $4.00.
--Liberty High School's
Libertas yearbook for 1953. Rather brief as
yearbooks tended to be in the early 1950s. This class was made
of of children born in the Great Depression, and some of the thrifty
qualities that era engendered are evident in their product.
Valuable as a transition into the more elaborate yearbooks of the
years following as well as being a document of this class. 70+ pages, in
PDF format. Download it now for $4.00.
--Liberty High School's Libertas
yearbook for 1941. 88+ pages, in PDF format. Download
this rarity now for $6.00.
(Three yearbooks in addition to these are available on the Memories
of Liberty CD-ROMs)
--Gertrude Barber's compilation of the
White Sulphur Springs Cemetery (circa 1930), 6+ pages. A
typescript by a woman who spent her summers in the mountains
transcribing cemeteries and church records, later typing them out
and donating copies to libraries. This is of use to anyone
interested in genealogy in the White Sulphur Springs area. PDF format, only $1.75 to
download.
--The History of Sullivan
County National Bank.
50th
Anniversary (1893 – 1943).
The Sullivan County
National Bank was founded by a prominent local citizens, and the
bank’s first president was one of the more enigmatic, A. J. D.
Wedemeyer. Wedemeyer gave his name to a local street (now Lincoln
Place) but his name did not survive on that street long – by the
time of World War I it had its new (and current) name. The bank’s
second headquarters was the Music Hall (properly known as the
Wedemeyer building) at the corner of Main and Chestnut, but by 1895,
Wedemeyer had resigned. In 1899, the bank moved into its own
building on the corner of Main and Law streets, next to the
Methodist Church. After the time covered by this history, the bank
moved again, this time into the former O. E. Keller department store
on North Main Street. PDF format, 13+ pages, download now for
$2.50.
--Baptist Cemetery, Parksville, Town of Liberty, Sullivan County,
New York.
Collected
by Gertrude Barber (circa 1930).
Parksville historically has been more
connected to the Town of Rockland, to the north, and the Town of
Neversink, to the east, than to the Town of Liberty, where it is
actually located, at least in terms of family migration patterns.
Nonetheless, this cemetery is a possible location for a missing
ancestor from any of these three towns. Mrs. Barber, when
collecting the cemetery circa 1930, noted that it was in “very bad
condition”. Our suspicion, on that basis, is that there is little
of it that can be found or deciphered now, more than 80 years
later. Short though this listing is, we hope it will be helpful.
PDF format, 6+ pages, download now for $3.00.
--Town of Liberty
Sesquicentennial (1957). The year of this
anniversary celebration by the Town of Liberty found a township
enjoying good economic health, the hub of a thriving resort
industry. The fifty odd years that have passed since then reveal
that if this was not the peak of the Township’s prosperity, it was
very close to it. The fortunes of Sullivan County (and the Town of
Liberty) have declined significantly since the optimistic days of
the celebration this publication commemorates. 24+ pages, in PDF
format, download now for $3.00.
We include
the Village of Liberty as well as the hamlets that make up the Town of
Liberty, past and present:
Parkville, Ferndale, Swan Lake, White Sulphur Springs, and Loomis --
even Red Brick); all
these locales are part of the Town of Liberty.
