Learn the art and history of bookbinding and about Brewster’s famous bookbinder, Edith Diehl. Have fun making a special book to preserve memories.
Southeast Museum, 67 Main Street, Brewster – Sat., July 28th at 10:30AM
Reservation required - Mary Ann Taormina, 845-279-7500 semeducation@verizon.net
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
The Carmel Dress Code
There are many towns in the United States whose lawmakers are considered a bit loony. Our town is one of them, apparently -- that is, if you were to believe this local law, which dozens of websites around the world claim is absolutely authentic:
In Carmel, N.Y., a man can't go outside
while wearing a jacket and pants that
No doubt we all agree (well, mostly all) that it's a sensible rule of thumb, and can see to its enforcement without a formal law. One website commenter, with tongue in cheek, thought it to be excellent:
This law isn't silly. Write your legislators today
and get this PASSED in your area now!!
As the keepers of Carmel history, may we categorically state the obvious, for the benefit of webmasters everywhere, that it has never been a law in Carmel -- alas.
It gained its popularity around 1991 in a book by Robert Pelton, a satire on actual rules of early America that seem outlandish now (for example, that a flagman must lead an automobile through city streets), and was assigned randomly to Carmel. The idea may have originated in a humor article, or perhaps in one of those fund-raisers where a local figure is "jailed" for a silly reason until the population donates his "bail money" for a charity.
Loony Laws That You Never Knew You Were Breaking (Westminster, MD: Ivy Books, 1991) is still found on the used-book market.
In Carmel, N.Y., a man can't go outside
while wearing a jacket and pants that
do not match.
No doubt we all agree (well, mostly all) that it's a sensible rule of thumb, and can see to its enforcement without a formal law. One website commenter, with tongue in cheek, thought it to be excellent:
This law isn't silly. Write your legislators today
and get this PASSED in your area now!!
As the keepers of Carmel history, may we categorically state the obvious, for the benefit of webmasters everywhere, that it has never been a law in Carmel -- alas.
It gained its popularity around 1991 in a book by Robert Pelton, a satire on actual rules of early America that seem outlandish now (for example, that a flagman must lead an automobile through city streets), and was assigned randomly to Carmel. The idea may have originated in a humor article, or perhaps in one of those fund-raisers where a local figure is "jailed" for a silly reason until the population donates his "bail money" for a charity.
Loony Laws That You Never Knew You Were Breaking (Westminster, MD: Ivy Books, 1991) is still found on the used-book market.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Going to Press
Carmel, George Whipple's book in Arcadia's Postcard Series, has been published. It should be available in nearby bookstores soon, and is now listed online at Amazon.com. Many of the cards in the Historical Society's collection are reproduced in this book.
Christine O'Connor was honored at Putnam History Day for her transcription of early Putnam Valley town documents. Such books are a boon to genealogists and historians, but a long and tedious process for the preparer.
Christina Mucciolo of the Putnam Historian's office has now gone to press with a similar effort, Patterson, NY Town Clerk Records, 1795-1863, published by Kinship.
Vincent Dacquino explores the haunted Hudson Valley in The Dead Live Here, to be published later this year -- Hallowe'en, perhaps! -- by Purple Mountain Press. Vin previously reconstructed the true life of Sybil Ludington.
Christine O'Connor was honored at Putnam History Day for her transcription of early Putnam Valley town documents. Such books are a boon to genealogists and historians, but a long and tedious process for the preparer.
Christina Mucciolo of the Putnam Historian's office has now gone to press with a similar effort, Patterson, NY Town Clerk Records, 1795-1863, published by Kinship.
Vincent Dacquino explores the haunted Hudson Valley in The Dead Live Here, to be published later this year -- Hallowe'en, perhaps! -- by Purple Mountain Press. Vin previously reconstructed the true life of Sybil Ludington.
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