Now and Then: The Newsletter of the Sheridan Historical Society
Index of Past Issues
Vol. | No. | Date | Articles (by Title) |
1 | 1 | Spring 2002 | Sheridan Turns 200 Years Old in 2004 Growing Up on Route 5 in the Early 1900s Keepsakes of a Community: Preserving Artifacts & Their Stories |
1 | 2 | Fall 2002 | Bringing Down the Roof: The Store at Sheridan Center Brewing Up Some Early History: Irish Immigrant Beer Town of Sheridan Officially Created 175 Years Ago |
2 | 1 | Spring 2003 | How Sweet It Was: Maple Sugaring in the Early 1900s SHS Publishes Booklet about Farm Life 100 Years Ago Countdown to the Bicentennial Begins Society Hosts County Historians |
2 | 2 | Fall 2003 | Unearthing a Mystery: Twin Boys’ Gravestones Sheridan Artifacts at 1902 County Centennial Celebration Patrons of Husbandry: Sheridan Grange No. 235, Est. 1874 Album Features Old Homes of Sheridan |
3 | 1 | Spring 2004 | Bicentennial Commemorative Edition, 20 pages (Special issue documenting Sheridan’s early history to 1827) |
4 | 1 | Spring 2005 | John B. Keach Letter Paints Portrait of Sheridan in 1839 Sheridan Bicentennial Festivities Bring Community Together NCCF Grant to Assist with Purchase of New Software SHS Outreach Programs Bring History to All Ages |
5 | 1 | Spring 2006 | Braving the High Seas: 1850 Letter Uncovers Sailor’s Life at Sea The Harrowing Tale of Orsamus Holmes’ Revolutionary War Service |
5 | 2 | Fall 2006 | Before ‘Game Boys’: Old-Fashioned Ways to Have Fun Revolutionary War Reenactors Visit SHS SHS Program on Victorian Women’s Fashions SHS Program on Fur Trapping |
6 | 1 | Spring 2007 | Setting it Right: Repairing Stebbins & Ensign Gravestones Early Grape Farming: Sheridians Among Earliest to Grow New Crop |
6 | 2 | Fall 2007 | Guest Speaker Shares Stories of Lake Erie Shipwrecks UB Archaeological Team Excavates Site of Sheridan Tannery Youth Recreation Program Visits Sheridan Center Cemetery Sheridan Cheese Factory (reprinted from local scrapbook) |
7 | 1 | Spring 2008 | Grace Under Fire: Wartime Service of Nurses Blanche Gilray and Katherine Galloway Old and New Sheridan Fire Halls |
7 | 2 | Fall 2008 | Underground Railroad: Sheridan Residents Helped ‘Fugitive’ Slaves Survey Shows Town Residents’ Support for Society’s Mission Society Selected to Receives IMLS “Bookshelf” Resources |
8 | 1 | Spring 2009 | Cleared for Takeoff: a History of the Dunkirk Airport Sheridan United Methodist Church Marks 100th Year Rev. Ernest Bolling Found His Calling Close to Home SHS Board Adopts New Vision Statement |
8 | 2 | Fall 2009 | Ten Years Young: SHS Shares Five-Year Strategic Plan St. John Bosco Church History The “Odd” Story of the Sheridan Town Hall & the Odd Fellows |
9 | 1 | Spring 2010 | Sheridan Fire Department Celebrates 100 Years of Service Renovations Give New Life to Old Patterson Home Boom Time: Oil Boom Brought Patterson Family Great Wealth |
9 | 2 | Fall 2010 | A Patchwork of History: Sheridan Days Quilt Show |
10 | 1 | Spring 2011 | From the Ground Up: Sheridian Built First County Courthouse Local Civil War Soldiers Honored on 150th Anniversary Civil War Soldiers William Durfee and Edward Tuttle Remembering Edwin L. Hamlet |
10 | 2 | Fall 2011 | NYS Board of Regents Grants SHS Absolute Charter Donated Lantern Spawns Enlightening Search Honoring Immigrants Who Fought in Civil War Illuminating the Past: Reed Family Ship Captains Sheridan Exhibit at County History Fair |
11 | 1 | Spring 2012 | On the Brink of War: Sheridan and the War of 1812 Behind the Lines: Missionary John Spencer Turns War Correspondent |
11 | 2 | Fall 2012 | In the Old Neighborhood: Sheridan Center in the 1920s |
12 | 1 | Spring 2013 | From Sheridan to Washington: U.S. Congressman Daniel A. Reed Civil War Soldier’s Account of the Battle of Chancellorsville |
12 13 | 2 1 | (Double issue – 8 pages) Dreams of Eagle Bay: Larkin Co. Exec.’s Vision for Model Farm A Brief History of St. Columban’s-on-the-Lake Milk Bottles Subject of Popular SHS Talk | |
14 | 1 | Spring 2015 | In Pursuit of the Ballot: Sheridan and Women’s Suffrage McKinley Meeting Draws Hundreds to Sheridan in 1896 “Glorious” Town Picnics of Old Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Hamlet |
14 | 2 | Special 2015 | A Home to Call Our Own: SHS Purchases Former Town Hall |
15 | 1 | Spring 2016 | A Home to Call Our Own: SHS Purchases Former Town Hall Glenna Neibel’s History of the Odd Fellows/Town Hall At the Center of the Community: IOOF Hall Through the Years |
15 | 2 | Fall 2016 | Original 1845 Sheridan Census Booklet Finds its Way to SHS History of Local Sheep Raising Make Cheese: Cheese Factory Once Operated Near Beaver Creek 1845 Sheridan Agriculture & Horticulture Statistics (from census) |
16 | 1 | Spring 2017 | The Great War: Marking 100th Anniversary of World War I Memorial Day Exhibit Showcases World War I Posters Remembering Their Service: Sheridan World War I Veterans Research Confirms Story of 1950 Sheridan Grange Fire New Sign Installed Through Generosity of Volunteers |
17 | 1 | Spring 2018 | Strike Up the Band: Memorial Day WWI Exhibit & Concert Armbruster-Niebel Family Christening Gowns Memorial Days Pasts: As Recorded in Local Newspapers |
17 | 2 | Fall 2018 | Building for the Future: SHS Capital Campaign Targets Roof SHS Receives NCCF Grant Main Motors: Car Business Was a Friends’ Dream Come True 1842 Sheridan Murder Made Headlines Around State Completion of Sheridan Odd Fellows Hall in 1927 (reprinted) |
18 | 1 | Spring 2019 | A Tip-Top Job: New Roof Installed at Historical Center SHS Receives Grant from County Bed Tax Sailing into History: Sheridan Men who Sailed the Great Lakes |
19 | 1 | Spring 2020 | Before the Draft: Document Reveals Local Citizens’ Role in Raising an Army during Civil War New Colors: SHS Gets New Paint and a New Look Portrait of a Little Lady: Edith C. Patterson Portrait Sheridan Men Selected in 1863 Civil War Draft |