Memberships
As a CCHS member, you’ll enjoy free access to our exhibitions and research library, discounts and special invites on lectures and other events, and free access to dozens of partner museums. Membership is a vital way to provide continued support to our programming.
Core Memberships
All memberships include the following benefits:- Free admission to CCHS properties
- Reciprocal Membership with the Empire State Museums Reciprocal Program
- Unlimited free use of CCHS library and genealogical resources
- Invitation to special events and discounts for special events, lectures and other public programs
Patron Memberships
Patron Memberships include everything in a Core Membership plus reciprocal member privileges to more than 1,300 museums through the North American Reciprocal Museum Program.- Patron Sponsor includes two guest passes
- Patron Benefactor includes four guest passes
Business Member
Core Membership Benefits for two adults and youths under 18 plus recognition on our online Business Supporters page.Business Sponsor
Core Membership Benefits for two adults and youths under 18 and recognition on our online Business Supporters page, plus:- Four guest passes to all of our historic properties
- Private, behind-the-scenes tour of all properties with the CCHS curator
- Two tickets to First Columbians annual benefit and special recognition in the First Columbians program
A Patchwork of Stories from Around the County
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Vol. 14, No. 1
A Patchwork of Stories from Around the County
In this issue:
- President's Letter
- 'Strange Language from a Judge to the V.P.': James Vanderpoel Confesses to Martin Van Buren, Warren F. Broderick
- Book Review: Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World, Robert Peduzzi
- Cracking Jefferson's Code, Brett Palfreyman
- Columbia County in the Time of Cholera, Mary Faherty Sansaricq
- Botanizing in Columbia County, Jim Planck
- The Irish Slur that Wasn't: An Incident on President Van Buren's State Tour, Warren F. Broderick
- The Governor Visits: Nelson A. Rockefeller in Columbia County, Jim Benton
- A Man with a Horse: A Homeopathic Medical Odyssey, Isabel Livingston
- Stuffed and Stitched: Quilted Treasures from the Collections – An Exhibition Overview
- Portrait of Gideon Lathrop (1805–1877), Peter Stott
- Poem: "The Hills of Chatham," Katherine Van Valkenburgh Williams
- An Autograph Quilt, Jim Benton
- Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Geoff Benton
- Through a Daughter's Loving Hands: The Legacy of the Memorial Quilt at Frederic Church's Olana, Valerie A. Balint