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
Children: Growing Up in Columbia County
Product Details
Vol. 14, No. 2
Children: Growing Up in Columbia County
In this issue:
- President's Letter
- Growing Up in Columbia County in the 1940s and 1950s, Robert Peduzzi
- Livingston School Days, Geoff Benton
- Shemp, Moe, and Curley on Main Street, Jim Benton
- The Three Stooges – A Personal Appreciation, Ron Toelke
- The Electric Trolley & The Electric Park Tragedy, Mary Faherty Sansaricq
- Images of Electric Park
- Book Review: Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill, Robert Peduzzi \n
- On The Cover: Portrait of Robert Dunlop Lathrop and Janet Andrew Lathrop by James E. Johnson, Diane Shewchuk
- The Hudson Academy
- "A Tangle of Circumstance": Life in the Early Years of the NYS Training School for Girls in Hudson, Tobi Jacobi
- Ella at Hudson, Russ Immarigeon
- "Like Something You Read of in Books": Growing Up in Olana, Valerie Balint
- Book Review: The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State's History by Bruce W. Dearstyne, Robert Peduzzi
- Apprenticed and Indentured: Child Labor in the Nineteenth Century, Jim Planck
- Changing Leadership at the CCHS
- 2014 CCHS Supporters
On the Cover: Portrait of Robert Dunlop Lathrop and Janet Andrew Lathrop by James E. Johnson. Oil on canvas, c. 1846 — Collection of the Columbia County Historical Society, Gift of Gordon D. Stott, 1974.3.