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
The World of Print
Product Details
Vol. 9, No. 1
In this issue:
- President's Letter
- THE WORLD OF PRINT
- Asher Benjamin: A Connecticut Carpenter in Columbia County, Daniel Lane
- The Vibrant History of the Hudson Opera House as Recorded by the Hudson Register, Valerie Balint
- Words from Their World: The Shakers and Print, Mary Sansaricq
- Sal Cozzolino: Historian and Collector of Hudson's Old Bottles, Michael F. Leonard
- Assembling the Printed Word: The Art of Scrapbooks, Diane Shewchuk
- Meet the Printer: Sandy Connors of North Chatham, Ashley Hopkins-Benton
- A Patterned Past at the Vanderpoel House, Ann-Liza Lewis
- Exhibition: "Inked Over: Our Printed World" \n
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Roger Panetta, ed., Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, reviewed by Paul T. Veillette
- Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America, reviewed by Geoff Benton
- Dominick C. Lizzi, Let There Be Light: The Forgotten History of the Chatham Public Library, a Carnegie Legacy, reviewed by James E. Benton
- Dominick C. Lizzi, Valatie, The Forgotten History, reviewed by John R. Dunne
- ARTICLES \n
- Trees in Columbia County, Ellen McClelland Lesser
- The Palatines in Germantown — Then and Now, Nan Eliot
- The Hudson New York Sesquicentennial Commemorative Half Dollar of 1935, Dr. John C. Fout
- Hudson's Shantytown: A Brief History, Leo Bower
- Allen Wells Porter, "Mr. Museum" 1902–1987, an interview by Isabel Livingston
- News of the Columbia County Historical Society