The Grafton Historical Society will meet at 7 pm in the Grafton Town Hall on April 16.
Researching Local History Online
Bob Mayo will give a presentation on how digitized New York State newspapers available on the internet can be used to research local and family history. He will discuss some of what he learned about Taconic Lake history and his own family history in the process.
Bob lives year round on Taconic Lake in the Town of Grafton, where he is President of the Taconic Lake Association. He worked for over 20 years at IBM and is currently the Director of the Libraries at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Bob blogs on local nature and other subjects at http://rensselaerplateaulife.blogspot.com/ and maintains a weather station that provides a feed to the internet and local TV station WNYT (Channel 13).
The program is free, and the public is welcome. Refreshments will be served.