Liberty, New York: memories -- 

Liberty, Sullivan County, New York is a favorite subject of ours. In fact, we grew up there!

We are happy to provide you with historic and current photographs and ephemera about Liberty.  We are happy to include the Village of Liberty as well as the hamlets, past and present.  Parkville, Ferndale, Swan Lake, White Sulphur Springs, and Loomis), all are part of the Town of Liberty.  Volume I and Volume II are now available on CD-ROM.  

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Want to find out how to order the first Liberty CD-ROM?  Click on it!

We're pleased to announce that the Memories of Liberty, Volume II CD-ROM is now available. 

for ordering information.

Listed below is the subject matter on the first Liberty NY CD-ROM -- with some  free samples:

Liberty High School....the 1919 Annual (including an every-name index) 

to see the index of this early high school yearbook and a few items from it. 

Liberty Business Men's Association....the 1918 Liberty, N.Y. Picture Book. 

to see some of the Otto Hillig pictures from the classic Picture Book. 

The original Memories of Liberty CD-ROM has been so popular (and we've found so much additional stuff) that we have created a second CD of Liberty material.  We simply call it "Memories of Liberty, Volume II"

for more information about it.

Other pictures and mementos that recall Liberty's past

to see some of the more notable ones from our collection....

Liberty as it appeared in 2001 

for some pictures of both the Town and Village of Liberty as they appeared in the summer of 2001.  

Web Links about Liberty?

We recommend the Open Directory Project as the single best source of links to Liberty-related websites.  to visit the ODP's Liberty pages.

The New York, Ontario and Western Railroad ... what's left in Liberty NOW

  Almost fifty years after the last train, pitifully little remains of the O&W Railroad.  It basically defined the communities that make up Liberty, along with the other communities up and down the line where it snaked through Sullivan County. As well as some pictures, there's also a link to the NYO&W's Historical Society so you can see what the "Old Woman" looked like in better times....

When skiing was still a backyard sport...

-- a few photographs of that one-time (and long-gone) Liberty institution....

(there's also more Walnut Mountain Ski Area material on Volume II)

The Borscht Circuit and before...

-- some rare photos of the resort industry in Liberty before the Borscht Circuit, some memorabilia from those glory days, and a link to THE authoritative site about the history of the resort industry in the Catskills....

(there's also more material on Volume II related to the resort industries that have been centered in Liberty)

Want to reminisce about Liberty?

There are some great Liberty stories out there!!  We've wondered how we could capture some of them, and inspire others to remember even more.  Here's the answer we've come up with.  It's run by "Yahoo!" and its name is "Yahoo!Groups™".  

We've set up a Yahoo!Group called "LibertyNY".  It costs nothing to belong to a Yahoo!Group, and we encourage everyone with a Liberty story to tell or a Liberty question to ask to try it out. There are more than 200 members, and we talk about some pretty unusual things -- but always with a connection to Liberty!!  to subscribe to the LibertyNY  Yahoo! Group. 

Sign up and reminisce about Liberty with the rest of us!

The original Memories of Liberty CD-ROM has been so popular (and we've found so much additional stuff) that it has now been followed by Memories of Liberty, Volume II 

We're pleased to announce that the Memories of Liberty, Volume II CD-ROM is now available. 

for ordering information.

The original Memories of Liberty CD-ROM is still available!!

Thanks to everyone who helped!!

All the material listed above -- plus much more.  Click the CD or the red button to find out how you can obtain your own copy of Memories of Liberty Volume I.  No obligation!!

If you're interested in the history of Liberty, New York, or Sullivan County, or small towns in America right around the time of World War I, or changing social and cultural values in such areas as ethnicity (Liberty, where Nichols' Farm was about to become the site of the legendary Grossingers, one of the hubs of the Borscht Circuit), and gender (what you'll see on this CD-ROM will surprise nearly everyone), you will find this CD-ROM of interest.    Education?  The way teachers were trained in an era when the US had a higher literacy rate than it does today?  Interscholastic athletics at the beginning?  What remains of the New York Ontario & Western Railway?  Skiing when it was almost a backyard sport? 

to see what people have said about the original Liberty CD-ROM...

Got some questions?  Fair enough!!

for questions and answers about the first Liberty CD-ROM

What's next? 

Since the first Liberty CD we've produced some additional CDs about Sullivan County local history:

to learn about the "Old Neversink" CD 

to learn about the "Town of Fallsburgh" CD. 

to learn about our republication of Hamilton Child's "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Sullivan County for 1872-73"

to learn about our republication of Quinlan's "History of Sullivan County."

to search our website for that elusive person or place you would like to know more about.