My new series: “Revisiting Halfway Brook,” looks back at Halfway Brook posts which started in fall 2009, the year my husband Gary created this site.
In September of 2009, as Gary completely remodeled our kitchen (at one point we had to walk outside from the living room, to the garage to get to the kitchen), I wrote my first post, welcoming friends and relatives to Halfway Brook to introduce them to my (then) upcoming book, The Mill on Halfway Brook, the first of three in my Memoirs from Eldred, New York, 1800–1950 Series.
In the years since 2009, my office has been in two rooms: first crowded into the “everything room”; next (and currently) in a large former bedroom.
I have gone through at least three computers: a G-5, a Hackentosh, and currently a Mac mini; a number of back up drives; and several monitors—thanks to Gary’s assistance.
The digital backup is one thing, but the paper records and information along with all the Smith and most of my parents’ photos and nostalgia—much of which is in binders seen in the current office photo—is overwhelming.
The original books, seen in the 2011 photo, and my research books were moved to a new bookcase, now in the corner of my office.
Revisiting Halfway Brook
I hope you will enjoy the next series of posts—a visit that starts in 2009 as I discovered so much I never knew about Eldred, New York, and met so many incredibly helpful friends and family. It was a grand time of meeting new friends (and relatives), sharing information, and packages packed with photos, documents, letters, etc. So many great memories!
