Justine Hommel receives Van Vecten award.

Justine Hommel, president emeritus of MTHS, was presented the first Jesse Van Vechten Vedder Award from the Greene County Historical Society on December 3.  The presentation was made by GCHS President Robert Hallock at the Haines Falls Free Library and fifty of Justine’s friends and supporters turned out to congratulate her. You can read the full story in the Daily Mail and see more photos or upload your own on the MTHS Facebook page and on Flickr .

Rachel Jesse Van Vechten Vedder was the historian of the Town and Village of Catskill and Greene County. She was the first female county historian in New York State and a co-author of A History of Greene County . The Vedder Research Library in Coxsackie, NY and Vedder Mountain in Cementon, NY are named after her.