I just received my copy of the next and last issue of the Harrison Heritage News for 2016. Yours should be arriving in your real and virtual mailboxes pretty soon.
This month's issue features a vintage Christmas postcard on the cover, with news of the society, a note from society president Don Wagoner, a list of upcoming events and presentations at future meetings thru June, 2017, details of a new addition to the Harrison County Historical Society's archive of past newsletters, and a genealogy query about McCarthys and Prices.
A fun presentation written by Mary Grable about a Star Trek exhibit at the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum, as well as photos of exhibits brought in for evaluations at the Harrison County Historical Society's Antiques Road Show last month fill a couple more pages.
This month's newsletter also includes the by-laws of the historical society and it is requested that you vote your approval or disapproval of them. Read carefully ... and VOTE! We all know how important it is to VOTE ... because sometimes dreams come true when you VOTE! Sometimes they don't! So VOTE!
Your December newsletter will look something like the following image ... only a lot bigger ... and, if delivered via USPS, in an envelope! ;-)
JOIN OR RENEW ... OR GIFT ... A SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP
So ends another interesting year at the Harrison County Historical Society. Next year who knows what will happen?
Well, it will be easy for you to find out. Lastly, but not leastly, this month's issue of the Harrison Heritage News includes the annual membership application form. Dues are very reasonable and it is recommended that you send them in NOW so that you don't miss a single issue. The average Harrison Heritage News consists of eight-to-ten pages of REALLY GOOD STUFF about the history of Cynthiana and all that ever occurred ... well, maybe not EVERYTHING, but A WHOLE LOT about which people ever talked or wrote about ... and which is still FIT TO PRINT.
If you become a member of the Harrison County Historical Society for only a nominal fee ($10 annually for a PDF in your emailbox, $12 annually for one delivered by the United States Postal Service) you will find out about what has already happened in the county ... and about what happening at historical society meetings and events.
And with each issue running and average of eight-to-ten pages of original texts (which is all that can be stuffed into an envelope and mailed for the price of a Forever stamp), by the end of the next year you will have the almost the equivalent of a book to place on your shelves. What other local historical society offers a virtual book's worth of value for the price of a membership alone? (A rhetorical question, to be sure, but if you know of one, let us know at the society; it will be sure to make us jealous ... and we work even harder to make our little newsletter better. ;-)
If you don't believe me, just check out the archive of past newsletters which has been available at www.HarrisonCountyKy.US for some time now.
When you are ready, hopefully sooner than later, get a copy of the membership application, print it out, fill it in and send it along with a check or money order to ...
Harrison County Historical Society
P.O. Box 411
Cynthiana, KY 41031
... and the future will be all history!
That's all for this year! Take care of yourselves. Have a Merry Christmas and may good fortune and blessings follow you into the New Year!
Philip Naff
Great value when one considers that it costs 47 cents to mail each newsletter, twelve times a year. I don't know how they do it!
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