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WHAT YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION SHOULD BE

It is the end of the year ... but a new one will be here soon.

So if you are making any resolutions, why not make this one ...

Resolve to join the Harrison County Historical Society today!

It only costs $10-12 per year, and twelve times a year you will see returns in your mailbox or emailbox, in the form of the Harrison County Historical Society's prize-winning newsletter, the Harrison Heritage News.

And to make it easy for you to keep your resolution to sign up today, a handy membership application has been made ready for you to download to your computer right now.

I am sorry to say, we cannot provide any downloadable stamps for you to put on the envelope.

And we seem to be entirely out of downloadable envelopes, too ...

But, hey, we will be sending you stamps on envelopes twelve times in 2017 if you can just take the time to send the society just one stamp, one envelope, one form, and one check (or money order).

Does that seem fair?

I think so.

You may not be able to lose any weight this year, but you just can't lose by ... JOINING TODAY!

So, do join and have a HAPPIER NEW YEAR!

Philip

How fitting!.  2017 will be the Year of the Rooster
(Jan. 28, 2017 - Feb. 15, 2018) in the Chinese lunar calendar.

The Harrison Heritage News for December (Vol. 17, No. 12) is on its way!

BREAKING OLD NEWS!

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

The Online Archive of Harrison Heritage News Newsletters Has Doubled!

That's right.  Doubled!

And now almost all of them are in PDF format, or soon will be.

An index of all issues up to the end of 2014 is provided in the opening window.  Just look up the subject matter in which you are interested, find the corresponding issue number, and then click on that number in the table to the left of the index.

And Voila!  Your issue will appear.

Sorry, but we can't take you to the exact page where your desired subject appears in print, but each issue is short enough that a quick skim should be enough for you to be able to find what you are looking for.

To begin a new search, just hit the "back" button on your keyboard or click on the link to the index which appears at the bottom of every screen while you are looking at issues of the Harrison Heritage News.

While reading through the archive of past issues, we at the Harrison County Historical Society hope that you may find it worth your while (and a few bucks, too) to sign up and become a member of the society.  You can get current issues in the mail or online (A link will be emailed to you each month).

To begin your journey through history as a member of the society, just click on the link (Join Today!), print the form and fill it out, and then mail it to the address at the bottom of the application.

And after that, the rest will just be history!