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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.

They Did Not Pass - The Battle Of Verdun Ends I THE GREAT WAR Week 126

100 YEARS AGO

The centennial of America's involvement in the war won't begin until next year. At least if one accepts that our involvement didn't officially begin until war was declared by Congress on April 6, 1917.

In Europe the centennial commemorations began in 2014 and this series is of interest to anyone interested in World War I, or the Great War, as it was once known.

It is especially interesting in that the video series is updated weekly, allowing one to learn more in smaller increments ... something in the manner that the people of Harrison County would have learned about it by reading the Log Cabin or the Democrat.

THE GREAT WAR ON PBS

The "war to end all wars" begins again as a 3-part series on PBS, part of the American Experience series.  To find more about it visit WGBH American Experience: The Great War

I, for one, am going to watch.

Watch for books and DVDs to start hitting the shelves in bookstores, both virtual and brick & mortar.


LOOK FOR WAR REPORTING IN FUTURE ISSUES OF THE HERITAGE HARRISON NEWS

Beginning in the March or April issues of the Harrison Heritage News next year, I will begin a series of my own, to be published in the, in the special supplement to the HHN "The Genealogy Box."

My articles may appear as feature items in the newsletter, or perhaps under a different title under the umbrella of "The Genealogy Box."

Be sure to look for it!

Philip

Harrison Heritage News (April 2014)

The latest edition of the Harrison Heritage News was mailed a couple of weeks ago.  What, you don't have one?  Well, you've got to be a member of the Harrison County Historical Society to get one!  It is too late to have joined yesterday, but today and tomorrow are viable options, which brings me to the subject of the feature article for this month's issue, the title of which, "Before It is Too Late Too Soon", is very apropos to the message expressed so far.

The article is about Berry, Kentucky in the 1910s, a time before World Wars and Depressions when Harrison County's second largest community (after Cynthiana) basked in what seemed to be an aura of boundless energy and enthusiasm.  Work could be hard, but people still had time to have fun, and if you grew up there in the early decades of the 20th century, you might not want to trade that time of your life for anything else or any other place in the world.

A budding interest in genealogy combined with the opportunity to travel in the 1990s allowed me to capture such sentiments as expressed by my great-aunt, Martha Elizabeth (Elmore) Byerley (1906-1998) nearly eight decades later.  She spent her preteen years living life, having fun, and, yes, going to school at Berry.  The stories she told are short and entertaining and . . . maybe best of all . . . she took albums full of pictures to illustrate the "good ol' days," some which have been reproduced on the front page of this issue of the Harrison Heritage News.

So, don't you wait to until it is too late too soon to get your copy of the April 2014 issue of the Harrison Heritage News today!  Visit www.HarrisonCountyKy.US/Historical-Society for membership information.

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     “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”—Dr. Seuss