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List of VP's and role description here
2018: Year of the Veteran in Dutchess County is a collaborative effort lead by DCHS, offices of County Executive, Director of Veterans Services and Historian, and local counterparts in each community. Participation is open to all! Our wish is for the Full scope of this collaborative work to align with state and even national efforts, giving our local work greater context and larger, more visible platform.
We are Developing Four Main Avenues of Public Exhibition
Online Permanent
3-D Objects
County Office Building Courtesy County Clerk ~ Before March 1 and ongoing
DCHS Yearbook
Photo Essay ~ Dec 2018
"Over Here" Traveling exhibition 2018 ~ 2019
A display of powerful photographs with related headlines from local newspapers will be featured on portable panels with an inaugural launch at the FDR Presidential Museum & Library’s Wallace Center in May 2018. This exhibition will also be featured at the Dutchess County Fair in late August.The panels are available to travel town to town outside of those times. Contact us to do so! They feature photographs taken largely between 1917 and 1919 by local professional photographer Reuben Van Vlack, who served in WWI. Included is a never-before-published photograph of then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt leading a brisk march down Main Street two years before he contracted polio. The Van Vlack photographs were donated to DCHS in 1981 by C Fred Close, a WWI Purple Heart veteran and County Sheriff for 25 years.
"Over Here" permanent online exhibition
Photographs, letters, documents, newspaper clippings from the cities, towns, and villages of Dutchess County relating to "World War" will be maintained bon theDCHS with the option of local organizations to equally exhibit on their online properties.
Exhibition of objects and three-dimensional memorabilia
Not yet opened, will be set up on display on the first floor of the Dutchess County Office Building courtesy of the County Clerk.
Photoessay in 2018 DCHS Yearbook
Still in conceptual development we hope to have a strong visual presentation of Van Vlack photos in the Yearbook.
The Photographs of Reuben Van Vlack / DCHS Fred Close Collection are a Central Feature
Initial focus on two pieces of exhibition content
Local Memorials Inventory
An important feature of the online exhibition will involve documenting all WWI-related memorials in the county which range from "living memorials" that remain gardens to this day, to more traditional plaques and statues.
Link to national WWI Memorial Documentation project.
Memorials Inventory
Oral Histories Library
The Oral History program is a significant component of the online exhibition. We are expanding on work initiated by Bard College's Gretta Tritch Roman and Historic Red Hook in their work with students in the development and use of of a Mobil History Van.as well as Marist College, Hudson River Valley Institute and the Library of Congress.
Please check back for updates.
Oral Histories
Published and unpublished county-wide information from the period relating to draftees, others
1916 NYS Military Census County Summary
1922 Statewide Honor Roll
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