Village Historian

I took a short leave of absence from Delhi history due to a tick bite infection. I encourage everyone who spends time in cemeteries, or anywhere outdoors, to take precautions. Use insect and tick repellent and wear appropriate clothes and shoes. It was not fun.

I’ve been thinking about the Old Delhi Burying Ground and the Delhi residents buried there. I’m already looking forward to working in Old Delhi again this spring. I haven’t found, and don’t know if one exists… Read More

More than once in my 50 years of experience with gravestones and cemeteries, someone has told me they discovered an abandoned gravestone. The first one for me was a Coffin Man gravestone. If you’re not familiar with Coffin Man and the Coffin Group of gravestone carvers and would like to know more, please email me at historian@villageofdelhi.com.

Around 1996 I received a call from the director of DCHA, Liz Callahan, telling me someone had found an intact gravestone… Read More

A friend of mine, Diane Galusha, President of the Middletown Historical Society, recently mailed me this Delhi card. The Delaware Republican newspaper office was in the former Bishop and Hill law office on Main St, where the Lost Bookstore is now. Robert McIntosh, with his wife and children, lived in the apartment over the newspaper office. The eldest girl was Kate and her younger sister was Helen, a very close friend of my mother, Alta McCaffrey. In March 1995 I visited… Read More