Chartered by the NYS Education Department in 2005, HSM has sponsored many public programs on aspects of local and regional history; preserved, in microfilm and in digital format, the Catskill Mountain News, 1902-1937; begun a collection of photographs, original documents, records, journals and memorabilia; collected and transcribed interviews with several community elders; conducted workshops on doing oral history interviews, researching house histories, and repairing cemetery stones; created a self-guided walking tour of historic Margaretville; restored and exhibited images from a collection of glass plate negatives, and offered historic house and cemetery tours.
Friends of Middletown Cemeteries, a committee of HSM, has inventoried several burial grounds and hopes to engage in cemetery restoration projects. HSM has also embarked on a multi-year project to document Middletown's long agricultural heritage.
