A Look Back at Hobart, NY on the 125th Anniversary of the Village Incorporation, 1888-2013

xiv, 377 pp. The publication of a book compiled in honor of the 125th anniversary of the founding of Hobart provides two very special things for lovers of local history: a detailed history of an old village that has reinvented and renewed itself through the years from its agricultural beginnings; and the story of how many small communities worked, fed and sheltered themselves, grew and waned, and interacted with the larger world outside their confines. It is the story of the settling of much of America. A native of the Village of Hobart, James G. (Jim) Meagley grew up in Hobart and, as a member of the Hobart Historical Society, agreed to revise a 1988 pamphlet on the village's historical underpinnings.