First Place Winner of $1,000:
Mary Jane Watson of South Colton, NY. |
Second Place Winner of $500:
Laura Halferty of Ellisburg, NY. |
Mary Jane Watson's first place winning entry, "St. Lawrence County Native Leads New Deal Opposition," may be viewed as a Word document or PDF file. Ms. Watson's paper demonstrated good documentation, a well-developed and well-supported argument, clear writing, and generally a good integration of local and national politics.
Laura Halferty's second place winning entry, "Irish Women in Oswego, 1855 and 1915," may be viewed as a Word document or PDF file. Ms. Halferty used a wide variety of sources, and made her case clearly and concisely.
The Northern New York Library Network received a total of 36 entries for its first Researching the North Country Writing Competition. Submissions were received by the following:
- John Austin, Dekalb Junction - "Calivin Chipman Had the Measles"
- Mark Barie, Rouses Point - "Celestials Across the Border"
- Margaret Bartley, New Russia - "Primary Voices"
- Brooke Beazer, Potsdam - "Clarkson University Women's Hockey: There is a History"
- Louise Bixby, South Colton - "Footpaths Along the Raquette"
- Darren Bonaparte, Akwesasne - "Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians"
- Mary Alice Burke Robinson, Green Valley, AZ - "Dr. Theron Dyke Jenkins and the Stockholm Murders"
- David Deno, Plattsburgh - "Weapons of Mass Destruction in the North Country"
- Larry Dolan, Morrisonville - "The Flats in Eight Vignettes"
- Lawrence Gooley, Plattsburgh - "Straddling the Boundary, The Story of Franklin County's Line Stores"
- Ray Hansen, Carthage - "A North Country Institution"
- Kathleen Havens Gezzi, North Creek - "A Place for Julia's Girls"
- Michelle Hills, Plattsburgh - "The History of Abolitionist Silas Rogers Woodruff: Reverend of the Presbytery of Champlain and Owner of the Woodruff Homestead"
- Connie Jenkins, Malone - "Voices of Flanagan"
- Linda Kammeyer, Gouverneur - "The Show Must Go On"
- Betsy Kepes, Colton - "Good for You, Susan (Susan B. Anthony in the North Country In Person and In the Press)"
- Odile LaComb, Massena - "Historical Homes in Massena Center"
- Nathaniel LaGarry, Winthrop - "The White Church of Stockholm"
- Kimberly Lamay, Saratoga Springs - "Defending the Northern Frontier: The Home Guard Along the Canandian Border 1864-65"
- Sarah More, Waddington - "Chasing the Ghost of Hank Monk"
- Peter Morrill, Tupper Lake - "E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake: An Historical Analysis"
- Joanne Murray, Malone - "James Patrick Farley, The Best Hated Man in This Country"
- Donald Papson, Plattsburgh - "God, is thy throne accessible to me? Words for a Black Woman in the 19th Century"
- Carol Payment Poole, Saranac Lake - "The Founding Families of Foust, NY"
- Kathleen Perham, Parish - "Early Education in Oswego County"
- Kay Perham, Parish - "The Pioneer Women"
- Eric Petersen, Red Hook - "The Student Anti-War Movement During Vietnam War in Plattsburgh and its Interactions with the Surrounding Community"
- Dustin Relation, Altona - "Towering Towards the Blue? Altona Central School"
- Gary Rhodes, Belleville - "Reverand Holland Weeks of Abington, MA and Henderson, NY"
- Shari Simmons, Copenhagen - "Coming of a Railroad, Copenhagen"
- Susan Skilton, Moraga, CA - "Annette Savage: Rest of the Story"
- David Swartzentruber, Clayton - "A Condensed and Updated History of the Mennonite Community in Northern New York"
- Laurie Swinwood, Canton - "Almanzo Wilder"
- Carol Villeneuve, Antwerp - "My Great-Grandfather and the Civil War"
To view a complete list of guidelines associated with the Competition, click here.