On June 10, Oxford Lions Club Secretary Kevin Catheron, former President of the Greene Historical Society Nancy Bromley, New York State (NYS) Veteran Home employees, and local Historian Vicky House present Veterans with historical books donated by the Oxford Lions Club to the NYS Veterans Home, located at 4211 State Highway 220. (Photo by Kelli Miller)

OXFORD — On June 10, local Historian Vicky House, former President of the Greene Historical Society Nancy Bromley, and the Oxford Lions Club Secretary Kevin Catheron, donated two historical publications to the Oxford Veterans at New York State Veterans Home, located at 4211 State Highway 220.

Catheron said, “We wanted to donate some of the books for the Veterans to read and Vicky had done a few presentations over in Oxford, so we decided to do this and here we are.”

House presented her own first publication, “Oxford New York History- The People, The Places and The Events.”

The book is filled with more than 60 stories of local history including those of The Sherwood reopening, the Tyner Cheese Factory and the flood of 1935.

Bromley presented “I am well as common,” a book filled with Civil War letters and the diary of Henry Andrews, Co. E, 114th Infantry Regiment, New York State Volunteer from 1862 to 1865.

House said, “I love to share our history and it doesn’t have to be just Oxford history, it might be related to a war or related to some type of an event that made an impact on how we live.”

She said there were times the research landed her in Greene, Smithville and Tyner, when the people or events spread beyond Oxford.