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A.J. Schenkman appointed Gardiner town historian

by Frances Marion Platt
April 14, 2016
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A. J. Schenkman is the new town historian in Gardiner. (photo by Lauren Thomas)
A. J. Schenkman is the new town historian in Gardiner. (photo by Lauren Thomas)

Longtime Gardiner town historian Carleton Mabee, who died on December 18, 2014, six days shy of his 100th birthday, was a tough act to follow. Professor emeritus in the history department at SUNY New Paltz, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his biography of Samuel F. B. Morse and wrote a well-regarded book on Sojourner Truth. “Each year it was a pleasure asking him to be town historian,” town supervisor Carl Zatz reminisced at last week’s Gardiner Town Board meeting.

But apparently eight months was long enough to leave the post empty. The Town Board swiftly, enthusiastically and unanimously voted to accept Zatz’s nomination of A. J. Schenkman as Gardiner’s next town historian. “He has a love for local history,” observed councilman David Dukler.

Schenkman, who teaches history at the John G. Boardman Middle School in the Wallkill School District, “recently moved from Kerhonkson to Gardiner,” according to Zatz. The author of Wicked Ulster: Tales of Desperadoes, Gangs and More (History Press, 2012) and co-author with Elizabeth Werlau of Murder and Mayhem in Ulster County (History Press, 2013), Schenkman is currently the “history blogger” for the Times Herald-Record and a regular contributor to the online magazine New York History, and has written history columns for the Shawangunk Journal and Bluestone Press.

A consultant to Historic Huguenot Street and a former board member of the Friends of the Senate House, Schenkman launched his career by working as a guide and interpreter, often in period costume, at historic sites including Washington’s Headquarters in Newburgh and the New Windsor Cantonment, in addition to Historic Huguenot Street.

 

 

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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