Joel Kimball Diary - 1874

A long lost journal, written over one hundred and thirty five years ago and found over two thousand miles away, offers an unusual perspective of the Town of Rockland's history, this year of the township's bicentennial. Though simply written, the images that appear are vivid, forgotten characters from long ago are brought back to life and the era defined by one who lived and, fortunately, recorded it.
 
Summer of 1984 - A stroke of Luck - Like any auction, the box of items went to the highest bidder Chris Kneer. The auction was somewhere in Colorado during the summer of 1984. Inside the box, amongst the other articles, was a small, leather bound journal, its pages yellowed from age and its penciled notations fading into graphite dust. Inside the front cover, though, was the plain and simple inscription; "Joel Kimball, Purvis." With names over a century old and places almost two-thousand miles away, Chris Kneer was able to determine its origin and generously loaned the diary to the Sullivan County Historical Society on September 11, 1984. Today, it still remains within the museum's archives, yet to be reclaimed by the highest bidder for this window to our local history. -  Fred

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