Nancy V. Kelly's interest in local history developed as she grew up at Sepascot Home Farm in Rhinebeck. She is a graduate of Cornell University with a major in education and has served as Rhinebeck Town Historian since 1997. She is the author of A Brief History of Rhinebeck and is registrar of the Rhinebeck Chapter of the DAR; she is also a member of the Dutchess County Historical Society, the Dutchess County Genealogical Society, the Rhinebeck Historical Society and the Palatine Farmstead committee. She is chairman of the Consortium of Rhinebeck History, a group of the local historical organi...