GAHWNY Executive Board (2023-2024)

Executive Council Chair
Cindy Amrhein, Wyoming County Historian

Executive Council Vice Chair
Tina Thompson, Henrietta Town Historian

Secretary
Holly Watson, Livingston County Historian

Treasurer
Valerie Griffing, Nunda Town Historian
 

GAHWNY Mission Statement

The Government Appointed Historians of Western New York (founded in 2008) is dedicated to the promotion, research, interpretation and preservation of history relating to the western portion of the State of New York.

The purpose of this organization is to provide assistance and support to its membership, which consists of all officially appointed local government historians: city, county, town and village historians; all duly appointed deputies/assistants of the same, and representatives appointed by the Seneca, Tonawanda or Tuscarora Nations within Western New York, which is comprised of the counties within the Niagara, Southern Tier, and Finger Lakes Regions of New York State.

The goal of this organization is to provide an administrative service that produces a website, an annual meeting, and programming that encourages the betterment of historians within Western New York through education and training.
 

By-Laws

Read the GAHWNY by-laws, adopted 2017.