The Pienpack Company is owned by Peter Osborne. Osborne has been employed in the public history field for thirty years and has a wide range of experience in managing not-for-profits, creating public programming, writing about regional history and overseeing restoration projects. He has had an active career promoting history through a variety of experiences including lectures, demonstrations, walking tours, motor coach tours and Power Point programs.

Osborne has written nine books, four of which are about the Civilian Conservation Corps, the New Deal agency that President Franklin Roosevelt created to combat the effects of the Great Depression They undertook thousands of conservation projects around the country today that continue to benefit the nation today. He has also written about local and regional history and designed commemorative books.

Osborne has also built exhibits for area museums, created brochures and promotional literature. Osborne has been involved in many public projects including the creation and implementation of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway, eight public memorials, and overseen or been involved with a number of restoration projects including historic structures, cemeteries and historic properties. His work has been the recipient of a number of awards over the last three decades.

Courtesy Rick Hibberd

Peter Osborne giving a walking tour of the Civilian Conservation Corps projects at High Point State Park in Sussex, New Jersey.

Russel F. Lord: His Life, His Times, His Letters

The Port Jervis Area Heritage Commission
Salutes The Gilded Age

The Port Jervis Area Heritage Commission Salutes
The Old Decker Stone House

The New York-New Jersey Boundary Dispute:
While New Jersey Dozed, New York Was Wide Awake

Graveyard Art And Its History

The Chartering Of The City Of Port Jervis: 1907-1997

Blood and Mayhem on The Delaware: Historical Geography of Brant’s Minisink Raid and the Battle of Minisink - July 1779
Co-authored with Jon Inners

We Can Take It: The Roosevelt Tree Army at
High Point State Park 1933-1941: Interviews With Former
Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollees, Camp Kuser,
Companies 216 & 1280, volume 1 and 2
Editor

We Can Take It: The Roosevelt Tree Army At
New Jersey’s High Point State Park 1933-1941

Images of America:
High Point State Park And The Civilian Conservation Corps

Upper Delaware Scenic Byway Dedication Program Souvenir
Compiled for Upper Delaware Scenic Byway

Put The Dog On The Phone:
The Collected Newspaper Columns of Janis Osborne
Designer and Compiler

Images of America:
Hacklebarney and Voorhees State Parks

Images of America:
Promised Land State Park

The Delaware River Heritage Trail Guide

Perseverance & Vigilance
The History of the Old Decker Stone House

Hail Matamoras
Designer and compiled with
Nancy Vocci, William Clark and Gerry Wenders

Our Town: Historic Port Jervis 1907-2007
Co-authored with Daniel Dwyer

A Day In The Life of Port Jervis: July 26, 2007
A Community Celebrating Its 100th Birthday
Executive Producer of DVD

For Always: Memories of Janis

Lewis and Clark and Me (Digital Book)

So Many Brave Men: A History of the Battle at Minsink Ford
Mark Hendrickson, Jon Inners and Peter Osborne

Introductions to:

Images of America: Port Jervis, Then and Now: Port Jervis
Images of America: the D & H Canal and Gravity Railroad
All by Matthew Osterberg,
Reminiscences
By John Willard Johnston

Pamphlets and Books by Peter Osborne