Santa arrives in Highland to Light up the Hamlet
The weather that prevailed in downtown Highland on the evening of Friday the 13th was more late-autumn dreary than winter-holiday
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Written in stone: The surprising career of Pine Hill’s scientist/philanthropist Henry Morton
In 1870 Morton became the first president of the newly founded Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, and used his own personal wealth to equip its labs with steam engines, tools and electrical equipment. He experimented and published widely, and was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He also spent summers in the Catskills, and in 1897 he established Pine Hill’s first library.
Perhaps for the last time, 63 Up revisits 14 famous ordinary British schoolchildren
They’re back again, most of them: those fascinating English kids first introduced to us in the 1964 Granada Television documentary 7 Up and brought back to our attention at seven-year intervals ever since, in what is probably the best-known, most influential longitudinal study of human sociology ever captured onscreen.
High Falls Conservancy’s Grady Park, Creek Walk restoration projects get into high gear
The Creek Walk is a plan to create a walkable connection from the center of High Falls to the nearby rail trail, and the restoration of Grady Park would improve the location known to many as the setting for the town’s long-running Sunday flea market, with the remains of D & H Canal Lock 17 as its backdrop.
Gingerbread competition wows visitors at Mohonk
The competition was fierce last week in the fourth installment of the contest.
Supporting actor Ally Condrath steals the spotlight in Denizen’s Christmastown: A Holiday Noir
Condrath is a bundle of energy on the road to stardom, soon to appear in a TV series called Pixar IRL on Disney+. And for this month only, she’s in New Paltz.
Dark Waters is a powerful environmental wake-up call
A man known for his personal environmental activism – particularly on the subject of fracking here in New York State – Mark Ruffalo the movie star disappears admirably into the role of a most unflashy, but doggedly tenacious, modern American hero.
Gardiner kicks off the holiday season Friday, December 6
Each year, Gardinerites gather outside Town Hall for a Tree-Lighting Ceremony, preceded by a parade through the hamlet with a fire engine blaring carols over a loudspeaker and a performance by the students of Take the Leap Dance Company upon arrival.
Hollywood-on-Hudson: Mohonk hosts Billions as local filmmaking ramps up
This week Mohonk Mountain House served as a set for a party scene in the fifth season of the Showtime series Billions, which stars Paul Giamatti as a US attorney (loosely based on Preet Bharara) and Damian Lewis as the hedge fund tycoon he’s pursuing. In Hudson Valley Film Commission director Laurent Rejto’s view, 2019 has quite simply been “the most successful year to date for regional film and TV production.”
Susan Cooper reads “The Shortest Day” in Rhinebeck during Sinterklaas
Saturday, Dec. 7: Cooper, the author of the much-loved, Newbery Medal-winning five-book series The Dark Is Rising, learned to love literature in the family bomb shelter as her mother read aloud by candlelight to pass the time during the Blitz.