Saugerties has a long-enough history that you can just about trace the phases of it in the growth and decline of interest in that history. A look at the earliest photograph of Saugerties is the best way to show history is on the upswing right now.
A once famous, now all-but-forgotten, auto race was reenacted on a recent crisp fall weekend.
New Paltz’s founding families owned slaves, a fact the community continues to grapple with. Earlier this month SUNY New Paltz’s president announced the college would look into whether it should rename buildings named for the community’s founders. Last week, five writer-storytellers participated in “Reclaiming Our Time: A Live Performance by TMI Project,” delivering monologues after spending the night a former slave quarters in a historic Huguenot house.
Father Francis radically changed the spiritual life of Woodstock more than any Christian clergyman before or since.
A portrait exemplifies the richness of authentic local history.
Robert Aiello’s new self-published memoir, Remembering Glasco: Growing up in an Italian-American village, revels in a host of hometown experiences. That includes a sense of ethnic identity that was once a bedrock of Hudson Valley life.
It may be a surprise to some to learn that stringent segregation practices for travelers occurred not only in the South, but also in the North. While there may not have been any “Whites Only” signs, in the North “it was de facto segregation; it was understood African Americans were not welcome at mainstream white-owned resorts,” said Dr. Gretchen Sorin, a museum consultant and director and distinguished professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program. “They had their own places. In between, they had to transverse these white spaces, where they were not welcome.”
Peeking through the window of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History into the dust-covered former Reher Bakery in Rondout is a tantalizing glimpse back into a moment of time.
A story from the annals of the women’s suffrage movement.
A broad-ranging conversation, held in the wake of events in Virginia that sparked a national debate about how the past should be remembered.