The world was opening up to scientific study in the 18th century, and many men took up the study of botany. Jane Colden is the first female on record to have done so. And her Flora — Nov Eboracensis is one of the most extensive botanical studies of a single region carried out at the time.
Saturday, April 22: It’s time for a celebration. The Proprietors Ball marks the grand re-opening of New York State’s oldest theater.
Re-creating a moment in time through a Rondout baker’s list of orders.
Sometimes we take for granted the things we become accustomed to. Bluestone sidewalks, for example, literally underfoot in most of Kingston, are so much a part of the streetscape they go unnoticed in the hubbub of daily life.
Saturday, April 8: To mark the centennial, the Staatsburgh State Historic Site is offering a special themed tour titled “World War I & the End of the Gilded Age.”
One newspaper of the time described thriving but cholera-ridden Poughkeepsie as, “A fine place to live, with fine schools and churches and railroad accommodations, well governed but oh, how sickly.”
Concluding a national search, Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) has announced the hiring of its new Executive Director, Marybeth De Filippis.
Knox was a sort of 18th-century Zelig, always in the thick of history-making events.
In 1973, Robert Konefal was a young chemist doing research for Nestlé’s but discontented with the corporate world. At the Pine Hill Arms, a historic boarding house in the hamlet of Pine Hill, he drank a good deal of vodka with the owner one night, and next thing he knew, he had bought the Arms.
While Ulster County has been enjoying the success of Kingston’s Lace Mill artist housing project by RUPCO, the Dutchess County not-for-profit organization Hudson River Housing, Inc. has been busily renovating a three-story brick building known as the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory.