Roughing it for the rich: Camp Awosting on the Shawangunk Ridge (1900-1934)
[portfolio_slideshow id=15025] How do you make a man of a boy? At the turn of the last century, the
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Kaaterskill Postcard Club show & sale in Kingston
The Kaaterskill Postcard Club will be hosting its semi-annual show and sale at the Andy Murphy Midtown Neighborhood Center in
Legs, kegs & a famous missing person: Kingston’s Barmann Brewery
State Supreme Court justice Joseph Force Crater was once known as the “missingest man in New York.” Last seen leaving a Midtown Manhattan restaurant in 1930, Judge Crater was the subject of a massive manhunt and media frenzy. Some say his final resting place lies outside lies in Kingston outside an old brewery.
Heroines of the Hudson: The untold story of 19th-century women lighthouse keepers
Saugerties had its own 19th-century heroines: Kate Crowley and her sister, Ellen.“Those gals are bricks,” said a river pilot who saw them rescue a pair of sailors from a sloop capsized in a sudden squall. “And make no mistake. You couldn’t have got any river boatmen to do what those girls did.”
Friends of Historic Saugerties offers local history buffs a new resource
“Here’s a question for you,” says Gus Pedersen, furniture designer and local history buff. We’re talking about obsolete occupations that
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry on screen at Upstate Films
If you’re old enough to remember the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement (the First Wave was for suffrage, from
Kingston’s Midtown Gem: Beautiful Old City Hall
Boarded up and abandoned for nearly 30 years, the restoration of Kingston’s city hall was about more than historic preservation. Occurring shortly after the disastrous closure of IBM, the project reinstated a legacy of civic pride upon which the city and its citizens could build.
Winter’s past
If sitting and spitting tobacco juice wasn’t your way of passing time during the winter, lifting a jug of hard cider was yet another way to make it through the day.
Videofreex: The Art of Guerilla Television in the Catskills
[portfolio_slideshow id=14420] All photographs courtesy of Videofreex On Saturday, February 7 from 5 to 7 p.m., the Samuel Dorsky
Embattled Historic Review Board chair resigns
Richard Frisbie, chair of the village’s Historic Preservation Board, resigned his position today. “To be treated as something to be