Dragon Inn demolition likely
A battle between the village’s Historic Review Board and the owner of a 19th-century mansion over a proposed demolition may
Local History
Genealogist Jane Wilcox lectures on Hudson Valley colonization
With the advent of the Internet, researching one’s family history has become a more popular and accessible hobby than ever
Restoring oil paintings with Carol Field in Stone Ridge
“You can’t go slowly enough or carefully enough with them,” says Carol Field about the oil paintings that she cleans
Tap roots: Documentary on Peg Leg Bates this Sunday
Don’t look at me in sympathy, I’m glad that I’m this way; For I feel good and I’m knockin’ on
Black History celebration in Rosendale
When president Gerald Ford announced the adoption of February as Black History Month as an official government observance in 1976,
SUNY-New Paltz professor to premiere new opera about Harriet Tubman
With the growth of interest in heritage tourism, one hears more and more these days about sites in the Hudson
History lesson with Dr. William Rhoads
Dr. William Rhoads, author of Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History and Guide, will speak at a meeting of
Barnstormy weather: Legacy of black baseball celebrated in Poughkeepsie
On the sultry summer evening of August 27, 1941, the Kansas City Monarchs, a perennial powerhouse of the Negro American
Gerald Sorin’s biography of Howard Fast revisits a controversial Communist figure
Gerald Sorin, a professor of history and Jewish studies at SUNY New Paltz, has just released a biography of Howard
As long as grass is green
Getting elected president of the US is all well and good, but that doesn’t mean that you get to have