Saturday, June 2: Tour-goers will visit simple farmsteads and houses from the Federal period, three-bay side-hall and five-bay center-hall structures. Seven of the town’s most interesting and unusual vernacular structures in a range of period styles dating to the 19th and 20th centuries will be featured, with the Greek Revival aesthetic and the diversity of its expression in the region a recurring theme.
The annual New Paltz Memorial Day parade and services will be held on Wednesday, May 30 at 6 p.m. The
Wednesday, May 30: Saugerties will mark the occasion with a traditional Memorial Day service at the American Legion Post, and on the same day, the Stallions baseball team will recognize local veterans at the beginning of the game.
Monday, May 28 will be Kingston’s traditional Memorial Day ceremony, set for 1 p.m. in front of City Hall. At 1:45 p.m., the parade will step off from Andrew St. and will proceed along Broadway towards Uptown Kingston.
Monday, May 28: The town will hold a parade and unveil a new street sign named for Richard Floyd Quinn, the only Woodstocker to lose his life during the Vietnam War.
After two years of not opening until July Fourth weekend (not to mention being closed for replacement for several summers before that), the new Rosendale Pool is headed for an early start to the 2018 season.
The Empire State Railway Museum, the former Phoenicia train station, has undergone a major sprucing up and reorganization as it prepares to serve as the terminus for the Rail Explorers rail bikes, which were chosen by Ulster County to take over the Phoenicia run of Catskill Mountain Railroad.The museum reopens Memorial Day weekend, as Rail Explorers launch their local operation, offering rail bike tours from Phoenicia to Mount Pleasant and back.
Moriello Pool is scheduled to open to the public on weekends beginning with the three-day Memorial Day weekend, May 26-28. The pool will open to the public daily beginning Saturday, June 23.
Saturday-Monday, May 26-28: There will be two huge vendor tents and rows of outdoor craft booths, plus separate tents for furniture, architectural crafts, specialty foods and healthcare products, crafts supplies and live demonstrations.
Saturday, May 26: The museum will open its season with a grand Community Event featuring live music, a food truck, children’s activities, and tours and hikes on the North Family grounds, where the utopian project throve from 1787 to 1947.