Learn about the covered bridges of the Hudson Valley
For all covered-bridge-lovers, the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society (TOLHPS) will sponsor a presentation by Ronald G. Knapp, co-author
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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
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.
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.
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
Many comic book heroes have Hudson Valley roots
Professor X studied biology at Bard and Jean Grey spent her childhood in Annandale, and the X-Men are based in Westchester. Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series mentions Sleepy Hollow and Palenville. DC’s “Hudson College” is a fictional university located just outside New York’s first capital (Kingston). Nightwing once pursued a cadre of brainwashers and rogue geneticists to their base on Bannerman’s Island. Numerous other characters are from Hudson Valley towns or mention them.
D&H Canal Historical Society awarded grant to acquire Depuy Canal House
For the past 45 years, thanks to the genius of chef/owner John Novi, the Depuy Canal House Restaurant in the
1923 aerial lithograph sales help Hudson Library
By 1923, the field of aviation was still new and exciting, just two decades removed from the Wright brothers’ historic