Hyde Park to celebrate 75th anniversary of “hot dog summit”
The tale of the British royals’ bemusement as the American president and first lady defied all customary protocol to feed
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Tour historic farms & homes of the Wallkill Valley
The annual historic house tour hosted by the Wallkill Valley Land Trust (WVLT) on Saturday, May 31 from 11 a.m.
From the solemn to the sublime this Memorial Day weekend
Whoever came up with what’s generally regarded as the first weekend of the summer season as the most appropriate time
The IBM Years on view in Kingston
In his highly influential study of the corporate suburbanization of America in the 1950s, The Organization Man, sociologist William H.
Donald Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known
That guy with the strange movie idea was named Errol Morris, whose 1978 documentary about a California pet cemetery, Gates
Restoring the Hoyt House in Staatsburgh
[portfolio_slideshow id=11180] Much of the magic of Central Park is due to Calvert Vaux’s architectural genius – and yet most
Jamestown West: Astoria author Peter Stark reading in Rhinebeck
Two years after the triumphant 1806 return of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from their Corps of Discovery Expedition, Thomas
Barn Dancin’ on the Rondout this Sunday
Some relationships just work. That’s how it is with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and the Hudson River Maritime Museum
The itch to stitch: Hudson Valley quilting guilds
The tradition of American women getting together to quilt evolved in the mid-19th century. The pioneers who moved westward, in
Keeper of the chronicles: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s letters discussed in Hyde Park
On Thursday, April 3, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum’s Henry A. Wallace Center in Hyde Park will