Tasteful time capsule: Kingston’s Fred J. Johnston Museum
There are few places more pleasant in the Hudson Valley for exploration on foot than Kingston’s Stockade Historic District. A
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Hyde Park unveils renovated FDR Museum
If you’re a local resident who gets visitors from out of town, you have probably at some point taken them
63rd annual Stone House Day in Hurley
Hurley is home to more than 25 Colonial-era stone houses, ten of them situated within a quarter-mile of each other
Cornell Cooperative Extension celebrates its centennial in Kingston this Saturday
The 1862 Morrill Act gave states grants in the form of federal land parcels to build universities specifically intended to
Wallkill Valley Land Trust house tour allows for rare stop at Riverby
John Burroughs’ famous roughhewn cabin Slabsides is on the must-see list of many mid-Hudsonites, so we make a point of
Local Legends of Woodstock book-signing at Golden Notebook
Woodstock is the world’s most famous small town, forever associated with the 1960s counterculture and for more than 100 years
Memorial Day weekend events at FDR Home & Library
If you want to spend part of Memorial Day weekend honoring those fallen in military service in some way, but
A pastor’s double life unearthed
The story of an influential early 19th-century pastor who was born a slave on a large estate in Dutchess County.
Hudson River Maritime Museum opens with two new exhibits
The Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout in Kingston has been “providing the portal to history along the Hudson”
Hudson Valley History Reading Festival in Hyde Park
Every summer, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a Roosevelt Reading Festival, featuring readings by authors who