Warning: trees may begin speaking to you. It happened to me after six years here. Nowadays, a tree in my back yard offers me advice almost daily. I asked her if she wished to speak for this article, and she said (to all of you), “Do everything slowfully.”
In one of the newspapers in which Almanac Weekly appears, the same letter-writers offer repeated excursions into sinister conspiracy and
I once asked Kingston musician and BSP booking agent Mike Amari whether we have a scene in the mid-Hudson region.
Today, when most people think of fashion in relation to Woodstock, tie-dyed everything and perhaps the image of a Granny dress might spring to mind. And yet, long before Woodstock gave its name to an entire generation, Augusta Allen began crafting a dress that a different generation of Woodstock women would embrace as a representation of their own time.
In the days before technology and engineering began to remove barriers posed by a frozen river, the predominant form of transportation once ice closed the river to shipping was the horsedrawn sleigh.
On my walk about town, I strolled into 89 Partition Street, home of the store Dig, a portion of which
Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum’s call last week for licensed pistol permit holders to begin carrying their weapons in
The Roaring Twenties were a roaring old time in Ulster County, thanks in great part to Legs Diamond. He had an aqueduct constructed under the streets of Kingston: a beer aqueduct, running from his brewery at Barmann and South Clinton avenues in Kingston down to the river, where barrels of beer were filled and loaded onto barges. One rumor has it that Judge Joseph Force Crater, who stepped out of a night spot in midtown Manhattan and was never seen again, may have been buried in Legs Diamond’s brewery.
The falls at Glenerie are familiar to drivers on route 9W — on the right heading south leaving Saugerties. What
As the 19th century moved into 20th, the hamlets grew into centers of employment as boarding houses and resort colonies became the mainstays of Saugerties’ rural economy.