White’s Dairy Bar has been chilling out Eddyville since 1970
One thing — maybe the only thing — upon which this country can today peaceably unite is soft-serve.
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The lineage and the future of Woodstock’s Church on the Mount
Shock surrounding the sudden death of Father John (AKA Jack Nelson), Vicar of Woodstock’s legendary Church of the Holy Transformation of Christ-on-the- Mount, has left the fate of this landmark institution in serious question.
The importance of being Charlotte
How different would Woodstock be today if not for a meeting arranged by the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
The new, new Catskills
Culturally, the Catskills are a bright mosaic of urban and rural mores and values. But scratch the surface and we have all the problems of rural Appalachia: addiction, poverty, a greying population, a general purposelessness that siphons the brightest of our young people out of our schools and our communities.
The Schindler of Kingston
Part mischievous trickster, part Old-World aristocrat, László Ocskay saved over 2000 Jews from the Holocaust. But because of Cold War politics, few in his native Hungary knew about it. He lived his last years quietly in Kingston. Recognition came later.
Mapping the Catskills
The Catskill Mountains are crisscrossed with political and cultural lines that meander across the landscape like so many invisible trout streams, carving the landscape into more tame and manageable pieces. The result of all this slicing and dicing is that little attention gets paid to the Catskills as a whole, either by its own residents or by the larger powers that be.
How to navigate New Paltz, from someone who never really left
If the national news doesn’t visit every few years for organic reasons, someone will do something to induce it.
Did life begin among the stars?
Finding glycine among the raven clouds of night, amidst the Milky Way that spreads across the heavens these very nights, is stunning.
Jane Colden, America’s first female botanist, classified plants locally
The world was opening up to scientific study in the 18th century, and many men took up the study of botany. Jane Colden is the first female on record to have done so. And her Flora — Nov Eboracensis is one of the most extensive botanical studies of a single region carried out at the time.
A Day’s Work: Pharmacist
‘The nice thing about being a community pharmacist is that we are pretty much the most accessible health care professional.’