Geology of Saugerties
Saugerties is a town divided into two halves by one mountain.
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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.
Winter’s past
If sitting and spitting tobacco juice wasn’t your way of passing time during the winter, lifting a jug of hard cider was yet another way to make it through the day.
The winter soundscape
The ice, the wind, the snow — these are not only essential elements of our wintertime scenery but also the source and structure of the frozen soundscape. Sometimes it is worth it to peel back the parka hood or lift a fold of a wool cap to expose an ear to the cold and soak up the sounds or simply enjoy the stillness.
Surveys show that you love our weather
Our government did a survey a few years ago, about how people felt about their region’s climate. Believe it or
Suzan Saxman is a Reluctant Psychic
Since the appearance of the January 23 New York Post article on Suzan Saxman’s memoir, The Reluctant Psychic, which comes
Private rockets to space… and the Halloween accident
On October 31, a deadly high-altitude accident destroyed the SS2 space plane. The test flight had been conducted by one
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.
High-energy cosmic rays: You better duck
Cosmic Rays have a mysterious-sounding name, and live up to it. Even their history is intriguing. Their presence was first
Venus, meet Mercury: Oddities of a fabulous conjunction
The planets Venus and Mercury will be truly noteworthy the next ten days. They’ll do a photobomb. Venus had a