NEW TRAVELING EXHIBIT: 250th Revolutionary Anniversary
NEW TRAVELING EXHIBIT: 250th Revolutionary Anniversary
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The Albany Post Road was the vital artery between New York City and the state capital in Albany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It saw a host of interesting…
In photographs and paintings the Delaware & Hudson Canal appears calm and unrufffled. The charming picture is not entirely false, but there is another dimension to the D&H Company, a…
The Catskills’ most enduring treasure tale is about the hoard of Prohibition-era gangster Dutch Shultz who was gunned down in a Newark chop house shortly after he returned from Phoenicia…
Recollections of a One-time Farm Boy – How It Was on the Orange-Sullivan Border Back in the l920s and 1930s. Author: Charlie Crist.
From the historical introduction of the Centennial Celebration of the evacuation of New York by the British (New York in the Revolution series). Author: John Austin Stevens.
From the Hudson Valley to the West Branch of the Delaware River Valley. There is catalog of 379 industries and facilities and 191 maps of track plans. Author: Michael Kudish.
This is an addendum of supplemental and updated material for Volume 4 of this series, Where Did the Tracks Go in the Catskills? It contains 31 new maps and detailed text…
Bart Charlow, born a “Hotel Brat”, lifts the curtains on a rollicking era that they missed. Most books focus on the glamour of the era. A Catskill Carnival takes you behind…
This book explains definitively and for the first time why the festival was named Woodstock, and why it continues to be so closely associated with the town, even though the…
Paperback, 232 pages
The vintage postcards in Wawarsing provide views of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, the Ontario and Western Railroad, and a glimpse back to a quieter time when the mountain and valley landscape provided picturesque locations for lovely hotels and boardinghouses.
Paperback, 129 pages
In 1870, the” New York Herald” proclaimed that Ulster County was New York’s “Ulcer County” due to its lawlessness and crime. The columnist supported his claim by citing that in only six months, “it has been the scene of no less than four cold blooded and brutal murders, six suicides and four elopements.” Hannah Markle–the bane of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union–ran a Kingston saloon where murder and violence were served alongside the whiskey. John Babbitt confessed on his deathbed to murdering Emma Brooks, and Willie Brown–reputed member of the Eastman Gang–accidentally shot his best friend. The infamous Big Bad Bill, the “Gardiner Desperado,” lashed out more than once and killed in a drunken rage. Discover the mayhem and murder that these and others wreaked on one of New York State’s original counties.