“The high rents and general congestion in New York City and vicinity are driving people into the country. Most of...

A contemporaneous account from the pages of the New Paltz Independent and Times.

Topics include: Highland businessmen refuse to accept daylight savings; bluebirds and robins cheer locals; please keep your chickens home; first...

The winter of 1919-20 was quite a bit harsher than 2019-20. Consider: “The great depth to which the ground is...

The ‘‘Our town’’ column is compiled each month for the New Paltz Times by Carol Johnson, coordinator of the Haviland-Heidgerd...

This column includes tidbits from local papers about the amazing volunteer effort that took place to build the Hasbrouck Park...

The annual meeting of the New Paltz Study Club was held Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Bowman LeFever. The...

The ‘‘Our town’’ column is compiled each month for the New Paltz Times by Carol Johnson, coordinator of the Haviland-Heidgerd...

What was happening around town in January of 1919?

This is the story of two remarkable people who, 51 years ago, envisioned a place where people from near and...

Words from a lost age. “The present campaign has certainly been carried on, in a very ladylike manner. Never before...

Alfred Harcourt (1881-1954) was the son of Charles Harcourt of Marlborough and Gertrude Elting of Clintondale. He grew up in...

Built in 1902, the old iron bridge over the Wallkill River in Gardiner was the scene of an automobile accident...

James Grant Wilson, 1832-1914: Gen. James Grant Wilson died in New York on Sunday, aged 82 years. He was noted...

For many years after the Civil War there was a celebration in the village, to which veterans and their families,...

These three homes on the south side of Main Street were the scene of a progressive dinner in August 1912....

The ‘‘Our town’’ column is compiled each month for the New Paltz Times by Carol Johnson, coordinator of the Haviland-Heidgerd...

The ‘‘Our town’’ column is compiled each month for the New Paltz Times by Carol Johnson, coordinator of the Haviland-Heidgerd...

  One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, the American Civil War began. On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, a United...