Tinker Street. What’s in a name? Well, that might be a good place to start before looking more closely at...

What was Woodstock like in the years before we lent our name to a generation? What, for this purpose, might...

For 19th century Woodstockers, Grant’s visit to their mountain was a seminal moment of recognition. His stay may have been...

When Kathy Anderson and her late husband Walt arrived in Woodstock almost 50 years ago, they had a choice —...

Through times of war, economic turmoil, and periods of political and social upheaval, December 24 has continued to serve as...

“No parent of a gifted child could have done more to develop and spread its fame than she did for...

Detail of the sign at S.S. Seahorse Tavern. (photo by Dion Ogust) In the true spirit of everyday history comes...

Today, when most people think of fashion in relation to Woodstock, tie-dyed everything and perhaps the image of a Granny...

The naming of Woodstock's most recognized street has been steeped in both myth and conjecture over the years.

Some days, you just don’t know where or how the past will make itself known. At times it can be...

In the days before technology and engineering began to remove barriers posed by a frozen river, the predominant form of...

Quarry 1890s (HSW ARchives) When chill November’s surly blast make fields and forest bare... — Robert Burns November is a...

Martin Van Buren purchased his 137-acre estate, Lindenwald, in 1839. (National Park Service) As you drive north through Columbia County,...

The Ulster County Historical Society’s Bevier House Museum (photos by Suzanne Hauspurg) Even without knowing the building’s current purpose, the...

She has been proclaimed the “mother of interior design” and footnoted by history as the “high priestess of the Aesthetic...

The Village Green in the 1970s. I recently bought a new computer. My old iMac was two operating systems shy of...

Is it possible that in the transformation of Lincoln beyond what he was in life that we run the risk...

Lincoln Funeral Train in Philadelphia. “The bells are tolling mournfully, Strong men weep in the streets. The grief is wide-spread...

If sitting and spitting tobacco juice wasn’t your way of passing time during the winter, lifting a jug of hard...

Cooper Lake Dam from the journal, Municipal Engineering, July-December, 1903. I have an idea. When it comes to the current...