Local History

A powerful reenactment of Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman will be performed by the reverend Deborah A. Zuill on...

The Hurley Heritage Society will host an online presentation and lecture featuring the DeWitt Cousins of Uncovering History and the...

The exhibit “Making Woodstock Home: Artist William Arlt” features the life and work of an early-20th-century Woodstock artist whose descendants...

The ‘‘Our towns’’ column is compiled each month by Carol Johnson of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. The entries have been...

A nearby community’s need to save a treasured asset brought an incumbent congressman and first-time candidate from neighboring districts together to...

The Elverhoj Arts and Crafts Colony began with high aspirations, as all such utopian ventures do. Established in 1912 on...

The New York State Covered Bridge Society (NYSCBS) is hosting a meet-and-greet at Perrine’s Covered Bridge on the weekend of...

For its Fall 2022 “living history” presentation, Theatre on the Road and the Old Dutch Church in Kingston will offer...

Last Saturday’s walking tour sponsored by the Wallkill Valley Land Trust, “Williams Lake: Past, Present & Future,” took participants back...

“I love uncovering evidence of the people who lived here before me,” says Academy Award-nominated actor Penelope Milford. We’re standing in...

When we live inside a home for any period of time, it begins to collect physical and emotional residue for...

Theatre on the Road, a traveling company based in Rosendale, will collaborate with the Historical Society of Woodstock on an...

The rain on Labor Day spoiled the holiday plans of a great many people and made the travelling very disagreeable...

Make no mistake about it. Immigration Day — more commonly known as Labor Day — is a time originally intended...

The exhibition, “Making Woodstock Home: Artist William Arlt” will be on display from September 10 through October 30 at the...

Stephen Blauweiss and Karen Berelowitz are two such strivers. Their impossibly detailed book The Story of Historic Kingston, Featuring 950...

The fifty-four-page hardcover volume contains twenty-four color reproductions of McGloughlin’s luminous oil paintings and twenty of Straub’s inspirational reflections on...

A young Clarence Bolton arrived in Woodstock in 1917 for a brief visit and stayed for the next 45 years....

New Paltz is not usually the scene of petty lawsuits, but a squabble between two women last week resulted in...

I’m not sure I wish I knew all the details of my paternal great-grandfather’s life in America. John P. Horrigan...