Beavers help shape New Paltz’s Mill Brook Preserve
Beavers serve as nature’s hydroengineers, creating ponds and lakes, diverting streams, slowing stormwater runoff and designing landscapes that welcome a ...
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How an enormous chain across the Hudson slowed British domination during the Revolutionary War
The Great Chain could be dismantled and pulled ashore in winter, when the Hudson wasn’t navigable anyway, to protect it ...
Colonel Payne’s West Park legacy
Reclusive millionaire Oliver Hazard Payne was as wealthy as he was enigmatic. The eight years this bachelor lived in West ...
Hudson Valley burrito named one of nation’s best
Ingredients include vegetable rice, black beans, coleslaw, guacamole, pico de gallo, onion marmalade, a sweet chili sauce and cilantro. But ...
World’s oldest forest unearthed in Catskills quarry
Millipedelike creatures called myriapods likely shared this forest ecosystem, but dinosaurs would not begin to evolve for another 140 million ...
A time of ferment: The rise and legacy of Poughkeepsie brewing tycoon Matthew Vassar
Matthew Vassar barely acquired any formal education, being kicked out of night school after throwing a bottle of ink at ...
Long Neck Inn welcomes human visitors to Old Game Farm in Catskill
Many of the old Game Farm buildings still stand, and the site’s 3.5 miles of paved walkways – which connect ...
The Heart of the Matter: The Unknown Hervey White
Part IV in a series on Hervey White. Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, White is ...
Longtime Gilded Otter employees open their own place in Rosendale
Creekside Bar and Bistro has opened in the old Matsu building in Rosendale. The new business is owned by former ...
Ask a Naturalist: When were apples first cultivated in the Hudson Valley?
The lower Hudson Valley region and the Lake Champlain region are two of the largest and most important apple production ...
The Death of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White
Part III in a series on Hervey White. Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, White is ...
A guide to Hudson Valley breweries, wineries, cideries & distilleries
From national canning operations to farmyard family operations, here’s the guide to all the drinks your backyard has on tap.
Before the Deluge II: Tinker Street — From the Green to the Espresso
Tinker Street. What’s in a name? Well, that might be a good place to start before looking more closely at ...
Woodstock’s Mill Hill Road – Before the Deluge
What was Woodstock like in the years before we lent our name to a generation? What, for this purpose, might ...
Explore Wethersfield Estate and Gardens
It could be one of Dutchess County’s best kept secrets. The Wethersfield Estate and Gardens is off the beaten path ...
The Land of Tomorrow: The Unknown Hervey White
Those who begin to study this town’s most elusive character at his end rather than at his beginning, won’t ever ...
The Anatomy of an Enigma: The Unknown Hervey White
Erroneously named “founder” of Woodstock by Life magazine in 1938, Hervey White is better described as godfather of a town ...
How Washington thwarted the Newburgh Conspiracy & saved the republic
At some point in our studies, it’s impressed on us that, if he had wanted to, George Washington could have ...
John Bartram: botanist to kings and Catskills
The eminent Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus, father of modern taxonomy, called Bartram “the greatest natural botanist in the ...
Whaling’s surprising Hudson River heyday
One wouldn’t think that people in the business of hunting whales far out at sea would ever have imagined Hudson ...
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