If Vaux could talk
Considering the other half of the Central Park design team.
Tag: the dead beat
Dispatch from Death’s door
Having been dead, I can’t testify to exactly what happened as I lay on my back.
The Schindler of Kingston
Part mischievous trickster, part Old-World aristocrat, László Ocskay saved over 2000 Jews from the Holocaust. But because of Cold War ...
Harvey G. Eastman: College founder, mayor and assemblyman who cured ‘the sickly city’ and got the railroad bridge built
One newspaper of the time described thriving but cholera-ridden Poughkeepsie as, “A fine place to live, with fine schools and ...
The Dead Beat: Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest who tried to reconcile science and religion
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is buried in a small cemetery at the Culinary Institute in Poughkeepsie. “It is doubtful,” Flannery ...
How a Kingston-born lawyer became the Civil War spymaster
Sharpe’s approach to intelligence-gathering was praised by the CIA more than a century after his death. One writer said if ...
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