Festivals
By Matthew Perry on Thursday, Jun. 30, 2011 - 3:00 pm
Last year's Taste of the Catskills festival. Photo via the Taste of the Catskills website.
Whatever defines the Catskills for you – food, livestock, music, authentic agricultural settings – it’s likely that some version of it can be found at Taste of the... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2011 - 12:55 pm
Above: Delhi businessowner Hazel Dunlin, owner of Avalon Moon, dressed as a faerie at the New York Faerie Festival. Last weekend, Watershed Post corresondent Lillian Browne attended the 3rd annual New York Faerie Festival in Windsor, New York, along with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 6, 2011 - 11:44 am
Gov't Mule performing "Thorazine Shuffle" at Hunter Mountain's Mountain Jam Festival on Saturday.
The seventh annual Mountain Jam Festival at Hunter Mountain went off splendidly over the weekend, and featured a showstopping act from a diva-esque performer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 - 8:41 am
As we mentioned last week, vintage baseball players from around the region gathered in the village of Fleischmanns over the weekend to attempt to break the world record for the longest baseball marathon ever played. Watershed Post correspondent (and... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Friday, May. 27, 2011 - 12:59 pm
Leave your power boat at home, and never mind Triple Crown horse racing. In Tannersville this Saturday, a flotilla of rubber ducks, 500 strong, will jockey for position in the Rubber Duck Race on Gooseberry Creek, until the best of the best crosses the... Read more
By Matthew Perry on Friday, May. 27, 2011 - 12:12 pm
This Memorial Day weekend the Walton Historical Society will sponsor a real-time trip to Civil War-era camps and battlefields at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. The Blue and the Gray will pitch their tents on Friday, May 27, march through the village of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 11, 2011 - 8:50 am
Constructing the resurrected Blackthorne. Photo via the Blackthorne Resort website.
The Blackthorne Resort in East Durham, which was destroyed in a fire during a motorcycle rally last fall, has risen from the ashes. The resort is hosting a grand re-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, May. 6, 2011 - 11:28 am
Tomorrow, the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith will ring with the sound of axes and saws, as the lumberjacks (and jills) of the SUNY Cobleskill Woodsmen's Team put on a display of their prowess at chopping and sawing. Also, there'll be demonstrations... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 28, 2011 - 4:34 pm
Continuing a trend of loosening its tight grip on access to boating on its Catskill reservoirs, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is co-sponsoring a triathlon on the Cannonsville Reservor this June, in what tourism organizers hope... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Mar. 20, 2011 - 8:50 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New... Read more
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