Festivals
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 - 9:17 pm
Above: Miss Kitty's Saloon, one of the suites at the Roxbury Motel. Image via the Roxbury Motel website.
According to legend, Saint Valentine was a pretty wild character who was incarcerated and executed for performing illegal marriages back in the third... Read more
By Rebecca Andre on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 - 1:21 pm
Above: Lifting a block of ice with ice tongs at the 2015 Ice Harvest. Photo by Rebecca Andre of MGP&D.
Before freezers and refrigerators, harvested ice from local ponds, lakes, and rivers was essential to preserve food through the warmer months.
At... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 - 9:58 am
Above: The Catskill Mountain Railroad during a Polar Express event in 2015. Photo via the CMRR's Facebook page.
It's a holiday miracle: Railroad fans, trail enthusiasts and Ulster’s County’s executive have decided to end a three-year feud over a county-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 - 9:07 am
Above: Photo by Nannette Turner, via Flickr.
Ring those bells and light those lights: It’s Christmastime in the Catskills. Public festivities abound. Come out and revel with your neighbors this weekend. Here’s our five-county guide to what’s doing.... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 - 1:34 pm
Above: A decorated storefront in Narrowsburg in 2013. Photo by John of Catskills Photography, shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Now that it's the first week of December, holiday events are legion across the Catskills. There are craft markets and... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015 - 10:26 am
Photo by icoNYca, via Flickr.
As the fourth Thursday in November rolls around, we gather in a spirit of gratitude for our mountain peaks and sparkling creeks, our deer and raptors and black bear, and for each other. Here are some places to feast among... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 - 12:48 pm
Above: "Stuyvesant Square Park," a photograph by Tom Sardo, one of many artists featured in Salon 2015 and Handmade Holidays, an arts and crafts sale run by the Greene County Council on the Arts, opening this weekend.
Makers, crafters and artisans across... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 - 9:24 am
Happy Veterans Day. John of Catskills Photography took this photo at the 2014 Memorial Day parade in the Sullivan County town of Liberty and shared it in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 - 4:24 pm
Above: One of the many creepy scenes at Night Terrors Haunted Farm in Schoharie.
Halloween is this Saturday, Oct. 31, and the Catskills are celebrating with costume bashes, trick-or-treat events, zombies, witches and more. Here’s our five county guide to... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 - 4:21 pm
Above: Sugar maples. Photo by DeirdreLovesTrees, submitted to the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
This is it: The peak of fall. Columbus Day Weekend is the biggest weekend of the year in the Catskills, the time when the leaves peak in glorious colors and the... Read more