History
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011 - 10:07 am
The Woodstock Times and WGXC have neat sports news his week: John Thorn, a Catskill resident and baseball history guru, has been appointed to the post of Major League Baseball's historian.
John Thorn's new bookThorn has experience pontificating about the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 11, 2011 - 3:53 pm
Proof that it really is "two rocks for every dirt." Photo of workers digging up rocks on the Taylor farm in Stamford, circa 1950.
The Delaware County New York Geneaology and History website has just re-published, free of charge, the entire text of "These... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 - 11:23 am
The Walton Reporter, a weekly newspaper covering a large swath of Delaware County, posted a heartfelt plea on its Facebook page yesterday:
Walton Reporter readers - We need your help. Some of our newspaper archives were lost in the 2006 flood. If you are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 - 9:00 am
Last week, Sullivan County realtor David Knudsen posted a delightful rant on his blog, Sullivan County Real Estate, in which he aired a pet peeve about realtors in the Catskills. Knudsen calls it the "incorrect use of architectural style monikers in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 5:22 pm
A truck injection. Photo from the Arborjet website.
The insatiable emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that is death to ash trees, has already been spotted in parts of the Catskills, including Kingston, Saugerties, and locations in Greene County. While... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 - 2:11 pm
The Bovina History blog has a tidbit today proving that -- alas -- the fine art of community newspaper writing has suffered since its nineteenth-century glory days. Ray LaFever writes:
In February 1880, the winter was the subject of discussion, as it is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 - 1:49 pm
Ice climbing is not for the faint-of-heart. Just being outdoors on your average winter Catskills day can be bad enough, let alone outdoors hanging by your fingernails from the underside of a cliff 85 feet up.
But lots of people around here love the sport... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 3:07 pm
The Times Herald-Record and the Daily Freeman both have the sad story -- Mount St. Alphonsus, the the castle-like seminary and retreat center on the banks fo the Hudson in Esopus, will close next year.
Photo from the Mount St. Alphonsus website.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 2:09 pm
The famous Munson Diner, a much-beloved Hell's Kitchen greasy spoon that made its way to Liberty on the back of a flatbed trailer in 2005 and re-opened to great fanfare in 2007, has closed. Again. From this week's Sullivan County Democrat:
Her most recent... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 - 9:20 am
Bovina historian Ray LaFever digs up a book of earmarks -- the kind you put on sheep, not bills. With so many farmers in Bovina, no wonder they had a hard time keeping the sheep straight:
These earmarks were registered with the town clerk. In the records... Read more
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