History
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 - 10:22 am
A descendent of the founders of the resort that inspired Dirty Dancing is now the hospitality directory at a Jewish retirement community in Lauderhill, Florida. In the spirit of Passover, which starts tomorrow, Elaine Grossinger Etess tells the Fort... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 5:48 pm
The Half Moon, a full-scale replica of the East India Trading Company yacht Henry Hudson sailed in 400 years ago, is taking on crew from April 9 to 11, as the ship moves from its winter quarters in Verplanck to Peckham Wharf in Athens.
New York History... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 - 3:51 pm
The Open Space Institute just bought 67 acres of cliff faces in the Gunks, to be added to the Mohonk Preserve and used for conservation and recreation.
The rock formations that comprise the cliffs on the Shawangunk Ridge feature many different... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 9:34 am
Millstones used to be critical to America's food chain. Until the late 1800s, when steel rollers began to take over the job, flour was made by grinding grain with heavy millstones turned by water or wind power. But before you could grind the grain, you... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 11:52 am
With the 2010 Census coming up, Bovina historian Ray LaFever takes a look back at the 1910 Census, and sees some familiar names among the town's 912 listed residents.
Grace Coulter, who later married Dave Roberts and lived on Maple Avenue, was less than a... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 2, 2010 - 11:36 am
Yep, that's for sledding downhill on. The terrifying item pictured above is a jack jumper, recently donated to the Calvin Coolidge House in Vermont. 19th-century Vermont must not have had many lawyers.
Readers: Got any good snow toys in the attic?
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 - 11:18 am
Kingston Citizens is urging residents to contact their legislators to spare the historic site from the budget axe.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 - 9:53 am
The New York Times's Property Values real estate column features a house in Woodstock today: a converted 1861 church on the market for $879,000.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 - 3:11 pm
On eBay: A 1956 clipping from Coronet magazine, with a long article about Catskills violinmaker Harry Stoughtenburgh.
50-plus years later, this probably still holds true:
In Ulster County, boys aren't encouraged to be luthiers.
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 - 2:02 pm
New York genealogists and researchers are upset about a rumored plan by the National Archives and Records Administration to move the Northeast regional archive to a new office in New York City, and put most of its hard-copy materials in a storage unit in... Read more
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