Local Legends of Woodstock book-signing at Golden Notebook
Woodstock is the world’s most famous small town, forever associated with the 1960s counterculture and for more than 100 years a magnet for musicians, artists, writers and other creative types. A few noteworthy…
Memorial Day weekend events at FDR Home & Library
If you want to spend part of Memorial Day weekend honoring those fallen in military service in some way, but haven’t been all that keen on the sorts of interventionist wars that America…
A pastor’s double life unearthed
As the minister of Ulster County’s Rochester, Wawarsing and Clove classis of the Dutch Reformed Church from 1814 to 1826, Dr. James Murphy was a popular, influential religious leader. Successful in attracting large,…
Hudson River Maritime Museum opens with two new exhibits
The Hudson River Maritime Museum on the Rondout in Kingston has been “providing the portal to history along the Hudson” since 1980. The Museum was founded by a group of steamboat and tugboat…
Tasteful time capsule: Kingston’s Fred J. Johnston Museum
With the arrival of spring’s gentler weather comes the urge to get out and about more. But if you’re a native Northeasterner, you know that in these parts there’s a “fifth season” that…
Hudson Valley History Reading Festival in Hyde Park
Every summer, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a Roosevelt Reading Festival, featuring readings by authors who have written about the Roosevelt Era (this year’s event will be in July,…
Maiden voyages: Eighty Days author to speak in Woodstock & Rhinebeck
In his newly released true adventure titled Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race around the World, Matthew Goodman tracks the remarkable journeys of two young women. Each took up the…
Brouhaha descending a staircase
It’s hard, at first, to think of art causing the sort of stir that the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the New York Armory on Lexington Avenue and East 25th Street in…
Brimstone, Booze and the Ballot revivifies suffragists’ struggle
The Women’s Suffrage Movement sounds like ancient history, doesn’t it? When we try to imagine it, we picture sepia-toned images from the earliest days of photography showing genteel women covered discreetly from wrist…
Eleanor Roosevelt “We Make Our Own History” Forum
If Eleanor Roosevelt were still around today, it’s a fair bet that she’d be taking an interest in the activities of the Catharine Street Community Center in Poughkeepsie. And in fact, she did…
