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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…

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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…

The Reverend James Murphy

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,…

Wreck of the Swallow by Currier & Ives. The Swallow was traveling from Albany to New York City on the night of April 7, 1845, when she struck a rock near Athens, broke in two and sank.  (Hudson River Maritime Museum, Donald Ringwald Collection)

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…

The Federal-style house was bequeathed to the Friends of Historic Kingston  upon Johnston’s death in 1993. (photo by Julie O'Connor)

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…

FDR and the Hyde Park school board discuss plans for the Roosevelt High School in this Olin Dows mural in the Hyde Park post office.

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,…

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland.

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…

Konrad Cramer Landscape, 1919, Oil (WAAM Permanent Collection, gift of Anna B. Nusbaum)

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…

Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan B. Anthony. (Library of Congress)

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…

At the opening of the Mid-Hudson Bridge between Poughkeepsie and Highland on Aug. 25, 1930, featuring Eleanor Roosevelt with L-R: Col. Frederick Stuart Green, Ralph Madjeskie & David E. Moran, designers of the bridge. (CCC)

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…

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