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Hudson Valley - Catskills

Hudson’s Historic Robert Jenkins House Hosting An Open House

March 20, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Robert Jenkins House in 1900The Historic Robert Jenkins House in Hudson, NY, will host an open house tour on Saturday, March 25th. The 1811 house, built by proprietor Robert Jenkins, is on the National Register of Historic Places as Nationally Significant and is in the Front Street-Parade Hill-Lower Warren Street Historic District. The house is a fine early example of federal-style architecture in the Hudson Valley where Dutch architecture dominated during the 18th century. [Read more…] about Hudson’s Historic Robert Jenkins House Hosting An Open House

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Columbia County, Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogy, Hudson

Riverport Women’s Sailing Conference in Kingston

March 19, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

hudson river maritime museumThe Hudson River Maritime Museum has announced the sixth annual Riverport Women’s Sailing Conference (RWSC) is set to kick off on Friday, March 24th in Kingston, NY. Co-sponsored by the Kingston Sailing Club, the RWSC welcomes women and people who have not traditionally been able to learn to sail into the maritime community and offers them opportunity to grow and improve their sailing skills. [Read more…] about Riverport Women’s Sailing Conference in Kingston

Filed Under: Events, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Conferences, Hudson River Maritime Museum

DEC Privatizes Management Planning for Popular Areas of Adirondack, Catskill Parks

March 15, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

High Peaks overuse courtesy High Peaks Advisory GroupNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced the award of a Visitor Use Management (VUM) planning contract to help develop recreation plans for two highly visited regions of the New York State Forest Preserve — a high-use portion of the High Peaks in the Adirondack Park and the Kaaterskill Clove area in the Catskill Park. [Read more…] about DEC Privatizes Management Planning for Popular Areas of Adirondack, Catskill Parks

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondacks, camping, Catskills, DEC, Environmental History, High Peaks, hiking, Kaaterskill Clove, Kaaterskill Falls, Kaaterskill Wild Forest, Overuse, Universal Access

Forest Rangers Rescue Lake Placid Skier, Battle Putnam County Wildfire

March 15, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

forest ranger logoNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents throughout New York State. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people.

What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of recent missions carried out by Forest Rangers. [Read more…] about Forest Rangers Rescue Lake Placid Skier, Battle Putnam County Wildfire

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondacks, Cross-Country Skiing, Essex County, Forest Ranger Reports, Lake Placid, Putnam County, Southeast, wildfires

Forest Rangers Make Rescues, Recover Bodies

March 12, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

forest ranger logoNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents throughout New York State. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people.

What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of recent missions carried out by Forest Rangers. [Read more…] about Forest Rangers Make Rescues, Recover Bodies

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: DEC, Forest Ranger Reports, Forest Rangers, hiking, SAR, Search and Rescue, snowmobiling

Enslaved Peoples in the Hudson Valley

March 9, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

spaces of enslavementThe Columbia County Historical Society has announced “Lived Experiences of Enslaved Peoples in the Hudson Valley,” a free virtual lecture with Dr. Andrea Mosterman exploring the history of slavery and resistance in Dutch New York, with special attention to Kinderhook and surroundings. [Read more…] about Enslaved Peoples in the Hudson Valley

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Columbia County Historical Society

Palatines in the Mohawk Valley

March 8, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

painting showing Palatine refugees fleeing to the Pennsylvania Dutch Country by Sebastiaen VrancxThe Friends of Schoharie Crossing has announced “Palatine Germans in the Mohawk Valley,” a virtual program set for Thursday, March 16th. [Read more…] about Palatines in the Mohawk Valley

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Schoharie Crossing SHS

Era Zistel Posselt: Author of Catskills Animal Stories

March 7, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Era Zistel PosseltEra Zistel Posselt (1904–1997) was a mid-western woman, who came to New York from Ohio to further her career and fell in love with the Catskills. She is remembered affectionately as a long-time librarian of Haines Falls and a remarkable lover of animals.

Era Zistel became a prolific author of books about the animals she encountered both, wild and domestic. Books that still remain of interest to children and adults alike. Along with her husband, she translated books from German to English, and she also edited several collections of animal stories by prominent authors. [Read more…] about Era Zistel Posselt: Author of Catskills Animal Stories

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Catskills, Greene County

Thank You New York Almanack Supporters

March 6, 2023 by John Warren 1 Comment

We did it! We finally reached our annual online fundraising goal for 2022 of $14,000. Through gifts large and small readers like you showed you care about the New York Almanack and want to help keep it publishing – thank you!

In 2022 we doubled our readership and we continue to grow. Over a million readers will visit the New York Almanack in 2023 to learn about the Empire State’s history, arts, culture, natural history, and outdoor recreation opportunities.

New York Almanack is the most read publication of its kind reaching more readers with the stories of our shared history than any other publication, in any media. History matters – our natural environment matters – and I’m proud to be able  – with your help – to share why, every day, seven days a week.

Of course our fundraising is never really over. We’ll start the 2023 online fundraising campaign in June. But until then – THANK YOU!!

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Books, Capital-Saratoga, Events, Food, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New Exhibits, New York City, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: New York Almanack

A Catskills Copperhead Strikes Against Lincoln & Abolition

March 5, 2023 by John Conway 1 Comment

Sullivan County Copperhead James Eldridge QuinlanOne of Sullivan County, NY’s first historians and most noted newspaper publishers, James Eldridge Quinlan, was a Copperhead, a pro-slavery Southern sympathizer, during the Civil War.

Anyone with any doubts about Quinlan’s leanings on the subjects of slavery, the abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln need only peruse the pages of the Republican Watchman newspaper during the years leading up to the Civil War and during the war itself, to be convinced. [Read more…] about A Catskills Copperhead Strikes Against Lincoln & Abolition

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Abe Lincoln, Catskills, Civil War, Monticello, Newspapers, Political History, Publishing, Sullivan County

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