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Ulster County Exhibit Highlights Recent Archival Donations

March 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Into My Hands exhibitUlster County, NY Clerk Nina Postupack has announced the exhibit “Into My Hands: Recent Donations to the Ulster County Archives” featuring a sampling of records donated to the Ulster County Archives between 2011 and 2022.

The exhibit is now on display in the 2nd floor Archives Gallery located in the Ulster County Office Building, 244 Fair Street, in Kingston. [Read more…] about Ulster County Exhibit Highlights Recent Archival Donations

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New Exhibits Tagged With: Ulster County, Ulster County Archives

Lost Snowmobilers, Snowmobile Accident Keep Ranger Busy

March 21, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Snowmobile accident in Indian Lake in March 2023 (DEC photo)On Friday, March 17 at about 1:25 pm, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Ray Brook Dispatch requested Forest Ranger assistance in the search for a missing snowmobiler last seen the previous night in the Moose River Plains, in the Central Adirondacks in Hamilton County. [Read more…] about Lost Snowmobilers, Snowmobile Accident Keep Ranger Busy

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Recreation Tagged With: Essex County, Forest Ranger Reports, Greenwich, Hamilton County, Indian Lake, Inlet, Moose River Plains, Plattekill, Search and Rescue, snowmobiling, Ulster County, Washington County, Westport

Man’s Body Recovered After Fall From Cliff at Mohonk Preserve

March 21, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Searchers look for the body of a man from Brooklyn in the karst below a cliff at Mohonk Preserve in February 2023On Tuesday, March 14 at 11:30 pm New York State Police located the vehicle of a missing 45-year-old from Brooklyn in the Spring Farm parking lot of Mohonk Preserve in the town of Marbletown, Ulster County. [Read more…] about Man’s Body Recovered After Fall From Cliff at Mohonk Preserve

Filed Under: Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Catskills, Forest Ranger Reports, hiking, Marbletown, Mohonk Preserve, Search and Rescue, Ulster County

Sojourner Truth: How An Enslaved Dutch Speaker Became A Black Liberation Icon

March 20, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Map of the Mid-Hudson ValleyOn March 31st, 1817 the New York State Legislature decided that enslavement within its borders had to come to an end. Final emancipation would occur on July 4th, 1827. Coincidentally, the date of choice was almost exactly two centuries after the Dutch West India Company’s yacht Bruynvisch arrived at Manhattan on August 29th, 1627. [Read more…] about Sojourner Truth: How An Enslaved Dutch Speaker Became A Black Liberation Icon

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Dutch History, Hurley, Legal History, New Netherland, Political History, Slavery, Sojouner Truth, Suffrage Movement, Ulster County, womens history

Dorothy Frooks: Ulster County Advocate for Justice

March 3, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Dorothy Frooks with President Eisenhower in 1964Saugerties, NY, native Dorothy Frooks was a suffragette, military figure, author, and lawyer. She began her public speaking career as a young suffragist, delivering speeches at age eleven. During the First World War she recruited over 30,000 men for service and was awarded the American Patriotic League’s gold medal for her efforts.  Frooks later served as Chief Yeoman in the US Navy and later in the US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) office during the Second World War. [Read more…] about Dorothy Frooks: Ulster County Advocate for Justice

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New Exhibits Tagged With: Saugerties Historical Society, Ulster County

Clayton ‘Peg Leg’ Bates: Dancer and Resort-Owner

February 1, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Peg Leg Bates at ResortIn celebration of Black History Month, Ulster County Clerk Nina Postupack has announced the newest display in the Historical Profiles series featuring entertainer and community patron Clayton ‘Peg Leg’ Bates.

The exhibit panel will be on display for the month of February on the 1st floor of the Ulster County Office Building, 244 Fair Street, in Kingston, NY. [Read more…] about Clayton ‘Peg Leg’ Bates: Dancer and Resort-Owner

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New Exhibits Tagged With: Dance, Kerhonkson, Kingston, Performing Arts, Ulster County

NY State, Counties Still Not Fully Engaged With American 250th Anniversary

January 27, 2023 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

This week on The Historians Podcast, New York State Historian Devin Lander joins host Bob Cudmore. Lander previews the 250th anniversary of American independence which will be observed from 2025 through 2033.

The state has authorized a commission to oversee events, however some of the 13 appointees to a state commission have not yet been named, and the vast majority of counties in the state have taken no action to remember this important anniversary. [Read more…] about NY State, Counties Still Not Fully Engaged With American 250th Anniversary

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: America's 250th Anniversary, Dutchess County, Municipal Historians, Orange County, Podcasts, Public History, Saratoga County, State Historian, Tompkins County, Ulster County

68, 70 & 71-Year-Old Recreationists Rescued In Ulster County

January 18, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

forest ranger logoIn 2022, DEC Forest Rangers conducted 359 search and rescue missions, extinguished 162 wildfires covering more than 1,300 acres, participated in 53 prescribed fires that served to rejuvenate nearly 900 acres of land, and worked on cases that resulted in hundreds of tickets and arrests. [Read more…] about 68, 70 & 71-Year-Old Recreationists Rescued In Ulster County

Filed Under: History, Recreation Tagged With: Bluestone Wild Forest, Forest Ranger Reports, Kingston, Search and Rescue, Shandaken, Slide Mountain Wilderness Area, Ulster County

A New Book on Historic Kingston

December 30, 2022 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

This week on The Historians Podcast, Stephen Blauweiss is co-author with Karen Berelowitz of the book The Story of Historic Kingston: Featuring 950 Images and Connections to the Catskills and New York City (Blauweiss Media, 2022). [Read more…] about A New Book on Historic Kingston

Filed Under: Books, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Hudson River, Kingston, Podcasts, Ulster County

Joseph Pollet Self-Portrait Acquired by Woodstock Historical

December 21, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Joseph C. Pollet (1897–1979) “Self Portrait” after conservationBorn in Switzerland, Joseph C. Pollet (1897–1979) emigrated to New York City in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany. By age 21 he had a promising career as an advertising copywriter, while studying painting at the Art Students League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss.

An important member of the Woodstock Art Colony, Pollet was best known for his portraits and realistic rural landscapes. He settled near Woodstock where he retained ties, even during the several years from 1954 until 1961 when he lived in Paris and Italy. In 1971, a fire destroyed nearly 150 of his paintings in his Greenwich Village studio. [Read more…] about Joseph Pollet Self-Portrait Acquired by Woodstock Historical

Filed Under: Arts, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Art History, Historical Society of Woodstock, painting, Ulster County, Woodstock

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