History
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 11:30 am
Bovina artist Corneel Verlaan has spend fourteen years flying the skies of Delaware County in a Cessna 172 with a camera trained at the ground through the plane's open window. Tomorrow, he will show the flightless what our towns look like from the sky.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 - 3:47 pm
Local historian Ray LaFever has a post on his blog today about Bovina's most memorable Halloween -- the night, 87 years ago today, when the little Yankeetown schoolhouse mysteriously burned down. (To the great delight of its seven pupils, no doubt.)
A... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 - 5:30 pm
This week, the Daily Freeman caught up with the still-in-the-works Crossroads Resort development and its backer, Dean Gitter, who told the paper that rumors of the project's demise have been greatly exaggerated:
“It has been a while since we communicated... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 - 9:20 am
Round Top Barn on the Shultis family farm in Wittenberg, Ulster County. Below, one man's memories of a childhood in the Catskills, submitted by Watershed Post reader Lawrence J. Caldwell. If you have tales of bygone Catskills to share, send them to us at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Tonight at 7pm in the town hall on Rte. 28, anyone interested in the Delaware County town of Middletown will have a chance to weigh in on its 112-page draft comprehensive plan. The plan attempts to outline how Middletown, which contains the villages of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 25, 2010 - 3:01 pm
The circus that was comedian Stephen Colbert's testimony on migrant workers before Congress this week had an Ulster County connection: Colbert's expertise in migrant issues was earned during a one-day stint of work at Gill Corn Farms in the town of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2010 - 7:56 am
If you haven't heard the term "flatlander" around the Catskills, odds are that you are one. There's an unusual opportunity to hear what the locals really think about you happening tonight in Andes. The plan is for a frank discussion, led by a local, about... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Linda Norris, a Treadwell resident and the mind behind a thoughtful blog called The Uncataloged Museum, posed a provocative question yesterday: Are county historical societies dying? And if so, is it their own fault?
There's no question that part of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Half Moon on the Hudson last year. Photo by ennuipoet, via Flickr. Some rights reserved.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, a group of 12 seventh-graders from cities in upstate New York was anchored in New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 4:03 pm
A retired Iowa environmentalist who grew up in the Catskills told the Sioux City Journal this week about a vision he received as a child when pneumonia sent him into a high, delirious fever. The vision, of a fox wearing an interestingly dressy garment,... Read more
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