Catskills

By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 - 7:13 am
Volunteers with the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) use wildlife cameras baited with deer carcasses on high ridges around the Catskills to photograph and count golden eagles passing through the region as they migrate each year. These shots, from a... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015 - 1:54 pm
  A photo posted by BSP Kingston (@bspkingston) on Dec 14, 2015 at 3:44pm PST Above: Just like Times Square, only smaller, Uptown Kingston's New Year's Eve features a ball drop, fireworks, a block party, burlesque, vaudeville, a speakeasy and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015 - 9:17 am
Above: An inch of snowy, icy slush is cause for celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Photo via the Great Western Catskills Instagram account.  After almost an entire December without snow, the Catskills got its first significant snowfall on Tuesday, Dec. 29.... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 - 4:21 pm
Gifting is so much fun. But the classic ideas can always stand an update. After all, a partridge in a pear tree takes up the entire living room, shipments of milkmaids and drummers need to be housed (to say nothing of a gymnasium space for all those... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 - 7:57 pm
Above: Santa Claus in Woodstock. Photo by Julia Reischel. On Saturday, Dec. 19, Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner will discuss his brand-new book, “Woodstock: Everyday History,” at the Catskill Interpretive Center in Mount Tremper from 1 p.m. to 3... Read more
By woodstocklibrary on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 - 5:32 pm
By Tobe Carey on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 - 10:32 pm
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS-HUDSON VALLEY HISTORY DVDs FOR THE HOLIDAYS Our catalog of regional history DVDs is a great place to find gifts for the holidays.Among our most popular titles are: Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System, the story of building... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 - 9:07 am
Above: Photo by Nannette Turner, via Flickr.  Ring those bells and light those lights: It’s Christmastime in the Catskills. Public festivities abound. Come out and revel with your neighbors this weekend. Here’s our five-county guide to what’s doing.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 - 5:51 pm
Above: The Ulster County town of Shandaken will receive $415,000 in state funds to fix broken pipes in Phoenicia, part of $26 million in state grants won by Catskills organizations and municipalities today. Photo via PhoeniciaNY.com.  The winners of the... Read more

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