If you live in the Shandaken hamlet of Phoenicia and need help with math, you might want to head to the library on Main Street. The same advice would apply if you need help obtaining Medicare benefits. Or if you simply want to learn how to play the ukulele.
Read MoreBefore refrigeration, successful ice harvests were vital. When the winter ice on lakes, ponds, and even rivers was properly thick, men would bring their saws and cut blocks to store in ice houses.
Read More“On one side, to the South, the grand old mountains, with their ever changing shadows of clouds and sunshine, seem to come together at right angles at the Westkill Notch, all covered with green trees… “
Read MoreThe common milkweed, a wildflower (or weed, depending on your perspective), a species native to North America, has survived and until recently, thrived, because it is highly adaptive and opportunistic. Of all the milkweed’s marvels, though, its most intriguing—and celebrated—is its relationship with the magnificent monarch butterfly.
Read MoreFIrst Day Hike — an outdoor celebration of the New Year and fresh-air filled beginning to 2019.
Read More“In 1969, the first people stood on the moon and looked back at the earth - observing that all life was concentrated on our small planet - resulting in the environmental movement. That same year, The Catskill Center was formed. “
Read More“Have you ever seen a cow in spectacles?”
Read MoreScandal erupted in Roxbury in early 1881. At the center of it was an unlikely person: B.C. Miller, the 30-year-old Reverend of the Reformed Church of Roxbury.
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