The front page of the September 1, 1898 Sullivan County Record bore a troubling headline, “Poisoned By Ice-Cream.” By the time the paper went to print, three people in the Sullivan County village of Mountain Dale were dead and at least 20 others were seriously ill.
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Railway mail clerk F.A. Peck watched two strangers enter his car just outside of Grand Gorge. Unusual? Perhaps, but the clerk found no cause for alarm. “Got a letter for me?” Peck called out, as he continued to sort and bundle mail.
“Yes,” lied the short man.
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Fishing enthusiasts will say their sport is an art. It’s also a fine art, or at least the subject of it.
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When you hear the words ‘silent film’ do you think of the Catskills? If not, you should!
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To Genevieve Hyde’s great frustration, people regularly pilfered fruit and vegetables from her farm in Bushnellsville. So she devised a novel solution; she became the first woman deputy in all of Ulster County.
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A Vintage Recipe / Scone-esque and buttery with a burst of fruitiness from dried currants, Catskill Cake is well-suited to the holiday (even breakfast!) table.
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“Shortly after we moved to the Catskills, we became aware of the extraordinary asset the Catskill Center is for the area…”
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Small diverse farms are more resilient to change and I think there’s a lot of possibility in that.
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If you visited the Blue Hole this year, you were one of the 10,000 (plus) people to have a first-hand experience of this summer’s new coordinated conservation efforts.
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