Local classrooms of decades—and centuries—past: Exploring a selection of the region’s historic schools and schoolhouses

Above photo: Housatonic Valley Regional High School from the 1969 White Oak yearbook. Photo courtesy of the HVRHS Alumni Association.

If you’re familiar with the local tri-state area, chances are you’ve driven past at least one of the region’s many historic schools and schoolhouses. As long-standing landmarks of the area’s educational past, these […]

By |2025-04-28T13:23:29-04:00May 1st, 2025|Featured Article, History|

Roger Miner & today’s Supreme Court: The Columbia County native’s principled stances still echo across America’s judicial landscape

By Jim Calvin

In November 1987, as President Ronald Reagan prepared to try again to fill a Supreme Court vacancy after two misfires, Second Circuit US Court of Appeals Justice Roger Miner stood among three final candidates for the nomination.

It was the penultimate step in the remarkable legal career of Hudson, New York’s favorite son, […]

By |2025-03-25T10:13:58-04:00March 27th, 2025|Featured Article, History|

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton: A literary life that analyzed societal expectations & featured a home in Lenox, MA

Above photo courtesy of Literary Hub.

In honor of March being Women’s History Month, we are highlighting a handful of important women who made strides in the social, political, and economic climates of our region. 

Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, as Edith Newbold Jones. According to The Mount, […]

By |2025-03-25T14:48:39-04:00March 25th, 2025|History, Main Street News|

The story of Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist and women’s rights activist from Ulster County

Above photo from Biography.com

In honor of March being Women’s History Month, we are highlighting a handful of important women who made strides in the social, political, and economic climates of our region. 

Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s right activist, and author in the nineteenth century. Born […]

By |2025-03-20T09:15:59-04:00March 19th, 2025|History, Main Street News|

The vibrant life and poetic legacy of Pulitzer Prize Winner Edna St. Vincent Millay

Above photo courtesy of Library of America.

In honor of March being Women’s History Month, we are highlighting a handful of important women who made strides in the social, political, and economic climates of our region. 

Born on February 22, 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine. Holly Peppe, […]

By |2025-03-20T09:15:15-04:00March 12th, 2025|History, Main Street News|

Celebrate December Every Day of the Month

It’s December! Let’s celebrate!

December can seem to be all about Christmas, although many celebrate Hanukkah and Kwanzaa this month. Plus, of course, there’s New Year’s Eve.

But, did you know that in December you can celebrate every day? There’s World AIDS Day, National Ding-A-Ling Day, National Underdog Day, and Forefathers’ Day. The first Monday of the […]

By |2024-12-03T10:31:52-05:00December 3rd, 2024|History|

Holidays During the Great Depression

However hard times may be pressing down on the hearts and purses of the citizens of Rhinebeck,” observed the December 26, 1931, Rhinebeck Gazette, “there is no evidence of it in the spread of holiday cheer about town.”

Like a fair number of us, we had family that were born and grew up in the teeth […]

By |2024-12-03T10:08:35-05:00December 3rd, 2024|History|

Friends of Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground restore and repair degraded monuments and gravestones in North East

Friends of Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground is a nonprofit organization based in Millerton and North East, NY whose volunteers are dedicated to the restoration and repair of the degraded monuments and gravestones at Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground. 

About Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground 

Spencer’s Corners Burying Ground is located on Merwin Road and is […]

By |2024-09-30T09:13:07-04:00September 30th, 2024|History, Main Street News|
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