History2023-09-04T17:01:49-04:00

THE IMPORTANCE OF (LOCAL) HISTORY

Mt. Washington Church Fair Celebrates 91 Years

The town of Mount Washington is nestled in the Berkshires along the Massachusetts/New York border and boasts a population of only 144 people, per the annual town report. But at the start of the summer, the population more than doubles as part-time residents come to bask in the comfort of the mountains for the summer season. 

The Mount Washington Church […]

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Copake Celebrates Its 200th Birthday With a Bang

The Town of Copake is celebrating its bicentennial with a jam-packed schedule of events throughout the remainder of the summer. In February 2023, Copake formed an all-volunteer committee that has been working hard to create a line-up of events to celebrate Copake’s 200th birthday. 

The planning process

The bicentennial committee, led by Kellie Nardin, wanted to play to Copake’s strengths, as […]

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A MOMENT FROZEN IN TIME

All our lives we have been inundated with moving images: television, film, social media. We are so inured to the constancy of the motion, color, and sound, that when an image holds still, it causes a momentary catch – the need to register what we are seeing.

It was a moment like that that captured the attention of Garth Kobal, inveterate […]

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TREASURES ACROSS TIME AT THE DCHS

Historians understand better than the rest of us that there is nothing in the present that hasn’t been in the past. For the Dutchess County Historical Society, that goes back to the inquisitive nature of Helen Wilkinson Reynolds (1875-1943). 

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, NY, from a young age she developed a deep love of the history of Dutchess County. […]

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