The swimming pool that once lay on Ward Manor property. Visitors and swimmers crowd around the water's edge and in the shade of the pool house. A woman standing on the diving board appears to deliver a speech.
Donna Matthews, left, with her childhood friend Jackie Latocke, (now Smith). During this time period, many if not most local children learned to swim in this pool. William Matthews' scrapbook has this description of the pool: "In 1939, a cement...
Verso identifies Ellenor Matthews with her children Donna and Hank in the foreground, and Woody Klose on the lifeguard stand. "In the year 1939 a cement swimming pool took the place of the meadow pond where water supply was never sure. From early...
In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about the 'pool by the falls': "The pool was an integral part of summer life at Bard for 20 years after the college acquired it. A green canopy of overhanging trees shaded the...
This postcard depicts another angle of the Blithewood pool. Acquired by Bard with the Blithewood estate in 1951, the college maintained the pool until the early 1970s. In the spring 2005 issue of About Town magazine, Dorothy Crane writes about the...
Caption of back reads: "Williams Lake Polar Bears, January 27, 1935. Binnewater, Ulster County, New York." Ten men in bathing suits strike a formal pose for the camera on a snow- covered frozen Williams Lake beside a small rectangular section...
"The New Paltz Garden Club members volunteered to landscape the new community park in 1955. Boys from the Phi Eta fraternity are shown here transplanting trees in the new park. - Images of America, New
Paltz by Carol Johnson and Marion Ryan
