Chester Library and Social Club Program. The Chester Library & Social Club raised funds to maintain the library, through the sale of tickets to entertainment courses and production of entertainments and plays in Bodle's Opera House from 1902 to...
James writes this letter to his sister while recuperating in the hospital. He tells his sister that General Hooker has ordered all able men back to the front. He's not afraid, but dreads the loads he will have to carry. He fears "the hardest time...
Correspondence; Women; Picnics; Fire fighters; Parades & processions; Fruit;
Mary writes her cousins informing them that she won't be able to meet them at a picnic. she writes about a firemans parade and other local gossip. Her father is not feeling well and she hopes to visit next month.
Letter written from Solomon Dubois to Johannes discussing news from home. Sol is concerned that Johannes may be "hard up" for women and then goes on to write about his trip to Plattekill to see Fredrick Douglas speak. He thinks his talk was good...
Hattie is happy to be a housekeeper and won't be coming back to school at present (Poughkeepsie Female Academy). She is wondering if Rachel has seen any of the boys and if she has heard from any of their friends from school. Letter shows minor...
Rachel’s father opens his letter to her, the first after a long Christmas holiday, apologizing for having forgotten to put a warm buffalo robe in the mail sleigh that she took back to Poughkeepsie from New Paltz. He worries that she left a bottle...
Gene Brown, author of Birds over Bear Mountain and a life-long resident of Upper Nyack, talks about his childhood, his education at the Upper Nyack School and the games and recreational activities children played in the Van Houten's Landing...
Miriam Haagens Wexler talks about her life: how she came to American from Holland on December 7, 1939 and later how the family came to Nyack. Along the way she talks about the Clarkstown Country, her family, her home, and especially her garden. ...
Jacobus Bruyn expresses pleasure upon reading Jonathon Elmendorf's latest letter. He writes back that he won't detail the treatment received since made prisoner, but adds that there is little encouragement of a prisoner exchange.
Discussion includes Tillson family lineage going back to the American Revolution. Includes movement from Dutchess County to Ulster County and family milling businesses.
Discussion includes hobo activity in the 1920s, attending the circus; the Mary Powell steamboat; steamboat trips to New York City; family picnics at Kingston Point Park
