It is probably safe to say that the participants in last Sunday’s bus trip to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway and the closing of the second annual Festival of …
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John Conway
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6/2/23
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110 Years Ago - 1913
I have just returned from New York and have a complete stock of all that is latest in exquisite millinery and would be pleased to have you call and inspect same. Mrs. …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/30/23
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On May 23, 1789, Nathaniel Sackett sent a long, rambling letter to newly inaugurated president George Washington. The letter informed Washington that Congress had denied Sackett’s proposal that …
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John Conway
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5/26/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The Birch Ridge Sunday School picnic takes place today. A pretty banner has been made for the occasion.
A shoe peg factory will soon be added to the industries of the …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/23/23
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As far back as 2012, Debra Conway, at that time beginning her second year as the Director at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History in Narrowsburg, was advocating for an annual festival in the …
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By John Conway
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5/19/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The Town of Callicoon may claim with no small degree of pride that it stands alone as the promoter of agricultural interests in our county. We know of no other section in …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/16/23
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Long before the O&W Railway touted the healing environment that was Sullivan County beginning in the 1880s, the Erie Railroad had been established along the county’s western edge.
By …
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John Conway
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5/12/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The “island” in the Delaware River was completely swept away by the late flood.
Mr. Charles Muller of Jeffersonville has recently produced an accurate and …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/9/23
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Few Sullivan County residents have ever attained the success of Arthur C. Butts of Monticello– lawyer, assemblyman, judge, and published author– and yet there are only a handful of locals …
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John Conway
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5/5/23
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150 Years Ago - 1873
The new charter of the village of Port Jervis passed both houses of the legislature.
Our neighbor, Mr. Scheidell of Jeffersonville, has completed a new fence on the border …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/2/23
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