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Happy Thanksgiving! We wish the best to you in this season, dear readers, whether you gather with family and friends this holiday or travel to join others who celebrate. May you enjoy peace and thanksgiving.
November 22, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Kenoza Lake is being re-dammed and rewalled by Mr. Hust and the lake section will soon boast of an electric light plant. Constable William Klein of Narrowsburg has about 40 … more
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Tick Tock
It was on November 22, 1939 that the son of a Sullivan County hotel family took part in an historic murder far from the Borscht Belt.  Tall and wiry Albert Tannenbaum was likely unaware of … more
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Name that class: Our thanks to Patricia Peters of North Branch for sharing this photo. The children gathered here appear to be an early grade school class in front of the Callicoon Union School, founded in 1902 (the building was not built until years later). The prevailing hairstyle of these girls seems to be the bob, which wasn’t widely popular until after the 1920s. The pair of girls in the center of the group wearing identical lace collars might be siblings, perhaps even twins. Can any of our readers shed a light on the year that this photo might be from, or tell us who any of the students are? If you know, please call Ruth at our Callicoon office at (845) 887-5200.
November 15, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 “Gardiner’s store again robbed!” was the intelligence that greeted people of Callicoon Thursday morning. The excitement following so closely upon … more
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Veterans and Veterans Day
It was in 1926 that the U.S. Congress passed a resolution recognizing November 11 as Armistice Day, commemorating the signing of the cease fire with Germany at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the … more
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Under construction: This 1920s or 1930s photo has the look of a busy construction site, (on a warmer day than today!). If any one of our readers recognizes the location of this job, or any of the faces in the photo, please call our office in Callicoon at (845) 887-5200.
November 8, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 William Rau, the artist, returned Sunday from Omaha where he and his partner, Mr. Philipson of New York, have just completed a $5,000 job of mural paintings in the new million … more
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The history hike at the Minisink Battleground Park will leave from the Tusten Pavilion in the Park at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 12.
Revolution to Revolution™
On October 25, 2022, the Barryville-based non-profit history education group, The Delaware Company received official notification from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office that Revolution to … more
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Going ‘home’ again: At left is Charlie Meyer at age 70 with his grandson, Bob Meyer, in the driveway to what was then home in 1952, 70 years ago. In the mid-‘70s, Dick Hofer purchased the property with his wife and they raised their family there. Serving Cochecton as Town Justice for 28 years as the Honorable Robert C. Meyer, Bob presided over Dick Hofer’s wedding, as well as the Hofers’ son Zach’s marriage to Danielle. Now retired, the former judge recently enjoyed reenacting the 1952 photo with his grandson, Sullivan West 6th grader Jack Meyer of Cochecton, in the same driveway. Many thanks to Bob Meyer for sharing his generational memories with our readers!
November 1, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 It was announced at the service Sunday at the Episcopal Church in Callicoon that a stained glass window will be donated by George Wolf of New York. The Western Sullivan … more
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Part of the wreckage of the O&W passenger train that exploded near Hurleyville on February 13, 1907. 
A Halloween History Hike in Hurleyville
Late in the afternoon on February 13, 1907, the boiler exploded on an O&W passenger train just before it reached Luzon Station in Hurleyville. Two railroad men were killed instantly in the … more
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Ghostly reflections: In the spirit of Halloween, this image of the Globe Hotel in Callicoon is superimposed by a reflection of the photographer, indicating that the camera was inside the depot when the image was exposed. Note the reflection of a hand with a ring (and handkerchief or rag) at left. The earliest operator of the Globe Hotel that we could find was William E. Batsford, who kept the hotel in 1874. In 1898, Cris Jardin sold the hotel to a man named Kothe.
October 25, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 One of the largest fires which have occurred in Sullivan County in many years happened in Mountaindale early Saturday morning. Fire was first discovered in Kettler and … more
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Mortimer Michaels, 1966
Much Ado About Nothing
As the November elections approached in 1967, Sullivan County’s political scene was all abuzz about a surprise announcement from a group of local labor unions that prompted an immediate … more
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Hay ride! The sight of this burgeoning hay ride on the left might slow traffic today, but what were the rules of the road in the horse-and-buggy era? Which is the passing vehicle here? What did a driver do to signal their intent to pass, especially an over-wide vehicle such as this hay mound? This photo from Sullivan County has been circulating for some time with no known photographer attached, and no description giving exact location. All that aside, we’re glad this photo was saved for us to ponder how differently we get around today – and whether drivers back in the day complained about the cost of horse and hay.
October 18, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 A recent discovery of gas on the flat below Monticello has set the people talking. A newly formed company, Monticello Developing Company, has leased the Lemuel Banting farm … more
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Liberty District Principal  David E. Panebaker 
County spared in flu epidemic of 1957
While it may be difficult to believe considering the consistently low health rankings attributed to Sullivan County in recent years, this used to be considered among the healthiest regions in the … more
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‘Brothers’ in beards: The advent of facial recognition software might have changed the Monticello Sesquicentennial’s Brothers of the Brush challenge. Looking at issues of the 1954 Monticello Bulletin-Sentinel (the Monticello newspaper merged with the Hurleyville Sentinel) we learned that the contest was determined by subscribers voting on photos of just the facial hair of the contestants. From the Sept. 17, 1954 Republican Watchman: “The winners in each of the eight classes were the following: longest – Henry Stratton; most unique – Norman Bleach; bushiest – Nelson Snyder; grayest – I. Samuel Levine; reddest – Donald Norris; mutton chops – Leon Lashinsky; and longest mustache – Carl Anderson.” Winners were given a Remington electric shaver (courtesy of the Remington company and Crain’s Pharmacy), and two “best beards” were given tickets to the Rocky Marciano - Ezzard Charles fight held Sept. 17, 1954 (Marciano won). Thank you to the Sullivan County Historical Society for access to its archives, and for researching these photos. If anyone can identify the gentleman above, please call our Callicoon office at (845) 887-5200.
October 11, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 The Damascus School Board was called out last week to deliberate upon the advisability of building a new school house to accommodate the children in what is known as the … more
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