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August 2, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Editor Hones of the Roscoe Review has recently been elected president of the New York State Editorial Association. Several detectives attached to the central office of … more
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The body of Walter Sage at McGibbon & Currey Funeral Home in Liberty shortly after it was removed from Swan Lake.
The corpse in the grey suit
It was Saturday, July 31, 1937 and two vacationers in a rowboat on Swan Lake made a grisly discovery on the surface of the lake. It was the body of a man, all trussed up and tied to a rock and a slot … more
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Miss Janet’s graduates of ‘62: Thanks to Jim Schultz for another look at Miss Janet’s Nursery School’s first graduation ceremony. Miss Janet’s school operated for three decades, schooling hundreds of pupils over the years. Janet Sausmikat Doetsch operated the preschool, first located down the River Road and later along Route 97. The first graduating class included, front row, from left: Barbara Mills Fancker, Holly Curtis Perdan, Susanne Ziegler, and Douglas Doetsch. Second row, from the left, are Teresa Tenbus McBeath, Linda Leewe Kitson, and James Schultz. Third row, from the left, are Terri Moran Kuhn, Thomas Meyer, Lori Whitmore and Joan Chesnick. Eric Meyer can just be seen in the background (behind his brother Thomas). But who is the littlest one, barely visible in the greenery at right?
July 26, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 On Wednesday one of the worst storms we have had visited this section, accompanied by severe thunder and lightning. Long Bros. boarding house in Beechwoods was struck and one … more
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The Battle of Minisink Remembered
On July 20, 1779, Joseph Brant, a Mohawk fighting with the British, led a raiding party of Indians and Tories against a settlement near present-day Port Jervis. It was their second raid upon the area … more
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Callicoon Kiwanis celebrated: This photo dates back to September 15, 1986 and shows the Callicoon Kiwanis Club at its Annual Divisional Steak Bake meeting at the Delaware Youth Center, in Callicoon. The Callicoon Kiwanis were also celebrating their 40th Anniversary as a club that year. Callicoon Kiwanians were, front row, from the left, Robert Inteman, Audley Dorrer, Kiwanis President Ed Sykes, unknown and Charles Mills. Standing, from the left, are, Willard “Bud” Slausenberg, Howard Stewart, Matthew “Joe” Freda, unknown, Ed Lohr, Donald Molusky and Ron Gorr. If anyone knows the unnamed members please call Ruth at 845-887-5200. The Callicoon Kiwanis Club will be celebrating its 76th Anniversary this year.
July 19, 2022 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1882 One of the lady boarders at the summer hotel at Guymard’s took a dram and a  half of Fowler’s solution by mistake last Sunday. Dr. Cuddeback of Port Jervis … more
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When it comes to tourism, change is the only constant. (Illustration by Ernest Fiene for the novel, “Work of Art.”)
Work of Art
Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and several of his novels — “Main Street,” “Babbit,” “Elmer Gantry,” etc. … more
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Who was the bridal couple? The reverse of this Hillig photo was inscribed “Mrs. Matilda Wells,” nothing more. The archive of the Liberty Register, accessed through the Liberty Library website, reveals that Mrs. Wells was married in 1897 to Dr. Stephen W. Wells, then on the medical staff of Loomis Sanatorium. Shortly afterward they moved to the village of Liberty where Dr. Wells set up his private practice, and the Wellses raised three sons, one of whom was later elected to serve as town clerk. Matilda Wells was active in the American Legion Auxiliary and the S.P.C.A. and likely knew many people. Whose wedding this was is uncertain, but it is certainly one of the biggest wedding gatherings we have ever seen photographed on a porch.
July 12, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Saturday afternoon, during the heavy thunderstorm, lightning struck the chimney of Jacob Dreher’s house in the Beechwoods, and nearly killed two little girls, Louisa … more
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The Declaration of Independence will be publicly read aloud at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History tomorrow (Saturday, July 9), as will a Tory response. The program starts at 12 noon and is included in the price of admission to the Fort.
A Passionate Tory
The first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware Valley was established around 1755 by a group of Connecticut farmers calling themselves the Delaware Company, and within a few years … more
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Union Park was a local hot-spot Many church picnics and clam bakes were scheduled at a new park by the Masonic Hall in Jeffersonville, according to the Sullivan County Record, July 1891. Andrew Bietz’s Union Park was well-located for a community eager to have a good time outdoors. Music was provided by the Jeffersonville Band, and the crowd was sure to increase in the evenings once the farmers had finished the haying and other chores. In the park, the Record says, “electricity is not employed as the lighting power, but on such an occasion as this there are generally enough ‘sparks’ and auburn-haired girls around to fill the vacancy left by kerosene torches.” Willow Grove in Callicoon, Kohler’s Grove in Beechwoods, and Inderlied’s Grove in Youngsville (among others) offered alternate choices for entertainment in the warmer months.
July 5, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 The safe in the post office of South Fallsburg was blown some time during last Tuesday night by yeggmen and over $2,000 in money and stamps was secured. There is no trace of … more
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Patriots and Loyalists
The notion of the American War of Independence as a civil war is by no means a new one, but it has gained new traction of late because of the 2021 book “America’s First Civil War: … more
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School is out! Local area high school grads should look for our special 2022 graduation issue of the Democrat, Friday, July 1. Philip Kautz of Milford, Pa. shared this postcard of the “lower school house” in Jeffersonville, now a family residence, according to a description on the reverse of the card dated 1941.
June 28, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 At the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bauernfeind of the Beechwoods Wednesday evening, their eldest daughter, Ruth, was united in marriage with Ralph Harold Myers, son of Mr. and … more
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Judge Lawrence H. Cooke
Shilbury v. Board of Supervisors
It was June of 1965, and Judge Lawrence H. Cooke was about to render a decision that would have a profound impact on Sullivan County government, and ultimately its politics, as well. From the … more
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