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What happened in Sullivan County after the big hotels (like the Concord, pictured here) closed down? The program “After the Fall” attempts to answer the question.
After the fall
When the weekly newspaper column known as Retrospect made its debut in July of 1987, it was a much different column than it is today. Although there was an occasional foray into formal local history, … more
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The Haunted History Tour will be held this year at Fort Delaware on Saturday, October 8 from 6-9 p.m.
The Haunted History Lantern Tour
It is a legend in this region that during the 17th century, the valleys framed by the Delaware, Mongaup and Neversink Rivers were rich and verdant, and unthreatened by development. Much of this lush … more
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Another Hurleyville history hike
Prior to the arrival of the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad in the 1870s, there wasn’t much to Hurleyville, save for a few scattered houses and a place name on some maps.  In … more
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An Iron Lung was used to help polio patients breathe, in many cases keeping them alive.
Polio peak in Sullivan County
The recent news that the polio virus has been discovered in wastewater in Sullivan County has raised concerns here that the disease, long thought to be eradicated, might make a resurgence. … more
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18th century botanist John Bartram
Splendid and miraculously at Fort Delaware
From their earliest visits here, the Lenape, who constructed their sweat lodges among the wil- low trees on the banks of the Delaware, revered this area because of what they recognized as its … more
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Harry “Pittsburg Phil” Strauss.
The Honeymoon Murder
It was about nine o’clock on a muggy Saturday evening in August of 1936, and two young honeymooners were dressing for a night out when they were interrupted by the ringing of the telephone … more
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Promoter Leon Greenberg in the 1970s.
Success is a traffic jam
The weekend of August 24 to 26 in 1979 was supposed to be a significant one in Sullivan County history. Plans had been made for some of the top musical acts in the business to appear at the site of … more
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Richard Jenkins will be displaying and talking about this powder horn from the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign at Fort Delaware at one p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, August 13.
Guiding General Sullivan
On August 11, 1779, at the height of America’s war for independence, General John Sullivan arrived at Tioga Point in upstate New York with a large force of men and began construction of what … more
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Noah Lewis as Revolutionary War hero Ned Hector at Fort Delaware in July.
African Americans in colonial era
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1626, a ship carrying eleven slaves was unloaded in New Amsterdam by the Dutch West Indies Company. Those eleven men are believed to be the first African Americans brought to … 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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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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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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