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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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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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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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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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Reverend James Adams, First Church of Monticello, Presbyterian
Reverend Adams and the myth of the Lost Cause
Although James Eldridge Quinlan’s 1873 History of Sullivan County has consistently received high marks as a local history, with many over the years ranking it among the very best, it certainly … more
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A crowd watches as fire destroys a large part of the village's business district on Friday the thirteenth, June 13, 1913.
The great Liberty fire
Sometime after 4 o’clock on the afternoon of Friday, June 13, 1913, the fire alarm sounded in the village of Liberty, and by the time firemen responded, a number of buildings were already in … more
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A movie poster for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the first movie ever shown at the Mountain Drive-In in Liberty, Sullivan County's first drive-in.
Sullivan County’s first Drive-In
It was June of 1949, and people from Roscoe to Bloomingburgh were all abuzz about an upcoming event that promised to usher in a new era of entertainment in Sullivan County. Everywhere local … more
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