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An illustration by Robert Sauber from the book, “A Night Sky Lined with Silver.”
The night sky lined with silver
Back in 2005, author Yvonne David set her first children’s book, “Out of the Apple Orchard” in the hamlet of Mountaindale in 1910. The book told the story of a young boy named Adam … more
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March 19, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1874 Hay pressing has become quite an important feature among our home industries. Quite a number of men are pressing the article in this neighborhood and shipping the … more
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March 12, 2024 Edition
130 Years Ago - 1894 John Mootz and the team have been assisting George Weyrauch in drawing logs which are intended for a new house. Young America is endeavoring to organize a sporting … more
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Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa.
Dr. Roosa passes away
On March 8, 1908, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, one of New York City’s most prominent doctors and a native of Sullivan County, suffered a major heart attack and died. Few men from the … more
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March 5, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 The Wayne County Independent comes to us very much improved and enlarged. It is now a nine column paper and very newsy. Why use a gritting, muddy disagreeable article … more
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Jean Amatucci Fox in 2020. She was the first woman to represent Sullivan County in the New York State Assembly, the first Registered Nurse elected to the NYS Assembly, and the first woman to give birth while in office in the NYS Legislature.
Sullivan County’s first assemblywoman
The fact that since 1987 the month of March has been celebrated as Women’s History Month in this country provides an interesting perspective on the recent announcement by Assemblywoman Aileen … more
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The difference a century makes: One hundred twenty years ago, a machine like the one above was installed at the Sullivan County Record offices to upgrade the newspaper’s typesetting capabilities. In describing the typesetter, it was said, “The Simplex is small and compact, weighing about 1100 pounds and occupying no more floor space than an ordinary coal stove... the typesetter uses the same kind of type as is set by hand... It does the work perfectly, and while it is apparently simple, it would be impossible to explain the matter intelligently.” Two persons could work on the machine at one time, one at the keyboard and the other spacing the assembled type. Today we marvel at what we might still be working with to distribute the news, if not for the invention of the personal computer.
Feb. 27, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 A current report that Messrs. E.A. Clark & Company intend to purchase the bark, owned by Wales of Pike Pond. If this could be effected, our tannery will hold out for the … more
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Sunset Acres
In many ways, Sunset Acres in Parksville was typical of a small 1960s Sullivan County resort, offering guests “beautiful lobbies, filtered swimming pool, a comfortable large dining room, tennis … more
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Feb. 20, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 Last Thursday the rapidly rising stream created quite some excitement in Jeffersonville. The abutment of John Beck’s footbridge was knocked down by the ice, leaving it … more
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The 26th U.S.C.T. on parade in 1864.
Henry C. Jackson
Henry Clay Jackson of Wurtsboro lived one of the most eventful lives of any resident of Sullivan County ever, and yet few today are familiar with his name. For one thing, Jackson, an African … more
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Feb. 13, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 All hands are at Court this week. C.A. Heinley of Narrowsburg made his usual trip through this village last Thursday. Joseph Seibert Jr., who has been in New … more
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William and Fannie Harden.
Harden’s Forestview Lodge
For decades, Fannie Harden worked alongside her husband William to build the Forestview Lodge near Swan Lake into a successful business, carrying on alone after his death. When she passed away, the … more
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Feb. 6, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 Eggs are 40 cents a dozen at North Branch. G. Barkmeyer of North Branch purchased a cow of William Huff for $40. Last Monday evening our “Band Boys” … more
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Author Michael J. Worden will be in Eldred on Saturday, February 10.
Lynched by a mob
On June 2, 1892, an angry mob of several hundred men dragged Robert Lewis nearly half a mile through the streets and hanged him from a tree. Lewis, also known as Robert Jackson, was an African … more
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Jan. 30, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 Where is our January thaw? The Jeffersonville Brass and String Band has four engagements this week. Callicoon Depot, reported last week as being without a pool … more
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Jan. 23, 2024 Edition
140 years ago - 1884 Icemen begin to think that this season is almost a total failure for them. John Cooper of Bethel was engaged in plowing on his farm on Monday. There was no frost in the … more
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Mind the chickens: This postcard brings to mind the popular song by Young, Lewis & Donaldson, “How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm,” one line of which queries, “How you gonna keep them off of Broadway?” The song was written about U.S. soldiers deployed to foreign countries during military service in World War I, suggesting that their exposure to cities like Paris might make it difficult for them to return to normal life “down on the farm.” This postcard from the early 1900s shows a novel fence construction barring half a dozen hens from the “Broadway” in North Branch. It might have been designed to keep the farm’s poultry from predatory gas-powered conveyances.
Jan. 16, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1874 On January 8, in the Town of Fremont, John Weber, son of Andreas Weber, died of consumption at the age of 24. At Sackett Pond, in the Town of Thompson, December 29th, … more
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A charcoal portrait of New Mexico’s John Sullivan, circa 1871.
The saga of Monticello, New Mexico
Those familiar with Sullivan County history likely know the story well: the brothers Samuel Frisbee Jones and John Patterson Jones, born in Connecticut, came here from Columbia County around 1804 and … more
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151 Years Ago... The Sullivan County Record was “born” in 1873 (see inset), a mere 151 years ago. The newspaper began in Youngsville in 1868 with the title Callicoon Local Record, later moving to Jeffersonville. Editor-publisher William T. Morgans was then a young man in his 20s, growing his family just down the road from Inderlied’s tannery. The bustling hamlet of Youngsville also featured slate sidewalks at one time, which can be seen in this photo, postmarked 1909.
Jan. 9, 2024 Edition
150 Years Ago - 1874 The Sullivan County Record was six years old in 1874. (Editor’s Note: The Sullivan County Democrat obtained the rights to print this popular column upon the demise … more
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Longtime Fallsburg Supervisor Mortimer Michaels was a vocal supporter of moving the county highway facility from Barryville to Monticello.
To move or not to move
The great division of eastern and western Sullivan County has reared its head politically several times over the years, perhaps no more so than in the heated controversy over moving the … more
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In the swim—then and now: This vintage photo of the lake at Jeffersonville is possibly a century old or older, from a local photographer whose name has been lost to time. To the left (outside of the frame) was the hotel that perched on the rim of the lake, above a large parking area and an adjacent roped swimming area. At the time this image was recorded, the lake was a welcome source for recreation, though its dam’s fate could not be foreseen then. Even now, those concerned about the lake are awaiting results of a flood study to determine what the future may hold.
Jan. 2, 2024 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1884 The principal subject discussed at a meeting of the Sullivan County Teachers Association held at Young’s Hall, Liberty, was that of teachers’ wages. A committee … more
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Main Street, Jeffersonville circa 1914. The Eagle Hotel is visible just to the right of center. 
An impending centennial
Even before New York Governor Kathy Hochul cleared the way last week for a new village to be formed in Sullivan County—a referendum on January 18 will determine the fate of what is proposed to … more
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December 26, 2023 Edition
150 Years Ago -   1873 John Manny has some excellent Arizona diamonds for sale at ten cents a quart and also some excellent cider at the same price. Sullivan County has plenty of poor. … more
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December 19, 2023 Edition
130 Years Ago - 1893 A meeting of the people of Jeffersonville and vicinity will be held at the Mansion House, Jeffersonville, on Saturday evening, December 16, to take steps toward securing the … more
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The Erie Railroad depot in Narrowsburg.
A Christmas miracle
It was December 14, 1917, and a Christmas miracle-- and the diligent work of local firemen-- prevented a good portion of the hamlet of Narrowsburg’s business district from being incinerated. … more
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