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 …
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John Conway
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8/5/22
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/2/22
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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 …
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John Conway
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7/29/22
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/26/22
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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 …
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John Conway
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7/22/22
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/19/22
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Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and several of his novels — “Main Street,” “Babbit,” “Elmer Gantry,” etc. …
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John Conway
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7/15/22
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/12/22
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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 …
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John Conway
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7/8/22
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/5/22
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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: …
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John Conway
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7/1/22
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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 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/28/22
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