140 Years Ago - 1884

George Wood brought into the Sullivan County Record office last Monday, an oat head which measured fourteen inches and had one hundred and six well developed kernels on it. Who beats that?

The bridge near the center of this village has been newly planked and this was a repair badly needed. The dividing it into parts would make the plank last longer. Place a large stick and bolt it fast, so large that it could not be run over.

Somebody was mean enough to steal the drinking cup from the spout near Humphrey’s mill. Mr. Humphrey has placed 36 cups there, each of which has been stolen or destroyed, and he does it only to accommodate the public.

The new postal law now makes the taking of a newspaper and the refusal to pay for the same, theft, and any persons guilty of such an action is liable to criminal proceedings, the same as if he had stolen goods in the amount of his subscription.

130 Years Ago - 1894

The week ending July 21 was unusually hot and dry and growing crops were beginning to suffer quite seriously when the 20th and 21st broke the drought and revived vegetation.

Rainy and dull cloudy days bring many fishermen here. Last Tuesday they literally swarmed; the hotel barns and sheds were filled to overflowing and vehicles of 11 kinds from the democratic buckboard to the more swagger surrey were seen. Many fish are said to have been taken from Lake Jefferson, but we haven’t heard of any exceptionally large ones being caught this season.

A special election will be held at Monticello, August 4th, to vote on the question of raising twenty thousand dollars by tax for water works in that village.

On Friday night, July 20, one of the large lamps used for lighting the store of A.P. DuBois & Co., at Livingston Manor, fell from its hangings to the floor, a distance of about ten feet. The oil scattered in all directions and blazed up causing considerable damage, as there was a large center table between the counters, which was piled full of goods at the time and only for the arrival of the fire company, the store would have burned down with all its contents, as the flames reached to the upper ceiling blistering the paint for a considerable distance.

When the “Ideal” (we can’t imagine whose ideal they could have been) minstrels showed at Jeffersonville a couple weeks ago they were greeted by a fair-sized crowd, but ere the silly-billy performance had proceeded very far, the audience had dwindled down to only a few, who, out of curiosity wanted to stay and see it out. The manager, before leaving, remarked that this was the worst town for a show they ever struck, but we believe that, were the questions brought before him at this day, that manager would really agree that there are really worse places than Jeffersonville. The fact is that our citizens are altogether too lenient and patient with every fraud and humbug which happens along. Were they not, those “ideal” chaps would have gone out of town on rails and with a liberal application of tar and feathers.

120 Years Ago - 1904

Jeffersonville lay in the path of another very heavy downpour of rain last Thursday evening that continued for some time. The tributaries to the Callicoon Creek were quickly made raging torrents overflowing their banks. School Street at Gus Neuberger’s was badly torn up again and the water ran across East Main Street there to the depth of over two feet. The Callicoon rose high and fell rapidly, doing no damage. The flood was very severe as described by our correspondent. Main Street below Inderlied’s Hotel was a river with waves splashing into the houses. Along the Briscoe valley there was not much rain to speak of.

W.G. Wilson, the Kenoza Lake brush artist, had just completed an elegant sign on the Masonic building here in raised letters spelling Masonic Hall and the Masonic emblem, square and compasses crossed with the letter “G” in the center. The letter and emblem are finished in gold leaf, and with the dark blue background make an attractive and appropriate and modern sign for the building. Mr. Wilson, we understand, has secured the contract for painting and decorating the new St. Joseph’s College at Callicoon Depot.

Youngsville  — We now have another barber and a much needed shoemaker in town. They both hail from Rochester and are to be found in the store adjoining Hick’s Hotel.

Dr. R. Mielke and wife of Brooklyn are stopping with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Seibert. The doctor notes many improvements in this place since he was here thirteen years ago.

George Bohl, who recently moved here from Scranton to open a bakery, has received his oven and expects to start up soon. The people here are anxiously waiting for the bakery to open. This is a good field, and a good baker ought to do a big business in this section. It seems that Mr. Bohl is faint-hearted about starting here, made so by people who profess to be his friends, but in reality are not. A good resident baker would have things all his own way, and it would keep him hustling to supply the trade. It is not half supplied now. We hope that either Mr. Bohl or some other man will give us a bakery without further delay.

There were twelve voters at the school meeting in Jeff Tuesday night. The trustees reported a balance in the collector’s hands of $135, which is needed for new seats and other improvements voted for last year. The meeting voted to change from three to one trustee for the district. George C. Lixfield was re-elected collector and  Henry A. Meyer, clerk; $20 was voted for library money and $525 for teachers’ wages and other expenses. The trustees were directed to procure plans and estimates for installing a heating system and toilets in the school house to be submitted at a special meeting.

Callicoon: Mrs. Behrung, who is summering at John Bohl’s, entertained a number of friends last Wednesday evening, the occasion being the 32nd anniversary of her birth. The program for the evening was very interesting. Music was furnished by Misses Kate Yager and Olga Hessinger, while Mr. Behrung favored the company with some of his favorite songs. A game called Kilkenny Cats afforded much amusement.

James Silver’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin troupe will show under a tent in Chas. Scheidell’s yard tonight. Jim is one of the few showmen who always draws good houses through here because he gives a good show. He has been spreading out with his increasing popularity, and has a company of 18 people.

110 Years Ago - 1914

Several parties from this place went out in the Town of Bethel huckleberrying this week. Some of them have learned that it is cheaper, and easier to buy the berries of peddlers.

At Schmidt’s Bowling Alleys, Wm. Menges of the Mansion House won the box of 10¢ cigars for the high score for July 23. The winners of the weekly prizes for the past two weeks were as follows: week ending July 25, Mrs. Hoffman of Villa Edwin, Beechwoods, 176; Albert Mehnken of New York, 217; week ending August 2, Mrs. H. Brehm of New York, 141; Oscar Eggler, Jeffersonville, 245.

Albert Ryman, a jockey on the warship Michigan, is at his home here on furlough, while his ship is in dock at Philadelphia. Albert returned a month ago from a trip to Mexico.

Misses Katherine H. Scheidell and Caroline Hofer are home on vacation from the Long Island College Hospital training school for nurses. They were accompanied here by two other nurses from that institute, Miss Ruby Riker and Pansy Niles. 

A bright little daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gluns of Galeton, Pa., on July 31. The mother was formerly Miss Kate Luchs of Jeffersonville.

About twenty people enjoyed a private clam bake arranged by a few young men of this village on George Yager’s farm on Swiss Hill last Sunday. Among the outsiders who partook of the feast were John Bennedum Jr. and family, and J. Meyerrose and wife of Lake Huntington. The bake was in charge of Will Miller, Will Durr and Theodore Bollenbach.

Kenoza Lake: Ralph R. Moulthrop of Binghamton, who graduated from Cornell University in June, receiving the degree of D.V.M. and also taking the prize of $50 for his thesis, left his home on July 15th for Boston, where he has been appointed to a fine position. Ralph was born and lived in Kenoza Lake until he was eighteen years of age. Several years ago he removed to Binghamton with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Moulthrop.

Rev. Adam Groebe of South Orange is at the Archibald residence for a few weeks. Mr. Groebe, who is retired from the ministry, will be remembered by our older inhabitants as the pastor of the German M.E. Church of Jeffersonville forty years ago. He was followed as pastor here by Rev. Wm. Giesregen, who died two years ago.

Fifty-two more candidates for chauffeurs licenses took the state examination at Liberty last Thursday. Among the number were Fred Gerken, A.H. Unger and Seth H. Eltz of Jeffersonville; John E. Abplanalp of Youngsville; and Eben Hill of White Sulphur Springs.

100 Years Ago - 1924

Arthur Schaefer and family and Mrs. Katherine Sohl motored to Cortland one day last week to visit Miss Christine Sohl, who is attending summer school there.

Gene Tunney, light-heavyweight boxer who defeated George Carpentier, the French champion, last week is a friend of Tony Kraus of Narrowsburg, who umpires the ball games in Jeffersonville this season. Tunney is coming to the Kraus farm in August on a visit.

The only store at Curry’s Corners in the Town of Neversink, was destroyed by fire just before dark Friday, July 11. The store was owned by Mrs. Jennie Curry, who carried a general stock of merchandise. Until a short time ago the post office was in the store.

North Branch: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lehner and two sons of New York are vacationing at the Louis Mootz farm. Mr. Lehner is a designer in the carpet house of the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co., New York, in the same department with Harry Hunt, son-in-law of the late Mr. and Mrs. L.K. Goodman of North Branch.

Miss Vera Simpson of Brooklyn is visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Scheidell.

Former Alderman Oscar J. Fischer of Jersey City arrives in Jeff today for his annual vacation here.

90 Years Ago - 1934

A period of severe electrical rain storms which started last Thursday evening and continued for a few days caused much damage in Sullivan County. Many barns were burned in various parts, cattle were killed, roads and bridges were washed out, telephone and electric lines were disrupted and cellars were flooded with the torrent of rain.

The Erie Railroad Company last Friday let the contract for a new bridge to be erected in Callicoon to cross the Jeffersonville highway, the Callicoon Creek and the Creamery road, a length of over 200 feet. The new bridge will be erected north of the present one and will be so laid out as to eliminate the curve approaching the bridge from the station. The new structure is to be completed by January 1.

Kenoza Lake: Mrs. Grover C. Smith and daughter, Louise, motored from Flint, Mich., to spend their vacation with Mrs. Smith’s niece, Mrs. R.W. Schwartz.

Arthur Nacashien, employed the past couple of years at the Maple Theatre in this village, and Mrs. Gladys D. Stacy of Malone, a member of the Jeffersonville School faculty the past few years, were married early Wednesday evening, August 1, at the Presbyterian parsonage by Rev. G. Wendell Jung, and have taken up housekeeping in rooms in the Mary Scheidell house. Mr. Nacashien was born in Constantinople and before coming to Jeffersonville was an electrical engineer in New York City.

Last Sunday, July 22, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Bossley celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a dinner at their home in Liberty. About thirty relatives were present including Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bird, Mr. Henry Keim Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keim Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Val Keim and Ethel Keim, all of Jeffersonville.

Fosterdale: During the severe storm on Friday evening, lightning struck and demolished the chimney on Watson Abplanalp’s house.

Callicoon Center: Oscar Creter of Forest Hills was with his family over the weekend. He is a member of the Concordia Singing Verein of Brooklyn and was accompanied here by 25 other troop members, who stopped at Harry Schuler’s Saturday and Sunday.

Deputy Tax Commissioner John O’Neill and family of Brooklyn are again vacationing at Smith’s Maple Grove House.

The Deckelman and Hick families spent the past week at the former’s camp on Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondacks, far from the maddening crowd. Attorney Deckelman and Bill Miller were there over the weekend.

Swiss Hill: A birthday party was given on July 22 at the home of Miriam Honifield in honor of her fourteenth birthday. Those present were a sister, Freda, and father, Joseph Honifield, Daniel Reinoff, Mrs. Rose Sherman, Milton Klastern, Ruth Lieberman, Hy Kaufman, and Mrs. Ruth Thony and family. All enjoyed a good time.

North Branch: Jacob Bauernfeind came home from Ithaca Friday for the weekend. He made the trip here and back with Principal Charles Lewis of Callicoon.

80 Years Ago - 1944

The Mansion House,  operated for over forty years by William Knell and closed by him last October following the death of his wife, Augusta Durr, was sold this week to New Jersey parties, who, after extensive renovations inside and out, will reopen the place next spring as a hotel and restaurant. No real estate agent was involved in the sale.

The four purchasers are Mrs. Pauline Karadontes and her brother-in-law, Andrew Karadontes, who with the former’s husband, Peter Karadontes (who died six years ago) established a florist and nursery business at 47 West Ruby Ave., Palisades Park, N.J., thirty years ago, and the former’s cousin, Peter Voris and Louis Kapakos, who have conducted a bar and grill and restaurant at Suffern the past fifteen years and ten years previously elsewhere. These two cousins, one of whom is a chef, will run a modern restaurant in connection with the hotel here.

The Lutheran congregation at a meeting last Thursday night, extended a call to Robert Fletchner of Newark to become the pastor here, to succeed Rev. Fred Foerster, who recently resigned to take a larger pastorate at Terryville, Conn. Mr. Fletchner preached here as a candidate a couple weeks ago.

Editorial: We at home are doing a lot of talking and planning as to what we will do after the war for and with the boys now in the armed forces. Some think that when the boys get back home they are going to have some ideas of their own as to what ought to be done for the next thirty or forty years when they will be the ones who will run affairs in the country. My guess is that when the boys get back home, they will not be looking for any more trouble, such as trying to run a country like this, with all the burdens mounted and mounting on it. After the war, the politicians will continue to run the country just as of old.

Kenoza Lake: Bernice E. Fuhrer and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schnibbe motored to Utica on Friday, stopping at Hotel Utica. On Saturday, they visited the Masonic Home there and attended the annual OES pilgrimage at Oriskany. They also called on the Fuhrer relatives, Mrs. Lena Kehrile and daughter, Mrs. Emma Smith, who live in Utica. The trio returned home on Sunday evening.

The Ladies Euchre Club, of which Mrs. L.J. Dietrich is a member, gave her a surprise party on her 70th birthday anniversary. In the party were Mrs. Lena Faubel, Mrs. C.O. Wilkin, Mrs. Edwin Weber, Mrs. John C. Beck, Mrs. Mary Kohler, Mrs. John Biebel and Mrs. E.F. Kohler.

Liberty: Harry Wilcox of the Catskill Rangers of Roscoe made the high score of 740 in the judging of eight classes of dairy cattle at the ninth annual dairy judging tour held for club members at Delhi on July 21.

70 Years Ago - 1954

Residents of the  Village of Jeffersonville have been asked not to wash their automobiles with village water until further notice, because of the inadequate water supply, according to William Huff, water and street superintendent.

Mrs. Keba Borden has resigned from her position as the 5th grade teacher in the Jeffersonville Central School. She had been with the Jeffersonville school for nine years.

The newly expanded cerebral palsy clinic in the Liberty-Loomis Hospital will be formally opened on August 15 at 2 p.m., according to Miss Jennie Goldstein, director of the clinic.

Jeffersonville Central School’s English teacher, Edna L. Woodworth, earned her Master of Arts Degree in English this summer from Albany State Teacher’s College. On August 14th, she’ll be married to Robert A. Clark of Swan Lake in the Jeffersonville Presbyterian Church.

Miss Mary Tonjes is visiting her grandparents in Chester this week. She’ll probably attend the races in Goshen while down there.

Fires in Sullivan County on Friday afternoon caused considerable damage to the Sullivan Block Company, Ferndale, and the Eagle Rock Farm, Lake Huntington.

Five grand prizes were awarded during the Float show at the Lion’s playground last Friday. Winners were Billy Tegeler, Mary Tegeler, Bethany Fuller and Eva Goldschmidt as the family with a carriage; Betty Peters with a carriage filled with all types of kitchenware; Barbara Krongel with a small girl’s bike; Peter Hyatt as the native; and Judy and Stephen Maier, with a carry-all.

60 Years Ago - 1964

Russell Hodge Jr., a 24-year-old Roscoe athlete, tied for third place with Mikhail Storozhenko of Russia in last weekend’s United States-USSR track meet at Los Angeles. Russ, who is one of the world’s top-rated performers in the Decathlon, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell V. Hodge of Roscoe.

Miss Waltraud Pinter of Vienna, Austria, will be an exchange student in JYCS for the following school year. She will be a member of the Junior class and will make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Koman-check, Cochecton.

Several engagements were announced this week: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shaara of the Beechwoods Rd., Jeffersonville, announce the engagement of their daughter, Virginia, to Norman Jamieson of Youngsville; Mr. and Mrs. James Leonidas Brooks Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., announce the engagement of their daughter, Madeline, to Thomas Moran, son of Mrs. Elliott James Moran of Jeffersonville.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Payne Sr. of Bergenfield, N.J., were guests of honor at a 50th anniversary party held in Fellowship Hall, Youngsville. Mrs. Emily Piper, who was a bridesmaid at the wedding, was in attendance and also Miss Adele Cape who had made the bride’s wedding dress.

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peters Jr. of Endicott on the birth of a son on Saturday. They now have two boys and a girl. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peters Sr. of Jeffersonville are the paternal grandparents.

50 Years Ago - 1974

An estimated 5,000 people attended the “Lucky 7th” canoe regatta on the Delaware River Sunday and participated in the field activities at the Delaware Youth Center in Callicoon afterwards. There were 162 entries in the 8 canoe races run over the traditional courses – the 25-miler from Hancock, the 15-miler from Long Eddy and the 8-miler from Hankins. Five of the races this year were sanctioned by the New York Canoe Racing Association for points to be accumulated towards the NY Championships. Cathy Martin of Narrowsburg was crowned Regatta Queen and George Shurter of Middletown won the 9.4-mile race from Long Eddy for the second year in a row, setting a new record of 53 min. 52 sec. The Tug-o-War was won by the Hortonville Fire Department. David Mudge of Callicoon was the fastest of the DVCS runners, completing the course in 13th place in a field of 23.

One person was killed, another suffered smoke inhalation along with three firemen in a fire at 141 S. Main St., Liberty, last Friday morning, not far from the scene of the January fire in the Vogel building where ten people lost their lives.

JoAnne Keesler and Michael Ristics were married July 20 by Father Calahan in the Immaculate Conception Church in Scranton. The bride is the daughter of Ruth E. Keesler of Callicoon.

The collapse of a recreation hall porch at Camp Olympus in Parksville resulted in injuries to 16 campers Wednesday evening.

Wilfred Stalker, age 63, of Equinunk, Pa., was killed July 22 when the tractor he was operating fell over a 35-foot embankment on his 100-acre farm and landed on top of him in a small creek.

40 Years Ago - 1984

The 122nd Annual Wayne County Fair will have most of the traditional fair attractions this year with the exception of the poultry exhibition. “Due to the outbreak of Avian influenza in Lancaster, Pa., last October and November, all poultry exhibitions have been cancelled statewide,” said George Schroder, superintendent of the Poultry Department at the Wayne County Fair. Cooperative Extension Agent Gerald Skoda of Sullivan County said that there will also be no poultry exhibits at the Grahamsville Fair.

Word has been received of the death of Dr. Earl Buchele of Cloversport, Kty. A former minister of the Callicoon Methodist Church Charge, Dr. Buchele furthered his education in the medical field and with his family moved to the Kentucky area to practice. He had a beautiful voice and often prefaced his sermons with a rendition of some appropriate song.

The 17th annual canoe regatta, sponsored by the Callicoon Fire Department, was held Sunday, July 29, in Callicoon. Following the traditional races from Long Eddy and Hankins, a barbecue for 1400 was served at the Delaware Youth Center Field. (The races from Hancock were discontinued several years ago.) According to Harold and Pearl Bjorklund, race directors, more than 100 entered the racing events. As part of the parade, Dick Hoover of Newton, Pa., drove a fire truck that belonged to the Callicoon Fire Company in 1935. He bought it, restored it, and brought it back for the event. Peggy Zurn, newly crowned regatta queen, presented John Mitchell of Pine Bush and Robert McPhillips of Newburgh with the trophy for winning the 15-mile race. Butch Baer of Temple, Tex., came home to join Hoyniak’s Remodeling Tug-o-War team for this year’s competition although they were “out-tugged” by the Sykes Farm Team.

A planned marker to designate the site of the Woodstock ‘69 Festival is causing great controversy in the Town of Bethel. This being the 15th anniversary, a commemorative plaque has been suggested. Should Woodstock be forgotten? According to Leni Binder, Bert Feldman and Art Schubert, a marker should be placed although threats have been made that such a momento would be smashed. “Whether or not people agree or disagree with what happened at Woodstock, it did happen and it’s foolish to ignore it,” said Mrs. Binder. “The field is a beautiful, peaceful spot where an international, peaceful event took place. The Town of Bethel is contradicting themselves by threatening to smash up our marker. Sure we don’t want Woodstock repeated, but it is historical. Battlegrounds, where hundreds of people are murdered, are marked, so why such opposition with something initially peaceful?” she asked. On the 5th anniversary Mrs. Binder erected a small display. For the tenth year reunion, she and others put together a larger display of Woodstock memorabilia and featured a graffiti board, where people could write what they were thinking. 

30 Years Ago - 1994

Fallsburg High School Junior Jason Pollak has painted a bus, donated by Rolling V Bus Company, in the familiar graffiti style of the “Woodstock days” to be raffled off at Bethel ‘94. The funds will benefit the Fallsburg Youth Center. As much as everyone wanted to see the Youth Center become a reality, neither the school system nor the town has been able to make it happen. 

Nicole LaJoie of Jeffersonville was seriously injured when her automobile was struck while attempting a left-hand turn near the entrance to Beaumont Estates on Route 52 west of Liberty. She is in the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. 

Tess Tenbus, daughter of Madolin and Arthur Tenbus of Hortonville, and John McBeath, son of Jack McBeath of Hankins and  Judy Trapani of Sarasota, Fla., were united in marriage on June 25 at the Stone Arch Bridge. The Hon. Mark Meddaugh officiated.

Toni L. Newkirk of Wurtsboro and Jack Haley Jr. of Wurtsboro Hills exchanged wedding vows at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church in Wurtsboro on  May 29.

More than 600 chickens were barbecued to be served at the joint Monticello Kiwanis and Rotary Barbecue held at the Town of Thompson Park.

Bethel ‘94 Cancelled! Those headlines finalized all the controversy regarding the 25th anniversary celebration of the Woodstock Festival of 1969. Poor tickets sales and the lack of promoter harmony were cited as the major reasons given by Shea Entertainment, promoters of Bethel ‘94, as they pulled the plug on the 25th Anniversary Woodstock Concert, just 11 days before the big event. 

20 Years Ago - 2004

Hurleyville’s MobileMedic is looking for an injunction against the county’s 911 center, stopping dispatchers from sending ambulance services into any town, village or fire district where they don’t hold the primary operating authority, except in cases of mutual aid. MobileMedic, and its parent company Sullivan ParaMedicine, currently hold contracts in the village of Monticello, the Town of Bethel and the Loch Sheldrake, Fallsburg and Neversink fire districts.

The Callicoon Street Fair, which is sponsored by the Callicoon Business Association, drew large crowds this weekend – thanks in part to the addition of a carnival in the municipal parking lot.

Kids from all over the area enjoyed the Dr. Don Games at the Livingston Manor Rotary Park on Sunday. The event was founded by dentist Dr. Don Simkin. 

The fifth annual silent auction held in Callicoon Center Sunday to raise money for breast cancer research raised $5,200.

Ralph and Brenda Downs of Parksville have announced the engagement of their daughter, Marisa Downs of Liberty, to Chad Burgio, son of Elizabeth and Charles Burgio of Liberty. A May 14, 2005 wedding is planned at St. Peter’s R.C. Church.

The folks of Fremont Park aren’t asking for much – come to Bjorklund Field this weekend, buy a burger, watch a softball game at the tournament ... help a little girl. Portions of the money raised from entrance fees and food sales will go to help the family of Gracie Hillriegel, a 6-year-old from Callicoon who has been fighting nearly a year-long battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

10 Years Ago - 2014

Robert Schenk of Narrowsburg was instantly killed over the weekend when his car drifted over to the westbound lane of Route 17B near Pucky Huddle Rd. in Bethel and struck a van. Schenk (who was not wearing his seatbelt) died on scene of traumatic injuries, said police, while the eight occupants of the van all were minorly hurt. The accident is still under investigation.

A vehicle drifted from a campsite at Lander’s Narrowsburg Campground down a huge bank and into the Delaware River on Friday at around 4 p.m. Rick Lander of Lander’s River Trips and owner of the Narrowsburg Campground stated, “I am so thankful that no one was hurt, since safety is always our number one concern.”

Barbara Lubeck of Neversink and Ron Green of Monticello both worked on their respective spinning wheels at the “Old Time Fair” in Grahamsville on Saturday. Lubeck’s two spinning wheels date back to between 1810 and 1860, and she said she’s “been spinning for 37 years now.” Green, on the other hand, has been spinning for just the last five-six months. Sponsored by the Time and the Valleys Museum, the event included activities from our agricultural past such as corn shucking and skillet throwing contests. 

Goodbye Callicoon Street Fair, Hello Celebrate Callicoon! The Callicoon Business Association shifted its biggest event of the summer to Audley Dorrer Drive this year, and added festivities throughout town.