Photos & Words
Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1826. At a young age, he expressed passionate interest in becoming a landscape artist. His father, Joseph—a silversmith by training and later a founder and...
Frederick F. Hapeman is but one of the many forgotten artists of the Catskill Mountains. We know he was an artist because that’s what he told the army captain who came through Windham, New...
Well begun is half done, they used to say. As in the course of human events, so too with rivers. Make a good start and it’s downhill the rest of the way. Consider, for...
In the summer of 1958, thirty-nine-year-old Roland Van Zandt—former U.S. Air Force bombardier, husband, father of four, and doctoral student of American history—was hiking in the vicinity of North Lake when he stumbled upon...
On Saturday, May 27th, 1961, an estate auction took place on the Tryon farm just outside the hamlet of Norton Hill in the Town of Greenville. The weather that morning was unseasonably cold, gray,...
The materials for a full and satisfying biography of Olive Eliza Cheritree probably no longer exist. What remains are fragments, the scatterings of a creative life gone awry—a couple of photographs, a handful of...
The writer Henry David Thoreau is famous for a hut he built with his own hands on the shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. To be more precise, he is famous for the...
The wreckage is still there, high on one of the higher peaks in the Catskills, just below its summit, in balsam-brake and moss, close by Rip Van Winkle’s depleted spring. Broken wings, battered fuselage,...
It hangs conspicuously in an inconspicuous spot. Measuring twelve by eighteen feet, the flag is suspended between a pair of trees at the edge of the woods where Maplecrest Road meets County Route 23C...
The Maverick Concert Hall still stands in the isolate woods just north of the drowned towns of the Ashokan Reservoir. Built over a ten year period by poet-philosopher Hervey White, the Maverick opened its...
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