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... to Buck Eddy were occupied. Most of the settlers were neighbors and relatives of the Stewarts. The location was at the time a part of the town of Rochester in Ulster County. In 1798 it became ...

... a grist mill. Abraham Schneider arrived in 1842 and constructed a saw mill. Victor Hofer and others settled in the neighborhood and in a few years Jeffersonville was a thriving community, although the ...

... design a stone cottage, who in turn persuaded his Beaverkill neighbor Willis Butler to be the builder. Leaving the Beaverkill Valley with his family, Willis then built his own residence in 1899, also of ...

... ember 1968. Lang knew Kornfeld had grown up in Bensonhurst, Queens, like he had. Lang got an appointment by telling the record company's receptionist that he was "from the neighborhood." The two hit it ...

... er the concert, the site, considered hallowed ground to some and a nemisies by others, became embroiled in a political struggle that for decades would pit neighbor against neighbor, generation against generati ...

Alvin Hall, big in every way except stature. And thus a neighborhood yarn. When the wild pigeons went to the Willowemoc swamps to nest in the spring, farmers along the Neversink made beds of buckwheat ...

... Sam Barnes was a neighborhood tramp of 60 years ago - a cat-licking shoemaker and a fisherman who promptly spent for whiskey the money he received from his fishing and shoe repairing. He used to explain ...

... h his father and brothers, upon the lands now belonging to the family, about 45 years ago, when the hills and valleys of Sullivan were almost an unbroken wilderness. The neighborhood received at that tim ...

... and she began to pursue that subject more seriously. Soon she was helping neighbors and friends by answering their questions and helping them to develop their own family trees. She never lost the curiosity ...

... chapters which take up almost the first one hundred pages. Another source of knowledge was provided by friends and neighbors who had actually lived through events he described. He was greatly concerned ...

... about his neighbors, even those who were angry at him and at the event, was making every effort to work with the promoters to open up the roads and provide access. Then, seeing hungry thirsty youths and ...

... we can better appreciate the fact that these extraordinary figures represent the best achievements of a single person named Russell Hodge who also happens to be our neighbor up in Roscoe. This year, the ...

... two different years. Residents of Bethel were invited to bring family and town historic items and personal memories to the ambulance building to share them with their neighbors. These “Walks” were received ...

... e ghetto of the City. Despite the friendliness and helpfulness of their new neighbors, the adjustment to America was difficult. Their first apartment probably did not live up to their dreams of a new wor ...

... in his town? In reflecting on his lifelong fascination with his Liberty neighbors and their buildings, Del wonders if it was his grandfather that first stimulated his imagination. His grandfather, Alfred ...

... Marge became active in the Presbyterian Church in Monticello. Bill served on the Session, the Budget Committee and with the Boy Scouts. He quietly helped countless friends, family members, neighbors and ...

... and neighbors. A man’s character is first shaped by his parents and Judge Cooke is conscious not only of his love for his parents, but of his debt to them. “My father was ...

... Sullivan in the first half of this century. His family was poor, but since his life was so similar to that of his neighbors he was not conscious of it. His parents, Harry and Violet Scott Williams, had ...

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