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1. World War I Exhibit Opens (2018-06-16) ...: (Events Calendar/World War I Exhibit Opens); World War I Exhibit Opens ...; Created on 09 June 2018
2. Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender (2020-09-02): (Events Calendar/Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender); Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender Signed September 2, 1945 The signing of this document offically ended the Pacific War of World War II. http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Tokyo Bay, Japan ...; Created on 27 December 2015
3. Neversink: (Category); ... on hill roads and made a stopping place for a tired team with a load.” Radio was the way folks learned about the world. TV’s and satellite dishes were the stuff that make-believe was made of. Movies ...; Created on 30 November -0001
4. History Makers: (Category); The History Maker Award is given to a person who has had a significant and positive influence on the life of Sullivan County or, more broadly, on the life of the nation or the world. ...; Created on 30 November -0001
5. Highland: (Category); ... It was not until the Delaware and Hudson canal was opened in 1828 that the region was opened to the outside world. When the Erie Railroad was completed the area began to enjoy a tourist business. T ...; Created on 30 November -0001
6. Fremont: (Category); ... Long Pond with brook trout – some of which were later caught weighing five pounds. The settlers at Long Pond came to the lands of Fremont through Rockland township. All contact with the outside world ...; Created on 30 November -0001
7. Forestburgh: (Category); ... nces of playwrights, stage and screen notables as well as Sho Fu den, the Japenese palace brought here from the 1939 N.Y. World's Fair by Dr. Takamine, chemist and inventor. Currently many second home dwe ...; Created on 30 November -0001
8. Delaware: (Category); ... ore than 150 years. It drained the region of its native timber, and in the process changed it from a forested wilderness into a relatively civilized world of dairy farms and small communities. As the for ...; Created on 30 November -0001
9. County History: (Category); ... from Ulster County on March 27, 1809, it was a heavily forested, rocky and rugged region largely inaccessible to the rest of the world. But the natural beauty of its many lakes and streams and rivers had ...; Created on 30 November -0001
10. Bethel: (Category); ... event. Today, we have concerts & farm markets on the site and visitors from all over the world come to our town year round to visit. There are plans to make a permanent music site in the surrounding land. Cons ...; Created on 30 November -0001
11. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers: (News); ... a small banjo body and a fretted ukulele neck. Donna has traveled the world performing, teaching and convincing people that “banjoleles rule”. Dan Berger is an outstanding blues harmonica player, who ...; Created on 12 March 2020
12. The Golden Age of The Catskills: (Video); This Content is reposted from and is Property of Spectrum News During the 1940s and 1950s, the Catskills was one of the top tourist destinations in the world. In the summer months, it was home to more ...; Created on 06 July 2017
13. Alan Dampman May 26, 1926 - October 14, 2016: (Society News); ... served Our Country in the US Navy during World War II; he was a member of the Youngsville Reformed Church; and enjoyed his work with the Sullivan County Historical Society. He had worked at the college ...; Created on 16 October 2016
14. Harold Gold: (History Makers); ... and serve in the army, but he was born in South Fallsburg and never called anyplace else home. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Harold entered the world on September 20, 1923, in a second-floor apartment ...; Created on 17 January 2016
15. How Woodstock Happened...: (General History); ... le party up in Woodstock had snowballed into a bucolic concert for 50,000 people, the world's biggest rock'n'roll show. The four partners formed a corporation in March. Each held 25 percent. The company ...; Created on 04 January 2016
16. Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... d to form the Jeffersonville Central School and with the modernization of the businesses after World War II, Jeffersonville became a major commercial as well as residential area. The village board al ...; Created on 26 December 2015
17. Concord Remembered: (Pictures); ... service resort in the world! The exhibit will explore the hotel's history from a modest 35 room building in the mid 1930s through its closing in 1998. Featured will be photos, memorabilia, lecture ...; Created on 01 July 2015
18. Concord Remembered: (Past Exhibits); ... service resort in the world! The exhibit will explore the hotel's history from a modest 35 room building in the mid 1930s through its closing in 1998. Featured will be photos, memorabilia, lecture ...; Created on 01 July 2015
19. Patricia and William Burns: (History Preserver); ... an appreciation for the rural way of life and his ancestral heritage at Fraser Settlement in the Town of Bethel. Upon turning eighteen and with the United States in the midst of World War II, Bill enlisted ...; Created on 18 October 2014
20. Allan Wayne Dampman: (History Preserver); ... School, the nation was still in the midst of the Second World War, the outcome of which was still by no means certain. The young graduate enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve where, after basi ...; Created on 04 April 2012
21. History of Jeffersonville: (Callicoon); ... d to form the Jeffersonville Central School and with the modernization of the businesses after World War II, Jeffersonville became a major commercial as well as residential area. The village board al ...; Created on 03 November 2011
22. The Oil Pipeline: (General History); ... pipeline sat idle for four years until 1929, Columbia Gas & Electric Corporation, considered the second largest gas concern in the world, took over the abandoned route, refitting the lines to carry natural ...; Created on 28 June 2011
23. Sullivan County Veterans: (History Makers); ... on the life of Sullivan County, or, more broadly, on the life of the nation or world. By extension, that includes any group of people with a common bond fitting the criteria for the award. ...; Created on 11 August 2010
24. Edward Van Put: (History Preserver); ... place like Sullivan’s did not leave much time for fishing. The result was that he decided to follow his inner feelings and seek a job more closely related to the world of trout fishing. Despite stiff competition ...; Created on 11 August 2009
25. The Kutsher Family: (History Makers); ... survivor of the many famous resorts which at one time formed the Golden Age of the Catskill hotels. Over a full century, three generations of Kutshers managed to survive two world wars, a great depression, ...; Created on 11 August 2008
26. Alan Gerry: (History Makers); ... arts and entertainment center. Visitors come from around the world both to enjoy the arts, but also to celebrate Woodstock’s musical legacy. Named Bethel Woods, the complex has just completed its second ...; Created on 11 August 2007
27. Paul Gerry: (History Preserver); ... Hotels. His most famous photograph, one which received worldwide distribution, was that of the wedding of the youthful Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher at nearby Grossinger’s Hotel. His aerial photographs ...; Created on 11 August 2007
28. Andrew Neiderman: (History Makers); ... of one-act plays. He is best known as the author of “The Devil’s Advocate” and as the ghostwriter behind the worldwide V.C. Andrews franchise which by now has published over one hundred and five million ...; Created on 01 June 2006
29. Wilmer Sipple: (History Preserver); ... coal to the New York City market. Finally, the railroad had a line which could make a profit. Nothing seems permanent in this world and after decades in which it seemed to be finding a comfortable niche ...; Created on 11 August 2005
30. Max Yasgur: (History Makers); ... up to the Festival turned it from the planned modest event into one which became famous world-wide. In just a few days the promoters lost their off-site parking, lost the shuttle buses which were to have ...; Created on 01 June 2004
31. Alice and Russell (Rusty) Hodge: (History Makers); ... and endurance. If we had tried our hand at Track and Field events, how closely would we have measured up to the following? 40 Yard Dash: 4.2 seconds 100-meter Dash: 10.2 seconds (world decathlon record) ...; Created on 11 August 2003
32. Beatrice Schoch: (History Preserver); ... at the Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn and eventually returned to the county and worked at the Monticello Hospital. After the Second World War she met and married Fred Schoch who had lost a leg in Italy. ...; Created on 11 August 2003
33. Jennie Grossinger: (History Makers); ... g their families to the new world. Selig mulled over the risks in such a venture and finally in 1897 made the bold decision to go to America, work hard, save every penny he could and eventually bring h ...; Created on 11 August 2002
34. John Conway: (History Preserver); ... in history and one in political science. They opened a new world by suggesting a novel idea: namely, that the study of history could be fun. John was encouraged to move beyond the plodding world of textbooks ...; Created on 11 August 2002
35. Emma Cooke Chase: (History Makers); ... C. Chase would become a household name in Sullivan County, New York a world away from her hometown. A woman of vision, tremendous focus and tenacity, she became the first female Superintendent ...; Created on 11 August 2001
36. Mary Edith Curtis: (History Preserver); ... and to settle in new land along the Upper Delaware River. Included in the company were John Calkin and Moses Thomas who in 1754 left the settled world of Connecticut to face the perils of life on the frontier. ...; Created on 11 August 2001
37. Walter A. Rhulen: (History Makers); Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 1999 Walter A. Rhulen (1931~1998) Early in this century, Max Rhulen found himself at age four in the strange world of New York ...; Created on 11 August 1999
38. William Galbraith Smith: (History Preserver); ... and graduated from Kingston City High School. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and during the World War II served in the European Theater of War in England and Scotland with the 710th Bomb Squadron. Bill ...; Created on 11 August 1998
39. John Raleigh Mott: (History Makers); ... worked with the YMCA, but he said that his goal was to weave together all the Christian forces in the world. This was a time of great optimism and zeal and Mott summed up his enthusiasm in a book he wrote ...; Created on 11 August 1997
40. James Burbank: (History Preserver); ... and by the next year the Society’s records indicate that he took the lead in reconstituting the Sullivan County Historical Society which had become inactive during the Second World War. Newspaper articles ...; Created on 11 August 1997
41. Judge Robert C. Williams: (History Makers); ... beginnings” is not a cliché. He has preserved the best virtues of that world, but through education and the school of life has continually broadened himself. He is given the best of himself to his country, ...; Created on 11 August 1996
42. Otto Hillig: (History Preserver); ... 1929 a ticket for $9,000 to be one of twenty-two passengers for a history making flight around the world on the German Graf Zeppelin. Unfortunately, his berth had been previously sold to someone else. ...; Created on 11 August 1996
43. Frederick A. Cooke: (History Makers); ... world of ice,” he wrote in his diary. The return journey south from the Pole was equally demanding and Cook spent the polar night of 1908-1909 in an ancient Eskimo cave located on ...; Created on 01 June 1994
44. World War I Comes to the Museum June 16th ...: (Past Exhibits); The Sullivan County Historical Society invites you to the opening of its new exhibit commemorating the centennial of World War I titled “The Great War – World War I”. The opening will take place on ...; Created on 09 June 2018
45. World War I ...: (Tags); World War I ...; Created on 26 December 2015
46. World War II ...: (Tags); World War II ...; Created on 26 December 2015
47. The Military Room: (Article tagged with: World War I); A new permanent exhibit “The Military Room” is opening at the Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville on Saturday, November 19th from 2:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m. Uniforms from the Civil War through Desert Storm ...; Created on 31 October 2016
48. The Military Room: (Article tagged with: World War II); A new permanent exhibit “The Military Room” is opening at the Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville on Saturday, November 19th from 2:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m. Uniforms from the Civil War through Desert Storm ...; Created on 31 October 2016

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