- 1. Battle of Baltimore (2020-09-12)
- (Events Calendar/Battle of Baltimore)
- Battle of Baltimore September 12, 1814. It was during this battle that Francis Scott Key wrote the words that would become the "Star-Spangled Banner". http://AmericanHistoryCalendar.com Baltimore, Marylan ...
- Created on 27 December 2015
- 2. Forestburgh
- (Category)
- ... to Stephen Crane is fittingly nearby. Stephen spent many days in Forestburgh at his brother Edmound's home in Hartwood and wrote much of his prose while there; the climate agreed with his delicate he ...
- Created on 30 November -0001
- 3. First Sunday Concert April 5 - The Dirty Stay Out Skifflers
- (News)
- ... released their first CD, “Late Night, Early Morning”, influenced by such greats as Bessie Smith, Gus Cannon, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Maria Muldaur, David Bromberg, The Quarrymen and Hot Tuna. Rick Nestler wrote ...
- Created on 12 March 2020
- 4. How Woodstock Happened...
- (General History)
- ... ," recorded by Jan and Dean. He also wrote songs and produced the music for the Cowsills. Michael Lang didn't wear shoes very often. Friends described him as a cosmic pixie, with a head full of curly ...
- Created on 04 January 2016
- 5. James Eldridge Quinlan
- (History Preserver)
- ... Midland Railroad (later the New York, Ontario and Western Railway) which were transforming county life. In an Appendix, Quinlan wrote that he had completed 250 pages of manuscript which ...
- Created on 11 August 2006
- 6. Andrew Neiderman
- (History Makers)
- ... director of dramatics and wrestling coach. He was appointed historian for the Town of Fallsburg and wrote the Sesquicentennial History of Fallsburg Township. Also, during this time, he married the former ...
- Created on 01 June 2006
- 7. Max Yasgur
- (History Makers)
- ... to working with young people, as he always had through his involvement with 4-H and other organizations. Scores of parents wrote to thank him for helping to persuade their children to give up drugs and ...
- Created on 01 June 2004
- 8. John Conway
- (History Preserver)
- ... 200 calls per airing. Later in that year, he began writing a column about the county for the Times Herald Record entitled “Retrospect.” He wrote this weekly column for eleven years while he was also writing ...
- Created on 11 August 2002
- 9. Mary Edith Curtis
- (History Preserver)
- ... A lawyer, he once wrote about the Rafting industry along the Delaware for the Sullivan County Democrat and about 1910 began what eventually became six volumes of memoirs – the editing of which is another ...
- Created on 11 August 2001
- 10. Delbert Van Etten
- (History Preserver)
- ... From 1977-78 he wrote a column entitled “Liberty Chronicles” for the Liberty Evening News. Copies of these columns provide a valuable source of information about the Town. Del also played a crucial role ...
- Created on 11 August 2000
- 11. William Galbraith Smith
- (History Preserver)
- ... his own consulting business, Historic Perspectives. Bill loved history. As Senator Cook wrote to him in 1993, “I know of no county historian who has been more diligent, more creative and more effective ...
- Created on 11 August 1998
- 12. John Raleigh Mott
- (History Makers)
- ... wrote: “(John Mott) is regarded as one of the most constructive religious geniuses since John Wesley. As a leading force in aggressive Christianity he has probably influenced more young men at home and ...
- Created on 11 August 1997
- 13. James Burbank
- (History Preserver)
- ... has been lost. A more successful venture entailed a photographic record of the County. He wrote to the Town Historians and asked them to list the important places in their towns. He was then able to go ...
- Created on 11 August 1997
- 14. Judge Robert C. Williams
- (History Makers)
- ... parties. Judge Williams recalls being involved in some very interesting cases. When the Borough of Staten Island petitioned to withdraw from New York City, he wrote the decision which ...
- Created on 11 August 1996
- 15. Marjorie Durland Smith
- (History Preserver)
- ... and has been successful in reactivating the care and maintenance of abandoned cemeteries, sadly neglected for years. She also wrote a local history column, “Then and Now”, for the Republican Watchman. ...
- Created on 11 August 1994
- 16. 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
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