Do you ever wish you could write better? Write more easily? Write at all? This is for anyone who has struggled to write a text, a dating app profile, a business plan, a palm card, an application essay, an artist statement, a real estate ad, or a credible explanation about why the cookie jar is […]

“Hudson River Undercover” explores how working-class recreation and private surveillance collided aboard Hudson River steamboat excursions during the early twentieth century. The talk focuses on an investigation report written mere weeks after the onset of federal wartime alcohol prohibition in July 1919 by an undercover agent working for New York’s Committee of Fourteen, an influential […]

The Historical Society of Woodstock will present Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran speaking about the county’s indigenous inhabitants, the Esopus, during the American Revolution. In the lead up to the American Revolution, Ulster County’s Indigenous inhabitants, the Esopus, navigated a world already transformed by colonization, diplomacy, and dispossession. As war engulfed the region, their community […]

On Sunday August 23 at 3:00 p.m., the Historical Society of Woodstock will present a talk by Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner on the Lincoln funeral train through the Hudson Valley. In April of 1865, the Lincoln funeral train moved up the east coast, through the Hudson Valley, and into history. Offering an account of […]