As a college-age tour guide at Howe Caverns during the Seventies, Cobleskill author Dana Cudmore was asked this question often enough. Unknown to most, the answer is “yes.” His new book The Cave Electrician’s Widow: The Tragedy at Howe Caverns & Dramatic Courtroom Fight for Justice chronicles the April, 1930 tragedy and the legal battle […]

Join us at the Gallupville House for a presentation about Reds on the Ballot: Communists, The Bonus Army, and the 1932 Election with a more in-depth look at the 1932 elections by Brad Towle.

Presented by Robert and Johanna Titus During the 19th century there was something of a cultural Renaissance right here in the Hudson Valley region. America’s first worldclass literature appeared. We also saw the birth of American landscape architecture. Most importantly, led by Thomas Cole, we saw the appearance of the Hudson Valley School of Art. […]

Join us in Badgley for a presentation about Reds on the Ballot: Communists, The Bonus Army, and the 1932 Election with a more in-depth look at the 1932 elections by Brad Towle

The Schoharie County Historical Society is hosting local historian Jon Jasewicz as General Philip Schuyler on February 22 at 2:00 pm at the Badgley Museum Annex. Philip Schuyler (1733–1804) was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. In 1775, General Washington gave Schuyler command over the New York Department of the […]