Grandma’s Quilts

Zadock Pratt Museum 14540 NY-23, Prattsville, NY, United States

The Mountain Top Historical Society will display several quilts from the Justine L. Hommel Archives at the Zadock Pratt Museum. You can view the display on weekends from May 24 to June 29. Greene, Delaware, and Schoharie Counties are welcomed to show their Grandma's quilts. Please send information as to approximately when it was made, […]

Hike Catskill Mountain House to North Mountain Trails

Based on a photo album discovered on-line by Scott Koster, of college-aged people living, working, and discovering the Catskill Mountains! We will follow some of the places visited by these adventuresome young people. We will break this hike into a morning and an afternoon section. Bring a lunch we will stop at the Catskill Mountain […]

Doubles Hike on the eve of the Full Moon at North South Lake

From a mountain vista, enjoy the sun set and then turn around and watch the full moon rise. Hike to Sunset Rock (for the sunset) and then Lookout Rock or Artist’s Rock (for the moonrise). The sun will set at 8:32 PM and the moon will rise at 9:31 PM.  The hike will begin in […]

Inside the Line: A live Podcast Recording

Please join us at the historic 1913 Ulster & Delaware Train Station for a live recording of Inside the Line: The Catskill Mountains Podcast. MTHS Board Members Cyndi LaPierre, Dede Terns Thorpe (Emeritus), and Bob Gildersleeve (Chief Archivist), along with The Catskill Geologist Robert Titus, and Paul LaPierre from the Empire State Railway Museum will […]

Justine L. Hommel Memorial Lecture at the Twilight Park Clubhouse

This year’s lecture will honor the legacies of Shirley Wiltse Dunn, Leah  Showers Wiltse, and Doris West Brooks. The presentation will focus primarily on the research and writings of Shirley Wiltse Dunn and her long-term research on the Mohicans and early Dutch settlers, plus recognition of the two other Mountain Top writers/historians. This event will […]

Nathan Dolinsky Art Exhibit at the Historic 1913 Ulster & Delaware Train Station

Sunday, August 3 at 2 pm, the MTHS’s Train Station (5132 Route 23A, Haines Falls, NY) will house an exhibit of the works of Nathan Dolinsky (1890 – 1980), an artist, instructor, and founder of Camp Schoharie. Nathan Dolinsky was a long-time resident of Hunter, where he painted a variety of subjects in his studio […]

Zen hike with Forest Bathing

Improve your connection with nature. Forest Bathing is a Japanese practice.  It’s a process of relaxation; known in Japan as shinrin yoku. The simple method of being calm and quiet amongst the trees, observing nature around you whilst breathing deeply can help both adults and children de-stress and boost health and wellbeing in a natural […]

History On Your Plate

Join us at the MTHS barn (5132 Route 23A, Haines Falls, NY) to celebrate the history of the mountaintop and its legacy of hospitality and community. This is a ticketed event. More details coming soon!

Children’s Geology Walk

A quick intro to the science of geology and then as we wander round the MTHS campus, Robert Titus will describe how the glaciers rose out of Kaaterskill Clove and overran the site. “We would imagine the ice rising out of the clove and then look at the kame and kettle moraine at the Haines […]

13th Annual Postcard Show

The Mountain Top Historical Society of Greene County presents the 13th Annual Postcard Show with John Duda, Saturday, September 20, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM at the MTHS’s Ulster & Delaware Train Station, 5132 Route 23A, Haines Falls, NY.  The MTHS will also be selling ephemera from its attic in a special sale. Vendors contact […]

Rip’s Rock Hike From Winter Clove Inn

We will start at the Winter Clove Inn in Round Top, NY.  This hike will take us to Rip’s Rock, a stunning lookout of the Hudson Valley and the site where legendary Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years. Along the way we will pass the Bareback Brook, Daisy Field, pristine forest and Indian Lookout […]