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 […]
Book selection: The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic “A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend.” Honor the 100th anniversary of the epic 1925 Serum Run by which Alaskan sled dogs and their drivers brought diphtheria antitoxin serum to Nome, AK, to suppress […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hike along the old, mostly level railroad bed, about 4 miles long, exploring the area around Kaaterskill Junction on State Route 214. You will be stepping back in time to the days when the Kaaterskill and Stony Clove Railroad came up to the Junction from Phoenicia and then split to the west on the Hunter […]
