Sing Sing Prison Museum Receives $2.5 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment for a Major Initiative on Religion in Prison

Sing Sing Prison Museum has received a $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support Religion at Sing Sing Prison: […] Read more »

‘Heaven’ on Hudson: Tarrytown’s Stone Castle Listed for $5.49M  

That dream you’ve had of owning a piece of heaven can finally come true, if you’ve got $5.49 million to spend.  That’s the asking price of a century-old stone castle-like […] Read more »

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Briarcliff Past and Present

Times change, and so does architecture.   This topic fascinated young Michael Feist, an 18-year-old student at Briarcliff High School in 2014, tasked in a school project to intern locally. Michael’s […] Read more »

Greenburgh Student News Network Launches First News Broadcast

A student news team of high school students broadcasts their first show – GSNN visits the Historic Greenville Cemetery. Students interested in joining the GSNN team are invited to apply […] Read more »

Celebrate the Season with Dickens’s ‘Christmas Carol’

Hudson Valley families can get into the spirit of the holiday season by attending dramatic performances of Dickens’s ‘Christmas Carol’ at the historic Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow on […] Read more »

Tracking the Suburbanization of Crugers

When Gerhard Schmitt took over at the Kolping Society’s 50-acre religious retreat in Montrose, he heard that the property’s previous inhabitant, Louis Perlman, exerted enough power and influence to turn […] Read more »

Robeson in Peekskill Project

Reverend Dr. Gregory Robeson Smith, Paul Robeson’s grand-nephew, was guest of honor at the “Robeson in Peekskill” Gala Fundraiser in September at Hollow Brook Golf Club, the same grounds where […] Read more »

Rebuilt Fleischmann Pier Gins Up Charles Point Park

Peekskill City and New York State officials gathered with the community for a ribbon-cutting at Charles Point Park on John Walsh Boulevard in October to celebrate the reopening of Fleischmann […] Read more »

Local Authors, Local Books: Greetings from Garrison, a Picture Postcard Hamlet

Part of the ubiquitous and ever-expanding Arcadia Postcard History Series, Garrison is a recently published history of Garrison, New York, authored by George Carroll Whipple III. It uses a large […] Read more »

Westchester County Pays Tribute to Heroes at Veterans Day Ceremony

Westchester County Executive George Latimer, Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins, and Veterans Service Agency Director Ron Tocci led a special Veterans Day holiday ceremony on Friday at the County’s Veteran’s […] Read more »