History is personal for Joyce Sharrock Cole, the new Ossining Village Historian. Cole grew up without any sense of her own family’s past. Some of her grandparents had died young, […] Read more »
On Friday September 11th and during the 9/11 weekend (September 12 & 13) the town of Greenburgh will air on Optimum channel 76 and Verizon channel 35 21 Living history […] Read more »
A Brilliant Crystal of Many Facets [Ed. Note: This is the final article in a three-part series — profiling local luminaries of the past three centuries — that began in […] Read more »
Spencer Robinson, a groundskeeper working at the Lyndhurst estate in the 1950s and 1960s, lived with his wife Nina in a gingerbread cottage near the Hudson River. His death in October 1965 went unrecorded in the local […] Read more »
I was born and raised on Crest Drive in what was then the northern point of Briarcliff Manor. In the beginning, there were five houses on Crest Drive, two on Pine […] Read more »
Over the last eight years, Irvington High School history teacher Chris Barry – whose great-great-grandfather fought with the 65th New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War – spent most of his […] Read more »
This summer marks the anniversary of a particularly ugly event in the area’s history that certainly won’t be celebrated, but should be remembered nonetheless. Over the course of two weekends […] Read more »
Session gives educators the opportunity to learn the history and impact of slavery at a historic site Historic Hudson Valley (HHV) announced today the return of a National Endowment for […] Read more »
Westchester County is unique in all the world. Most of us know this, and we might even be able to cite some reasons it is unique. It’s harder to understand […] Read more »
The Ossining Historical Cemeteries Conservancy Project Is Open for Walking or Driving The Ossining Historic Cemeteries Conservancy (OHCC) and the Town of Ossining announced the completion of the Dale Cemetery […] Read more »
