Welcome to the New Paltz Historical Society’s fourth Newsletter. Another week, another week. (Seems another week has gone by, if you are keeping track.)
Newsletter #4, April 27, 2020
* The first thing you should do is click the links and print them. The one titled “week 4 diane antiques” includes this week’s quiz (see below). The one titled “Answers to week 3” includes both last week’s questions and the answers. The one titled “In our April 20th quiz” is a supplement to the answer for last week’s Question #6, and illustrates some of the evolution of the building in question.
** This week’s quiz, “What is it?”, comes to us from our own Diane Gleichenhaus, and it is a series of photos of antique items, and your job is to figure out “What is it?” The trick is to identify what they are and what they were used for. It should be fun to see what you all come up with. Send us a list of your 11 answers to nphistoricalsociety@gmail.com by Friday, May 1, 2020. The winners will be announced in the May 4th Newsletter.
*** This week, we are introducing a new feature to the Newsletter. The New Paltz Historical Society is pleased to present a series of videos presenting the unique history of Kingston, NY. This series of lectures was hosted by the Senate House State Historic Site, in Kingston. The series was called “Kingston’s Buried Treasures,” and ran from 2012 through 2016, and featured the forgotten, yet vital people of Kingston, and the events that took place in New York’s first capital, one of America’s most unique communities. With inspirational tales of meteoric rise, and cautionary woes of equally spectacular falls, Kingston’s history tells more than just the story of a city - its arguably the story of a nation. Through war and peace, boom and bust, Kingston’s place in our state and our national lore has few rivals. Take a look back at 365 years of this extraordinary city- Kingston, New York. One of our past (and favorite) speakers, Paul O'Neill, Commissioner of Jurors for Ulster County, facilitated this series.
Our Newsletter will include a link to a different episode of “Kingston’s Buried Treasures” every week. This week’s lecture is titled Thomas Chambers, Founder, and is presented by Ted Dietz. Click https://youtu.be/M0GrcjWv5RU to begin viewing. This was the first in the Kingston’s Buried Treasures Series, the original talk was at the Senate House on Aug. 17, 2012. (Note: the audio begins at about 1 minute 33 seconds, and the total time of the video is 1 hour and 32 minutes.)
**** As you probably know, due to the Governor’s extension of the order banning public meetings, we have had to cancel the presentation that we had scheduled for May. We do not know what June will bring, but we will keep you posted. Any decisions we make will be based New York State Policy, sound medical advice, social distancing issues, the Town, County and State guidelines, and Community Center policy and room capacity. The New Paltz Historical Society fully intends to continue our program of lectures and events as soon as it is safe to begin meeting again, and will inform you of any changes through these Newsletters.
*****And now, without keeping you in suspense any longer, here are the winners of last week’s quiz,
The Winners are: There was no winning entry! We didn’t receive any entries to last week’s quiz. We don’t know why, so if you were thinking of entering but didn’t, could you send us an email an tell us why you didn’t. did you have trouble with our new email? Was the deadline too soon? We want to make our quiz enjoyable enough to encourage your responses. So your comments are appreciated. This week’s quiz should be fun for the whole family, and attract more entries, so give it a try.
****** And so, if you have any questions, suggestions or comments, drop us a line at: nphistoricalsociety@gmail.com, and be sure open up the links and take a crack at the photo quiz. We hope that you are enjoying our Newsletter.
Stay safe, stay home!
Dolly, Susan, Diane, Jack and Marny
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