Beacon, Dutchess County, NY The exhibit “Whispers of the Castle Keep” from the Bannerman Castle Trust intrigues me; the suspense builds as I wait until Spring to visit Bannerman Island. Vintage Photo of Working Men in Beacon https://www.instagram.com/p/B7M3CTqgslJ/ Beacon Historical Society ; I Hear America Singing These bricks were made from clay dug from the …
Maps
Maps have always fascinated me. 1838 Burr Map of Poughkeepsie available for viewing at: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cb3c4780-c5ed-012f-c5cc-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0 When I first studied maps and globes in a unit on the explorers in elementary school, I traced the route of Henry Hudson as he attempted to find a northwest passage to the exotic land of China. We children already …
Keeping NY History Alive 