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HHS Heritage Walk Hurley Heritage Society Membership Application HurleyHURLEY Heritage HERITAGE Society SOCIETY Make a donation of $120 to the Society to show your support of the museum by creating Name______________________________________ a brick in your family’s name—or to honor someone close to you. The proceeds will be Address____________________________________ used for capital repairs to the Museum and Prologue State_____ Zip + 4_________ Phone____________ Prologue your brick will be added to the Heritage Walk. “The pastpast is is prologue” prologue” Email______________________________________ The inscription may be composed with as many as four lines of eighteen characters. If ( ) Single membership $18.00$20.00 September 2018 you are interested please contact Wally Cook ( ) Family membership $25.00$27.00 April 2016 at (845) 338-2193 or email to ( ) Life membership $250.00 [email protected] ( ) Corporate (Annual) $150.00 GlenfordGlenford OldOld Hurley Hurley Settled Founded 1662 1662 West West Hurley Hurley Additional donation $ _______ Dues and donations are tax deductible Contact Harvey Monder for PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX IBM matching fund forms Send payment to: In Concert on September 29, 7:30 PM, HURLEY HERITAGE SOCIETY In the Hurley Reformed Church Hall P.O. Box 1661 Full story on page 6 Hurley, NY 12443 The last wooden bridge over the Esopus Creek in Mutton Hollow circa 1895,near Frog Alley, Kingston. Photo: Mary Forsyth, 1893 LECTURE: “FORGOTTEN: COVERED BRIDGES OF THE MID-HUDSON REGION” SPEAKER: RONALD G. KNAPP WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016 at 7:00 PM WHERE: HURLEY REFORMED CHURCH HALL 11 MAIN STREET, HURLEY OR CURRENT RESIDENT RESIDENT CURRENT OR “Forgotten: Covered Bridges of the Mid-Hudson Region,” with a special focus on the Esopus Watershed, will be presented in an illustrated talk by Ronald G. Knapp, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at SUNY, New Paltz. He collaborated with Terry Miller and Chester Ong in research- ing covered bridges throughout North America, a project that took four years of fieldwork throughout the United States and Canada. Their book America's Covered Bridges: Practical Crossings and Nostalgic Icons was published in early 2014. Signed copies of this book as well as Chinese 12401 12401 Tel. (845) 338-1661 (845) Tel. KINGSTON, NY NY KINGSTON, Bridges: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation will be available for $25 each. Hurley, NY 12443 12443 NY Hurley, PERMIT No. 44303 44303 No. PERMIT U.S. POSTGE PAID PAID POSTGE U.S. PO Box 1661 1661 Box PO ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION (front l-r) Professor Louie, Miss Marie, Frank Campbell. NON-PROFIT NON-PROFIT Please join us for the first lecture of the Hurley Heritage Society 2016 season. The lecture is free Hurley Heritage Society Society Heritage Hurley and all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be(back served. l-r) Gary Burke, John Platania--source: PL&C photos Page 2 September 2018 Page 11 obvious reasons. I heartily wish In Memoriam MUSEUM NOTES FROM THE DESK OF THE you success.” Charlotte Gill PRESIDENT The attempt by General October, 1926-June 29, Herbal Wreath-Making Burgoyne and General Henry Greetings from Main Street! Traffic on Main Street has been unusually heavy this summer due to the closure of 2018 Clinton to split the colonies Sunday, September 9, make- Rt. 209 for a bridge replacement. At the same time, our museum property has also undergone some replacements and in two by taking control of “End of an era. The last your- own- wreath activity at repairs. Both the front and back bluestone walks have been repaired, the well capped with a large piece of bluestone the Hudson River Valley matriarch of the golden age 2PM with Ellen Richards, at of sweet corn in Hurley has and the stockade fence on the side of the museum replaced for the safety of our visitors. ended with Burgoyne’s defeat the Hurley Heritage Museum, at Saratoga, the momentous passed. The round table in 52 Main St., Hurley. Spend a heaven is now complete as Stone House Day saw our front lawn overflowing with guests shopping at our annual art and antique sale and “turning point of the fun hour learning a new craft! Revolution.” The story of the Davenports, Gills and All materials provided and are reenactors from Huguenot Street entertaining children with colonial games. Nancy Chando has been giving monthly Hurley’s Spy House is now a Pauls have their quorum, and free of charge. Limited spaces, walking tours of Main Street at 2 pm on the fourth Sunday of every month. Join her and find out more about the footnote in that history as is I can imagine the arguments Please reserve to guarantee on pricing of sweet corn, history of our village! Our Ice Cream Social was held on a weather perfect Sunday with musical entertainment by Mike Lieutenant Daniel Taylor, of your spot, For information, tomatoes and garden crops Rice’s “Creepy Uncles” band, games, arts and crafts and, ice cream donated by Rich Gillette. Captain Stewart’s Company, call 336-5267 9th Regiment, British Army. can now go on. Such great memories, and I consider September brings more activities. Ellen Richards will hold a wreath making demo at 2 pm September 9 on As for the pleasant little greeting, and chit-chat from myself lucky to have been a Gift Shop News our back porch. All material will be provided. Call 845-336-5267 to make a reservation. Gail Whistance will give the part of it and to have known Clinton to Burgoyne. it was The local artist whose work her. R.I.P Charlotte. May last lecture of the year at 7 pm September 20 at the West Hurley firehouse. HHS will be included in the Hudson Valley hardly worth the final cost. will be displayed for sale in perfect weather and ripe corn Ramble on September 23 at 2 pm with a Hurley Haunted History tour. After “rocking Main Street” during last year’s the museum shop during on the 4th of July follow you concert, Professor Louie and The Crowmatix are once again returning to their Hurley home to present a concert at and your generation forever.” September and October will the Hurley Reformed Church hall at 7:30 pm on September 29. Don’t miss it! Michael Paul July 1, 2018 be Becky Veith. Many of you are familiar with Becky’s Note: On October 26, our now famous Ghost Walk takes place on Main Street and into the old cemetery. Tickets artworks so please come and Mrs. Gill, with her husband, see what she’s doing now! sell out every year so reserve yours early. Psst….there will be some newly discovered ghosts in attendance this year! For Jack, owned and operated Gill more details about these events, please visit our website, www.hurleyheritagesociety.org. The museum will close for the Corn Farms and farm stands season on October 28, and it will be your last day to view the wonderful exhibit curated by Gail and Bruce Whistance in Hurley for many years. Spy House “The O&W Railway in Ulster County: Stations Along the Way”. Taken from the archives of the Hope to see you at some of our events and on Main Street in our historic village of Hurley! As visitors often Hurley Heritage Society. The Spy House was the residence say, “Hurley is a hidden gem!” of the Kent family for many My Best, years. Joan Castka President, Hurley Heritage Society Page 10 September 2018 Page 3 EVERY HURLEY STONE HOUSE HAS A STORY TO TELL, SEPTEMBER LECTURE IN WEST HURLEY: STORIES OF BLUESTONE THIS IS THE THE STORY OF THE SPY HOUSE By: Don Kent “The Spy House”, known as hanging was delayed until Speaker: Gail Whistance Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018 Time: 7:00 PM e was the victim of too the Dumond House, is most the next day, October 18, H Place: West Hurley Firehouse, 24 Wall many coincidences. In the recently dated by by the office possibly because the whole St., West Hurley, NY end, 225 years ago, he dangled of the Hurley Town historian, town was busy taking care of on a rope flung over a bough as “before 1700”. During Kingston’s refugees. Burgoyne of a sweet apple tree here in the Revolutionary War, the surrendered that same day, so Hurley. Continental Army used it the whole episode left Taylor as a guardhouse; so it was the victim of one of wartime’s His name was Daniel Taylor, not unusual that Lieutenant quitks of fate. a British lieutenant convicted Daniel Taylor was being of spying by his American Taylor most likely wasn’t a held here when Kingston spy but a messenger carrying captors though he insisted was burned by British troops he wasn’t a spy but was a short innocuous note from October 16, 1777. General Henry Clinton to Railroad cut and overpass at Hurley Main Street looking south. only carrying a message, Collection of Hurley Heritage Society. A week earlier Taylor had been fellow General Burgoyne at innocuous in content, to each station along the route as it went through British General Burgoyne convicted at New Windsor Saratoga. The message was O&W station at Spring Glen. Postcard image courtesy of O&W of spying near Continental stuffed into a small silver Railway Historical Society. our county. Ms. Whistance will present what at Saratoga. British General she has learned about the stations which for Henry Clinton, making his Army headquarters, down capsule, and when captured, a time were the lifeblood of their respective way up the river from British river about 30 miles. Taylor swallowed the ball The O&W Railway ran through the heart communities.