The Ukrainian story in America is one of the great untold immigration narratives — waves of people who left their homeland under pressure of poverty, political upheaval, and persecution, and […]
The Irish story in Ulster County is older, deeper, and more politically charged than most people realize. Long before the Great Famine sent waves of desperate emigrants across the Atlantic, […]
When Italian immigrants arrived in Ulster County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — to build the Ashokan Reservoir, to work the quarries, to put down roots in […]
Long before the 1969 festival made it a household name, Woodstock was already a community shaped by arrivals. Artists came first, drawn by the light and the landscape, settling into […]
Above the rich farmland of the Esopus Valley, on the hillsides of Hurley Mountain that most people pass without a second glance, two remarkable communities took root. In the decades […]
He arrived in New York as a refugee — a Sephardic Jew fleeing religious persecution in Europe — and became one of the most consequential merchants of eighteenth-century colonial America. […]
For roughly forty years, IBM shaped the rhythm of life in Ulster County — drawing people in from across the country and around the world, and eventually sending them away […]
For generations, Ulster County's cement industry drew workers and families from across the country and around the world, transforming the Mid-Hudson Valley through migration, labor, and community-building. The ruins it […]
Every instrument tells a migration story. The Appalachian mountain dulcimer — sweet-voiced, lap-held, distinctly American — traces its roots across the Atlantic to the Scottish hummel, the Norwegian langeleik, the […]
