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Authors and Illustrators of Middle Grade Level Books

Autores e ilustradores de libros de nivel medio

Young Adult Authors & Illustrators

You: A Bitter Taste Poem by Olive

William T. Reynolds and Company

William Lyon Dobbs and his Orchestra

What’s in a Name? – Dutchess County

Whaling in Poughkeepsie

Watch this video about a blind skateboarded

Want to get connected to the resources you need to prepare for college?

Vincent A. Walker: Black, White, or Passing?

Vail Brothers

Upcoming Local History Discussion Night – Luckey, Platt, and Co.

Try Your Luck at our Spooky Haunted House Escape Room!

Trolley Time!

Time to Shop!

Thomas Weeks Barrett Jr. – (1902-1947)

The Wreck of the Isaac Newton

The Whitehouse Factory and Saga

The Weird World of Patent Medicines

The Trial and Execution of Lucy Ann Hoag

The Stove: Center of the Home

The Slow Death of Segregation in Poughkeepsie Schools

The Sad Story of Carlotta Eastman

The Poughkeepsie Yacht Club

The Poughkeepsie Seer – Andrew Jackson Davis

The Poughkeepsie Savings Bank Building

The Poughkeepsie Orphan House and Home for the Friendless

The Poughkeepsie Community Theatre

The Poughkeepsie Bicycle Club

The Poet with the Annoying Husband

The Oakwood Friends School

The New Year’s Tradition of the Carriers’ Address

The Murder of Richard Wall – 1848

The Murder of Elizabeth Russell – 1848

The Monitor Cannon

The Mid-Hudson Bridge – 90 Years of Crossing the Hudson

The Many Inhabitants of St. Andrews-On-Hudson

The Lumb Brothers

The Long-Lost Adriance Homes

The Local Architecture of Frederick Clarke Withers

The Holland Society

The Gallows Tree: Executions or Legends?

The Famous Smith Brothers (and their famous beards)

The Eccentric Patriot: Boots Van Steenburgh

The Early Days of the Dutchess County Fair

The Dutchess Manufacturing Company and The Indestructible Trousers

The Dutchess County S.P.C.A.

The Doctor Who Loved Baseball

The Death of FDR – 75 Years Later

The Cost of Thanksgiving

The Bodey’s of Poughkeepsie Saga – Part II

The Bodey’s of Poughkeepsie Saga – Part I

The Blizzard of 1888

The Artist of the First PHOIS

The Amrita Clubhouse

The American Fiat – Built in Poughkeepsie

The 176th Dutchess County Fair

The “Genius Killer” Visits Poughkeepsie (Twice!)

Ten Movies for Teens About Sports

Teen’s January and February Program Flyer

Teen Tech Helpers Wanted!

Teen Take and Make God’s Eye by Danna P.

Take a Look Inside… Again!

Take a Look Inside!

Suffrage Meetings in Poughkeepsie

Steaming North – The Hudson River Day Line

St. Barnabas’ Hospital

Springside: Matthew Vassar’s Home

Some ideas to help you share your thoughts…

Sofia C: Personal Reflection: A STEP DOWN THE DARK HALLWAY

Sofia C: Personal Reflection: THE PAST BLISS

Sofia C: Personal Reflections TRAPPED

Smead Mausoleum: The House That Delia Built…and Rebuilt

See what other teens across the country are doing now to help their neighbors

Sailing on Ice

Sadie Peterson Delaney and the Work of Bibliotherapy

Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library

Register to Vote!

Recent Acquisition: Poughkeepsie Bridge Building Photos

Reality by Olive

Public Works of Art – Olin Dows

Preschool Authors & Illustrators

Poughkeepsie: City of Nursing Schools

Poughkeepsie: “As a Place of Residence”

Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery – 170 Years

Poughkeepsie Men in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment

Poughkeepsie Architecture: The Poughkeepsie Station

Poughkeepsie Architecture: The New York State Armory

Poughkeepsie Architecture: The City Almshouse

Poughkeepsie Architecture: The Cast Iron Building

Poughkeepsie Architecture: Academy and Old Ladies’ Home

Postcards of the Gilded Age

Popular Ladies’ Hairstyles of the 1870’s

Poetry: A New Normal by Zakiyah

PKX Festival September 15-17, 2022

Pit Stop in Poughkeepsie: Glenn Curtiss and His “Hudson Flyer”

Percival Lloyd

Paraclete Potter and the 1820 World Atlas

Open House at Sadie Peterson

NPR Grand Prize Winner Student Podcast Challange

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Exchange Hotel

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone But Not Forgotten: The Old County Court House

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone But Not Forgotten: Riverview Military Academy

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone but not Forgotten: Poughkeepsie Collegiate School

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone But Not Forgotten: Eastman Business College and Mansion

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone But Not Forgotten – The Nelson House

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone But Not Forgotten YWCA Building, Cannon Street

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Stratford and Liberty Theaters

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Pringle Home

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Poughkeepsie Hotel

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Old Post Office

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Columbus Institute

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Putnam Hall School

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Lyndon Hall School

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Lincoln Center

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Gone But Not Forgotten: Lindmark’s Bookstore

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – Glen Eden School

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – 140 Academy Street

No Butts about it! Scrabble in Poughkeepsie

Mustaches, Beards, and Sideburns!

Must Love Dogs: Some Pups in Poughkeepsie

Murder on Main Street – Part Two

Murder on Main Street – Part One

Murder in the Asylum

Murder in Poughkeepsie’s Little Italy

Most Borrowed Books of 2023!

Most Borrowed Books of 2022!

Most Borrowed Books of 2021

Most Borrowed Books of 2020

More poetry by Isabella

More Poetry by Isabella

More Long Lost Buildings of Poughkeepsie: The Reynolds Houses on Mill Street

More Long Lost Buildings of Poughkeepsie: Cedarcliff

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson, a book review submitted by Santana Wilson

Mini Vacation

Middle Grade Authors & Illustrators

Mes de la Historia Negra en su biblioteca

Memorial Day

Mary Ellen Reid – A Name to a Face

Mark Twain at the Bardavon

Make a Quarantine Time Capsule!

Make a Corona Virus Piñata

Mahogany’s neat animation!

Made In Poughkeepsie – Guilder Trucks

Love. Poem by Zakiyah

Love Poetry? Check this out!

Local Jobs Available!

Local History Presents: Schools and Seminaries of Old Poughkeepsie

Local History Discussion: Germond Family Murders

Live Animal Cams

Liam’s Book Review: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Liam’s Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Liam’s Book Review: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Liam’s Book Review: Cujo by Stephen King

Liam’s Book Review: 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose

Liam’s Book Review To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Liam’s Book Review The Drawing of The Three by Stephen King

Letters to Home – Robert Verplanck in the Civil War

Learn to Code and make cool memes like this one!

Learn a magic trick!

Landscape Paint and Sip

LaMar Turpin: A Profile of Service

Labor Day: The Unofficial End of Summer

John Van Benschoten: A Man on Wheels

John Sickley: War Time Librarian

John Burroughs: A Hudson Valley Essayist

John Bolding

Jay’s Teen Mental Health Tip #1

Jay’s Mental Health Tip #2

James Bowne: Mayor of Poughkeepsie

Jacob and his Take and Make mask

J. Schrauth’s Sons: Poughkeepsie’s Ice Cream Makers

Isabelle’s Book Report: They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera

Isabella’s Poem

Inmates: Stories From the Poughkeepsie Almshouse

Industrial Poughkeepsie – Schatz Federal Bearing Corp.

Hudson Taylor: The Retired Book Dealer of Academy Street

Historical Views on Racism in Poughkeepsie

Historic Objects and the Rabbit Holes They Lead To

Historic Houses: The Livingston home, aka Locust Grove

Hidden Mansions: Wyndclyffe

Hidden Mansions: Tioronda/Craig House

Hidden Mansions: Pelton/Hill House

Hidden Mansions: Maple Grove

Hidden Mansions: Crumwold

Herman’s Christmas Wonderland

Henry Livingston Sr. – Poughkeepsie Enslaver

Helpful Links for African American Genealogy Research in Dutchess County

Helen Wilkinson Reynolds: Our Patron Saint of Local History

Happy New Year’s!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Father’s Day

Hannah’s Take and Make Terrarium

Hannah S. has shared some beautiful photos she took recently

Grow your own food from your food scraps!

Grandpa, Is That You? – Learning Your Family’s History (with Stories and Some Research Tips)

Grace Roberts

Going Green!

Ghost Stories in Poughkeepsie

George Sherman and the Doll Babies!

George Clinton’s Home

General Custer was here! (well, parts of him)

Gardens in Poughkeepsie

Fun with Family Photo Albums

From the Latest Fashions to the Dead: The Vail Brothers Photography Studio

From Collingwood to Bardavon: Poughkeepsie’s First Theater

FREE!!! SAT Practice Test April 3

Frederick Douglass Comes to Poughkeepsie

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Local History Nerd

First-Time Homebuyers’ Seminar

Female Physicians of Poughkeepsie

Famous Local History Ladies: Madam Brett

Exploring Old Cookbooks

Equal Justice Initiative

Emotions as Humans by Mahogany

Ellen C. Roosevelt: An Early Legend of Tennis

Elizabeth Weeks Barrett and PHOIS Yearbook 1922

Edward C. Smith: One of Poughkeepsie’s Finest Architects

Early Reader Authors & Illustrators

Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses – The Oblong Meeting House at Quaker Hill

Driving with Steam

Dr. Clarence O. Cheney

Doctor Sara Josephine Baker: Fighting for Life

Do you like Fantasy Novels? Check out these recommendations

Decorative tin made by Hannah S. from our Take and Make Kit

Deck the Halls: Early Christmas Photos

David Baldacci

Curbside Pick Up

Concert: Irish Music in America

College Scholarship Opportunity

Collection’s Spotlight – Margaret DeMott Brown

Christmas Shopping for Deals at Luckey, Platt, and Company

Christmas Cards of the Victorian Era

Christmas Card Time!

Christ Church – Poughkeepsie

Check out this neat, paid Summer Job Opportunity for Teens!

Charles N. Arnold – Worker of Wood and Politics

Charles McCabe: A Lifetime of Service

Charles Gilbert Spross – Local Musical Celebrity

Charles Barnes and His Adorable Dog

Cary Institute offers paid summer youth programming

Carving Out a Legacy: George Edmund Bissell

Calling Poughkeepsie Public Library Teens (ages 12 – 18)!

C.S. made this mask The Flash logo!

C.S. also made this great pompom pencil holder with one of our take and make kits!

Bring Out Your Dead: Locations of Old Burial Grounds in the City of Poughkeepsie: Part Two

Bring Out Your Dead: Locations of Old Burial Grounds in the City of Poughkeepsie

Bowne Memorial Hospital

Books for Pride Month featuring African American characters

Book Review by Jonah M

Board of Trustees Vacancies

Black History is Local History: Theodore and Doris Mack

Bicycles in Poughkeepsie

Bertha M. Round – Music Lover

Benson Lossing: American History Nerd

Before the Oath of Office: Future Presidents at the Bardavon

Art in the Time of Covid

Art in Poughkeepsie: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Arnout Cannon, Jr. – Poughkeepsie’s Architect

Are You Insane? Common Reasons to Be Admitted to the Hudson River State Hospital

April Fool’s Day in Poughkeepsie

Another Poem by Isabella

Andrew Billings: Silversmith

An Actress in the Pest House

Aimee’s Take and Make Terrarium

Adriance, Platt, and Company

Adriance Memorial Library

Addicted to You. Poem by Olive

A Vacation at Mohonk Mountain House

A shy girl just having a good day out side. Original art by Mahogany

A Murder on Thanksgiving

A Murder and a Suicide in the Tower Family

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19th Century Diseases in Dutchess County

125 Years of Adriance Memorial Library: The Old Days and the Future

125 Years of Adriance Memorial Library

“Franksgiving”: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Messes with a Tradition

“A dark gloomy day for Pokepsie” – The Destruction of the Henry Clay

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