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Authors and Illustrators of Preschool Books

Autores e Ilustradores de Libros de Nivel Preescolar

Young Adult Authors & Illustrators

William T. Reynolds and Company

William Lyon Dobbs and his Orchestra

What’s in a Name? – Dutchess County

Whaling in Poughkeepsie

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

Vail Brothers

Uriah Boston – African American Barber

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

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 Melody Fair 1958

The Many Inhabitants of St. Andrews-On-Hudson

The Lumb Brothers

The Long-Lost Adriance Homes

The Local Architecture of Frederick Clarke Withers

The Legacy of April: 1865 & 1869; Laura Keene, The Collingwood Opera House, the end of the Civil War & Today

The Holland Society

The Gallows Tree: Executions or Legends?

The Famous Smith Brothers (and their famous beards)

The Explosion of the Reindeer

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!)

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

Sounds from 19th Century Main St: Hickok’s Music Store

Smead Mausoleum: The House That Delia Built…and Rebuilt

Seed Sowing Center

Save Energy, Save Dollars

Sailing on Ice

Sadie Peterson Delaney and the Work of Bibliotherapy

Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library

Ruth Linda Deyo: Child Prodigy

Recent Acquisition: Poughkeepsie Bridge Building Photos

Publishing, Politics, and the Poor: The Lives of Julia and Nellie Killey (& their husbands)

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 City Directories

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

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

Percival Lloyd

Paraclete Potter and the 1820 World Atlas

Open Mic @ Adriance Library

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 George Innis House

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

Nineteenth Century Main Street: Farrington’s China Shop

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 2024

Most Borrowed Books of 2023!

Most Borrowed Books of 2022!

Most Borrowed Books of 2021

Most Borrowed Books of 2020

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

More Long Lost Buildings of Poughkeepsie: Cedarcliff

Middle Grade Authors & Illustrators

Mes de la Historia Negra en su biblioteca

Memorial Day

Meet the Author: Shirley Freitas

Mary Ellen Reid – A Name to a Face

Mark Twain at the Bardavon

Made In Poughkeepsie – Guilder Trucks

Lucy Maynard Salmon – The Records We Leave Behind

Local History Presents: Schools and Seminaries of Old Poughkeepsie

Local History Discussion: Germond Family Murders

Letters to Home – Robert Verplanck in the Civil War

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

James Bowne: Mayor of Poughkeepsie

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

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

Gunshots on Main Street: “Vice and Crime Go Hand in Hand” – The Wilbur Van Tassell Murder

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

Grace Roberts

Ghost Stories in Poughkeepsie

Gertrude Ford Ramsay – The Queen of Tea

George Sherman and the Doll Babies!

George Clinton’s Home

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

Gardens in Poughkeepsie

G. Gordon Liddy and Family

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

Frederick Douglass Comes to Poughkeepsie

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Local History Nerd

Female Physicians of Poughkeepsie

FDR Presidential Library and Museum Pass

Famous Local History Ladies: Madam Brett

Exploring Old Cookbooks

Ellen C. Roosevelt: An Early Legend of Tennis

Elizabeth Weeks Barrett and PHOIS Yearbook 1922

Egg Shell Seedling Pots

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

Early Settlement In Poughkeepsie

Early Reader Authors & Illustrators

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

Driving with Steam

Dr. Phoebe Thorne Williamson and the Poughkeepsie Sanitarium

Dr. Clarence O. Cheney

Doctor Sara Josephine Baker: Fighting for Life

Dick Wood – Creepy Tales of the “Hudson River Grappler”

Deck the Halls: Early Christmas Photos

Curbside Pick Up

Coming Soon! Walking Tour of Dwight Street and Hooker Avenue

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

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

Carving Out a Legacy: George Edmund Bissell

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Film Screening/ Q & A

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

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

Andrew Billings: Silversmith

An Actress in the Pest House

Adriance, Platt, and Company

Adriance Memorial Library

A Vacation at Mohonk Mountain House

A Murder on Thanksgiving

A Murder and a Suicide in the Tower Family

A Legend In Her Own Right: Photographer Kate Simon

A Different Perspective: Loyalists in Poughkeepsie

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19th Century Diseases in Dutchess County

194 Main Street – Dunwoody Brothers Soap & Candle Factory

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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