Month: July 2019
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Keep That Lamp Trimmed ‘n Burning
Arm-of-the-Sea Theater will present its annual outdoor performance spectacle, The Esopus Creek Puppet Suite, in Saugerties on August 16th, 17th and 18th. This outdoor performance event features larger-than-life puppet characters, shadow projections, masked dancers and various low-tech devices of theatrical enchantment in a series of true tall tales inspired by regional history and current events. This…
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Kate and Ellen Crowley: a pair of heroines
In the fall of 1878, the story of Kate and Ellen Crowley started appearing in numerous newspapers across the country, from the New Orlean Times-Picayune to the Chicago Tribune, from the New York Sun to the Cincinnati Enquirer and a dozen newspapers in Kansas. These were abbreviated versions of a longer article originally published in…