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Where the Mountains Reach the Wider World

One hundred and fifty years ago, along the Ulster Delaware Turnpike, before it was to become Route 28, lines of men called Gandy Dancers laid down wooden ties, crushed rock ballast and rails. They inched the rails into place. Soon after, they would straighten those same rails. The rails would be constantly pushed out of line by the immense crushing weight of trains rumbling over them. They tapped

BEDELL CEMETERY — This past Saturday, I had the honor of being invited to the unveiling of a marker dedicated to the memory of Revolutionary War veteran, Sylvenus Kelly. The Kelly family are indeed a remarkable group, among a remarkable group of families. I discovered a while back that there are families here in the Catskills with long memories. At screenings of "The Calico Rebellion," a film abou

Story and Photographs by Lorcan OtwaySTAMFORD — The Venue for the magic show is the old train station, currently the home of the Stamford Historical Society. Passenger trains stopped coming here in 1954. Freight trains stopped coming to Stamford in the late 1970s. It is well preserved and full of the history of the village, bringing back my warm memories of Stamford in the 1960s and 1970s and inst