Whered Our Stone Go to be Cave House Program

HOWES CAVE — Cobleskill Author Dana Cudmore answers the question, “Where’d Our Stone Go?” on Aug. 10 at The Cave House Museum of Mining and Geology in Howes Cave. The free program begins at 2 p.m.

Limestone and cement processed from more than a dozen Schoharie County quarries helped build the engineering marvels of the early 19th Century in New York.  Cudmore’s program identifies the quarries and their customers, including NY’s canal system, bridges on NYC’s East River and numerous important public and private buildings meant to last many lifetimes.

Signed copies of Cudmore’s book on the topic, “Farming With Dynamite: The forgotten Stone Boom in Schoharie County” will be sold, with proceeds benefiting the nonprofit Cave House museum.

The Cave House, at 136 Blowing Rock Road, will be open that day from noon to 4 p.m. Admission to the museum is also free. Donations are appreciated.

The following program in the museum’s summer series will be “Mid-Devonian Extinction Events in Eastern NY,” on Sept. 14 by Alexander Bartholomew, an associate professor of geology at SUNY New Paltz.

The Cave House, adjacent to the original entrance to Howe’s Cave, is where the remarkable story of the famous caverns, quarry, and community begins. The museum is a nonprofit, NYS-chartered educational institution that promotes a greater understanding of the importance that local and regional geology and mining plays in our lives.