The story of Catskill native Joseph Allen DuBois continues after sailing from New Bedford on a whale ship in September of 1851.

The Greene County Legislature votes to break ties with the Daily Mail, and the author offers some history of Catskill’s newspapers for context.

Joseph DuBois, a bank clerk from Prattsville, goes to sea in 1851 following in the footsteps of his grandfather.

One of the most famous steamboat disasters in the history of the Hudson River claims the lives of a local family.

A recently discovered journal lends itself to reflections on graveyards and the forgotten dead.

An Ambrotype of Catskill proves to be the oldest photo of the village and the earliest surviving image of the church designed by Thomas Cole.

A freak storm brings down a plane on an August night in Coxsackie.

An advertisement is rediscovered in the Catskill Messenger heralding the arrival of the first photographer to Greene County in 1842.