RECENT MEDIA
CLICK for a Tribute to the American Farmer -
Life Magazine, Maytag Corp., February 1944
FROM 2024
CLICK for PDF of
Historic Tour
of Copake Falls, NY!
<CLICK ON PICTURE
FROM 2023
Read or Download the PDF Commemorative scrap book:
MILESTONES 2024 - Copake at 200
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD CATALOG OF
2023 EXHIBITION!
Our Latest RJHS Videos!
FROM 2024
Hillsdale in the 1930s - A Swinging Town
SEE HILLSDALE AS IT WAS IN THE 1930'S! ~
Watch it Right here on YouTube!
Produced Julia Brandi, Marilyn Herrington & Ron Vincent
Read a fascinating transcript of a radio broadcast from 1953 by journalist Enoch Squires, in which he relates the history of the John Bunyan Bristol painting of the "Iron Works" and the reviving of the St. John in the Wilderness Church in Copake Falls!
Over 1700 views on YouTube!
FROM 2024
A CHANGING SCENE; Farming in Copake Circa 1990
by Elinor Mettler and Polly Langdon
It's 1990, and amid many ominous signs, the last 25 functioning farms in Copake — farms that have been the backbone of the regional farming industry for over one hundred years — are struggling to survive, and to adapt to rapidly changing conditions, and ever-shrinking profits. And no one knows how this story will end!
Watch this unique and important documentary A Changing Scene: Farming in Copake Circa 1990, created and produced with enormous foresight, by Elinor Mettler and Polly Langdon, on Youtube (link here) or playing continuously during our summer exhibition. at the RJHS. 31 minutes.
CLICK ON FRAME ABOVE TO WATCH
A sad, but important story related to the history of farming in Copake, can be read in Newsweek Magazine April 10th 2014: Death on the Farm.
Though the life of the American farmer has never been an easy one, the combined pressures of financial hardship, despair and isolation that the struggling independent farmer and his familiy might face given the uncertainty today's markets can be devastating. Sadly, as this story relates, these pressures can occaisionally combine to exact a tragic toll.
FROM 2022
A moving musical tribute to those from the Roe Jan area who served
in WW II: "We'll Meet Again"
sung by Vera Lynn
FROM 2022
Gallery Talk - Cliff Paino talks about his parents war years, and his father in the third wave
on Omaha Beach
FROM 2022
Barbara Stienberger's fascinating gallery talk about her family's escape from
Nazi Germany
"The Diaries of Erika Löbl"
FROM 2022
An interview with Copake's British war bride, the late Dorothy Baker
VIEW OR DOWNLOAD THE PDF OF DALE PETERSON'S TALK
7 Minute Promo video about our 2021 exhibition,
"Revived in Wood"
FROM 2021
THE HEAVENLY REST CONNECTION with Jim Mackin
Click on the image above to watch "Portriats of Hillsdale",
and "Our Story", produced for the Oral History Project
Read about the RJHS 2022 summer exhibition in the June issue of Main Street Magazine, featuring an article/interview by Griffin Cooper "
NEW ARTICLE!
View or download an excellent, recently recovered, RJHS feature article from 2015 all about the history of the geological formation of the Bash Bish and the Taconic Mountains, the Bash Bish's various Inns over time, and the Bash Bish Today!
PDF Bash Bish Booklet
