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RECENT MEDIA
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!
Listen to interview with RJHS President Lesley Doyel by Robert Gelles on Community Radio WGXC 90.7 FM on his Columbia County History Show
The Copake Pharmacy
Click on the video below for a trip back to the year 1940 in the heart of Copake's Main Street in a wonderful compilation of home movies shot in front of the Copake Pharmacy by pharmacist Max Fass. This footage is a companion to Kenneth Fass' book "The Copake Pharmacy 1937 - 1973", available from Amazon.com
A moving musical tribute to those from the Roe Jan area who served in WW II: "We'll Meet Again"
sung by Vera Lynn
Gallery Talk - Cliff Paino talks about his parents war years, and his father in the third wave
on Omaha Beach
Barbara Stienberger's fascinating gallery talk about her family's escape from
Nazi Germany
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"
THE HEAVENLY REST CONNECTION with Jim Mackin
Read about the RJHS 2022 summer exhibition in the June issue of Main Street Magazine, featuring an article/interview by Griffin Cooper "