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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD CATALOG OF 2023 EXHIBITION!

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!

Enoch Squires: WGY Enoch Squires Broadcast 8.25.1953.

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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

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VIEW OR DOWNLOAD THE PDF OF DALE PETERSON'S TALK

7 Minute Promo video about our 2021 exhibition, 
"Revived in Wood"

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THE HEAVENLY REST CONNECTION  with Jim Mackin     

WATCH VIDEO 

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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 
 

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