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RECENT  MEDIA

CLICK for a Tribute to the American Farmer -

Life Magazine, Maytag Corp., February 1944

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CLICK for PDF of

Historic Tour

of Copake Falls, NY!

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FROM 2024

Read or Download the PDF Commemorative scrap book:

MILESTONES 2024 - Copake at 200

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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! 

RECENT RJHS VIDEOS
FROM 2023

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.

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

 

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

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VIEW OR DOWNLOAD THE PDF OF DALE PETERSON'S TALK

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

FROM 2021

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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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 can face today can be devastating. Sadly, as this story relates,
these pressures can ​
occaisionally combine to exact a tragic toll.
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