| VOLUME XXXV No. 29 | Narrowsburg, NY | July 16 - 22, 2009 |
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Editor's pick: Cochecton celebrates bicentennial with boat regatta and more Cochecton Day on the Lake recalls festivals of yore WHEN: Saturday, July 18 starting at 11:00 a.m. WHERE: Lake Huntington and other locations in the Town of Cochecton, NY. See below for details. COST: Free CONTACT: 845/252-3634. COCHECTON, NY—As the pre-World-War-I outfits in the photos above attest, festive and fanciful boating celebrations were a familiar sight from the shores of Lake Huntington about 100 years ago. The Town of Cochecton has chosen to revive something very like the “Regatta Day” named on the left-hand photo as part of its Sullivan County Bicentennial Celebration, Cochecton Day on the Lake, with a day full of historically themed entertainment leading up to a boat regatta set for 2:00 p.m. on Lake Huntington. | |||||
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Chamber music fills the air in Jeffersonville By JONATHAN FOX JEFFERSONVILLE, NY—The 2009 Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) Summer Music Festival made it’s debut on Sunday, July 12 on Main Street in Jeffersonville with a free-to-the-public bicentennial concert. |
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Battle of Minisink commemorated MINISINK FORD, NY—Historians will mark the 230th anniversary of the American Revolution’s Battle of Minisink with a July 18 ceremony and a weekend encampment by military re-enactors at Sullivan County’s Minisink Battlefield Park. The observances will honor the 46 militiamen from New York and New Jersey who gave their lives during the July 22, 1779 Battle of Minisink. The park in Minisink Ford offers a self-guided tour highlighting significant sites in the militia’s bloody skirmish with the British Tories and Mohawks led by Colonel Joseph Brant. |
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