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A treasure trove of Greene County History, the Vedder Research Library is your one-stop shop for questions about local land, ancestry, and more. Historian and archivist Jonathan Palmer, a Greene County native with a passion for the area, brings local history to life with the effervescent positivity (and corny jokes and mustache) of a young, real-life Ted Lasso.
Travel back to 1663 at the oldest house in the Hudson Valley. At the Bronck House and Museum, run by the Greene County Historical Society in Coxsackie, history buffs can see first-hand how a single-room stone house grew into a Dutch Colonial home with a standalone kitchen and learn about how much life has changed in 350 years.
The Irish Catskills: Dancing at the Crossroads, in the words of filmmaker Kevin Ferguson, is "a celebration of Irish culture and a record of how important the Irish Catskills were to the first-generation Irish in America." Here, Kevin talks about how the spirit of this resort town lives on.
Return to the Catskill Game Farm: 1980s photos of a zoo gone wild
