“Thoreau and the Examined Life” Sunday, November 12, 2017 4pm in the Great Room of the Emerson Resort & Spa Matagiri and the Emerson Resort & Spa invite you to join us in the Emerson Resort & Spa’s Great Room for a lecture given by Professor Richard Geldard entitled “Thoreau and the Examined Life.” 2017 […]
All Aboard! the D&U RR presented by Wes Coates August 19, 2018 2-4p.m. Empire State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia, NY 12464 Free to public with request for small donation to help defray out cost. Wes Coates, General Manager of the Delaware & Ulster Railroad in Arkville will speak about the Railroad's operations […]
Fifty years ago on the Catskill Mountain Branch presented by Gene Dauner September 16, 2018 2-4p.m. Empire State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia, NY 12464 Free to public with request for small donation to help defray out cost. Gene Dauner is a Railroad Historian & Photographer and his presentation will be about a […]
Ontario & Wester High View Tunnel presented by Rick Brooks October 21, 2018 2-4p.m. Empire State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia, NY 12464 Free to public with request for small donation to help defray out cost. Rick Brooks is a principal in Brooks & Brooks Surveyors and a railroad historian and his presentation […]
Saturday, 10/26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Artists Who Fished the Catskills. Join Judy and Ed Van Put for this informative talk on artists who fished the Catskills and the art found in fly-fishing. The Catskill Mountains attracted America's earliest and foremost fly-fishers and many of our first and finest artists from the Hudson […]
From Grand Central to Albany: New York Central’s Water Level Route October 30, 2021 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Emprie State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia, NY 12464 Oct. 30 - Join us for our final 2021 presentation “Beside the Tracks in the Historic Phoenicia Railroad Station.” Local RR author and historian […]
Phoenicia's Ancient Past - How The Esopus Munsee People Got Through Winter Before Electricity In this illustrated lecture, author Evan Pritchard (Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent) will introduce us to the ancient and icy history of winters long past in the greater Phoenicia area. Evan will focus on the winter lifeways of the Esopus Munsee, the […]
Evan Pritchard will be back again this month with MORE fascinating information about ancient Phoenicia. Join us for an evening of local history info and tales with author Evan Pritchard (Mi’kmaq and Celtic descent). Using maps, photos, slides, stories, place-name interpretations, and helpful diagrams, Evan will explore what Munsee village life in Phoenicia must have […]
The Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership (CRISP) and the Emerson Resort & Spa invite you to attend a complimentary Japanese Knotweed presentation by CRISP at the Emerson Resort & Spa on June 9th at 1:00-2:30pm Japanese Knotweed is a common streamside and roadside invader that can reproduce from the tiniest root fragment, and it has […]
Join us for coffee and pastries! Wednesday, July 24 9:30am – 10:30am Catskills Visitor Center Coffee in the Catskills is a monthly community get-together where our Catskill Stewards and other Catskill Center program staff will be available to discuss their work in the region. Each month features a different theme and topic of discussion. This […]