To the delight of hundreds of people lining South and North Broadway, two huge, beautiful Belgian draft horses “clopped, clopped” up Broadway, pulling the Red Hook 2012 Bicentennial Celebration’s big red Dutch barn float at the head of the annual Hardscrabble Day. Next year’s big Bicentennial birthday bash was off to a great start. Clipping…
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Lest We Forget: Egbert Benson
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In the run up to Red Hook’s 2012 Bicentennial, it is fitting to recall Egbert Benson, for whom the Historical Society is named. As James Kent, Benson’s student, friend and colleague wrote of his mentor, “This great and good man lived to survive all his contemporaries, and seems to have died almost unknown and forgotten…
Irving Fraleigh, Dairy Farmer
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Irving Fraleigh (1920-2000) was the fourth and last generation of his family to farm some 250 acres east of the Village of Red Hook, bordering the Sawkill. To begin tossing hay bales for “Young” Irv (under the ever-watchful eye of “Old” Irv, his father, from the cab of their faded green Chevy farm truck) was…
Red Hook 2012 Bicentennial Celebration to Preview this Hardscrabble Day, September 24
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1812 was a banner year for Red Hook! By decree of the New York State legislature, Red Hook was split from Rhinebeck to become its own independent, self-governing township. To begin marking that historic event, the 2012 Red Hook Bicentennial Celebration will be a featured element of this year’s Hardscrabble Day festivities in the Village…