Patricia Edwards Clyne’s research archive

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Ms. Clyne, a Chester resident from 1960 to 1988, was a notable author known for Hudson Valley-centered books and articles. The archive, containing 17 banker’s boxes with about 16 cubic feet of research clippings, maps, pamphlets, and notes, may be better suited to a County-wide or broader organization. Folder Titles: Box 1 Folklore quarterly index Libraries Government reps municipal historians Photos Hudson Valley Maps - Tourist info AIDS Airplane/Wrecks Airport/aviators Alcoholics anonymous/Bill Wilson C also: Bedford (West. County) Almhouses/poor houses Amusement parks Animal sightings (bears, Panthers, etc.) Anti-rent war Apples/fruit Orchards (I. E. Peaches. Aqueducts, dams, reservoirs Dams Arboretum aren't just trees Mountain top Arboretum Lasdon Park & Arboretum & Lasdon bird sanctuary Orange County Arboretum Architecture Astronomy Area, authors, celebrities Armenians Chester A. Arthur Association/media John Jacob Astor Astronomy Asylums Augie Autumn Leo Bakeland Balloon Barbershop Quartets Barns Baseball/basketball Basket making C also Rockland Cty Bats Henry Ward Beecher Berrigan Brothers (Phillip & Daniel) Birds Blacks Blizzard of 1993 “Bloopers” Misspelled signs, etc. Bluestone quarries (see also Opus 40) bluestone wild Forest Bluestone Woodstock school of Art Bones, bodies (identified) in Hudson Valley (see also Newburgh missing arm) Booksellers Books about Boxing Boy Scout / Robert Baden – Powell Matthew Brady Tawana Brawley case Brewery/beer Brickmaking Bridges/tunnels (see also Poughkeepsie R. R. Bridge) Box 2 Brinks trial (see also: "Goshen : town on trial" in a file of HV articles.) Bruderhoff Buddhist Bungee jumping (see also high falls, etc.) Business/development/think-tanks Richie Cabo Joseph Campbell Carousels/merry-go-rounds Caves/rock shelters Marc Chagall John Cheever Churches (and ones converted for different uses) Circus (see also Elephant Hotel, Somers) Civil War – N. Y. She also – Matthew Brady. Civilian conservation corps Call, Thomas (and see also Hudson Valley school of painting) Christopher Columbus Counterfeiters (see also money hole cave) Cowboys Shule Merritt, James Moody – ("cowboy") see also Claudius Smith Crop sculptures Jasper, Francis Cropsey George Armstrong Custer (See also West Point) D&H Canal Alexander Jackson Davis DEC (Dept. of Env. Cons.) Devi-ish places (place names) “Legs” Diamond Dinosaurs Disasters Thomas Dongan Dutch in the Hudson Valley Bob Dylan (see also Woodstock File – U. C. Celeb. File) Amelia Earhart Amos Eaton (RPI & Erie Canal.) Farragut, David (see also Civil War File) Fossils Robert Fulton Galls (On plants) Gated communities (she also tuxedo) Glass/stained glass Jay Gould– (See also Lynhurst) D. W. Griffith Gypsy moth + other insects Gypsies (see also file on movies made in Orange County. Hackensack River Golf Healers Hermits Heroes/heroic acts Historical quilts Hobbies/collections Hoboes/wanderers Edward Hopper Horses John Newton Howitt Hudson – Fulton celebration Henry Hudson – "half moon" replica Hudson Valley natural heritage designation Hudson Valley, Greenway Hudson Valley trivia superlatives/Gee whiz Hudson River rowing/ cruises Regalias Hudson River treasurers Hudson River – Coast Guard Hudson River national Estuarine research reserve (also Bard College) Hudson River - fishing Shad, Sturgeon Hudson River Heritage group Hudson River keeper Hudson River rocks Box 3 Hudson River tunnels Hudson Valley Hudsonia Huguenots Hurricane Irene Anne Hutchinson Ice boating/harvesting Independence Day/July 4 Indians of Hudson Valley Indians drums along the Hudson Invasive Inventions Irish Irish in Dutchess County Irish Brigade Erin no Bragh? Making a difference – one child at a time Project children/Dennis Mulcahy Tara circle/Briarcliff Manor Ironworks Bull mine plus other iron mines The iron heart of the Hudson Valley Forging the backbone of a nation: the iron furnaces of New England Irving Washington ((Sunnyside) The other bicentennial – 200 years of Washington Irving Henry James Anneke Jans Ku Klux Klan Labyrinths/mazes Legend/folklore Lenni Lenape Indians Lighthouses Esopus Meadow lighthouse Hudson – Athens lighthouse Roundout II lighthouse Saugerties lighthouse Lights along the Hudson Abraham Lincoln/J. W. Booth. Livingston family Box 4 Benson Lossng Jane McCae Mastodons Mines – other than iron Missing people Monasteries/missions convince, etc. (see also Graymoor) Monsters (she also individual – I. E., "Champ" J.P. Morgan William Morris architect/designer Movies made in Hudson Valley Murals Murderers Mushrooms Mysteries Names (place names) Thomas Nast 9/11 9/11 memorials (see also O. C. Arboretum, Hastings-on-Hudson, etc.). Octagon house/Orsen Fowler Oddballs / eccenrics Oddities Old mine Road Frederick Law Olmstead Palatines (See also Newburg) James Kirk, Paulding PASNY Powerline Floyd Patterson (also see New Paltz) Philanthropists Place names Poets/poetry Politicians Polls – public opinion Pollution – conservation Toxic legacy Post offices PCBs Presidents Prisons Evan Pritchard Private schools Prohibition Quarries – Stone Quilting Radioactive dump sites Radon/radiation Underground railroad Riding the underground railroad George Washington in Orange County Sojourner Truth Mark Twain's life on the Hudson Box 5 Railroads Ramapo River Ramapos Ramapough/Lenapi nation – Stag Hill Rockefeller family Rocks Babe Ruth (She also Chester, Warwick) Margaret Sanger (see also Charles Bouck, White File) Dutch Schulz Pete Seeger Senior citizens Mother Elizabeth Seton Shakers Shawangunk Kill Sheep/wool Sherlock Holmes Daniel Sickles Skunk cabbage Slavery & blacks – see also underground railroad Springs Statues Statues – not in H. V. The riddle of the Stone ruins Storms Ballerina Olga Spessiytzeva Spies Storytelling Storytelling Strawberries Summer camps Sunrise/sunsets Superlatives Susquehanna Turnpike Swimming Taxpayer revolts Thanksgiving Theaters Samuel Jones Tilden Titanic disaster Tourism Trains Treasures/money found, etc. Lost treasures of the Hudson Valley Orange County archaeological Society Tricentennial newspaper supplement Historian/Budget advisory committee Historical markers in Orange County Bicentennial – Rev. War / Tricentennial– Orange County O. C. Genealogical society Orange County Orange County His. Soc. Heritage commission Tourism 1997 Box 6 Chester Chester Historical Society Camp LaGuardia Chester quilt show 2nd Cookie swap Sharing the sweetness of the season (Chester cookie swap) In defense of Chester (A rebuttal to "Chester, New York: a growth analysis) Glenmere Seligmann Farm Yelverton Phoebe West Lake murders Circleville Manna - Terrell home Chapel (Circleville) Circleville Orange County Orange County rocks and caves James Alexander Amity – Edenville Ananda Ashram ( Harriman) Archaeology Architects/architecture (see also Downing, Linsley, etc.) Arden Orange County authors, artist, actors & other celebrities Celebrities – Orange County connections Artist Baird family Balmville Djuna Barnes Bellvale Black dirt Black gold of Orange County Black dirt – onion harvest festival Blacks – see also Horace Pippen Ralph Blakelock (the "American van Gogh") Blooming Grove Books about/set in Orange County Borden Farms – Walden Brick house (Nathaniel Hill house) Brotherhood winery Bull family – Hill Hold– Sarah Wells Bullville Frances Hodgson Burnett Campbell Hall (see also Hampton Berg) Cave/rock Formations (See also NY Cave files Central Valley Chadwick Lake Box 7 Civil War – Orange County Clemson Park/Clemson family Clinton, George + DeWitt Cadwalleder + Jane Colden/Coldenham Coldenham Cornwall Craigville Crawford Crawford House (Newburgh) Crevecoeur Amy Bull Crist Crystal Lake (Newburgh) Maggie Dailey Danskammer Alice Curtis Desmond Drowned Lands Historical Society Edmonston house Vails Gate Ellison House Knox headquarters (Vails Gate) Tomas Estrada-Palma [C also Woodbury/Central Valley) Fair Oaks Fancher family Chris Farlekas Geraldine Ferrero First, lasts, etc. superlatives Florida Fort Decker Glass factories Goshen Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame Gould family (artists) (see celebs file) Myrta Gibbs Greene Greenwood Lake Greenville Zane Grey Hamptonburgh Harriman family Harriman Hasbrouck House/Washington headquarters (Newburgh) Women's rights Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck Hawks nest Drive Hemingway/Von Kurowsky affair Highlands – Highlands Falls. Highland Mills Hillside Cemetery Horse industry Howels Huguenot Dick Hull Ice harvesting Institutions – hospitals, asylums, sanitariums, prisons, etc. Inventions – firsts Irish in orange/Rockland County (also Irish in Hudson, Valley, etc.) Box 8 Italians in Orange County Jehovah’s Witnesses / Watchtower Farms Jews in Orange County Johnson Kirbytown Kiryas Joel (See also Monroe) Libraries Lifting Rocks (Port Jervis) Little Britain Little York Ed Lloyd (see also Middletown) Mandeville, David Maps Maybrook Medi-Physics, Tuxedo Nuclear Reactor Middleton Historical Society Town of Minisink Monroe Montgomery Mounthope Mount St. Mary College (Newburgh) Mountanville Movies/Films/TV Commercials Museum Village Museums Musicians / Entertainers New Hampton New Milford New Windsor Newburgh - Docks, Shipping Newburgh Newburgh Police Scandal Newspapers Obits Box 9 Oddballs Oil City Orange & Rockland Orange BlossomsOrange OCCC Orange County Fair Orange Lake (see also Town of Newburgh) Otisville Oxford Charles Wilson Peale Horace Pippin Pine Bush Pine Island Plume Indian Museum Polich Art Works Polish Politicians Police Pope, Benjamin (Artist) Port Jervis Lewis Lynching - Port Jervis Fort Decker Hall are Boughed with Holly Theodora Cohen / Flight 103 Disaster Tri-States Rock Post Offices Presidents Prisons Prohibition - Breweries Quassaick Creek The Legend of Tom Quick Tom Quick Radio Stations Railroads Ramapo Dog Rescue Unit Recycling Restaurants Phoebe Reynolds Ridgebury Roads / Highways Beatrice Rosenblum Roseton Rushmore Estate/Family Salisbury Mills Schools (See also Colleges, OCCC) Scouting / 4-H (Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, Eagle Scouts) Mildred Parker Seese William Henry Seward Sewers Shad Festivals Shawangunkill Sheep Slate Hill McGinnisberg Cemetery Sugar Loaf South Centerville Southfield Sparrow Bush\ Sports Stewart Airport Stores / Malls Storm King Mountian (& Highway, etc.) Streams Jimmy Sturr SCC (Supercollider) Tarbell Dumps & other Landfills (Town of Wallkill) Theatre Thompson Ridge - see also Crawford Townsends Trials (Brink’s in separate box) Trolleys (Electric Railroads) Red Apple Rest - Tuxedo Box 10 Tuxedo dump/Montgomery, Frank Sacco trial Unionville Vin Fiz Walden Wallkill (town) Wallkill river Warwick Washingtonville Water (O.C.) Wawayanda Westtown Nathaniel Parker Willis Frederick Clark Withers Orange County women Woodbury WYMCA (see also Huguenot State Lakes Park) West Point West Point Buffalo soldiers Class of 1846 Hotel Thayer Music/bands Sylvanus Thayer West Point Mint Sierra club Catskill Mountain club Hudson River ramble Appalachian Trail (She also hiking) Rail trails Rail trails Rails to trails see also heritage trail – Orange County Catskill scenic Trail Duchess rail Trail Harlem Valley rail Trail Heritage Trail, - Orange County ( old Erie RR bed) Hudson Valley rail Trail/Highlands rail Trai Maybrook line (Duchess) Dutchess County rail Trail New Paltz Flats trails North country Trailway (Westchester)/Briarcliff Peekskill Trailway O&W rail Trail (D&H Canal Heritage corridor) Putnam County Trailway Real Trail of northeastern Pennsylvania Sullivan County Walkhill Valley rail Trail Parks – Orange County Adirondacks Palisade interstate Park commission Albany Pine Bush Alder Lake Algonquin Park Allegheny State Park Angle fly preserve (Somers) Arden point Arrow Park (Monroe) Ashokan Field campus Automan sites (6 1/2 Station Road, etc.) Balsam Mountain Box 11 Bashakill Beacon Shore Trail Black Rock Forest From Bullets to Birdsong, The Strange Story of Blauvelt State Park Camp Smith Mills-Norrie State Park Minisink John Burroughs Sanctuary Joppenbergh Mountain (Rosendale) Kowawese Sloop Hill / Plum Point Minnewaska State Park Ice Caves (Minnewaska State Park) Mohonk Preserve High Tor / Maxwell Anderson High Point State Park High Tor Iona: Vintage Island of the Hudson Palisades Samuel Morse / Locust Grove (Poughkeepsie) Mount Beacon Mount Gulian New Windsor Cantonment & Hut Site Rockland Lake State Site KnickerBocker Ice Festival Edison-Sparta Mountain Wildlife Area - Edison Complex Saugerties Box 12 New York State New York Folklore Society NYS General Acid Rain / Air Pollution Apples Armories Asylums Bats L. Frank Baum Bed & Breakfasts / Inns Bees Bird-Watching Lydia Bloomer Bottle - Collecting Joseph Brant Bridges John Brown Ned Buntline Aaron Burr Canals Canal System New York State Canal System Castles - See also Dick’s Castle (Putnam) Castles - Not in New Y Catskills Centra-Leather Stockings Region John Champe Champlain Valley Christmas - Christmas Trees Civil War Verplank Colvin Polly Cooper Cobblestone Architecture U.S. Constitution Bicentennial Celebration Lord Cornbury (Ed. Hyde) (Gov. of New York0 Covered Bridges Marion Cuomo Currier & Ives Curses Diners Dowsing Earth Quakes Easter Fall Foliage Millard Fillmore Finger Lakes Floods / Landslides Forest Preserve Centennial “Firsts” Fishing Folk (Itinerant) Artists (see also Ammi Phillips) Folklore - NY Folklore Society Fossils Stephen Foster Gambling Geology Ginseng Goat Farms Government Guthrie / Woody, Arlo Halloween Alexander Hamilton Historic Markers / State / Nation Register Hoaxes Holidays Winslow Homer Harry Houdini Houses (Odd) Elbert Hubbard (Arts & Crafts Movement Roycraft) Inkdians Iroquois Seneca Indians Irish in New York Captain Kidd Lake Chanplian Laws NY Public Library Lighthouses Loomis Gang Maple Sugaring Masons Mastodons Mennonites Merry-Go-Rounds Missing People Mohawk River / Valley Mohawl\ks / St. Regis Res. “Monsters” William Morgan (Missing Anti-Mason) Mormons Murders NY Thurway Nicknames Oddballs Old Mine Road (Delaware Water Gap area) Box 13 Frances Parkman Sam Patch Place names / Nicknames (Molly Pitcher) Mary Hays Israel Putnam Joe Pye Railroads Rockland County Rockland County Rockland County Historical Society Caves - See also NYS Caves Coll. Artists, Authors, Celebrities Authors, Celebs Camp Shanks Chestnut Ridhge Coe Tavern Grandview Henry Gorringe (Cleopatra’s Needle - Buried in Rockland) Haverstraw Helen Hayes Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Lottie Lenya / Kurt Wed Mary Crest Florence Ripley Mastin Murders Museums New City Nyack Nyack Historical Society Piermont Pomona Henry Varnum Poor Ramapo / Hilburn Ramapo Walls Wightman’s Fields Roaming the Ramapos with Their Resident Poet Rockland Audubon Society Sloatsburg Russians (Tolstoy Foundation - Valley Cottage) Molly Sneden Sneden’s Landing Sparkill Chuick Stead Stoney Point Suffern Tappan(See also Anorld-Andre File) Tappan Zee Anthology Tomkins Cove Valley Cottage Putnam Putnam County Putnam - Artists / Celebs Putnam Historical Society Boscobel Brewster Carmel Chuang Yen Monastery Cold Spring Continental Village Fanny Crosby Box 14 Aunt Fanny Crosby Daneil DrewGarrison Green Chimneys Haven in the Highlands (Hudson Highlands State Park) Indian Lake / Denny Mahopac Movies Made in Putnam County Murders Patterson Place Names Putnam Valley Tilly Foster Poestenkill / Sand Lakde Rafinesque, Constantineaines Falls Greene County Greene County - General Artists, Authors, Musicians Athens Bronk Museum / Green County Historical Society Catskill Coxsackie East Durham Greenville Haines Falls Levi L. Hill Heliochromy: The Production of Pictures Hunter MountainLeeds Lexington Movies Made in Greene County Palenville Mabel Parker Smith Rip Van Winkle Treasure Rip Van Winkle Round Top (Inkdian Lake) Tannersville Twilight Park Windham Box 15 Dutchess County Hiddenbrooke Park University settlement Park Dutchess County Dutchess County Historical Society Authors/celebs Amenia Annandale – Bard College Berrytown Beekman Madam Brett Homestead (Beacon) Jimmy Cagney Casperkill Creek Chelsea Children's Aid Society Clearwater/Beacon sloop club Clinton Coleman station Cruger's Island John Lloyd Stephens Maya – on– Hudson Culinary Institute Dia: Beacon Dover Plains East Fishkill Edgewater mansion Fallkill Creek Farm/vineyards Fish family Fishkill Freedom Plains Harlem Valley (Fishing, etc.) Harlem Valley psychiatric Center – Wingdale Heermance-Bulkeley Homestead (Red Hook) Hopewell Junction Horse industry Box 16 Hughesville Hudson River psychiatric Center (Poughkeepsie) Hyde park Hyde Park – Eleanor Hyde Park – FDR OK fine box 17 1615Innisfree gardens (Millbrook) Lagrange Lithgow Mansfield/Andersen school Staatsburg Marist College Millan Millerton Millbrook Monford reptile Institute Vassar College Wappingers Creek Wappingers Falls Wassaic Wildercliff Weilerstein Wingdale/Webatuck craft village World peace festival Box 17 Albany Albany Author/celebs Berne Bethlehem/Delmar Cherry Hill Cohoes Irish American heritage Museum Movies made in Albany Murders New Scotland Rensselaerville Schuyler Wedding Waterford Watervleit Clinton County Columbia county Columbia county Columbia County Historical Society Ancram Artist/authors/celebs Art Omi - Fields sculpture park Austerlitz (see also Edna, St. Vincent Millay) Beckwith murder case "the cannibal of Columbia County" Boston corners Chatham Copake Copake Falls Elizaville Gallatin Harlemville Hillsdale Hudson Lindenwald – Kinderhook (Columbia County) Linlithgo Movies/TV, etc. Murder/mysteries New Lebanon Olana – Frederick Church Spencertown Stanford Stuyvesan Valatie Delaware County Delaware County Artist/celebrities Andes Arkville Ned Buntline Catskill center for conservation & development Delaware & Northern railroad Delhi Deposit ERPF Catskill Cultural Center, " (Halcottsville) Halcottsville Hancock Hanford Mills Museum Hobart Movies made in Delaware County Pepacton Reservoir Roxbury Stanford St. Lawrence County St. Lawrence County Gouverneur Ogdensburg Saratoga County Saratoga Authors / actors / celebs Ballson spa Movies made in Saratoga County Saratoga Battlefield Great Sacandaga Lake (Saratoga) Saratoga Springs Yaddo Yaddo Schenectady Schenectady (city) Schoharie county Gilboa Schuyler County Schuyler County Seneca county Seneca County Seneca Falls Steuben County Steuben County Steuben County murders Corning

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March 23, 2025

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Patricia Edwards Clyne’s research archive

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