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Kingston History
Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 The Weekend Warrior
[Apr. 16, 2008] Back in the early 70s, for reasons which will forever remain a mystery, I became nostalgic for military service and almost on a whim I decided to join the active Army Reserve and become a Weekend Warrior.
Getting the most out of the moment...
[Mar. 4, 2008] Sometimes it seems like my wife and I take turns driving each other nuts. We have vastly divergent philosophies; she worries about everything and I worry about almost nothing. I tell here it's an ideal situation because between the two of us we have just the right amount of anxiety.
Learning from your mistakes...
[Jan. 29, 2008] When I was about 12-years old my father decided it was time for me, "use your head for something else besides a hat rack." He then proceeded to teach me the game of chess. We played endless chess games and for about a year I got trounced in everyone one of them. He was a good player, ruthless and intense.
A Kingston Christmas...
[Nov. 27, 2007] Christmas in Kingstons a young child, Christmas in Kingston was the highlight of the year. I spent summers in Kingston with my grandmother and grandfather while my parents toured the country doing summer-stock theater (my dad was a professor of Drama at Ithaca college).
Dog Biscuits and Dandelions
[Jul. 23, 2007] The other day I was sitting on our back deck trying not to burn dinner. I’m not the greatest BBQ chef and nearly everything I toss on the grill comes out either half cooked, burned or charred beyond recognition. While watching the chicken smolder I started day dreaming of summers gone by. Bits and pieces of memory trickled back, each connected like a daisy chain to another memory. In no particular order here are some of the fragments of summers past.
Learning from October...
[Jun. 25, 2007] History is a blizzard of events and often lost in the drift of recollection are the small stories which paint a larger picture. One such memory is about a boy and his dog. The boy is my son, Bradford Randall, and this is his story...
Hard Days and Dark Nights
[May 21, 2007] Kingston "back then" was quite a bit different than it is now and I was lucky enough to grow up in a family which bridged the divide between yesterday and today.
Future History: Improving Town Meeting
[Apr. 23, 2007] I don’t envy Fran Hoeg’s position as moderator. It’s a daunting and largely thankless task. While she may have the best seat in the house, there have got to be times when she feels like she’s getting a duck’s eye view of a shotgun blast.
Fire & Ice on Silver Lake
[Mar. 16, 2007] Myrtle Bradford Higgins was my grandmother and she was an old Yankee with a distinctively ‘down-east’ accent. She ran a General Store at the end of Grove Street and was the last postmistress of the Silver Lake Post Office. She lived and breathed history. To hear her talk, the Civil War ended last month and the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock a little over a year ago.
Life & Death in Kingston
[Feb. 23, 2007] Life in early Kingston was hard and frequently short. In 1859 Dr. Thomas Bradford Drew surveyed the old burial grounds of the Kingston Cemetery and recorded the names and ages of death of all 935 graves and markers.
A Town By Any Other Name...
[Jan. 20, 2007] The history of names and places in a community is trivia to some and to others it is a link to the unique spirit of a town or city. Kingston has a plethora of odd and obscure place names worth exploring...
When Christmas Was Against the Law
[Dec. 16, 2006] New England’s antagonism toward Christmas has a long history dating back to at least 1621. On Christmas morning of that year, Governor William Bradford chanced upon a group of settlers who were taking the day off. Bradford scolded the men and threatened them with punishment if they did not return to work.
Kingston’s History Keepers
[Nov. 17, 2006] Kingston is a community with an abundance of history and we are fortunate that much of our past is being preserved for future generations. We are especially blessed to have a person like 29 year old Archivist Carrie Elliott who manages the Local History Room at the Kingston Public Library. Carrie is quick to point out that she couldn’t do it alone and sings the praises of her team of volunteers who spend thousands of hours sorting through and cataloguing a blizzard of artifacts, historical documents, antique books, and more than 7,000 photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Topaz Tragedy: Pirate Attack
[Oct. 27, 2006] Hidden deep in the shadows and moss of the Evergreen Cemetery an intriguing epitaph can be read on an almost forgotten memorial stone: "Capt. Martin Brewster, Master of Ship Topaz (husband of Betsey Russell) killed by pirates 1827 on passage from Calcutta to Boston."
The Jumping Place...
[Sep. 22, 2006] It’s been years, but the memories are still as fresh as yesterday. My son, Bradford, and I running full tilt toward the edge of the cliff and then leaping with all our might into blue sky and empty space. Time seemed to stumble and then stand still as the swooshing sound of running feet on sand was replaced the whisper of the wind rushing by our ears. We seemed to hang suspended in space for an eternity. We were flying.
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