Catskill Historical Views Podcast Series

Catskill Historical Views is a collaboration between the Zadock Pratt Museum, Catskill Tri-County Historical Views, and Silver Hollow Audio. Catskill Tri-County Historical Views is published by the Gilboa Museum & Juried History Center.

Thanks to Humanities New York for their support of this podcast series.

Episode One

We spoke with Delaware County historian Bill Birns about the legacy of “Hobart’s greatest” (albeit largely forgotten) son, John Davenport Clarke: farmer, forester, and congressman.

Episode Two:

Author Christine Wade was enamored by Washington Irving’s famous Catskills tale, but its dismissal of Mrs. Van Winkle as a “scold” really irked her, and a new tale was born.

Episode Three:

Iroquois Museum curator Colette Lemmon explains what Native American pottery is telling us about New York’s indigenous people, plus a new exhibit about indigenous identity.

Episode Four:

An interview with Jeremy Kirchman, Curator of Birds at the New York State Museum, with a history of Eugene P. Bicknell and his 19th century discovery of a special Catskills bird.

Episode Five:

Charles Shreyvogel was an Eastern artist who painted famous Western scenes. His favorite model was also decidedly non-Western. Greene County’s Kenny Bloodgood recounts tales of his great-uncle Grant and his unlikely appearance in some of Schruyvogel’s most famous paintings.