Chichester-Silver Hollow
J.M.W. Turner's "Chichester Canal" at the Tate Gallery, London
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Saturday, November 12, 2022
After an inch and a half of rain
Stoney Clove Creek swollen after the rains:
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Monday, October 3, 2022
Sunday, August 21, 2022
In Concert at CPOA
On Saturday evening 20 August 2022, we were treated to a concert by the renowned artist, and our fellow CPOA member and neighbor, Robert Burke-Warren. It was a wonderful evening of music, and included a personal request of a Johnny Cash song (I walk the line).
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
Sweet Sue’s is open
Finally, it has reopened. For now, only a standup and takeout area, soon the dining room, too. Looks good. A work in progress. Nice to have it back.
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Water receding
Compare the creek today (Saturday 4/9) to yesterday, following Thursday’s rainstorm:
Friday:
Massive rain storm in early April
Albany got over 2 inches of rain on Thursday 7 April. Chichester is estimated to have gotten around 4 inches. There was thunder, too. Quite a storm. Stoney Clove Creek grew, but stayed in bounds.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Another snowstorm
It has been a rough winter, so far. On Friday 2/25/2022, over half a foot of snow fell in our environs. The Daily Freeman published some photos:
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Phoenicia: Movie-Worthy Mountain Getaway
Story in Upstater.com on July 19, 2021.
When he wasn’t slugging homers, Babe Ruth could be found at the Sportsman’s Bar on Main Street, slugging beers. Alcohol also brought the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz to Phoenicia, where he lived and set up stills during Prohibition. Legend has it that shortly before being gunned down in Newark by rival gangsters, Schultz buried millions of dollars in a safe by the Phoenicia railroad tracks. Or under two pine trees. Or under a skull shaped rock by the banks of the Esopus. Ok, look, there’s a lot of legends floating around about where exactly Schultz buried his loot, probably none of which are true. But that hasn’t stopped treasure hunters from continuing to show up in the Phoenicia Library on Main Street to comb through old maps, looking for clues.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Is Dutch Schultz’s Treasure Chest buried in Phoenicia?
A story from the renowned Yonkers Times discusses Dutch Schultz, famed beer meister and smuggler, and his missing treasure chest. No one really knows where he buried a 2 foot by 3 foot treasure chest filled with gold, diamonds, cash and bonds as a getaway bundle of funds if he had to leave town at a moments notice. That value of the chest and it contents is now estimated between $50 Million-$150 Million. Dutch was gunned down in 1933. Thus, no one really knows where the loot is.
The long held tale was that Schultz buried the chest in the Catskills, in Phoenicia NY, a town that he spent time with. The PBS documentary mentions Phoenicia and a house in Bronxville NY, on the campus of Concordia College, as two other possible locations.
Tantalizing.
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Friday, December 25, 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Snowstorm in the Catskills
Forecasts called for a foot of snow, maybe a foot and a half.
And we did get a lot of snow: