ORANGE COUNTY NY HISTORY RESOURCES: Video & Audio
Web-based research sources, organizations, and contacts for exploring the history of Orange County, New York
Video
- Regional - After the Ice Age: Life Returns to Orange County by Tom LakeRecording of presentation at the 2011 Orange County History Conference on the Ice Age and the animals and plants that appeared when the ice sheet retreated.
- Regional - Onion Harvest Festival Polka, 1990 (Florida NY)Amateur video of dancing and festivities by Shawn Swagerty.
- Regional - Orange County Mastodons and the Peale Museum of Discovery by Joe Devine and Evan GalbraithTalk from the 2011 Orange County History Conference on the discovery of the Peale Mastodon and a planned museum to commemorate the site.
- Regional -- MastodonsVideo segments from a Discovery Channel special on unearthing a mastodon in Hyde Park, which aired in 2001.
- Regional - The Harriman TouchFilm about the legacy of the Harrimans in preservation of the Palisades of the Hudson by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
- Regional - The Perkins EffectA film honoring George Walbridge Perkins, first Palisades Interstate Park Commission president.
- Chester - Restoration of the Railroad Depot 2009Video history of the restoration of the Chester Railroad Depot.
- Cornwall Memorial Day Parade 1920Pre-sound era film, part of the Prelinger Archives, posted on www.archive.org.
- Goshen - Good Time Racing Track 1935Famous trotter "Greyhound" racing at an historic track's Hambletonian,
- Montgomery - Slideshow of Historic PostcardsUn-narrated slideshow of images.
- Newburgh - Historic Architecture of NewburghDiscussion of architecture including Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Clark Withers, Calvert Vaux, and Frederick Law Olmstead. Short-form documentary that produced for the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands by Anthony Di Noto, with historian Carla Decker.
- Newburgh - Newburgh-Beacon Ferry 1920sShort clip of the ferry crossing.
- Tuxedo - A Walk In Sterling Forest Gardens 1961Home movie of formal gardens that once stood on Rt. 210 in Tuxedo, more recently the site of the Renaissance Festival, loaded on YouTube by Jill Hertzler.
Audio
- History of the Hasidic People of Kiryas JoelA Talk Given by Dr. Richard Hull at Warwick Town Hall Sept. 12, 2011. Outlines the origins of the Satmar Hasidic people and the foundation of the Village of Kiryas Joel in the Town of Monroe, NY.
- History of the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility SiteAudio file of a talk given at Warwick Town Hall on Sept. 28, 2011, by Dr. Richard Hull, outlining the history of the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility. The site's history includes the Henry Board Wisner farm, the New York City Farm (Inebriates' Colony), the New York State Training School for Boys (a reform school), and lastly the prison, which was closed in oct. 2011 by order of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
- Sound And Story Project of the Hudson RiverIncludes oral history recordings from Newburgh.
- Newburgh - Audio Tour of Selected Historic SitesWebsite includes audio files you can enjoy on your mobile device.