LOCAL HISTORY AUDIO FILES & PODCASTS: Home

• January 04, 2016 / History of Chester, NY / Guest: Clifton Patrick, Town of Chester Historian
• January 11, 2016 / Chupungco: A Living Lesson in Helping Others / Guest: Pastor Susan
• January 18, 2016 / Stone Age Warwick (Archeology) / Guests:  Brad Phillips and Prof. Barry Kass
• January 25, 2016 / History of Warwick Valley Telephone Co. / Guests: Marie Corlet and Jean Beattie, Alteva
• Feb. 1, 2016 / Black History Month / No Guest
• Feb. 8, 2016 / Substance Abuse Epidemic / Lt. Tom Maslanka, Warwick Police Dept.
• Feb. 15, 2016 / Substance Abuse Pt, II & Black History Month Part II / No Guest
• Feb. 22, 2016 / Immigration / Guest: Vincent Mezzetti
• Feb. 29, 2016 / Repeat show
• March 7, 2016 / Limehouse Minstrels (Bradner & Raynor); Weather and History; St. Anthony Comm. Hospital / No Guest
• March 14, 2016 / Warwick Town & Village / Guests: Supervisor Michael Sweeton & Mayor Michael Newhard
• March 21, 2016 / A Jetport on the Drowned Lands is Defeated / Guest: Jennie Sweetman
• March 28, 2016 / Water Resources / No Guest
• April 4, 2016 / The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel  / Guests: Louis Grumet and John Caher
• April 11, 2016 / Glorious Trees: Our County's Arboreal Heritage / No Guest
• April 18, 2016 / Farmers' Markets in Historical Perspective / Guest: Penny Steyer
• April 25, 2016 / Trees / Guest: Pat Reinhardt
• May 2, 2016 / Unsolved Murders  / Guest: Mark Torres, novelist
• May 9, 2016 / Noah Webster in 18th Century Orange County / No Guest
• May 16, 2016 / Early Land Grants and Patents / Guest: Clifton Patrick, Town of Chester Historian
• May 23, 2016 /  Farm Decline or Improvement? / Guest: Will Brown, Lowland Farm
• May 30, 2016 / Memorial Day Memories and the Changing Family / No Guest
• June 6, 2016 / Origin of the name "Oil City Rd." and 18th century farmer Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
• June 13, 2016 / Sterling Forest, Iron Mines, and the Townsends / Guests: Clifton Patrick and Donald "Doc" Bayne
• June 20, 2016 / Bellvale Creamery / Guest: Amy Noteboom
• June 27, 2016 / Newburgh in 1891 / No Guest
• July 4, 2016 / Warwick on the Eve of Revolution Pt. 1 / No Guest
• July 11, 2016 / Warwick on the Eve of Revolution Pt. 2 /No Guest
• July 18, 2016 /Cultural Reflections from Travels: Material and Experiential/Guests: Candy Ahrenholz and Carole Howard
• July 25, 2016 /Revolutionary War Pt. 3 - Consequences / No Guest
• Aug. 1, 2016 / Greenwood Lake History / No Guest
• Aug. 8, 2016 / History of Bellvale / No Guest
• Aug. 15, 2016 / Repeat show
• Aug. 22, 2016 / Our Constitution and Responsible Citizenship: Part One / No Guest
• Aug. 29, 2016 / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur / No Guest
• Sept. 5, 2016 / Teaching With Primary Sources Project and the New Digital Portal / Guest: Sue Gardner, Wisner Library
• Sept. 12, 2016 / Our Constitution: The Bill of Rights Part One / Guest: Robert Krahulik, Attorney
• Sept. 19, 2016 / The Music and Career of Richard Kimble / Guest: Richard Kimble, Pianist
• Sept. 26, 2016 / The Bill of Rights: Part Two / Guest: Bob Krahulik, Attorney
• Oct. 3, 2016 / Warwick Historical Society  /Guests: Cathryn Anders & Lisa-Ann Weisbrod, Warwick Historical Society
• Oct. 10, 2016 / History of Community Preservation in Warwick / No Guest
• Oct. 17, 2016 / Taxes  /Guest: Debbie Eurich, Tax Assessor
• Oct. 24, 2016 / Repeat Show
• Oct. 31, 2016 / Our Constitution, Cont'd: Tenth Amendment / Guest: Bob Krahulik
• Nov. 7, 2016 / Our Constitution, Cont'd: Supreme Court / Guest: Bob Krahulik
• Nov. 14, 2016 / The History of Sports Photography / Guest: Author Gail Buckland
• Nov. 21, 2016 / Thanksgiving, Lenape and Pilgrims / No Guest
• Nov. 28, 2016 / The Crisis of Food Sustainability / Guest: Glenn Dickes of the Warwick Food Pantry
• Dec. 5, 2016 / Seward Homestead Restoration / Guest: Roger Dowd
• Dec 12, 2016 / Photography / Guest:  Nick Zungoli
• Dec. 19, 2016 / The Electoral College and Forecasts for 2017 / No Guest
• Dec. 26, 2016 / Forecasts for 2017 (cont'd) and Great Quotes from History / No Guest

Radio show on local history topics by Warwick Town Historian Dr. Richard Hull, airs on Mondays at 11:00 AM on WTBQ.  Click on the link to stream; right click on the link and choose "save link as" to save the file to your computer or device.

• January 19, 2015 / First Show: What is History? Why does it matter? / No Guest
• January 26, 2015 / Energy Prices and Usage / No Guest
• February 2, 2015 / Historic Preservation & Hathorn House / Guest: Sue Gardner
• February 9, 2015 / Leadership & Town Supervisors / Guest: Michael Sweeton
• February 16, 2015 / Our Presidents / Guest: Tony Houston
• February 23, 2015 / Black History / Guest: Gordon Duncan, Greenwood Forest Farms Assn.
• March 2, 2015 / Beverage Production: Wines, Liquors & Hard Cider / Guests:  Jonathan and Dylan Hull
• March 9, 2015 / State of the Family: Transformation of Society / No Guest
• March 16, 2015 / History of Containers & Plastic / Guests: Michelle Desvaux & Julia Calderon of Sustainable Warwick
• March 23, 2015 / Down the Wawayanda Creek: Historic Highlights / [John Hathorn, Pacem in Terris]
• March 30, 2015 /  Mid-Orange Correctional Facility / Guest: Geoff Howard, Sustainable Warwick
• April 6, 2015 / Sustainability / No Guest
• April 13, 2015 / Food Security / Glenn Dickes, Warwick Ecumenical Food Pantry
• April 20, 2015 / Trees / Guest: Mayor Michael Newhard
• April 27, 2015 / Pathbreakers: Great Men and Women of Orange County / No Guest
• May 4, 2015 / Immigrants All: A History of Immigrants in Orange County / No Guest
• May 11, 2015 [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4] / Energy & Fracking /Guest: James Oliver Cromwell, Actor & Activist
• May 18, 2015 / Historical Novels / Guest: Dr. Gretchen Gibbs, professor emeritus and fiction author
• May 25, 2015 / No program (Memorial Day)
• June 1, 2015 / Our Food Landscape & The Warwick Farmers' Market / Guest: Penny Steyer, manager of the WFM
• June 8, 2015 / Bookstores & Books / Guest: Tom Roberts of Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe
• June 15, 2015 / Leadership in Orange County and Warwick History / No Guest
• June 22, 2015 / Kiryas Joel: Democracy's Dilemma /  Guests: Geoff Howard, Steve Grander, Lisa DiMartino
• June 29, 2015 / Warwick Historical Society / Guests: Mark Kurtz (President); Marianne Knight (Education Comm.)
• July 6, 2015 / Warwick in the Guilded Age 1876-1899 / No Guest
• July 13, 2015 / Journalism:The WarwickValley Dispatch / Guest: Lon Tytell
• July 20, 2015 / Shade Tree Heritage / Guest: Roger Metzger
• July 27, 2015 / Energy Sources and Risks; Animal Rights / James Oliver Cromwell, Actor & Activist
• Aug. 3, 2015 / Where we've been: Review of the first seven months of the program / No Guest
• Aug. 10, 2015 / HIstory of Medicine in Warwick / Guest: Dr. Gerard Freisinger
• Aug. 17, 2015 / Orange County Land Trust / Guests: Jim DiLaune and Lisa Weisbrod
• Aug. 24, 2015 / Autobiography of a Historian / Dr. Richard Hull
• Aug. 31, 2015 / Renewable Energy / Guest: Prof. William Makofske
• Sept. 7, 2015 / History of ‘Labor Day’ and an interview with a member of the Sugarloaf church / Guest: Charlotte Mifsud
• Sept. 14, 2015 /  Publishing / Guest: Dr. Thomas Kemnitz, Royal Fireworks Press
• Sept. 21, 2015 / No show
• Sept. 28, 2015 / History of Taxes and Taxation / No Guest
• Oct. 12, 2015 / History of Taxes and Taxation, continued / No Guest
• Oct 19, 2015 / Taxation (last segment) and Author Interview /  "Lord Souffle" by Vaughan Wiles
• Oct. 26, 2015 / Women Authors of Warwick / Guest: Carol Howard, novelist
• Nov. 2, 2015 / Artists / Guest: Jonathan Talbot, Collage Artist
• Nov. 9, 2015 / Warwick Historical Society Update and Festival of Toys / Guests: Lisa Ann Weisbrod and Sandy Kurtz
• Nov. 16, 2015 / History of Education and the Warwick Schools (Part I) / No Guest
• Nov. 23, 2015 / History of Education  and the Warwick Schools (Part II) / No Guest
• Nov. 30, 2015 / History of Education and the Warwick Schools (Part III) and current events / No Guest
• Dec. 07, 2015 / Library History / Guest: Rosemary Cooper, Albert Wisner Library Director
• Dec. 14, 2015 / History of Black Dirt Farms / Guest: Cheetah Haysom (author of Pride and Produce)
• Dec. 21, 2015 / The State of History in Orange County / Guest: Johanna Porr Yuan, Orange County Historian
• Dec. 28, 2015 / Cultural Trend Forecasts for 2016 in Historic Context / No Guest

Lectures and programs about Warwick's community heritage; click the link to stream or right click to save the audio file to your device.
 

• The History of the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility: a lecture by Dr. Richard Hull
• The Satmar of Kiryas Joel: a lecture by Dr. Richard Hull  given in 2011 (note, there is a more recent video version of this lecture, given in Cornwall in 2014)
• The Impact of 9/11 on our Community.  The Frank Truatt Show with Taylor Sterling and Dr. Richard Hull, Sept. 11, 2015.
• The History of the Hamlet of Amity.  A talk given at Amity Gallery in May, 2016.

A collection of stories about objects treasured by community members, done in 2015.  You can listen to the stories and see the objects here: http://guides.rcls.org/warwickvalleyhistory/objectstories