Tag Archives: Comeau Property

“High Summer” By Ranger Dave

Posted on July 6, 2012 by admin

My quiet crusade in The Pocket Guide to Woodstock is to promote hiking in Woodstock. For a town covered with forests, Woodstock has surprisingly few marked trails. Visitors must feel frustrated by seeing so much green terrain, but finding so … Continue reading →

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Celebration for Pocket Guide to Woodstock, by Ann Hutton

Posted on July 5, 2012 by admin

(“Summer Celebration at Comeau Property to launch Pocket Guide to Woodstock” by Ann Hutton appeared in the June 28, 2012 issue of Ulster Publishing’s alm@nac.) How does one decide what to put in and what to leave out when writing … Continue reading →

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“A Walk on the Comeau” by Richard Parisio

Posted on July 4, 2012 by admin

(On Sunday, July 8th, Richard Parisio, a retired DEC interpretative naturalist who teaches at the Mohonk Preserve, will lead a “Family Nature Walk” for “kids of all ages” at 5 pm to conclude our “Woodstock Celebration” at the Comeau Property … Continue reading →

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Q & A with Woodstock Town Historian, Richard Heppner

Posted on July 3, 2012 by admin

Last winter, when I caught the history bug while writing The Pocket Guide to Woodstock, I discovered the town’s best attic, more properly known as the Historical Society’s archives housed upstairs in the Town Hall building. There’s a table where … Continue reading →

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How Fire and Ice Shaped Woodstock

Posted on June 29, 2012 by admin

On Sunday afternoon, July 8th, nature enthusiasts will have a rare opportunity to walk the Comeau Property in Woodstock with two of the Catskills’ foremost outdoor interpreters, geologist Robert Titus and forest historian Michael Kudish. One will explain how the … Continue reading →

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“The Pocket Guide to Woodstock” Lands at the Comeau July 8th

Posted on June 20, 2012 by admin

Several years ago, Michael Perkins and I published Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town (Bushwhack Books). It rapidly became the Golden Notebook’s bestselling paperback of 2009 and has now reached its fifth (or … Continue reading →

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