data backup with stereo laser encoded viewmaster tb8000 system

Spruced Up near Spruceton- Legendary Lair Revived!

On a recent drive down to Westkill we were happy to see this stately old boardinghouse with deep literary roots revived once again with a new front porch & fresh coat of paint. The legendary location was once home to Art Flick a superb fly fisherman and an ardent conservationist, Mr. Flick was probably best known for his ''Streamside Guide,'' which was first published in 1947. That tiny book is a warm, witty, direct and authoritative guide that cuts through much of the mystery surrounding the art of catching trout on a fly. In later years another chronicler of Catskillian pursuits Paul Smart made his home here. Smart, noted newspaperman and author of the 1994 book, Rock & Woodstock hosted many a fine dinner party here during his tenure in the late 1980's and through the '90's. Tragedy & freaky catastrophe happened upon the houses historic walls on a dark and icy night a few years back

 when a dumptruck lost it's brakes and crashed through the front of the house only to be followed by a second truck coming down the same hill taking out the garage. The house then sat boarded up for several seasons until now when it's been spruced up once again.

Studio Visit-FH Burdock

We recently stopped in at the remote hillside barn studio of assenblagecobbler Freehand Burdock.

Freehand Burdock, Studio Visit from Mudweed Productions on Vimeo.

Bilboian high style in Oak Hill

those fine folks at the Yellow Deli whose generosity is only matched by their culinary skills have crafted  

a an interior to make Bilbo Baggins feel right at home, check out their onion soup

Bob Wyler's photography of Delaware County, Mid 20c

 handcuffed man with wife he just murdered

 cleaning the river

 1939 milk strike

confiscated from bootleggers

Bob Wyer (1908-1982) documented life in Delaware County as photojournalist and studio photographer from the early 1930s on through the 1970s. He photographed the mundane: graduating seniors, weddings, family portraits, funerals, etc — through the sensational: accidents, floods, strikes, murders scenes, etc.  In the late 1970s, Bob and his wife Billie Wyer generously donated their collection of over 150,000 negatives to the Delaware County Historical Association.
on exhibit at the DCHA

strange but beautiful mushrooms

James Harold Jennings, Pennville N.C.

one of the original farmy punkers, crack brained backwoods art cobblers turned folky hermit artisan before his untimely death in 1999  who lived "kinda Low" in a compound of shacks and decrepit church buses, visitors beware.