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The Sloat and Fassett Connection
As with restoration reveals at Harmony Hall over many years, genealogy discoveries come from unexpected places, adding exciting context...
Peter Bush
Mar 5, 20243 min read
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Deborah E. Fillebrown's Visit to Sloatsburg:
A Curious Sloat descendant Discovers New Family Information Deborah E. Fillebrown had traversed the Ramapo Valley corridor often with her...
Peter Bush
Oct 19, 20232 min read
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Recap: Till Death Do Us Part, Our March Salon Series Event
A curious crowd gathered in the South Salon to hear Harmony Hall’s own board of trustee member Ken Linsner share his research he fondly...
Friends of Harmony Hall
Mar 23, 20231 min read
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Recap: Mr. Marshall Comes to Hillburn
It is said the third time is the charm! After rescheduling “Mr. Marshall Comes to Hillburn” twice, Travis W. Jackson’s presentation was...
Friends of Harmony Hall
Mar 15, 20231 min read
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Recap: Red Apple Rest Presentation!
The Second Sunday Salon Series kicked off this past weekend with author Elaine Freed Lindenblatt’s Red Apple Rest presentation. She is...
Friends of Harmony Hall
Jan 13, 20232 min read
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The 174th Birthday of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House!
October 2022 marks the 174th anniversary of the completion of Harmony Hall as the homestead and country seat of the inventor,...
Peter Bush
Oct 20, 20224 min read
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Living in Harmony: Efforts Ongoing to Save a Piece of Rockland's Past
Hudson Valley writer Robert Brum visited with Jacob Sloat descendants, Harrison Bush and son Peter Bush, at Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat...
Friends of Harmony Hall
Oct 6, 20221 min read
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Women's History Month - Highlighting Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881-1962)
Cockcroft, a Brooklyn native, studied art with William Merritt Chase and traveled widely in Europe before World War I. Critics lauded her...
Peter Bush
Mar 10, 20221 min read
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National Historic Marker Day - April 30
The Friends of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House and the Sloatsburg Historical Society celebrated by cleaning the historic markers at...
Peter Bush
May 3, 20211 min read
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The Mary Allen Bush homestead, Victory Gardens of the 1930’s, 1940’s
If there are any positives about the year of the pandemic it is an unmistakable trend of a return to gardening and beautification of our...
Peter Bush
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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Important 20th Century Artists of Sloatsburg
The modest George Macrum cottage belies an important 20th century artist colony founded in the early 1930’s along Ballard and Academy...
Peter Bush
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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Harmony Hall featured in Lohud's Back in the Day.
Thank you Heather Clark for featuring the Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House. This Back in the Day photo and information was contributed by...
Peter Bush
May 14, 20201 min read
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Former Sloatsburg resident with deep family roots makes thoughtful donation to HarmonyHall
The Friends of Harmony Hall recently received a generous donation from Roberta Simons Moore. Ms. Moore, who lives in Palm City, Florida,...
Peter Bush
May 11, 20203 min read
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THE MUSCIANSHIP OF THE SLOAT FAMILY!
I attended the 13th Annual EpiscoBuild concert to benefit Habitat for Humanity of greater Newburg on Sunday, January 5, 2020. Grace...
Peter Bush
Feb 27, 20202 min read
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Peter Bush
Feb 20, 20200 min read
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Archaeologist Edward J. Lenik Book Signing!
With the publication of his fourth book on the Ramapough Lenape people of northern New Jersey and southeastern New York, archaeologist...
Friends of Harmony Hall L
Dec 30, 20192 min read
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Sidman's In The Clove & Sloat History
"Sidman's in the clove" aka: Sidman's Tavern and its veteran cemetery now sits surrounded by the 2019 construction of the Woodmont...
Peter Bush
Jul 18, 20192 min read
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Sloat Matriarch Returns…
Two oval oil portraits of Sarah Bigelow Sloat and her husband Jacob Sloat; inventor, manufacturer, builder/designer of Harmony Hall, were...
Peter Bush
Nov 8, 20182 min read
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Forgotten Artists of Sloatsburg
By: Peter M. Bush and Eve M. Kahn Art historian, writer and frequent New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn helped kick off the forgotten...
Peter Bush
Oct 17, 20182 min read
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The Forgotten Artist Edith Varian Cockcroft: as told by Eve M. Kahn & Peter Bush
Crossroads to History focused on the forgotten painter, inventor, couturier, textile designer & ceramist Edith Varian Cockcroft...
Friends of Harmony Hall L
Sep 17, 20181 min read
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