The Gambian family that brought rice paddies to Kerhonkson
Ever-Growing Family Farm has grown rice in Ulster County for more than a decade using Jola techniques from Gambia. This year’s harvest was smaller after a late frost.
Ulster County
John Burroughs and Slabsides, the cabin in the woods at West Park
The naturalist John Burroughs wrote about birds and farm life from his Hudson Valley home and built a rustic cabin called Slabsides in 1895.
Sojourner Truth’s Ulster County beginnings
Born enslaved in Ulster County around 1797, Isabella Baumfree walked to freedom and won a court case to free her son before becoming Sojourner Truth.