Why I Think Our Local History Books are Wrong

The “Triangle House” sits on an island of land in the middle of the three way intersection of Brewster Hill Rd and Tonetta Lake Rd in the town of Southeast, NY. Outside the house is...

Searching for Jedediah Wood’s Gravestone

Searching for Jedediah: The Search for Revolutionary-Era Brewster Ancestor Jedediah Wood Exploring the outdoors and exploring local history  are two of my favorite obsessions.  I find them both  interesting, and it lets me get my...

June Cemetery in North Salem for July 4th

  A visit to June Cemetery in North Salem. Rather appropriate for the 4th of July since there were quite a few Revolutionary War Veterans buried there, including John Wallace who made it to 103...

Legoland Discovery Center in Westchester

®Yonkers, NY Ok, so I just need to remind everyone before I get a nasty-gram from someone about how I am covering places that are not in Putnam. The name of the website is Adventures...

…not one lawyer can live among us…

I was at the county historian’s office today to do some research.  I found something that I thought was great.  A map of the town of Southeast, NY from 1795 – yes, it is old,...

Borrowing ideas from a cemetery in Maryland…

I visited family in Maryland over Easter weekend.  During the visit, we stopped at an old cemetery near my sister-in-law’s house.  What I found was one of the best ‘restorations’ of an old cemetery I...

Adventures Around Putnam interview on local cable…

Adventures Around Putnam Volume 1 was recently featured on local cable’s “Let’s Talk Writing” with Vincent T. Dacquino.  Click HERE to view the video via Youtube. Mr. Dacquino is an author and lecturer.  Among other topics,...

A great Fall day – Day Two!

The second day of our awesome Fall weekend started with a hayride at Kessman’s Farm in Patterson.  The tractor takes you out to the pumpkin patch – and there were plenty of pumpkins!  As the...

A great, full Fall day in Putnam

  Just spend a day out and about, and see what you can find!  That’s what we did today.  (Well, okay, some things I had scheduled.)  We started out at the Daniel Nimham Monument while...

“How’d ya like them apples!”

It’s fall, which means picking a beautiful day and making the rounds on the apple picking orchards, farm stands and pumpkin purveyors.  We got a jump start on it this year – the second day of...

New page on Dover’s Stone Church

The Stone Church in Dover, NY is an awesome place.  It is a short hike, with a big WOW factor at the end.  Visit the new information page on our website here.  

A secret at Brush Hollow Cemetery

A page for Brush Hollow Cemetery has just been added to the Adventures Around Putnam website.  One of Southeast’s small, no-longer-used cemeteries, it has an unusual feature.  Click here for the page.  

A bunch of new pages and information posted recently.

There are a number of new pages that were added to www.adventuresaroundputnam.com recently, including Red Mills Historic Park, the Donald B. Smith Conservation Area, the Enoch Crosby Historical Marker in Southeast, Rundle’s Mill in Putnam Valley,...

High-Ropes at T.O.E.C.

This past Sunday we went to the Taconic Outdoor Education Center’s Outdoor Recreation Day.  TOEC is an awesome piece of property that is usually reserved from organized groups.  But there are some times the general...