Copake's History in Photos will be presented by local historian and author Howard Blue with slides and a talk at the Roe Jan Library on Sunday, July 21 at 1:00 PM.
The program is based on interviews with local residents, many of whom shared old photos of the town and its residents from their family albums. Howard's talk will include such history gems as the 1840s agrarian revolt in Copake, the town's unusual aeronautical history, three local former horse racetracks, and ice harvesting in town, as well as colorful and fascinating residents, from a rattlesnake hunter to the wealthy Henry Astor, who resided in Copake in the late 19th century. The Great Blondin's 1858 high wire walk across Bash Bish Falls and the Copake-related artistic productions of Depression-era photographer Walker Evans and Hudson River School painter John Frederick Kensett are also on the program.
Howard has long been interested in history, local and global. He is the author of Words at War (Scarecrow Press, 2002), a book about World War II-era radio broadcasting. For that and other projects he interviewed Arthur Miller, Art Carney, John Eisenhower (the copilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), and two Nobel Prize winners.Howard wrote his M.A. thesis in History on the power position of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev; decades later he interviewed Khrushchev's son, Sergei. In the 1970s he produced a slideshow about a tiny village in the Rhineland in Germany, and several years ago in Hudson he produced a dramatic program on the theme of his book. He has an active Copake history Facebook page:which is chock full of interesting and surprising details of life in this small town. Copake is a "Hudson Valley town with a complex and fascinating history," as the Page describes it.
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