Reflections: Staatsburg: "Not Just a Place to Live" A Collection of Interviews with Community Members

by Judith Linville (Editor)

Overview

This collection of interviews with local residents offers a glimpse of life from pre-World War II through the 1980s in a small Hudson River Valley hamlet, located between Rhinebeck and Hyde Park, New York.

The narrators recall what is was like to work on the Great Estates, play all summer in and on the river, get through the Depression, encounter Roosevelts, and live in a once bustling village in simpler times.

Each of the narrators interviewed has passed away; but in the stories they left us, each in their own voice, we see how this community, like so many others, is truly a family. From those heartfelt memories, we learn that just as families thrive and struggle together, so did the hamlet of Staatsburg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948796705
Publisher:	Epigraph Publishing
Publication date:	06/26/2019
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Judy Linville has lived in Staatsburg, New York, for over forty years where she and her husband, Bob, raised two children. Judy is a writer who has recorded personal essays on Northeast Public Radio and is a former English teacher and retired building principal who enjoys being a grandparent and a community volunteer.

Table of Contents

List of Photographs ................................................ VII

Preface to the New Edition ..................................... IX

Preface ........................................................................ XI

Acknowledgments .................................................... XII

Introduction ........................................................... XIII

Charles Kendall ............................................................ 1

Lucile Hayes ............................................................... 15

George Forman .......................................................... 27

John Van Dyke ............................................................ 45

Naomi Craft ................................................................ 59

Edith Kidder ............................................................... 66

Kenneth Stewart ........................................................ 73

Birgit Crusius ............................................................. 89

Leonard Peluso .......................................................... 94

Marion Asher ........................................................... 102

Oliver Goring ........................................................... 110