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Catskill History: Peg-Leg Bates - The One Legged Black Tap Dancer & Catskills Resort Owner

Catskill History: Peg-Leg Bates - The One Legged Black Tap Dancer & Catskills Resort Owner
A lot of history in  these mountains. While researching a property in Kerhonkson, I came across this. Between 1951 and the mid-80s, Peg-Leg Bates the one legged black tap dancer owned the largest black owned resort in the Catskills, the Peg-Leg Bates Country Club in Kerhonkson NY. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show 21 times. Click here for the whole story
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"COMING UP ROSES🌹" - .67 Acre w/Older Mobile Home - Rose Rd Pittsfield, NY - Well-Septic-Electric-Driveway - 2-Story Pole Barn - RVs OK!!! - Only $15K down

"COMING UP ROSES" 296 Rose Road, Pittsfield/Edmeston, NY, Otsego County FOR SALE .67 Acre Lot located at 296 Rose Road, Pittsfield/Edmeston, NY, Otsego County Older mobile home (good bones, needs complete overhaul) - Well & Septic system (as is) - Electric on-site - Driveway - 1800 sf Pole Barn w/metal roof - Tranquil country setting - Mostly Level & cleared terrain - Town maintained rd - Zoned 1-fam, 2-fam, Agriculture, Recreation - RVs OK - 3 1/2 hrs/NYC. ONLY $43,900!!! "COMING UP ROSES" - Bring your mad handyman skills and restore this ugly duckling...
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Land Buying Checklist – Making the Right and Profitable Choices

Land Buying Checklist – Making the Right and Profitable Choices
Buying a land may have different implications and meaning to different home investors and buyers. Given the present situation of the economy and financial sector, you will definitely have several opposing factors bombarding your choice and resolve to buy a land or not. Hence to get rid of this confusion, it is most important to come up with a viable and dependable checklist on what criteria is most amenable for a profitable land buying investment. There are appropriate and specially regulated ordinances for zoning requirements before transacting into land purchase. Zoning requirements are made...
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Our Children's Land

Our Children's Land
We did not inherit the land from our fathers. We are borrowing it from our children. -Amish Proverb  
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Budget Porta Potty

Budget Porta Potty  As seen on Pinterest, all you need is a bucket, a section of pool noodle, a trash bag and you can make your own porta potty. First you line the bucket with the trash bag. Then you slip the slit pool noodle over the edge for a toilet seat and attach a roll of toilet paper to the metal handle....
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10 Reasons Why Earthships Are Freaking Awesome!

10 Reasons Why Earthships Are Freaking Awesome! Posted By Expanded Consciousness on April 2, 2014 Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other sustainable building style you have come across. For the reasons that follow, I believe Earthships can actually change the...
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Failure Is Not Failure

Failure Is Not Failure "Failure is not failure, but an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Wally Amos, a.k.a Famous Amos   Wally Amos started Famous Amos Cookies in California back in the 1970s. After a string of financial reversals in the 1980s, Amos lost control of both the company and the use of...
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Everybody Loves FREE!!

Everybody Loves FREE!!  Camping hasn’t changed much since the days at Smitty’s, on the outskirts of New Paltz, except maybe the cost. If you had a car back then, it was $1.75 to park overnight. Camping was free. Today it could cost $30-$50 per night for an RV hookup. Since everyone loves free, we want to bring back...
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A King's Throne

A King's Throne Every chair should be a throne and hold a king. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Long Island Bow Hunters Allowed Closer to...

Long Island Bow Hunters Allowed Closer to...   Originally published: April 1, 2014 NEWSDAY By DAVID M. SCHWARTZ   Bow hunters on Long Island will be allowed closer to homes -- though not with crossbows -- under terms of a new law included in the state budget package. Bow hunters won't be able to shoot within 150 feet of buildings,...
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Bake a Cake Inside an Orange Peel for a Tasty...

Bake a Cake Inside an Orange Peel for a Tasty... lifehacker Alan Henry Filed to: Food Hacks Food Camping Outdoors Fire Cake oranges Cooking Cooking hacks dessert Campfire 8/17/12 4:30am Want a delicious campfire dessert? Once you've enjoyed the tasty insides of an orange, fill it with chocolate cake batter or your...
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Nature Lovers

Nature Lovers Just wanted to share a picture with you, I know how much you love nature.   I’ve received many remarkable nature photographs over the years but this photo of a nesting Falcon is perhaps the most remarkable Nature shot that I’ve seen.   Nature is truly breath-taking! Click here to view...
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This Deer Thought No One Was Watching It...

This Deer Thought No One Was Watching It... You never know who's watching....    
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China-themed project in Catskills draws critics

China-themed project in Catskills draws critics By GEORGE M. WALSH, The Associated Press Posted: 01/20/14 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- It is an audacious plan that seems out of place for the Catskills: a $6 billion China-themed cultural, business and amusement park to be built on 2,200 acres of forest and former farmland nearly two hours from New York...
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As Food Programs Are Cut, Deer Hunters Share...

As Food Programs Are Cut, Deer Hunters Share...   Texas Tribuneby Edgar WaltersPublished: December 26,2013 For hunters like Rick Prekup, deer season is the happiest time of the year. “I go hunting every chance I get,” Mr. Prekup said in a telephone interview from his home in Horseshoe Bay. Several times each week from November to early...
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Bethel, Capital of the Woodstock Nation

Bethel, Capital of the Woodstock Nation By ELSA BRENNER New York Times - Published: September 21, 2007 IN August 1969, Bethel, N.Y., was a once-in-a-lifetime weekend getaway for some 400,000 people who swarmed Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair to hear rock acts like the Who, Jimi Hendrix and Country Joe...
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Nature's Beauty

Nature's Beauty Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves - John Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s...
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Hastings-on-Hudson To Curb Deer Population...

Hastings-on-Hudson To Curb Deer Population... HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) -- This suburban village overlooking the Hudson River is a mere 2 square miles, home to a hip downtown, neighborhoods of neatly kept homes and an ever-growing population of deer that overrun woods, chew through gardens and cause more than a dozen car crashes a year. Grasping...
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Beware the tick

Beware the tick  With winter squarely behind us, the urge to kick off our shoes and run through a grassy field is greater than ever but beware the tick. Two things to consider are that prime tick season in much of upstate NY runs right through mid-August. The deer population in many parts of upstate New York remains...
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Inspirational Slide Mountain - Catskills...

Inspirational Slide Mountain - Catskills... "Here the works of man dwindle, in the heart of the southern Catskills"  Slide Mountain, the tallest peak in all of the Catskills, inspired poet and naturalist John Burroughs.
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Between a Rock & a Hard Place

Between a Rock & a Hard Place    I almost walked right past this yesterday up in Pike County PA. Nature is freakin amazing. Years ago a seedling was trying to sprout underneath this rock.   After years of determination, not only did the seedling thrive but it also manged to lift the rock clear off the ground. An amazing task...
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Get Off The Fence

Get Off The Fence Those of you who have been looking to purchase land for awhile may have noticed a recent trend. Properties are selling! The old strategy of waiting the seller out is not working today.  Buyers are out there and ready to buy. Many potential buyers who have been sitting on the fence, have found themselves...
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Congratulations !

Congratulations !   I'd like to congratulate Marilyn and Jose of Brooklyn New York, the proud new owners of a beautiful  1+ acre parcel of land, just a stones throw from the Delaware River.  They can't wait to go fishing  near their new property. Welcome to the family!  
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Venison on Rye

Venison on Rye With the suburban deer population exploding in parts of Westchester County, the city of Rye is considering the controversial move of bringing in bow hunters to thin out the herds. The state wildlife officials estimate the city's deer population to be 50 per square mile in areas that are better suited...
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