125 Years Ago . . .

The Isaiah Green house, one of the oldest houses in Chappaqua
May 22, 2009
by Jane Lindau

The New Castle Historical Society will host its annual “Castles of New Castle” house tour on Thursday, May 28, 2009.  This year’s tour will have a new format and a new recession friendly price. The tour will run from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and will be followed by a light luncheon at an historic home – all for $45 for members and $50 for non-members.

Before . . .
April 24, 2009
by Gray Williams, Town Historian

Our well-loved statue of Horace Greeley was modeled in 1912 by Ordway Partridge, and then cast by the Roman Bronze Company in Queens. A photograph taken at the foundry shows that the surface was originally protected by a uniform, lustrous patina, almost certainly of the coppery brown color then in fashion. That patina weathered away long ago, and was replaced by powdery products of corrosion, such as green copper sulfate and black copper sulfide. Those compounds not only disfigured the surface with streaks and blotches, but also threatened the integrity of the metal itself.

New Castle Town Historian Gray Williams, Michael Martinez
March 6, 2009
by Chrisitne Yeres

Two years ago, Boy Scout Michael Martinez, with the help of his younger brother Alex and friend Cameron O’Leary, undertook a systematic cataloging and mapping of the final resting place of 1027 Quakers buried behind and beside the Quaker Meetinghouse on Quaker Road (Route 120). 

February 6, 2009
by Lois Dannecker, Polly Dumke, Toni Hutin, Toni Kelly, Nancy O’Neil and Fran Osborne

Since the New Castle Historical Society’s founding in 1966, residents have generously donated their family possessions including books, furniture, photographs, diaries and ledgers to the Society. They have also given us their grandmothers’ wedding dresses and their great-aunts’ party dresses, as well as hats, hatpins, shoes, shawls and accessories of all kinds.

November 14, 2008
by Gray Williams

The Cartoonist and the Candidate: Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley, and the Campaign of 1872

From November 2, 1968 Patent Trader
October 31, 2008

The polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in all New York State counties. The voter information hotline is 1-800-367-8683. For voter information for TDD/TTY, call the New York State relay 711.

Poster by Bill Bramswig
by Betsy Guardenier
October 24, 2008

In two weeks, Westorchard Elementary School will be transformed into New Castle’s version of London’s famous Portobello Road antiques market.aaa_coupon_for_antiques_show.pdf

October 10, 2008
by Gray Williams

The Cartoonist and the Candidate: Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley, and the Campaign of 1872

At the Horace Greeley House, the New Castle Historical Society continues its serial exhibition of the cartoons that Thomas Nast created to mock and discredit Horace Greeley, when Greeley ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential campaign of 1872. Nast drew some 85 cartoons of Greeley that year, from January through November. They are being exhibited in installments, corresponding to the months in which they appeared in Harper’s Magazine.

Greeley humbly clasps hands with a grim-faced ghost across the grave of Lincoln
September 5, 2008
  Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley, and the Campaign of 1872
by Gray Williams

At the Horace Greeley House, the New Castle Historical Society continues its serial exhibition of the cartoons that Thomas Nast created to mock and discredit Horace Greeley when Greeley ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential campaign of 1872. Nast drew some 85 cartoons of Greeley that year, from January through November. They are being exhibited in installments, corresponding to the months in which they appeared in Harper’s Magazine.

Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley, and the Campaign of 1872

August 8, 2008
by Gray Williams

At the Horace Greeley House, the New Castle Historical Society continues its serial exhibition of the cartoons that Thomas Nast created to mock and discredit Horace Greeley, when Greeley ran against Ulysses S. Grant in the presidential campaign of 1872.

A time-honored tradition: candidates eating their own words

July 11, 2008
by Gray Williams

Thomas Nast, Horace Greeley,
And the campaign of 1872

At the Horace Greeley House, the New Castle Historical Society continues its serial exhibition devoted to the 1872 presidential campaign of Horace Greeley against Ulysses S. Grant, as illustrated in the often funny, but always relentless, cartoons of Greeley’s nemesis, Thomas Nast.

Photo by David Diesing
May 23, 2008
by Jane Lindau

On Thursday, June 5, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., the New Castle Historical Society will host its annual house tour.

Dismayed by the scandals of the first Grant administration, “Liberal” Republicans had decided to run their own candidate against the President. They held their convention at Cincinnati in late April and early May, and they selected Greeley as their candidate.
May 16, 2008
by Gray Williams

If you attend the tag sale (or even if you don’t), take the opportunity to visit the Horace Greeley House to view two ongoing special exhibitions.

May 9, 2008
by Christine Yeres

Click on “Photo Gallery,” on our menu at left, to see pictures of the Nast exhibit and of the Historical Society’s preparations for their Tag Sale May 16 and 17.  There are lots of frames among the tag sale miscellany, so measure your pictures before you come!