Harrison Oney Bush, Jr., died peacefully at home on June 28, 2025. He was the son of Harrison O. Bush, Sr., and Mary Allen Bush, a direct descendant of Jacob Sloat, founder of Sloatsburg. he and his son Peter were instrumental in founding the nonprofit Friends of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House preservation/restoration to save his Great, Great Grandfather's 1848 homestead which was was in imminent threat of being torn down.

As with restoration reveals at Harmony Hall over many years, genealogy discoveries come from unexpected places, adding exciting context...

A Curious Sloat descendant Discovers New Family Information Deborah E. Fillebrown had traversed the Ramapo Valley corridor often with her...

A curious crowd gathered in the South Salon to hear Harmony Hall’s own board of trustee member Ken Linsner share his research he fondly...

It is said the third time is the charm! After rescheduling “Mr. Marshall Comes to Hillburn” twice, Travis W. Jackson’s presentation was...

The Second Sunday Salon Series kicked off this past weekend with author Elaine Freed Lindenblatt’s Red Apple Rest presentation. She is...

October 2022 marks the 174th anniversary of the completion of Harmony Hall as the homestead and country seat of the inventor,...

Hudson Valley writer Robert Brum visited with Jacob Sloat descendants, Harrison Bush and son Peter Bush, at Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat...

Cockcroft, a Brooklyn native, studied art with William Merritt Chase and traveled widely in Europe before World War I. Critics lauded her...

The Friends of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House and the Sloatsburg Historical Society celebrated by cleaning the historic markers at...

If there are any positives about the year of the pandemic it is an unmistakable trend of a return to gardening and beautification of our...

The modest George Macrum cottage belies an important 20th century artist colony founded in the early 1930’s along Ballard and Academy...

Thank you Heather Clark for featuring the Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House. This Back in the Day photo and information was contributed by...

The Friends of Harmony Hall recently received a generous donation from Roberta Simons Moore. Ms. Moore, who lives in Palm City, Florida,...

I attended the 13th Annual EpiscoBuild concert to benefit Habitat for Humanity of greater Newburg on Sunday, January 5, 2020. Grace...

With the publication of his fourth book on the Ramapough Lenape people of northern New Jersey and southeastern New York, archaeologist...

"Sidman's in the clove" aka: Sidman's Tavern and its veteran cemetery now sits surrounded by the 2019 construction of the Woodmont...

Two oval oil portraits of Sarah Bigelow Sloat and her husband Jacob Sloat; inventor, manufacturer, builder/designer of Harmony Hall, were...

By: Peter M. Bush and Eve M. Kahn Art historian, writer and frequent New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn helped kick off the forgotten...