History

Mar 53 min

The Sloat and Fassett Connection

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

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Deborah E. Fillebrown's Visit to Sloatsburg:

Peter Bush

Oct 19, 20232 min

Deborah E. Fillebrown's Visit to Sloatsburg:

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

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Recap: Till Death Do Us Part, Our March Salon Series Event

Friends of Harmony Hall

Mar 23, 20231 min

Recap: Till Death Do Us Part, Our March Salon Series Event

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...

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Friends of Harmony Hall

Mar 15, 20231 min

Recap: Mr. Marshall Comes to Hillburn

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

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Friends of Harmony Hall

Jan 13, 20232 min

Recap: Red Apple Rest Presentation!

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

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The 174th Birthday of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House!

Peter Bush

Oct 20, 20224 min

The 174th Birthday of Harmony Hall-Jacob Sloat House!

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

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Living in Harmony: Efforts Ongoing to Save a Piece of Rockland's Past

Friends of Harmony Hall

Oct 6, 20221 min

Living in Harmony: Efforts Ongoing to Save a Piece of Rockland's Past

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

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Women's History Month - Highlighting Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881-1962)

Peter Bush

Mar 10, 20221 min

Women's History Month - Highlighting Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881-1962)

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

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Peter Bush

May 3, 20211 min

National Historic Marker Day - April 30

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

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The Mary Allen Bush homestead, Victory Gardens of the 1930’s, 1940’s

Peter Bush

Jul 15, 20202 min

The Mary Allen Bush homestead, Victory Gardens of the 1930’s, 1940’s

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...

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Important 20th Century Artists of Sloatsburg

Peter Bush

Jul 6, 20202 min

Important 20th Century Artists of Sloatsburg

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

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Harmony Hall featured in Lohud's Back in the Day.

Peter Bush

May 14, 20201 min

Harmony Hall featured in Lohud's Back in the Day.

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

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Former Sloatsburg resident with deep family roots makes thoughtful donation to HarmonyHall

Peter Bush

May 11, 20203 min

Former Sloatsburg resident with deep family roots makes thoughtful donation to HarmonyHall

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

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Peter Bush

Feb 27, 20202 min

THE MUSCIANSHIP OF THE SLOAT FAMILY!

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

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Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House featured in the Times Herald Record Now & Then...

Peter Bush

Feb 20, 20200 min

Harmony Hall - Jacob Sloat House featured in the Times Herald Record Now & Then...

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Archaeologist Edward J. Lenik Book Signing!

Friends of Harmony Hall L

Dec 30, 20192 min

Archaeologist Edward J. Lenik Book Signing!

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

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Peter Bush

Jul 18, 20192 min

Sidman's In The Clove & Sloat History

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

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Peter Bush

Nov 8, 20182 min

Sloat Matriarch Returns…

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

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Peter Bush

Oct 17, 20182 min

Forgotten Artists of Sloatsburg

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...

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The Forgotten Artist Edith Varian Cockcroft: as told by Eve M. Kahn & Peter Bush

Friends of Harmony Hall L

Sep 17, 20181 min

The Forgotten Artist Edith Varian Cockcroft: as told by Eve M. Kahn & Peter Bush

Crossroads to History focused on the forgotten painter, inventor, couturier, textile designer & ceramist Edith Varian Cockcroft...

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