Just spend a day out and about, and see what you can find! That’s what we did today. (Well, okay, some things I had scheduled.) We started out at the Daniel Nimham Monument while waiting for Putnam County Veterans Park to open. Then we spent a few hours watching the kids fish, playing on the playground and eventually getting around to lunch.
Then it was off to find the County Home Cemetery just outside the park. With the exception of two or three headstones, the graves here are numbered, not named, since this was the graveyard for the indigent residents of the County Home (a nice name for the Poor House). 
After that, we headed across the county on Route 301 – a beautiful drive with the leaves as pretty as they are. Along the way, I pointed out two things to my kids. One was the entrance to the old mine alongside the road and with Fahnestock Park. The other was an old foundation near the Glynwood Farm entrance that I had never noticed before (remember this for later in this story).
Just before 5pm we were at the Putnam History Museum, and had a few minutes to look around the museum before attending a lecture on “The Hauntings of the Hudson River Valley” by author Vincent Dacquino. During his lecture, he talked about Sybill Ludington, George Denny and Smalley’s Inn.
While talking about George Denny, who was hanged in Carmel after being convicted of murder, he mentioned to location of the murder, and that the foundation of the building it occured near is still standing – right near Glynwood! A sign!?
After the lecture, we took a stroll through downtown Cold Spring and stopped for a pizza at Cold Spring Pizza. We topped the night off with ice cream from Moo Moo’s Creamery on the Hudson Riverfront, watching the water ripples reflecting moonlight, and listening to the train chugging north on the other side of the river.