Searching for Jedediah Wood’s Gravestone
Searching for Jedediah: The Search for Revolutionary-Era Brewster Ancestor Jedediah Wood Exploring the outdoors and exploring local history are two of my favorite obsessions. I find them both interesting, and it lets me get my...
Read This to Your Kids, Then Take a Roadtrip to NYC…
One of the great things about Putnam, in addition to it’s natural beauty, is its close proximity to so many neat places. For example, Connecticut beaches like Sherwood Island and Jennings Beach are only an...
June Cemetery in North Salem for July 4th
A visit to June Cemetery in North Salem. Rather appropriate for the 4th of July since there were quite a few Revolutionary War Veterans buried there, including John Wallace who made it to 103...
Glacial Erratic on Brewster High School Property?
There is a very cool rock formation – what looks like a ‘glacial erratic’ in the woods next to Brewster High School. The rock sits on a small ridge that drops into a swamp, and...
Legoland Discovery Center in Westchester
®Yonkers, NY Ok, so I just need to remind everyone before I get a nasty-gram from someone about how I am covering places that are not in Putnam. The name of the website is Adventures...
Last Chance for the Southeast Museum’s Lincoln & Stone Chamber Exhibits
Nothing like waiting ’til the last minute…just this week I brought the kids over to the Southeast Museum’s exhibits on Abraham Lincoln and Putnam’s Stone Cambers. No, the two have no connection…that I know...
New page about one of CT’s beaches…
Check out the new Adventures Around Putnam page for Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison CT. It’s under the “Outside Putnam” heading.
…not one lawyer can live among us…
I was at the county historian’s office today to do some research. I found something that I thought was great. A map of the town of Southeast, NY from 1795 – yes, it is old,...
Safety, Street Fairs, Pizza, Cannons, Driftwood & Ice Cream…
This time of year it seems everyone is coming out of hibernation. Every weekend is chock full of things to do, so much so that no matter how much you run around, it feels...
Borrowing ideas from a cemetery in Maryland…
I visited family in Maryland over Easter weekend. During the visit, we stopped at an old cemetery near my sister-in-law’s house. What I found was one of the best ‘restorations’ of an old cemetery I...
Adventures Around Putnam interview on local cable…
Adventures Around Putnam Volume 1 was recently featured on local cable’s “Let’s Talk Writing” with Vincent T. Dacquino. Click HERE to view the video via Youtube. Mr. Dacquino is an author and lecturer. Among other topics,...
A great Fall day – Day Two!
The second day of our awesome Fall weekend started with a hayride at Kessman’s Farm in Patterson. The tractor takes you out to the pumpkin patch – and there were plenty of pumpkins! As the...
A great, full Fall day in Putnam
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...
“How’d ya like them apples!”
It’s fall, which means picking a beautiful day and making the rounds on the apple picking orchards, farm stands and pumpkin purveyors. We got a jump start on it this year – the second day of...
New page on Dover’s Stone Church
The Stone Church in Dover, NY is an awesome place. It is a short hike, with a big WOW factor at the end. Visit the new information page on our website here.
A secret at Brush Hollow Cemetery
A page for Brush Hollow Cemetery has just been added to the Adventures Around Putnam website. One of Southeast’s small, no-longer-used cemeteries, it has an unusual feature. Click here for the page.
A bunch of new pages and information posted recently.
There are a number of new pages that were added to www.adventuresaroundputnam.com recently, including Red Mills Historic Park, the Donald B. Smith Conservation Area, the Enoch Crosby Historical Marker in Southeast, Rundle’s Mill in Putnam Valley,...
Gallimods Hobby Shop & Racetrack, 3 Historic Markers and a Sept 11th Memorial Gate
Today we went to Gallimods Hobby Shop & Racetrack for a birthday party, then stopped at the Putnam County Historical Marker at the intersection of Routes 6 & 118, the Railroad Station Historical Marker at...
An early June visit to Calf Pasture Beach in Norwalk, CT
We recently took a ride to Norwalk, and I was pleasantly surprised with how nice Calf Pasture Beach was. So if you want a day trip to a salt water swimming hole, click here for more...
High-Ropes at T.O.E.C.
This past Sunday we went to the Taconic Outdoor Education Center’s Outdoor Recreation Day. TOEC is an awesome piece of property that is usually reserved from organized groups. But there are some times the general...