Looking Back at Milan’s History ~ …through the lens of the Milan Community Association Newsletter started in November 1968…Local author Bonnie Wood of Keeping NY History Alive supplements the original MCA Newsletters with “Reader’s Notes”. Milan Community Association Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 3 January 1970 Reader’s Notes~ As we look back 50 years ago in Milan, let’s take a glance at some of the businesses that advertised in the MCA Newsletter. The Red Hook Fabric Shop (now known as Village Fabric Shoppe) and Rock City Sand & Gravel both have Facebook pages in 2020. Check out the phones numbers then…
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Milan 50 Years Ago 12/1969
Looking Back at Milan’s History ~ …through the lens of the Milan Community Association Newsletter started in November 1968…Local author Bonnie Wood of Keeping NY History Alive supplements the original MCA Newsletters with “Reader’s Notes”. Milan Community Association Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 2 December 1969 Reader’s Notes~ Order Time for Tree Seedlings “One of the least expensive ways to improve your property is to plant trees on it. All it takes is $10 to order a thousand seedlings from the Conservation Department, a minimum of one acre of open land, and a strong back and/or as much help as you…
D-Day Reflections
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Milan 50 Years Ago 10/1969
Looking Back at Milan’s History ~ …through the lens of the Milan Community Association Newsletter started in November 1968…Local author Bonnie Wood of Keeping NY History Alive supplements the original MCA Newsletters with “Reader’s Notes”. Milan Community Association Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 12 October 1969 Can you identify these stations? What are your memories? Check out milanvfd.org for current details. What do you know about the history? Reader’s Notes~ From the Chairman- Carl Sardaro ~Tuesday the 4th of November 1969~ “is Election Day. It is the day on which we get a chance to perform our most important function as…
9/11/2019
September 11, 2019, marked the eighteenth anniversary of the attacks we refer to as 9/11 Books and essays have been written about those events, memorials constructed, and that day is forever etched in the minds of all Americans. We reflected on what it means to be an American and what liberty means to us. Let me take you back to October 31, 1940, when a student from the Pine Plains Central School District wrote an editorial for the school newspaper – The Central Sun. No matter what the year, your place of residence, or political affiliation, we continue to ponder…
Milan 50 Years Ago 8/1969
Remember When~
Warning: as we read these announcements, we may become a bit nostalgic.
Sketches by Ossie
Beginning with its first issue in November 1968, each front page of The Milan Community Association Newsletter featured an Ossie Stippa sketch of an historic landmark or rural scene.
Milan 50 Years Ago 7/1969
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July 1969 Local Businesses~ What are your memories of going to town 50 years ago?
Local Businesses
- Red Hook Fabric Shop
- Madge’s Beauty Salon Academy Hill Road
- Johnson’s General Store Route 199 Lafayetteville
- Hank’s Garage Route 199
- Thorco Fuel LTD. Atlantic Heating Oils “Service” 19 W. Market Street Red Hook
- Robert G. Cole Plumbing and Heating Milan Hill Road Red Hook
- Helen Z. Battistoni, Realtor 23 E. Market Street Rhinebeck 25 So. Broadway Red Hook
- Rock City Sand & Gravel
- Herb Swank Radio – TV – Hi-Fi
- Florence C. Hill Real Estate Broker
- Duxbury Hermans Insurance
- Beehler Realty 142 So. Broadway Red Hook
- DF Services All Your Class Needs Route 199
- Ed Rancich Fuel Oil
- Fred’s Tavern Italian-American Food-Pizza Rock City
Milan 50 Years Ago 6/1969
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“As in the case of many old houses, there is a puzzlement. On an upstairs hallway can be seen the original siding of the house, yet downstairs, below, on the other side of the hall is a very old room with a large fireplace, faced with brick complete with cooking crane and dutch oven. It would seem the downstairs room was a kitchen wing of one story and the rooms above it were added at a later date. Deduced from Helen Wilkinson Reynolds book “Dutchess County Doorways” (concerning Row House). “…two full stories in height, with a hall through the center, four rooms on each floor and a kitchen wing at the east”.”
Milan 50 Years Ago 5/1969
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Historical Quiz~
“While the origins of the name Milan remains a mystery, the names of its neighborhoods are somewhat easier to discover, although they don’t always remain constant. Case in point: prior to September 12, 1818 the residents of this neighborhood lived in “West Northeast”. From 1818 to about 1882 they lived in Milanville and in 1969 they live at Case’s Corners. Case is derived from Rensselaer Case an enterprising merchant who had a general store from 1867 to at least 1882. He was not the only business man here as there was also a blacksmith shop, the post office and a sawmill. The Newsletter would be interested in hearing from anyone who has further information about the history of Case’s Corners.”
