Joe by Maria May 1 2024 [copyedited] M:Joe, what do you love about Rosendale? J: It’s a quaint little town. I’ve been here since I was 14 and 64 now. My family is here. People I love. I have one question. I’ll be driving around from St. Peter’s and you […]
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Chris by Maria March 30th, 2024 [copy edited] M: Hi Chris, how long have you lived in Rosendale? C: Twenty-six years. Long time. M: And what is it that you love about Rosendale that’s keptyou here for twenty-six years? C: I enjoy the pretty easy access to nature and outdoors […]
Dawn by Ruthie at The Big Cheese March 15th, 2024 R: We’re at the Big Cheese in Rosendale. So Dawn, what brought you to Rosendale? D: Well, let’s see. I was living in Catskill. I was married. We had a house. And then I had a baby, a little baby […]
RosenRaps: Susan by Maria at the Lion’s Club Meeting Jan 24, 2024 M: Susan, how did you come to live here? S: As a child, my parents bought property in 1957, and we came up for summers only. And then in 1971, my father built another house on the property, and […]
Dan by Maria Jan 24, 2024 M: So, Dan, how did you come to live in this area? D: When I finished military service in 1966, I came down to operate a branch of a milk distribution business. My father had the milk business distribution, and I operated the branch […]
Leah and Peter by Ruthie, December 4, 2023 Ruthie: How did you two come about living in Rosendale? Peter: In 2000, in the 2000s a buddy of mine was living up in the area, he was actually living in Highland, and then he would come to Rosendale. He and his […]
November 3, 2023 K: So this is Kathleen interviewing Joe at Stewart’s, while he’s eating a meatball sandwich. How is that meatball sandwich, Joe? J: Great. K:Is it? Good. So if you wouldn’t mind, would you share a little bit of how you got here and why do you stay […]
November 3, 2023 Jamie by Kathleen K: So you know this is very informal, but I’ll just ask you to expand a little bit here more. So we’d love to know what brought you here and why do you choose to keep staying here? J: I lived in Newburgh prior […]
September 28, 2023 R: So, Michael, tell me about your connection to Rosendale. How’s that? M: Okay. When my wife and I got married 27 years ago on October 13th, we actually first went to Woodstock for our honeymoon. We explored the area and that’s when we first discovered High […]
September 28, 2023 M: How did you come to live in our community? A: Well, my partner, my wife, Joellen, lived here twice before. So when we were looking for a place to live in the country, we honed in on Rosendale because we already had friends here. We sealed […]
September 28th, 2023 A: Maria, how’d you come to live in our community? M: I moved up here to work with farmers. I wanted to create a roadside attraction that would be a spectacular thing that would draw people to local farms. And so I made a partnership with a […]
July 3, 2023 What brought you here and why do you stay here? Friends brought me here, because of the life that. They had, that was the life I wanted to live, which was out in the country and be free and celebrate festivities and be creative. That’s what brought […]