'Narrowsburg'

The summer before, I had met Jules and Glenn. Only a year or so separated any of us and we all played together. Every day of the summer, the fields and pine forests submitted to us and our revelry.

Darling of the Catskills

He felled the biggest bear in the Catskill woods while just a tot, carried a gun that never missed and out-talked anyone who took him on. "When he was thirteen he could outguess and outsmart any ring-tailed roaring man." But who was Johnny Darling?

Returning from the sun

“It becomes very difficult to separate fact from fiction when we talk about the Native Americans,” said Sullivan County Historian John Conway, explaining that Lenape didn't leave anything in writing. “So who’s to say what’s legend and what’s fact?”

Whistle while you work: folk music of the Upper Delaware

This story was originally published in the 2019 Fall edition of Upper Delaware Magazine. Folk music is enigmatic: regional yet universal, artistic but utilitarian, belonging to no one and …

Fast folklore: ‘The Delaware Water Gap,’ by Charles Skinner

This story was published in the Fall 2019 edition of Upper Delaware Magazine. This tale is one of several the famed Pennsylvanian folklorist Charles Skinner collected in his book, “Myths and …

Upper Delaware Magazine: Fall 2019

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My passion for farming began at the Big Eddy Farm Stand

Second nature

New York World Fishing and Outdoor Expo returns

Second season

Bands about town

'Narrowsburg'

Darling of the Catskills

Returning from the sun

Whistle while you work: folk music of the Upper Delaware

'Hoops on the Rafts': Johnny Darling gets a wife

'Jam on Gerry's Rocks' by Owen Walsh

Fast folklore: two unbelievable stories from PA

Fast folklore: Boney Quillan, prankster of the Delaware

Letter from the editor: Upper Delaware Magazine Fall, 2019

Tapping into Roots & Rhythm

An oasis on 97

Room in the manger

The peaceful hum of the alpaca farm

Upper Delaware Magazine: Fall 2019