{"id":1541,"date":"2017-07-21T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T17:26:51","slug":"local-history-talk-on-july-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Local History Talk on July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday, July 23<sup>rd\u00a0<\/sup> at 1:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re invited to a public presentation &#8220;<strong>Buried hides &amp; the rise &amp; fall of the hamlet of Beaverkill<\/strong>\u201d at Morgan Outdoors, with Dr. Joyce Conroy, Town of Rockland Historian.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/livingstonmanorlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Livingston Manor Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/beaverkill-tannery0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1542\" src=\"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/beaverkill-tannery0001-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"beaverkill tannery0001\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/beaverkill-tannery0001-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/beaverkill-tannery0001-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/beaverkill-tannery0001.jpg 1996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This short power-point presentation will tell the story of the Beaverkill Tannery, its history and demise, and the subsequent discovery of tanned hides buried in the ground for 120 years. The Beaverkill Covered Bridge was the site of this discovery in 2016, when the 1865 bridge underwent a complete renovation.<!--StartFragment--> The Tannery operated from the 1830\u2019s to 1885 when it burned down. <!--EndFragment-->The bridge was built for the tannery in order to transport hides.<\/p>\n<p>In 1865, this area supported three churches, a school, and a store where now the newly renovated Beaverkill Covered Bridge, one church, and the Beaverkill Campground remain.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment-->&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RSVP to reserve your seat by calling us at 845 439 5507.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 23rd\u00a0 at 1:00pm You\u2019re invited to a public presentation &#8220;Buried hides &amp; the rise &amp; fall of the hamlet of Beaverkill\u201d at Morgan Outdoors, with Dr. Joyce Conroy, Town of Rockland Historian. Sponsored by the Livingston Manor Library. This short power-point presentation will tell the story of the Beaverkill Tannery, its history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}