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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Slice of history
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 9
Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Wallkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
PUBLIC AGENDA
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
Montgomery Town Board Audit/Work
Session, 7 p.m. Town Government Center,
110 Bracken Road, Montgomery.
Valley Central School District Audit
Committee, 7 p.m. School district office,
944, Route 17K, Montgomery
MONDAY, APRIL 18
Town of Montgomery ZBA, 7 p.m. Town
Government Center, 110 Bracken Road,
Montgomery.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
Valley Central Board of Education, 5:45
p.m. School district office, 944, Route
17K, Montgomery. BOCES vote and election and tenure review
Wallkill Board of Education, 7 p.m.,
Leptondale Elementary School
Shawangunk Zoning Board of Appeals,
7 p.m. Town Hall, 14 Central Ave., Wallkill.
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Walden celebrates Col. Bradley Day
By GARY M. AYD
D
otted across the USA are small towns,
villages and hamlets with big stories
to tell. These hidden treasure troves
of Americana are literally oozing with
history and nostalgia if one is simply so
motivated as to peel back the top layer of
ignorance and neglect.
In the case of the Hudson Valley nearly
every town has a story to tell, but the
village of Walden you could say is a cut
above the rest when it comes to its ties
to the knife industry in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
The Walden Historical Society, along
with the Josephine Louise Library and
the Village of Walden, sponsored the
second part of “Knifetown USA” at the
Walden Municipal building Sunday.
Village historian Mary Ellen Matise
presented the second installment of her
3-year-long research into the history
of the knife industry in Walden, two
years after the first part had been shown.
While the first part focused heavily on
NY Knife Company, on Sunday the focus
turned to Walden Knife Company and
Schrade Cutlery.
The two-hour presentation followed
the annual Col. Bradley Day graves