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Horror, Hauntings and History

October 27, 2011 Katie Kocijanski 0

Haunted Huguenot Street staffers will once again aim to lead visitors on spooky, historic tours this Halloween weekend. The annual Halloween event has been a highlight of the fall season in New Paltz for more than 10 years. Haunted Huguenot Street features a staff-led candlelight tour, where local ghost stories are told. “It is a nighttime candlelight tour that brings guests through the museum houses to experience vignettes concerning the darker, nefarious side of local history,” said Rebecca Mackey, director of visitor […]

Every Day They’re Tumblin’

October 27, 2011 Rachel Freeman 0

Tumblr addicts now have something productive to do with their time – other than posting photos of cute animals and pizza – with the help of the new SUNY New Paltz club called Tumblr University. The club, founded by first-year students Kellie Gainey and Grace Kobryn, aims to use the blogging website as a platform to foster discussions about current issues and find solutions. Spurring from a joke about Tumblr posts saying,“I wish I could go to Tumblr University,” Kobryn pitched the idea to Gainey and the pair decided to actually make it possible. In late September, they set up a domain on the site, where they post a discussion topic roughly once a […]