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A Potter’s Lament

Inwood Pottery

“There were other trees, many decrepit. In the middle was a kiln where an Indian princess taught ceramics under dubious auspices. She had a son who didn’t work. Both were on relief, and the relief checks were delivered to the princess at a mailbox fastened to a tree. The hullabaloo about disturbing the princess, the [...]

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Inwood Pottery Studio

Inwood Pottery Studio, New York City

Inwood Hill Park has seen its share of activity through the centuries, but little has been written of the pottery studio that spawned generations of world class artists. The Inwood Pottery Studio was founded in 1923 by Harry Voorhees and his wife, Aimee LePrince Voorhees. While Harry was a former railroad and elevator engineer from [...]

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Civil War Era Inwood: The Brooks Brothers Connection

Brooks Brothers

In the years following the Civil War the Bloomingdale Road, now called Broadway, was an impoverished and often treacherous stretch of dirt and mud where many inhabitants just barely scraped by. In glaring contrast, just to the west, atop Inwood Hill, the rich and famous built magnificent country homes steps from the squalor of the [...]

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Inwood Hill in the 1920′s

Inwood Hill boat colony 1904

There is a turn of the century photo of a small boathouse on the water’s edge in what is now Inwood Hill Park.  The boathouse, run by “Pop” Seeley, supported a houseboat colony far from the noise and bustle of downtown.  It would be many years before these house-boaters, artists and assorted eccentrics were given [...]

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Drums Along the Hudson 2010

Drums Along the Hudson 2010

On Sunday May 23, 2010 Inwood Hill Park hosted Drums Along The Hudson.  If you’ve never been, the festival is a fun for the whole family annual event that’s been going on since 2002. There’s food, entertainment, music and all kinds of photo opportunities. Below are a few photos of the festivities.

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The Cotton King of Inwood Hill

Cotton plant for Inwood history article

When one thinks of Inwood, the word “cotton” does not likely spring to mind. Of course folks rarely speak anymore of Frederick “The Cotton King” Talcott, who, in the mid-1800’s, made Inwood Hill his home. Frederick Talcott was born into a founding New England family that traced its aristocratic roots in Warwickshire, England to 1558. [...]

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Inwood in Aviation History

Pilot Glenn Curtiss

On December 17, 1903 Orville Wright took to the skies above the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville and his brother Wilbur conducted their experimental flight tests in total secrecy.  While obsessed with flight, the Brothers Wright were more concerned with securing their patents. The Wright brothers had true cause for concern.  Fast [...]

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My Inwood Memories: 1940′s-1970

Herb Maruska

This latest installment of MyInwood Memories comes from frequent reader and contributor Herb Maruska. Herb, who now lives in Florida, grew up in Inwood and is currently writing an autobiography. Here’s a taste of what we can look forward to. I’ll let Herb take it from here: “My family moved to 157 Vermilyea Ave in [...]

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