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Category: Community Meetings

Public meetings in Pine Plains government.

Meet the Candidates Night, 2017

What I hope will become a tradition in the future, the Pine Plains Free Library hosted an evening for the community to hear candidates for local offices discuss the issues.  It was not a debate and it turned out to be remarkably more civil than social media! In fact, my favorite part of the evening…Continue reading Meet the Candidates Night, 2017

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Other Stories to Explore

  • Rapid COVID-19 Testing Comes to Pine Plains
  • Where We Come From and Where We Are Going…
  • A Day to Remember
  • Howe They Farmed — A Mother’s Memories
  • Learning History By Living It!
  • Burger Night at the Farm
  • Last Night at the Wild Hive
  • It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Shop Class!
  • Roseland Ranch, Where All the Good Times Have Gone….
  • You Know It’s Spring When…
  • Riding High in Copake! The Antique Bicycle Auction
  • Nanjing on the Hudson
  • It Takes a Play to Make a Community: Backstage at The Music Man
  • The Man Who Made Pine Plains Tick
  • Chads Don’t Hang in Pine Plains
  • Skating on Nice Thick Ice!
  • An Old Building Brings New Life to Pine Plains
  • It Takes a Community to Run a Railroad
  • A Master Class for the High School Jazz Band
  • A Day for Honor
  • It Was All Treats — Halloween 2015
  • Making History
  • Sergeant, Make It Happen!
  • Spinning Squash at the Ag Fair
  • Soldiers’ Tales
  • Pine Plains on Parade: The Parade of Lights, 2015
  • The High Schoolers Paint the Town!
  • Let’s Remember Sal….
  • A Live South African Braai Right in Pine Plains!
  • Everyone Loves a Parade!
  • Where Every Car Has a Story
  • A Halloween Story: Those Pumpkins on Patchin Mills Bridge
  • A Farrier? What’s That?
  • The Culture of Agriculture
  • The Parade of Lights 2012
  • The Night They Lit Up The Lantern in Wassaic!
  • Sheep and Alpacas and Llamas and Goats and Wool and Food Festival
  • Picking Pumpkins on a Fall Day
  • Love Where You Live: The Story of Hammertown
  • A Touch of Country: The Fall Fair

WHY THIS WEBSITE

I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.

Stan Hirson

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