Alf Evers, was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskills and Woodstock, serving the latter as town historian. At the time of his death his history of Kingston was nearly complete and awaited publication. Wikipedia
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Few folklorists, if any, have passed through the Catskill Mountains in the past sixty or so years without speaking to Alf Evers. www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic31-1-2/obit-evers.html