- John Adams
John Adams (August 26, 1778 Oak Hill, Durham, New York - September 25, 1854 Catskill, New York) was a United States Congressman from New York. He studied law, and taught school in Durham. He was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began to practice in Durham. He was appointed the surrogate of Greene County, New York in 1810. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1812 to 1813.
- John Burroughs
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837-March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay.
- Gavin Degraw
Gavin DeGraw (born February 4, 1977) is an American pop singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
- Alf Evers
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.
- Maurice Hinchey
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey (born October 27, 1938), is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 22nd Congressional District of New York since 2003 (formerly the 26th District). The district extends west from the Hudson River to include Binghamton and Ithaca.
- Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12 1970) is an American film actress and former child model. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like "Labyrinth" and "Career Opportunities", she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama "Requiem for a Dream", and the 2001 biopic "A Beautiful Mind", …
- John Bonacic
John Bonacic (born June 14, 1942 in New York City) is the Republican New York State Senator from the 42nd District (All or parts of Delaware, Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster Counties). Bonacic was first elected in November 1998.
- Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books.
- Charles Durning
Charles Durning (born February 28, 1923) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor of stage and screen.
- Michael Cole
Michael Sean Coulthard (born December 8 1968), better known by his stage name of Michael Cole, is the current play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment's "Friday Night SmackDown!".
- Stanley Finch
Stanley Wellington Finch (July 20 1872 - 1951) was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation, which would eventually become the FBI. Finch was born in Monticello, New York. In 1893 he became a clerk in the United States Department of Justice, where he worked off and on for almost 50 years. Finch rose from the position of clerk to that of Chief Examiner between 1893 and 1908. It was only while working in the Justice Department, …
- John Alsop
John Alsop (1724 - November 22, 1794) was an American merchant and politician from New York City during the American Revolution. He was a delegate for New York to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776
- Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen (born March 12, 1949 in Cornwall, New York, USA) is an American film director, producer and writer. He graduated from Harvard University and is the father of Kyle Cashulin. As a director, Cohen is mainly known for his hit films "XXX" and "The Fast and the Furious". As producer, he has been behind many major motion pictures, including "The Witches of Eastwick", "The Serpent and the Rainbow", and "The Running Man".
- Max Yasgur
Max B. Yasgur (December 151919-February 91973) was the owner of the dairy farm in Bethel, New York upon which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 181969. After area towns Woodstock (located about 40 miles from Yasgur's farm) and Wallkill declined to provide a venue for the festival, Max Yasgur, convinced by the arguments of his son, Sam, offered the nearly-last-minute use of his farm's alfalfa field.
- John Hill
John Hill (June 10, 1821 - July 24, 1884) was a nineteenth century politician, clerk, bookkeeper, merchant and justice of the peace from New Jersey. Born in Catskill, New York, Hill attended private schools as a child. He was employed as a bank clerk and learned bookkeeping in Catskill. He moved to Boonton, New Jersey in 1845 and was employed as a bookkeeper and paymaster. He later engaged in mercantile pursuits, was postmaster of Boonton from 1849 to 1853, …
- Dorothy Draper
Dorothy Draper (born 1889 in Tuxedo Park, New York, died 1969) was an influential and innovative American interior decorator of the early to mid 20th century. She was one of the few early women to really delve into the male dominated construction industry. Her style was big, brash, bodacious, bold, and bordered on what some would consider gaudy, shocking both men and women of her day. She was a predecessor of Morris Lapidus, the architect that would redesign, …
- Lucius Robinson
Lucius Robinson (4 November 1810, Windham, Greene County, New York - 23 May 1886, Elmira, New York) was the governor of New York from 1877 to 1879. Lucius Robinson was educated in Delhi and admitted to the bar in 1832. Robinson also served in the state assembly in 1860. He was the state comptroller from 1862 to 1865, and again in 1876. He was also a member of the state constitutional convention.
- Harvey Fite
Harvey Fite (1903-1976) was a pioneering American sculptor, painter and earth artist best known for his monumental land sculpture Opus 40. A teacher, innovator and Woodstock artist of many talents, he was primarily a sculptor of wood and stone. Fite is also known for founding the Fine Arts Division at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Fite was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Christmas Day 1903, but his family relocated to Texas when he was three years old.
- Frank Swift Chase
Frank Swift Chase (12 March 1886-27 July 1958) was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida.
- Randall Batinkoff
Randall Matthew Batinkoff (born October 16, 1968) is an American actor. Batinkoff was born in Monticello, New York and was raised on an egg farm near Ferndale, New York. He attended Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Brown University in Rhode Island, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in international relations. Batinkoff made his television debut in a 1974 commercial, after an agent spotted him at a toy store.
- Edward Leigh Chase
Edward Leigh Chase (1884-1965) was an American painter and illustrator, and an early member of the Byrdcliffe experiment which gave rise to the artists' colony at Woodstock, New York. A gifted sketch artist and watercolorist, he was one of the group of young Art Students League humorists who called themselves the Fakirs. He was born in Elkhart Lake, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, the third child of Grace Metcalfe and chemist Charles Denison Chase.
- John T. Wilder
John Thomas Wilder (January 31 1830 - October 20 1917) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As an industrialist, he was instrumental in developing the natural resources of the State of Tennessee.
- Sam Yasgur
Sam Yasgur is the son of Max Yasgur. Sam played a crucial but little known part in American music history by convincing his father Max to allow the Woodstock Music & Art Festival to be held on the family's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm land in Bethel, NY, circa August 1969.
- Mickey Brantley
Michael Charles "Mickey" Brantley (born June 17, 1961) is a former major league baseball player and the current hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays. Brantley grew up in Catskill, New York, and attended Catskill High School. He went on to attend Columbia Greene Community College, starred in Soccer, Basketball and Baseball, and still holds several school records. After one year at CGCC, he starred at Coastal Carolina College, and after his senior season, in 1983, …
- Stephanie Blythe
Stephanie Blythe is a Mezzo-Soprano opera singer. She graduated from Monticello High School in 1987 and the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1992. She was the recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker Award in 1999. SUNY Potsdam awarded her the degree of Doctor of Music "honoris causa" in 2006.
- Loring Woart Bailey
Loring Woart Bailey, (28 September 1839 - 10 January 1925), was born at West Point, New York, the son of a professor at the academy. He received a good education which was reinforced at home through interaction with his father and other academics. He studied at both Harvard University and Brown University and became a professor of chemistry and natural sciences at the University of New Brunswick.
- Theresa Cassiack
Generally, I just like to have a good time and laugh a lot...it varies from day to day. I love playing music...I would like to start a band ..I am always on the prowl for some players. My puppy Dharma and I hike quite a bit...feel the mountain air...life is good!
- Mike Horowitz
Five Favorite Songs of the Moment:.
- Alexander Iwanow
For the unexpurgated autopoetic assault, go to http://www.myspace.com/Count_Dorkula;.
- Josh
I got three passports, couple of visas, don't even know my real name.
- Baby Houseman
Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, of what I did, of who I am. And most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.
- Raphael
I'm an independent guy, a global citizen exiled in West America, conoisseur of fine art and spicy food, philosopher, philanthropist, fencing and boffing champion, and the world's finest Omaha High/Low poker player. I'm in favor of serious modes of discourse, interpersonal symbiosis, and emotional involvement. Can be funny or athletic when inspired. Dissatisfied with the global status quo but not a defeatist.
- Kiefer
I am a very sexy long-haired man-cat. I don't really like many other cats that I've met, but I have only met 2. I guess I'm just shy.
- Neil
I have to admit, I'm known as the catch of the county.
- Cuppy Johndro
Married woman with 2 teenagers. Wanting to stay in contact with my family and friends. Love life! I live in Maine, but my heart is now and forever in New York. I love the Yankess, NYC the statue of liberty and being an American! The blood pulsing through me is RED, WHITE AND BLUE! You have a problem with this then you can get the hell out of the USA! Stand tall and stand up. Be heard! Don't screw with me! I hate liars, cheaters and criminals.
- Annette
Not just another lost soul adrift in the universe.
- Curtis
I am fluffy very fluffy, Im pretty quite and often keep to myself. But I do get lonely sometimes and need to be stroked, like any good pussy does.
- Mike
i used to be a heavyweight champion and my last fight was keven mcbride which i lost. many people say i would have beat lewis in my prime. i think i could have. well im just living my life to the fullest rite now and wat ever happens happens.
- Kilroy
I'm a people cat and you can often find me slinking around a pair of ankles or cuddled on someone's lap. I have travelled the entire East Coast but don't much like to do it. I prefer a porch to hang out on over a busy city pad, but am in the city nonetheless. My nickname is Barry White because I really know how to show a lady the mojo and how to make any moment a romantic one. Oh and I like to be spanked -- a lot.
- Richard J