Welcome!

I thought I’d like to have a place to post various musings about northern Dutchess County, NY which my family has called home for over 200 years. I have collections of color slides, letters, newspapers, family bibles etc. which can provide a steady stream of content for years to come.

To start things off, below is “Phil Setting Decoys” 10-27-1940 by my grandfather, John Losee. It was probably his favorite image and a scan, even with a lot of photoshop to try to get close to the real thing, doesn’t do it justice. Grampa Losee was born July 7th, 1907 in Upper Red Hook to Rosalie Fraleigh and Dr. Harvey Losee. He was an avid sportsman in his younger days, hunting all manner of woodland creatures, some of which we still have in taxidermy!

Here, his friend Phil (who’s surname has been lost to time so far) sets decoys in the early morning hours with John’s dog, Amos probably somewhere along the Hudson River in October, 1940.