Over the years there have been a number of great ghost stories set in Sullivan County—Washington Irving’s “Hans Schwartz: A Marvelous Tale of Mamakating Hollow” and Stephen Crane’s “The Black Dog” among them, but not all Sullivan County ghost stories are fictional. John Conway examines some venerable ghost stories that are based on Actual Historical Events. All are welcome to listen to his Ghostly Tales and Hauntings of Sullivan County.
Narrated by: JOHN CONWAY, Sullivan County Historian
John Conway has been the Sullivan County, NY Historian since 1993. He is a founder and president of The Delaware Company, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote and support the history and historic landmarks of the Upper Delaware River Valley and beyond. He is the author of eight books and has written weekly newspaper columns on local history since 1987. From 1998 to 2016 he taught a three credit class on Sullivan County history at SUNY-Sullivan.
From 1975 to 1994 he hosted popular call-in radio talk shows on three different stations, and more recently hosted The Black Dog Tavern, a monthly radio show about local history, on WJFF. He is regularly asked to provide a historical context for Sullivan County news events by the New York Times, Associated Press, and Fox News, among others. He also collaborated with the Times Herald-Record newspaper on a series of award winning video documentaries, which are available for screening at www.classiccatskills.com.
John is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the recently revived Hurleyville Sentinel newspaper.
