05/18/2026
REMINDER! Great event tonight!
Join us for our June speaker series event, HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY - VOLUME TWO
​Presented by Author Anthony Musso
In this second volume of the "Hidden Treasures of the Hudson Valley" book series, the author uncovers another 55 sites located throughout an eight-county region that, while not mainstream tourist destinations boast intriguing ties to our nation's history. Some of the locales are located within plain sight while others are off the beaten path.
Learn about an ingenious underground distillery that was established during the prohibition era on a purported turkey farm and overseen by one of New York City's most notorious mobsters.
Several sites featured in the book are related to the American Revolution, while another served as the birthplace of the early American circus. The oldest private dwelling in upstate New York was built by a family who motivated the name of one New York City borough. And learn about one U.S. president's estate that receives minimal guests when compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Springwood in Hyde Park, Dutchess County.
BIO - ANTHONY P. MUSSO Anthony Musso completed a 38-year career as a writer, editor and media spokesperson for the United States Postal Service Headquarters in 2008. In addition to his government work, he was a freelance correspondent for Middletown, New York’s Times-Herald Record and later a journalist and weekly columnist for Gannett Newspaper’s Poughkeepsie Journal. He is the author of 11 books ranging from “FDR and the Post Office, “Setting the Record Straight,” a two-volume book about the infancy of rock and roll and his three-volume “Hidden Treasures” series, which includes 160 combined sites throughout the Hudson Valley and the Catskills regions. His recent books include “Mothball Fleet on the Hudson,” “Staatsburg: A Village Lost in Time,” “Madams, Mobsters and Murders in the Hudson Valley,” and “Mafia Burial Ground.” He is a frequent lecturer at various venues throughout the tri-state area including the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Road Scholars programs, AARP meetings, NYSUT (Retired NYS Teachers) and Retired Civil Service Employees luncheons and others. Musso also organizes and narrates all-day “Hidden Treasures of the Hudson Valley” bus trips.
The program will take place on Monday, June 1st at 7pm in the Highland Public Library 14 Elting Place, Highland NY
