Eastfield Village: A One-Man Colonial Restoration Project
Don, known only as Don, built Eastfield in Rensselaer County by moving 30,000 bricks and disassembled 18th and 19th century structures to form a private colonial village. He seeks a future foundation to teach weaving, blacksmithing, carpentry and other crafts while preserving historic trades. Filmmakers have visited. the site remains off the beaten path to protect privacy.
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Eastfield
Rensselaer County
Don
Stones moved to sidewalk preserve Eastfield Cemetery gravestones
Eastfield's Cemetery near the village meeting house holds no real graves as stones from an adjacent church cemetery were used in a sidewalk after the church was relocated around 1830. Descendants donated the stones to Don. one marker dates to 1805 for Christopher Van Deusen, age 18, with a noted epitaph.
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Eastfield
Rensselaer County
Don
Christopher van Deusen
G. M. Draman
Pumpkin papers and local crafts in Eastfield village notes
A readers’ scene covers hotline letters from Troy to Cohoes and Lansingburgh praising recipes librarians and book finds. It profiles Don of Eastfield, 24, rebuilding a village with 1820 era looms, tinware, and a print shop, planning two more years of work and a history preservation consulting service.
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Rocci Scelsi
Mechanicville
Rita Duncan
Troy
M.C.P
Lansingburgh
Loretta Tefoe
Grafton
John Minehan
Babcock Lake
Dorothy V. Decker
Watervliet
Roberta C. O'Neil
Mary C. Patrick
John A. Vosburgh
Latham
Carlos Gutierrez
Peggy Reed
Cohoes
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N.Y
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J.S. — Cohoes
Albany
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Brigade of the American
G. M. Dzaman
Frank Sherry
F.M.H
National Geographic Magazine
Edward Albergine
Hoosick Falls
Virginia Gray Plant
J.P. of
Poestenkill Community Library
Tower Room
Mary Linn Roby
Town Hall
J.P
Billy Cobham
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Ed Donohue
Atlantic Recording Corp
Rockefeller Plaza
New York
Benjamin Culver
Sand Lake Glass Works
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