Hudson River Day Line advertisement for steamboats Albany and Mary Powell, “For Charter — Season of 1913.” Donald C. Ringwald Collection, Hudson River Maritime Museum.
This crinkled paper lantern is a surviving symbol of one of New Paltz’s richest traditions; Lantern Nite. In 1934 this lantern was carried across a night coated New Paltz along with hundreds of others as part of the annual end of the year…