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Jenna Flanagan

Jenna Flanagan, Creator and Writer "outoftownie: A Hudson Valley Blog"

Jenna Flanagan, creator and writer of outoftowntownie: A Hudson Valley Blog. She’s worked as a journalist for WNYC and NPR and a producer for 1010WINS. You can email her at outoftowntownie@gmail.com and follow her on twitter at @outoftowntownie.

Recent Posts

  • Tue, 4/2/2013 - Huguenot Street Historic Walking Tour
    If you attended New Paltz Central High School, like I did, you’d know one of the most frustrating things about sporting events was our school mascot. Could we have had a black bear or a hawk or any of the predatory wildlife that inhabited this area? Sure, but instead we had the Huguenot and were known to visiting teams as The Hugies. The nickname derived from the French/German religious zealots who “settled” out little town. So who were our Hugies really? The houses they built still stand to this day and draw a steady stream of tourists to New Paltz.
  • Thu, 2/14/2013 - Whitecliff Vineyard and Winery
    Walk into just about any Hudson Valley restaurant, wine shop or wine festival and ask for one of their best bottles of local wine. Chances are you’ll get a glass of Whitecliff wine. Whitecliff is one of the few Hudson Valley wineries that’s omnipresent throughout the region putting out 5,500 cases a year.Now this is a vineyard…
  • Tue, 12/18/2012 - The Rosendale International Pickle Festival
    One Sunday a year, Rosendale celebrates the culinary delights of preserved cucumbers with the International Pickle Festival. Half food festival, half holiday gift fair, the pickle festival completely takes over the Rosendale Community Center making it the perfect event to kick off the cold winter season.