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Article: GREENE COUNTY MAN LEAVES MANY 'REMARKABLE' LEGACIES.(Obit)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2008
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COXSACKIE -- Greene County historian Raymond Beecher, a prolific author of Catskill history and an ardent preservationist who helped save Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole's house from destruction, died Thursday. He was 91.
His sensibility came from a bygone era and was marked by a stately durability. He lived in a 19th-century mansion along the Hudson, used a black rotary telephone and submitted book manuscripts written in longhand.
"He drove historical preservation in Greene County for more than 50 years in a remarkable way," said Deborah Allen, his publisher at Black Dome Press for the past two decades. Beecher had just completed a history of Greene County ...