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For generations, Ulster County's cement industry drew workers and families from across the country and around the world, transforming the Mid-Hudson Valley through migration, labor, and community-building. The ruins it left behind aren't just industrial archaeology — they are the physical residue of lives lived, communities formed, and an economy that boomed, busted, and disappeared. […]

Every instrument tells a migration story. The Appalachian mountain dulcimer — sweet-voiced, lap-held, distinctly American — traces its roots across the Atlantic to the Scottish hummel, the Norwegian langeleik, the German scheitholt, and the French épinette des Vosges. The Scotch-Irish and German immigrants who carried these instruments to the New World in the eighteenth and […]